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dentistical

adj

Etymology

From dentist + -ical.

  1. borrowed from dentiste
  2. suffixed as dentistical — “dentist + ical”

Definitions

  1. Resembling, or relating to, a dentist.

    • And yet even the crocodile likes to have his teeth cleaned; insects get into them, and, horrible reptile though he be, he opens his jaws inoffensively to a faithful dentistical bird, who volunteers his beak for a toothpick.
    • Some of them have little boxes of dentistical-looking implements, specially intended for the skrimshandering business.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA