novercal

adj

1. (dated, not-comparable)Of or pertaining to a stepmother.

   “when almost the whole tribe of birds do thus, by incubation, produce their young , it is a wonderful deviation , that some few families only ſhould do it in a more novercal way”

   “Guido's old lady-mother Beatrice, / Who since her husband, Count Tommaso's death, / Had held sole sway i' the house,—the doited crone / Slow to acknowledge, curtsey and abdicate,— / Was recognized of true novercal type, / Dragon and devil.”