a. rare. [f. as prec. + -AL.] = TERRIFIC.

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1799.  in Parnassian Garland (1814), 287.

        What tho’ Affliction, in her direst form,
Terrifical assail him with the force
Of anger’d ocean’s wrath, he braves her rage
Immoveable as rock-built Eddistone.

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1831.  Fr. A. Kemble, Jrnl., in Recoll. Girlhood (1878), III. 47. In the evening we had terrifical ghost stories.

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1855.  Miss Manning, Old Chelsea Bun-Ho., xvii. 286. Abundantly more terrifical.

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