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  • Same as symptomatic.

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  • adjective symptomatic

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Examples

  • After all, I dare say your thoughtfulness is but symptomatical, and will go off in proper time.

    Pamela 2006

  • AND GO VARIABLY, but as he mentions nothing of your coughing, spitting, or sweating, the doctors take it for granted that you are entirely free from those three bad symptoms: and from thence conclude, that, the pain which you sometimes feel upon your lungs is only symptomatical of your rheumatic disorder, from the pressure of the muscles which hinders the free play of the lungs.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • One odd incident that kept our merriment all these days, was the symptomatical number thirteen.

    Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker

  • Later on, without doubt, we shall be able to substitute for these simply symptomatical and psychological diagnostics, some etiological and physiological diagnostics.

    A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 Various

  • So where zeal reaches to every command of God alike, that is a sign of a sound constitution of soul; but where it is partial, where a man is hot in one part, and cold in another, that is symptomatical of some inward spiritual distemper.

    The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast. 1629-1699 1856

  • Now, as we know that the sweat of the whole body is a sign of health, but the sweat of some one part only, shows a distemper, and therefore physicians do reckon such a heat to be symptomatical.

    The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast. 1629-1699 1856

  • His visions, too, are very symptomatical of poetic fury --- I must recollect to send Caxon to see he puts out his candle to-night --- poets and visionaries are apt to be negligent in that respect. ''

    The Antiquary 1845

  • YOUR SWELLINGS COME AND GO VARIABLY, but as he mentions nothing of your coughing, spitting, or sweating, the doctors take it for granted that you are entirely free from those three bad symptoms: and from thence conclude, that, the pain which you sometimes feel upon your lungs is only symptomatical of your rheumatic disorder, from the pressure of the muscles which hinders the free play of the lungs.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

  • YOUR SWELLINGS COME AND GO VARIABLY, but as he mentions nothing of your coughing, spitting, or sweating, the doctors take it for granted that you are entirely free from those three bad symptoms: and from thence conclude, that, the pain which you sometimes feel upon your lungs is only symptomatical of your rheumatic disorder, from the pressure of the muscles which hinders the free play of the lungs.

    Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1749 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

  • His visions, too, are very symptomatical of poetic fury — I must recollect to send

    The Antiquary 1584

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