a. rare. Also 8 selvatick (after It. selvatico). [ad. L. silvāticus, f. silva: see SYLVA and -ATIC. Cf. F. sylvatique.] Belonging to or found in woods; of the nature of wood or woodland; sylvan; † transf. rustic, boorish (obs.). So † Sylvatical a. Obs. rare–0.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Sylvatical.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., Isagoge a v b. Insectivorous,… and … not melodious, as the … swallow, wild and riparie;… titmouse, great fennish, sylvatick, black, ceruleous.
1668. H. More, Div. Dial., III. xxxiv. (1713), 271. Fauns and Satyrs and other Sylvatick Genii. Ibid., V. xxi. 474. How rough and unpolish’d, how rude and sylvatick the spirit of Elias will appear.
1755. T. H. Croker, Orl. Fur., XXIV. xci. Concealed in the selvatick brake.
1814. T. Haynes, Treat. Strawberry, etc. (ed. 2), 5, note. Others assert the large Carolinian [strawberry] to be an inhabitant of sylvatic situations.
