a. Obs. [f. Gr. εὐκτικ-ός pertaining to prayer (f. εὔχεσθαι to pray) + -AL.] Pertaining to prayer; supplicatory.
a. 1638. Mede, Wks., I. li. 285. Eucharistical Offerings are such whose End is Thanksgiving to God…. Euctical I call such as are made to God … when we come to pray before him.
1745. Bp. E. Law, Theory Relig., 227. Hence was the Origin of Sacrifices, as they are distinguished into expiatory, euctical, and eucharistical.
Hence Euctically adv.
a. 1638. Mede, Wks., I. li. 291. The Heave-offering … was as it were an Offering of his own, and therefore he applieth it Euctically.
