a. [f. as prec. + -ICAL.] = prec.
1825. Macaulay, Milton, Ess. (1851), I. 14. The character of a writer from the passages directly egotistical.
1841. D’Israeli, Amen. Lit. (1867), 321. Patriotism has often covered the most egotistical motives.
1859. Thackeray, Virgin., lxxxvi. (1878), 697. I have a right to be garrulous and egotistical.
1870. Disraeli, Lothair, xlix. 268. I am talking in an … egotistical … manner.
Hence Egotistically adv., in an egotistical manner, as a result of egotism.
1809–12. Mar. Edgeworth, Vivian, iii. (1832), 195. Egotistically secured from the pains of sympathy.
1848. Dickens, Dombey (C. D. ed.), 66. An old black cat … lay … upon the centre foot of the fender purring egotistically.
1879. H. James, Benvolio, in Madonna, etc. II. 157. A man … who assumes, a trifle egotistically, that the rest of the world is equally at leisure.
