Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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¶FISTRICAL, adj. Superstitious, given to believing in the supernatural (Ork. 1930). [The form is very suspect and may be a corruption of Freutery in a deriv. form.]