authentical

English

Etymology

From authentic +‎ -al.

Adjective

authentical (comparative more authentical, superlative most authentical)

(archaic) Authentic.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.12:
  He graunted it: and streight his warrant made, / Under the Sea-gods seale autenticall […].
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  , II.33:
  The curious and exact care he had of his body, is an authenticall witnesse of it, forsomuch as he used the most lascivious meanes that then were in use […].

References

authentical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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