a. rare. [f. as prec. + -AL.] TERRIFIC.

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1799.  Chertrea, The Man of Benevolence, 9, in Parnassian Garland (1814), 287.

        What tho’ Affliction, in her direst form,
Terrifical assail him with the force
Of anger’d ocean’s wrath, he braves her rage
Immoveable as rock-built Eddistone.

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1831.  Fr. A. Kemble, Jrnl., in Recoll. Girlhood (1878), III. 47. In the evening we had terrifical ghost stories.

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1855.  Miss Manning, Old Chelsea Bun-Ho., xvii. 286. Abundantly more terrifical.

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