Ē/e·co-nôm'ic or Ē/e·co-nôm'ic-al, a.
(Synop., § 130), a. [Fr. économique, Lat. œconomicus, Gr. οἰκονομικός.]
Sense 1. Pertaining to the household; domestic. “In this economical misfortune [of ill-assorted matrimony].” Milton.
Sense 2. Relating to economy, or to the management of household or pecuniary affairs, private or public; relating to internal system; adaptation of means to ends; saving of waste and unnecessary expense. “In business politic or economic.” B. Jonson. “Her economic art.” Davies.
Sense 3. Managing with frugality; guarding against loss or waste; prudent in expenditure; — said of character or habits.
With economic care To save a pittance. Harte.
Sense 4. Managed with frugality; not marked with waste or extravagance; frugal; — said of acts; as, an economical use of money.
Sense 5. Relating to the means of living, or the resources and wealth of a country; relating to the science of economics.
There was no economical distress in England to prompt the enterprises of colonization. Palfrey.