Examples of use of academical
1. Born in Belfast, the fifth of eight children, he was an enthusiastic student at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution (Inst) and at Queen‘s University, Belfast, where he took a degree in modern languages.
2. He enjoyed a lucky break when he found that the corps commander, General Philip Christison (a fellow Edinburgh Academical), was a keen ornithologist and ignored his staff officers to talk at length with Lieutenant Watson about birds.
3. It has to be said that the Scottish results as read out by James Alexander Gordon on Saturday evenings are more colourful and evocative than the English ones, since Scotland has a collection of teams with names that reflect their history rather than their location (Heart of Midlothian, Hibernian, St Mirren, St Johnstone, Queen of the South) as well as a couple of Thistles and an Academical; though sadly now no Third Lanark (an abbreviation for the Third Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers). The English league long ago lost its Trinity (Gainsborough) and its Ironopolis (a Middlesbrough side), and most of the off–beat names – Blyth Spartans, Barnt Green Spartak, Shepshed Dynamo, Mole Valley Predators, though not yet Maidenhead Metatarsals are way down in the minor leagues.