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Definition of Hyperbolical
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Hyperbolical
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyperbolical
Literary usage of Hyperbolical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"genius of the Javanese than a figurative and hyperbolical style. We see, indeed,
a good deal of this in the poetry borrowed from the Hindus of Western India ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1860)
"... the latter would be rapidly separated from the nucleus, and form a second
comet, which would follow a hyperbolical orbit, while the nucleus, ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1867)
"... the latter would be rapidly separated from the nucleus, and form a second
comet, which would follow a hyperbolical orbit, while the nucleus, ..."
4. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong by Alfred Ayres (1882)
"... is really intended to be represented, by which a thing is represented greater
or less, better or worse than it really is, is said to be hyperbolical. ..."
5. The Oxford Sausage: Or, Select Poetical Pieces by Thomas Warton (1814)
"... hyperbolical, and Diabolical Style or OUR MODERN ODE-WRITERS AND MONODY-MONGERS.
... hyperbolical ..."
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