a. Obs. [f. Gr. λημματ-, λῆμμα LEMMA + -IC + -AL.] Of or pertaining to a lemma; of the nature of a lemma.
1665. Barrow, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), II. 45. Some short scholiums, that might be conveniently interserted, as lemmatical and preparatory to their demonstrations.
1671. Phil. Trans., VI. 2260. Of those five Lectures the two first are Lemmatical. Ibid. (1704), XXV. 1608. Lemmatical Propositions.