A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Poetical(l, adj. Also: poietical. [ME and e.m.E. poetical (Chaucer), f. L. poētic-us (see Poet,n.).] Poetical: of poetry; composed in poetry or verse. —1513 Doug. i Prol. 255.
The quent and curyus castis poeticall [v.r. -al] … Quharin Virgill beris the palm of lawd Ib. ix Prol. 55.
Hys buke … Sa fresch endyte and sang poeticall 1549 Compl. 82/10.
Quhou beit that the said poietical beuk be dytit oratourly c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus ii 88.
Fontane musicall … and port poeticall a1597-1617 Hist. Jas. VI (1825) 177.
And … thair was a poeticall malice in hand; for tua poetis of Edinburgh … did publeis the same … be a famous libell written aganis him
