Cupidical
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Cupidical is an adjective meaning (obsolete) Of or relating to erotic love.
Meaning
(obsolete) Of or relating to erotic love.
Example Sentences
[…] the largest square or park in Cairo, the Esbekeyah […] where […] all kinds of intrigues, political, cupidical, and otherwise, are carried on.
1620, John Florio (attributed translator), The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, London: Isaac Jaggard, Day 4, [p. 151b], […] the Friar hearing his Cupidicall visitations ouer-publikely discouered, purposed to check and reproue Lisetta for her indiscretion.
1770, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. K—, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, p. 25, I don’t wonder the cricket-match yielded no amusement—all sport is dull, books unentertaining—Wisdom’s self but folly—to a mind under Cupidical influence.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include amorous, amatory, coital, coitional, amoristic, coitive.
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