a. [f. L. agricultūra (see AGRICULTURE) + -AL 1. Cf. natural, L. nātūrālis.] Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with husbandry or tillage of the ground.
1776. Adam Smith, W. N. (1869), II. IV. ix. 246. The agricultural systems of political economy will not require so long an explanation.
1814. Sir H. Davy (title), Agricultural Chemistry.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 413. Four shillings a week therefore were … fair agricultural wages.
1849. Alison, Hist. Europe, I. ii. § 4. 121. The agricultural population, at both periods, was double the manufacturing.
