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- adjective Archaic form of
euphemistic .
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Examples
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They are euphemistical as to the weather, calling it hazy and soft, and never allowing themselves to carry bad language on such a subject beyond the word dull.
Castle Richmond 2004
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They are euphemistical as to the weather, calling it hazy and soft, and never allowing themselves to carry bad language on such a subject beyond the word dull.
Castle Richmond Anthony Trollope 1848
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Certainly ... they do not seem to have been a company of gentle, dreamy and euphemistical saints, with a particular aptitude for martyrdom and an inordinate development of affability.”
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918 1890
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Certainly ... they do not seem to have been a company of gentle, dreamy and euphemistical saints, with a particular aptitude for martyrdom and an inordinate development of affability. "
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Helen Campbell 1878
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