English

Alternative forms

• domesticall

Adjective

domestical ‎(comparative more domestical, superlative most domestical)

1. (archaic) Domestic.
   • Sir Philip Sidney

     Our private and domestical matter.

   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.1:

     It were a kind of treason to do so in our owne affaires and domesticall [transl. domestiques] matters, wherein of necessity one must resolve and take a side; but for a man that hath neither charge nor expresse commandement to urge him, not to busie or entermedle himselfe therein, I holde it more excusable […].

Noun

domestical

1. (archaic) A domestic; a household servant; a member of a household.

References

• J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.