# homonymical
## English
### Etymology

From homonym +‎ -ical.

### Adjective

homonymical (not comparable)
* (uncommon) Synonym of homonymic.
** 1682, [Bernhardus] Varenius, anonymous translator, “How are the Seasons of the year, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, to be defined?”, in Cosmography and Geography in Two Parts: […], London: […] S[amuel] Roycroft for Richard Blome, →OCLC, part I ([…] General Geography), book II ([…]), chapter XXVI ([…]), page 233:[T]hoſe definitions cannot be made accurately by Heat and Cold: therefore theſe terms of the Seaſons muſt be diſtinguiſhed, as being Homonymical, ſo that we muſt make ſome Seaſons to be Celeſtial, and others Terreſtrial. […] ſo that it is termed the Terreſtrial Summer of any place, in which, in that place a great heat is cauſed every year by the Sun; but the Celeſtial Summer is termed that ſeaſon of the year, wherein a great heat ought to be in that place, by reaſon of the vicinity of the Sun.
** 1848, Alexander John Ellis, “The Homonymical Objection”, in A Plea for Phonetic Spelling; or, The Necessity of Orthographic Reform. […], 2nd edition, London: Fred Pitman, […], →OCLC, page 105:The Hetéric Homonymical Distinctions apply to such a Small Fraction of the English Language as to be ludicrously incomplete. Now, the utter worthlessness of any objection to phonetic spelling, which can be raised on the score of confusing homonyms, is shewn by this one fact, that there are only about 405 words in which a difference in meaning is distinguished by difference of symbolization, and that only in 857 cases; […]
** 1858 December, Teacher [pseudonym], “Phonetics and its Objectors”, in William A[ugustus] Mowry, editor, The R. I. Schoolmaster, volume IV, number 10, Providence, R.I.: William A. Mowry, […], →OCLC, page 306, column 2:And by the spelling, of course, we comprehend the stanza— / “Of course a race course isn’t coarse, / A fine is far from fine; / To see a sad sight, is to see / A noble pine tree pine.” / In fine this fine homonymical objection vanishes into fine air.
** 1967, M[oriz] Winternitz, translated by Subhadra Jha, “Lexicography”, in History of Indian Literature, volume III, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, published 1985, →ISBN, part II, section V (The Scientific Literature), page 492:There are two kinds of dictionaries: synonymical and homonymical. […] The homonymical dictionaries contain words with meanings more than one (anekārtha, nānārtha). But most of the great synonymical dictionaries contain also a section on homonyms.
** 2012, Arthur Black, “All the News That’s Fit to Drift”, in Looking Blackward, Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour Publishing, →ISBN, part 1 (News from Planet Salt Spring), footnote, page 33:Salt Spring Island […] really does have two D. Lundys and their first names both sound like that frame work you see over oil wells. The difference is spelling. Derrick Lundy is the award-winning newspaper photographer and stonemason who looks like a Greek god. Derek Lundy (see the following page) is the award-winning author and world-class sailor who looks like Sir Francis Drake. Some day I plan to write about the hilarious misunderstandings that have arisen from this homonymical unlikelihood, but I have to wait until at least one of them dies.
** 2012, Mike Cartmell, “Flintmaker”, in Mike Hoolboom, editor, Now as a Bird, Now as a Worm, Now as a Plant, Buffalo, N.Y.: Hallwalls:“Stealing” and “flying” are the same word in French (voler), and when little French girls play Cinderella, they dress up in slippers made of squirrel fur, which in heraldic French is vair, homonymical with verre, glass. Or so I'm told.

### References

* “homonymical, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.