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energic, a.|ɛˈnɜːdʒɪk|
[f. energ-y + -ic; cf. F. énergique, It. energico.]
†1. Powerfully operative; = energetic 2. Obs.
1665G. Harvey Advice agst. Plague 7 Not so Energick as to venenate the intire mass of blood in an instant. 1689― Curing Dis. by Expect. xvi. 124 The most Energick Simples. 1753Smollett Ct. Fathom (1784) 13/2 A juice much more energick than the milk of goat, wolf, or woman.
2. Characterized by energy; strenuous, forcible, vigorous; = energetic 3. Now rare.
1702tr. Le Clerc's Prim. Fathers 45 Expressions..not..energick enough to express such Thoughts. 1792A. Young Trav. France 65 The energic exertions of ardent minds. 1818J. H. Frere Whistlecraft's Nat. Poem iii. xli, The strong Fryingpan's energic jangle. 1876J. Ellis Caesar in Egypt 32 Caesar, astute, energic, press'd the war.
3. nonce-uses. (See quots.)
1796–7Coleridge Poems, Lines on Friend, To me hath Heaven with bounteous hand assigned Energic reason. 1834― Let. 1 Mar., My mind is always energic—I don't mean energetic: I require in everything what, for lack of another word, I may call propriety,—that is, a reason, why the thing is at all, and why it is there or then rather than elsewhere or at another time. 1859Blackw. Mag. LXXXVI. 242/2 The energic faculty that we call Will. |