Word of the Day: PAGICAL

ETYMOLOGY
from page (n.)  + -ical; possibly after magical

EXAMPLE
“… Will: And besides madam we wood haue them knowe that your two little Pages, which are lesse by hälfe then two leaues, haue more learning in them then is in all their three volumnes.
Iack: I faith Will, and putt their great pagicall index to them too.
Hip: But how will ye excuse your abuses wags?
Will: We doubt not madam, but if it please your Ladiship to put vp their abuses …”

From: Sir Gyles Goosecappe Knight, A Comedie
By: George Chapman, 1606

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