a. Now rare or Obs. [Formed as prec.: see -ICAL.]
1. Path. = prec. 1.
1586. T. Bright, A Treatise of Melancholie, xvi. 89. In simptomaticall euents in sicknes.
1625. Hart, Anat. Ur., I. iii. 33. Whether the feaver be primarie, or a principall guest, or symptomaticall, accompanying the disease as the shadow doth the bodie.
1663. Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. V. xx. 295. In (not, Symptomatical, but) Essential Feavers.
1702. C. Mather, Magn. Chr., III. II. v. (1852), 386. He fell into a quinsie, with a symptomatical fever.
1748. R. James, Fevers (1749), 5. Sweats, which are not spontaneous, but extorted, generally prove symptomatical and noxious, instead of being critical and salutary. Ibid. (a. 1776), (1778), 65. Other evacuations.., as they only arise from the symptoms, or from the agonies of nature, unequal to the task of surmounting the difficulties she is oppressed with … are called symptomatical.
2. gen. = prec. 3.
1628. Jackson, Creed, VI. I. i. § 2. The more right resemblances we make to ourselves of any thing, the greater will be the symptomatical impression of the latent truth.
1742. Richardson, Pamela (1785), III. xl. 387. I dare say, your Thoughtfulness is but symptomatical, and will go off, in proper Time.
1816. Scott, Antiq., xiv. Visions … very symptomatical of poetic fury.
