Homonymical

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of homonymic. not-comparable, uncommon

    "[T]hoſe definitions cannot be made accurately by Heat and Cold: therefore theſe terms of the Seaſons muſt be diſtinguiſhed, as being Homonymical, ſo that we muſt make ſome Seaſons to be Celeſtial, and others Terreſtrial. […] ſo that it is termed the Terreſtrial Summer of any place, in which, in that place a great heat is cauſed every year by the Sun; but the Celeſtial Summer is termed that ſeaſon of the year, wherein a great heat ought to be in that place, by reaſon of the vicinity of the Sun."

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"[T]hoſe definitions cannot be made accurately by Heat and Cold: therefore theſe terms of the Seaſons muſt be diſtinguiſhed, as being Homonymical, ſo that we muſt make ſome Seaſons to be Celeſtial, and others Terreſtrial. […] ſo that it is termed the Terreſtrial Summer of any place, in which, in that place a great heat is cauſed every year by the Sun; but the Celeſtial Summer is termed that ſeaſon of the year, wherein a great heat ought to be in that place, by reaſon of the vicinity of the Sun."

Etymology

From homonym + -ical.

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