a. arch. [f. prec. + -AL 1.]
1. = APOPLECTIC 1.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Apoplectical, pertaining to the apoplexy.
1668. Lond. Gaz., ccxxvii/2. Dangerously ill of an Apoplectical distemper.
1779. Johnson, in Boswell (1816), III. 455. Mr. Thrale has been in extreme danger from an apoplectical disorder.
2. = APOPLECTIC 2.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 500. Such men as dye Apoplecticall.
1739. Baddam, Mem. R. Soc., 140. The one, lame of the gout; the other, extremely appoplectical.
3. = APOPLECTIC 3.
1721. Bailey, Apoplectical … good against Apoplexy.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Apoplectical medicines, a name used by some for what we more properly call antapoplectics.
