curatical

From curate +‎ -ical.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kjʊəˈɹætɪkəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kjəˈɹætɪkəl/
• Rhymes: -ætɪkəl

curatical (comparative more curatical, superlative most curatical)

1. Curatial; curatic. [from 18th c.]
   • 1922 November [1921 October], W. H. Hudson, “Wasps and Men” (chapter XXXIII), in A Traveller in Little Things, New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, page 290:

     They said it was a reaction; that after the restraint of Sunday with its three services, especially the last when he was permitted to pour out his wild curatical eloquence, the need of doing something violent and savage was most powerful; that he had, so to say, to wash out the Sunday taste with blood.

• “curatical, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.