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From Latin pīrāticus +‎ -al, from Ancient Greek πειρᾱτικός (peirātikós); equivalent to pirate +‎ -ical.

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piratical (comparative more piratical, superlative most piratical)

1. Of, pertaining to, or similar to pirates.
   • 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “When Frederic Was a Little Lad”, in The Pirates of Penzance  […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC, page 5:

     A nursery-maid is never afraid of what you people call work,
     So I made up my mind to go as a kind of piratical maid-of-all-work;

   • 2019 September 14, Miranda Sawyer, “Mark Leckey: ‘There has to be a belief that art has this power, this charisma'”, in The Guardian‎:

     He looks piratical, with his beard and long hair and single pearl earring, or like a jumble-sale 17th century nobleman.

2. (ornithology) Of a bird, practising kleptoparasitism.

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