colical

English

From colic +‎ -al.

colical (comparative more colical, superlative most colical)

Resembling or relating to colic.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Jonathan Swift to this entry?)
Subject to or suffering from colic.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  I have already learn'd to apply my selfe unto it; and am now entring into covenant with this chollicall kinde of life; for therein I finde matter, wherewith to comfort me, and to hope better.

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