pragmatical
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Sometimes the examples were saturated, as in the introductory song “Jellicle Cats,” which mentions practical cats, dramatical cats, pragmatical cats, fanatical cats, and so on, one after the other.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2019
As a scientific man of God, he is shrewd, erudite, pragmatical.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before civilization became overclotted with low pragmatical fellows, a man of letters cut a fine figure in the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet few readers will deny that Heiden has made an ingenious, readable, shocking case for his "pragmatical and mechanistically minded modern man, product of mass education, whose sole criterion is: Will it work?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Probably some allusions in this refer to Harvey, whose pragmatical pedantry may have in many ways annoyed Nash, a Cambridge man like himself.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George
