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pragmatical

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prag·mat·ic  (prg-mtk)
adj.
1. Dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical.
2. Philosophy Of or relating to pragmatism.
3. Relating to or being the study of cause and effect in historical or political events with emphasis on the practical lessons to be learned from them.
4. Archaic
a. Active; busy.
b. Active in an officious or meddlesome way.
c. Dogmatic; dictatorial.
n.
1. A pragmatic sanction.
2. Archaic A meddler; a busybody.

[Latin prgmaticus, skilled in business, from Greek prgmatikos, from prgma, prgmat-, deed, from prssein, prg-, to do.]

prag·mati·cal adj.
prag·mati·cal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.pragmatical - of or concerning the theory of pragmatism
2.pragmatical - concerned with practical matters; "a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem"; "a matter-of-fact account of the trip"
practical - concerned with actual use or practice; "he is a very practical person"; "the idea had no practical application"; "a practical knowledge of Japanese"; "woodworking is a practical art"


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It is like you to give a pragmatical opinion without being acquainted with any of the circumstances of the case; I have had no dinner.
Some pragmatical seventeenth century lawyer, I suppose.
Nay, it seemeth at this instant they are sensible, of this want of natives; as by the Pragmatical Sanction, now published, appeareth.
 
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