Ciceronical

• ciceronical [early 20^th C.]
• Ciceronicall [16^th C.]

Either the Latin Cicerō (stem: Cicerōn-) or the Middle English Ciceroun suffixed with the English -ical.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɪsəˈɹɒnɪkəl/
• Rhymes: -ɒnɪkəl

Ciceronical (comparative more Ciceronical, superlative most Ciceronical)

1. (obsolete) = Ciceronian
   • 1590, Robert Greene, Never too Late (1600), page 32:

     Hee and Isabel…began to be as Ciceronicall as they were amorous.

   • 1891, Charles A. Ward, Oracles of Nostradamus, “Napoleonic Rule”, page 251:

     But this man’s words are spirit itself, and burn their niche in Time, to last as long as that will. Take two of them: “Soldiers, forty centuries look down upon you!” and again, “Behold the sun of Austerlitz!” When you speak, speak thus to men; such words are deeds; and come not as from one who beateth the air to the pitchpipe of the tibicen Ciceronical, but as the bullet to its butt; speak swordpoints, that press between the joints and marrow.

   • 1914, Western Christian Advocate LXXX, page 10:

     He had a very pleasant smile, had old Thomas Richardson, and a gracious way of performing his ciceronical duties. It was plainly a labor of love, due to the old mansion and the master who had made it famous.

• cicerone
• Ciceronian

• NED II (C; 1st ed., 1893), page 414/1, “Cicero·nic, †Cicero·nical adjs.”