a. Also 8–9 Wiccam-, 9 Wycchamical. [f. as prec. + -AL. The form Wiccamical is ad. mod.L. Wiccamic-us.]
1. Of or pertaining to Winchester College, or the pupils or staff of this; = WYKEHAMIST a.
1758. C. Golding, Def. Cond. Warden Winchester Coll., 38. He hath given the Electors Liberty to take a Person, either from within the Wyk[e]hamical Societies, or from without them.
1791. Huddesford, Salmag., 101. William of Wickham, a Song for the Wiccamical Anniversary.
1830. W. L. Bowles, Life Ken, I. 18. Dulce Domum, the old Wykehamical song. Ibid., 23. The great object of Wykehamical hopes, New College.
1878. H. C. Adams, Wykehamica, xxii. 397. in Wykehamical phrase, the Præfect … would have ‘broken their necks.’
1901. Athenæum, 26 Jan., 105/3. If we were asked to select the typical Wykehamical epitaph.
2. That is or has been a pupil of, or connected with, Winchester College.
1844. R. Palmer, in Mem. (1896), I. 364. I printed them for private and anonymous circulation among my Wykehamical friends.
1878. H. C. Adams, Wykehamica, xvii. 320. This oath is one of the things which the Wykehamical body ought to have abolished long ago.
1903. Fearon, in C. E. Osborne, Fr. Dolling, ix. He was rapidly adopted within the Wykehamical family, and was what the school would have called ‘a most patriotic Wykehamist.’
Hence Wykehamically adv.
1878. H. C. Adams, Wykehamica, xxiii. 418. Chouse, ‘a shame.’… Here the word has been Wykehamically diverted from its original meaning, viz. ‘to cheat.’
