a. [f. prec. + -IC.] Cf. the more regularly formed Fr. algébrique.] Of or pertaining to algebra, occurring in algebra.
1662. Hobbes, Seven Prob., Wks. 1845, VII. 60. I have to prove … the algebraic calculation.
1673. Kersey, Algebra (1725), 31. Two or more Algebraic quantities.
1681. Sir G. Wharton, Wks., 1683, 44. The so long sought for Equation of three discontinued Numbers in Algebriaque proportion.
1684. Lond. Gaz., mdcccclxxxv/4. Algebraick Arithmetick, made easie for the commonest capacity.
1827. Hutton, Course Math., I. 182. Algebraic Fractions have the same names and rules of operation, as numeral fractions in common arithmetic.
1858. O. W. Holmes, Aut. Breakf.-t., xi. 101. These expressions come to be the algebraic symbols of minds which have grown too weak to discriminate.
