novercal

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Etymology

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From Latin novercalis, from noverca (a stepmother).

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novercal (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Of or pertaining to a stepmother.
    • 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. [], London: [] W[illiam] Innys, [], →OCLC:
      when almost the whole tribe of birds do thus, by incubation, produce their young , it is a wonderful deviation , that some few families only ſhould do it in a more novercal way
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Robert Browning to this entry?)

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