Symptomatical

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Symptomatic \Symp`tom*at"ic\, Symptomatical \Symp`tom*at"ic*al\,
     a. [Cf. F. symptomatique, Gr. ? causal.]
     1. Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence
        with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence
        of something else.
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              Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an
              unamiable temper.                     --Macaulay.
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     2. According to symptoms; as, a symptomatical classification
        of diseases.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Symp`tom*at"ic*al*ly}, adv.
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