a. [f. as prec. + -AL: see -ICAL.] = prec. 1. Hence Theistically adv., in a theistical manner.
1697. C. Leslie, Short Meth. w. Deists, I. § II (1699), 45, note. The Theistical Clubb have set this up as a Principle.
1738. Warburton, Div. Legat., III. ii. 304. That future State, which, I suppose, the Theistical Philosophers did not believe.
1841. Elphinstone, Hist. India, I. 223. The work of Patanjali … is the text-book of the theistical sect.
