a. ? Obs. [f. as prec. + -AL.] = STYPTIC a.
1528. Paynell, Salerne’s Regim., Q iiij. Prunes that be nat rype be stypticall.
1612. Benvenuto’s Passenger, I. ii. 205. Let vs take something stiticall, without drinking therevpon, and those be Peares, Medlers, [etc.].
1652. Hermeticall Banquet, B 3. Aluminous and Pontick [Salts], which are Stegnoticall, Stypticall, and Corroborating the Retentive faculties.
1686. Plot, Staffordsh., 165. Every body knows what stiptical qualities, always attend ferrugineous bodies.
1762. B. Stillingfleet, trans. Beyerstein’s Obst. to Impr. Physic, in Misc. Tracts (1791), 215. Thus watery mixed with dry,… glutinous with stiptical,… mutually weaken each other.
1820. Scoresby, Acc. Arctic Reg., I. 519. He has been observed to,… as if conscious of the styptical effect of cold, apply snow with his paws to the wound.
Hence † Stypticalness, stypticity.
1528. Paynell, Salerne’s Regim., R ij. Medlars make one costife throughe their sowernes and stipticalnes.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Stipticalness, stiptick Quality, or Aptness to stop Blood, &c.
