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Definition of Toploftical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toploftical
Literary usage of Toploftical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1889)
"Good ; large; excellent; aristocratic. t George bed a toploftical ...
WEH,Kirton-in-Lindsey, 1853- " Very toploftical, to be sure."—Blackwood's Mag., 1823 ..."
2. Early Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle: Together with a Few of Later Years and by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1889)
"Moray Street is 3 Top-loft = top storey, highest gallery; so toploftical = high
and mighty. 4 Rob Roy, chap, ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"... a toploftical way, and deigns, through a two minutes' patronage, to look at
the snow-birds' frolic, and then leaves. A very practical fellow now appears ..."
4. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"The phrasing of my subject is not my own, which gives you a chance to acquit me,
if you will, of what a Cracker friend at home calls "toploftical ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"Very toploftical, to be sure. Commend me to the panegyric on what our friend
Fogarty (from whom his lordship appears to have taken the idea) calls " Tobacco ..."
6. European Dramatists by Archibald Henderson (1913)
"... and toploftical strain. Wilde was only too ready to employ the " strong "
curtain, after the fashion set by Hugo, as a concession to modern taste; ..."
7. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by The Century Co. (Nueva York) (1892)
"... to- walked over in the morning to spend the day, followed by her handmaid
Patty, whose turban handkerchief towered in a toploftical structure, ..."
8. An Old-fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott (1870)
"bestowing upon Polly her most " toploftical stare." as the girls called it.
I regret to say that Polly never could talk with or be near Trix without feeling ..."
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