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Idiotical

Idiotic \Id`i*ot"ic\, Idiotical \Id`i*ot"ic*al\, a. [L. idioticus ignorant, Gr. ?: cf. F. idiotique. See Idiot.]

  1. Common; simple. [Obs.]
    --Blackwall.

  2. Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous; as, an idiotic person, speech, laugh, or action.

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idiotical

a. (context archaic English) simple, unlearned.

Usage examples of "idiotical".

Think not we long remained blind to the idiotical folly of our founders, who forswore every delight of life for the pleasure of dying martyrs by hunger, by thirst, and by pestilence, and by the swords of savages, while they vainly strove to defend a barren desert, valuable only in the eyes of superstition.