pragmatical

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pɹæɡˈmætɪkəl/

Adjective

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pragmatical (comparative more pragmatical, superlative most pragmatical)

  1. Synonym of pragmatic (practical)
  2. Synonym of pragmatic (officious, meddlesome)
    • 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “The Conference between Don Diego Dismallo, and John Bull”, in An Appendix to John Bull Still in His Senses: Or, Law is a Bottomless-Pit. [], 2nd edition, London: [] John Morphew, [], →OCLC, page 21:
      [H]e grevv ſo pragmatical, that he took upon him the Government of my vvhole Family: I could never order any thing, vvithin or vvithout doors, but he muſt be alvvays giving his Counſel, forſooth: []
    • 1826, [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. [], volume II, Edinburgh: [] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, pages 305–306:
      [H]e had been condemned already to many uncomfortable lurking-places, and more disagreeable disguises, as well as to long and difficult journeys, during which, between pragmatical officers of justice belonging to the prevailing party, and parties of soldiers whose officers usually took on them to act upon their own warrant, risk of discovery had more than once become very imminent.
  3. (law) Relating to affairs of state.