DAPATICALADJ.
sumptuous, as in feasting; costly; magnificent ...1623 obs. ETYMOLOGY from late Latin dapaticus sumptuous from dapem feast FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1623 - The English Dictionarie or an Interpreter of Hard English Words, Henry Cockeram "Dapatical meates, daintie meates" EXAMPLE "...Esurient, crapulous, cuttles, or cuddens dapatical, are constipated on a consutile bassock." From: A Treatise on Telegraphic Communication, Naval, Military, and Political By: John MacDonald, 1808 SOURCES • The English Dictionarie or an Interpreter of Hard English Words, Henry Cockeram 1623 • An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, Nathan Bailey, 1737 • Glossographia Anglicana Nova, or, A Dictionary Interpreting such Hard Words....., Thomas Blount, 1656 • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • Dictionary of Early English, Joseph Shipley, 1955
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