authentical

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

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"He graunted it: and streight his warrant made, / Under the Sea-gods seale autenticall[…]."
"The curious and exact care he had of his body, is an authenticall witneſſe of it, forſomuch as hee vſed the moſt laſcivious meanes that then were in vſe, […]"
"The Holie Bible faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin."

From Classical Latin authenticus + -al. By surface analysis, authentic + -al.

more authentical (comparative) most authentical (superlative)

authenticalness unauthentical

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