a. [f. prec. + -AL.] = CALVINISTIC; of the nature of, or pertaining to, Calvinism. Hence Calvinistically adv.
1606. W. Crashaw, Rom. Forgeries, 78. Is not such a Caluinisticall sentence worthy to be razed out for euer?
1779. Johnson, Milton, L. P. (1816), 128. His theological opinions are said to have been first Calvinistical.
1814. Scott, Wav., xxv. This calvinistical Colonel.
1853. Lytton, My Novel, I. 365 (Hoppe). Mrs. Avenel, in an awfully stiff, clean, and calvinistical cap.
1674. Hickman, Hist. Quinquart. (ed. 2), 58. The Doctrine of Free-will is laid down as Calvinistically as one could wish.
1832. Fraser’s Mag., XLVI. 588. Do not be so Calvinistically severe on their little amusements.
