pragmatical
Adjective

pragmatical

  1. pragmatic; practical; businesslike
    • 1645, John Milton, Tetrachordon:
      We cannot therefore always be contemplative, or pragmatical abroad, but have need of some delightful intermissions
    • Low, pragmatical, earthly views of the gospel.
  2. (legal) Relating to affairs of state.
  3. (obsolete) officious; fussy; meddlesome
    • 1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one. [...] In Three Volumes, volume (please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed [by James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, OCLC 991895633 ↗:
    • The fellow grew so pragmatical that he took upon him the government of my whole family.



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