novercal (noverkal)

[ When almost the whole tribe of birds do thus by incubation produce their young, it is a wonderful deviation that some few families only should do it in a more nover cal way. Derham, Physico-Theology, vii. 4. The doited crone, Slow to acknowledge, curtsey, and abdicate, Was recognized of true novercal type, Dragon and devil. Browning , Ring and Book, I. 66.