largifical, adj.

[‘ Liberal, generous, bountiful.']

Etymology: <  classical Latin /largificus/ bountiful, lavish (Lucretius; <  /largus/ large adj. + /-ficus/ -fic suffix) + -al suffix1.

 /Obs./ /rare/. Chiefly humorous.

  Liberal, generous, bountiful.

1656  T. Blount /Glossographia/, /Largifical/, that bestows bountifully, that gives frankly, liberal.

1708 /Brit. Apollo/ 2 June, Through the Benignity of our Largifical Essence, always inclin’d to succour the Egestuosity of our Vorarie’s Conceptions;..we will now descend from our Innubilous Empireum.

1710 /Brit. Apollo/ 13 Jan., How unjust..to accuse her unreasonable Appetite, when thou art so unreasonable thy self, as to desire to retrench her Largifical Inclinations for disposing of that Overplus thou hast no occasion for?

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