a. [f. as prec. + -AL: see -ICAL.] Of or pertaining to the thermometer or its use; made with or involving the use of the thermometer.
1664–5. Boyle, Exper. & Obs. Cold (heading). New Thermometrical Experiments and Thoughts.
1715. Cheyne, Philos. Princ. Relig., V. § 21 (ed. 2), 233. His Heat raises the Liquor in the Thermometrical Tubes.
1820. Scoresby, Acc. Arctic Reg., I. 352. A series of thermometrical observations, continued through the space of a few years.
1880. Haughton, Phys. Geog., iii. 90. Marking so many fixed points on the earth’s thermometrical scale.
b. That acts as a thermometer; indicating rise or fall of temperature.
1823. J. Badcock, Dom. Amusem., 40. Thermometrical Ink.
Hence Thermometrically adv., according to or by means of the thermometer or its indications.
1828. in Webster.
1856. G. Wilson, Lett., 10 April, in Mem., x. (1860), 427. For a month … the wind has blown geographically from Araby the blest, but thermometrically from Iceland the accursed.
1881. Sullivan, in Macm. Mag., XLIV. 342. A very heated term, thermometrically speaking.
