authentical

American  

[aw-then-ti-kuhl] / ɔˈθɛn tɪ kəl /

adjective

Archaic.

1. authentic.

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Other Word Forms

• nonauthentical adjective
• unauthentical adjective
• unauthentically adverb
• unauthenticalness noun

Etymology

Origin of authentical

First recorded in 1525–35; authentic + -al ¹

Example Sentences

In ordinary gentleman's dress, he is a very authentical copy of a Bond-street dandy, and looks as little like a Frenchman as most of Stultz's subjects.

From Project Gutenberg

But yet upon this general knowledge, you see how earnestly he wrote for an authentical instrument of prohibition from such authority as he knew they would not resist, although perhaps his own words, in a matter of so great weight, would not suffice for all, though for the most and best it would, as before he also touched.

From Project Gutenberg

The church that holds the undisputable proof as the first authentical apostolic establishment with founder the apostle of the Gentiles himself.

From Project Gutenberg

For with what confidence can any private person promise credit from posterity to his own writings if such public documents be not entertained by him for authentical?

From Project Gutenberg

I had thought     Otia si tollas, periere Cupidinis arcus,     Contemptaeque jacent et sine luce faces; but I see Ovid's axiom is not authentical, for even labor hath her loves, and extremity is no pumice-stone to rase out fancy.

From Project Gutenberg