Of, relating to, or constituting a character or distinctive mark; showing characteristic qualities.
From 'character' combined with the adjectival suffix '-ical', an older or archaic variant of '-ical' that appears in older texts and specialized usage.
This is an archaic variant of 'characteristic'—if you saw it in a 1700s document, you'd know the writer cared about using fancy language.
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