finical (finikal)

[A var. of finikin, a uming the form of an adj. in -al. ] Affecting great nicety or extreme elegance; overnice; unduly particular about trifles; fastidious: same as finikin. A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver'd, action-taking, whoreson, gla -gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave. Shak ., Lear, ii. 2. You are too finical for me; speak plain, sir. B. Jonson , Tale of a Tub, iv. 4. The king also reprobated the finical embarra ments of the new fashions, and seldom wore new clothes. 1. D'Israeli , Lit. Char., p. 573. =Syn. Finical, Spruce, Foppish. Finical applies to an overwrought delicacy of taste in manners, dre , and speech; spruce, to appearance, especially dre , a spruce person being too conspicuously trim for elegance or dignity; foppish, to absorption in the vanities of dre . All these words are applied especially to men. See coxcomb. Be not too finical ; but yet be clean; And wear well-fashion'd clothes, like other men. Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love, 1. 578. Gowns at length are found mere masquerade, The ta el'd cap and the spruce band a jest, A mock'ry of the world! IMG:content-1350.png:[blocks in formation] finically finically (fin'i-kal-i), adv. In a finical manner; with extreme or affected nicety. Bailey, 1727.