a. [f. LINGUISTIC + -AL.] = LINGUISTIC a.
1823. T. G. Wanewright, Ess. & Crit. (1889), 311. To … garnish one’s paragraphs with … outlandish sprigs, not personally plucked from the linguistical trees.
1845. B’ness Bunsen, in Hare, Life, II. iii. 85. A remarkable linguistical talent.
1882–3. Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., III. 2308. In this dictionary he does not pretend to give a linguistical explanation of the words occurring in the N. T.
