a. arch. Forms: 6 autentycal, 6–7 -ical, -icall, authenticall, 6– authentical. [f. AUTHENTIC a. + -AL 1.]

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  1.  = AUTHENTIC a. 1.

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1552.  Bulleyn, Sorenes, 31 a. By the rules, and autenticall counsaill, of learned Phisicions.

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1608.  2nd Pt. Def. Reas. Refus. Subscr., 83. No scripture is Canonical but that which is Authentical, and carrieth credit in it self and of it self, without dependance of any other writinge.

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1651.  Hobbes, Leviath., II. xxvi. 143. The Authenticall Interpretation of Law is not that of writers.

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1710.  Prideaux, Orig. Tithes, v. 258. Published, and commanded to be observed as Authentical.

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  b.  1537.  Inst. Chr. Man, H iij b. In the writinges of any autenticali doctour or auctour of the church.

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1599.  B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Hum., IV. iii. By the Judgment of the most authentical Physicians.

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  2.  = AUTHENTIC a. 2.

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c. 1531.  Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866), 34. By the autorite of my lorde of london vnder his Autentycal seale.

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1615.  T. Adams, Lycanthr., 29. Having first martyr’d them, then held disputation whether the act was authenticall.

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a. 1679.  T. Goodwin, Wks. (1861), I. 315. A formal, sure, legal, authentical interest.

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  3.  = AUTHENTIC a. 3.

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1541.  Barnes, Wks. (1573), 328/1. Authenticall hystories doth make mention, that [etc.].

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1677.  Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., II. vii. 181. A vigorous and authentical Tradition.

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1716.  T. Ward, Eng. Ref., 247. Rome this Version does allow For most Authentical and True.

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1861.  W. Mill, Applic. Panth. Princ. (ed. 2), 175. In the most authentical copies now extant.

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  b.  1553–87.  Foxe, A. & M., III. 381. The testimony of any authentical Writer.

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a. 1619.  Fotherby, Atheom., I. iv. § 1. More authenticall witnesses.

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1666.  Fuller, Hist. Camb. (1840), 117. What authentical authors had attested the king’s words.

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  4.  = AUTHENTIC a. 4.

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1586.  Ferne, Blaz. Gentrie, 136. The worde Marque, in that autenticall tongue signified the Vttermost partes.

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1594.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., I. (1617), 9. That Law … is as it were an authenticall, or an originall draught.

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1638.  Sanderson, 21 Serm., Ad. Aul. viii. (1674), 121. The original record only is authentical and not the transcript.

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1814.  Cary, Dante’s Parad., xxxiii. 51. Into the ray authentical Of sovran light.

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  5.  = AUTHENTIC a. 5.

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1609.  B. Jonson, Sil. Wom., III. ii. Shee is the onely authenticall courtier, that is not naturally bred one, in the citie.

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  6.  = AUTHENTIC a. 6.

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1624.  Gataker, Transubst., 43. He citeth these confessed counterfeits as authenticall Authors.

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1845.  Shaw, On Conf. Faith, i. (1848), 20. The Scriptures … have come down to us uncorrupted, and are, therefore, authentical.

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  7.  Mus. = AUTHENTIC a. 9.

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1597.  Morley, Introd. Mus., Annot., Euery song which about the beginning riseth a fift aboue the finall key, is of an autenticall tune.

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1609.  Douland, Ornithop. Microl., 13. All the odde tones are Authenticall, all the euen Plagall.

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