a. [f. ALGEBRA + -ICAL.] Of or relating to algebra, in which algebra occurs; involving or using, dealing with or treating algebra. (Formerly used = ALGEBRAIC, but prop. disting. as an objective from possessive genitive: an algebraic symbol, an algebraical treatise.)
1571. Digges, Geom. Pract., IV. Pref. T b. I intend … geometrically by Algebraycall Calculations to search out the sides. Ibid. (1579), Stratiot., 32. The working of supputations Algebraicall.
1679. Moxon, Math. Dict., 172. Signs, or Symbols now commonly used by some Algebraical Writers.
1736. Hervey, Mem., I. 52. Lord Bolingbroke in the algebraical phrase less than nothing.
1837. Whewell, Induct. Sc. (1857), II. 348. The affectation of algebraical formality.
1868. G. Airy, Pop. Astron., v. 173. The process, strictly speaking, is algebraical.
