a. [f. SYNONYM sb. + -ICAL.]
† 1. = SYNONYMOUS 1. Obs.
1645. E. Calamy, Indictm. Eng., 23. The Apostle reckons up seven synonymicall expressions…. The works of the flesh are hatred, variance, emulation, wrath, strife, sedition, envyings.
1690. C. Nesse, Hist. & Myst. O. & N. Test., I. 89. It being a phrase synonymical.
2. = SYNONYMIC.
1806. Dawson (title), Philologia Anglicana: or a Philological and Synonymical Dictionary of the English Language.
1887. Amer. Naturalist, XXI. 580. A synonymical and descriptive list…, in which one hundred and seven species … are given.
1895. Advance (Chicago), 11 July, 62/2. A wonderful Psalm, this [sc. the 119th]! Acrostical, synonymical, panegyrical, devotional.
Hence Synonymically adv., as a synonym or synonyms.
1599. Broughton’s Lett., vi. 20. Συστρατιώτης and ἀκολουθὸς are all one,… and … synonymically confounded.
1862. H. B. Wheatley, Anagrams, 172. The second piece includes some words not synonymically inserted in the first.
