Definition of "heroical" [he•ro•ic•al]

• Heroic (adjective)

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• "The last object that ties man and man, is comeliness of person, and beauty alone, as men love women with a wanton eye: which κατ 'ἐξοχὴν is termed heroical, or love-melancholy."
• "The part affected in men is the liver, and therefore called heroical, because commonly gallants."
• "But if anything be already said in the defence of sweet poetry, all concurreth to the maintaining the heroical, which is not only a kind, but the best, and most accomplished kind of poetry."