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Definition of Pragmatical
1. Adjective. Of or concerning the theory of pragmatism.
2. Adjective. Concerned with practical matters. "A matter-of-fact account of the trip"
Similar to: Practical
Derivative terms: Pragmatism, Pragmatism
Definition of Pragmatical
1. Adjective. (legal) That relates to affairs of state ¹
2. Adjective. pragmatic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pragmatical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pragmatical
Literary usage of Pragmatical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: To which is Added an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1826)
"... and disposes them to be " pragmatical and insolent, though they-have the skill
to conceal it from tlieir masters, except they >find them (as they are ..."
2. A Commentary on Kant's Critick of the Pure Reason: Translated from The by Kuno Fischer, John Pentland Mahaffy (1866)
"Pragmatical and Moral Faith.—Wo are here concerned with practical faith; but
every faith of a practical sort is not necessarily moral—every practical faith ..."
3. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham by Lucy Apsley Hutchinson, Julius Hutchinson, Charles Harding Firth (1885)
"a fellow of a most pragmatical temper, and, to say truth, had strangely wrought
himself into a station unfit for him. He was at first a boy that scraped ..."
4. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ...: With Original Anecdotes of by Lucy Hutchinson, John Hutchinson (1846)
"Chadwick was a fellow of a most pragmatical temper, and, to say truth, had
strangely wrought himself into a station * Doubtless many adhered to the ..."
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