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1576. Fleming, Panoplie Ep., 399. Sydonius is so enigmaticall … that a man can scarse tell where to finde out his meaning.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1650), II. xxxi. 44. The mud of Nile,… that Enigmaticall vast River.
1723. S. Mather, Vind. Bible, 218. They did use ænigmatical discourses.
1823. Lingard, Hist. Eng., VI. 75. The meaning of this enigmatical remark was not disclosed till eighteen months afterwards.
1850. W. Irving, Mahomet, vi. (1853), 34. The enigmatical career of this extraordinary man.
