Word of the Day: ABRODIETICAL

ETYMOLOGY
– from Greek ἁβροδίαιτος (living delicately),
from ἁβρός (graceful, delicate) + δίαιτα (diet [way of feeding]) + -ical 

EXAMPLE
“…Good lack a day, what pity ’tis such an abrodietical Person should want wherewith to accrew…”

From: A Very Good Wife: a Comedy
George Powell, 1693

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