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▪ I. † ˈfistic, n. Obs.
Forms: 6 fistike, (festike, fystike), 6–7 fistick, 7, 9 fistic.
[ad. (through med.L. fisticum) Arab. fistuq, fustuq, -aq, a. Pers. pistah, whence ultimately pistachio.]
= pistachio. Also, fistic nut, fistic tree.
1548Turner Names of Herbes 63 Pistacia are called of the poticaries Fistica, they may be called in english Fistikes or Festike nuttes. c1550Lloyd Treas. Health (1585) C ij, Oyle of Fystikes healeth the hemicrane. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 91 b, The figure of y⊇ fistic tre is almost rounde. 1578Lyte Dodoens vi. lviii. 734 The tree which bringeth foorth Fistick Nuts. 1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. xvi. xx. 1416 The Fisticke Nut groweth to be a tree of a reasonable large sise. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 300 Fisticks..are Nuts growing in the Knob of the Syrian or Egyptian Turpentine-tree. 1708Motteux Rabelais iv. lx. (1737) 247 Pistachoes, or Fistick-Nuts.
▪ II. fistic, a. Not in dignified use.|ˈfɪstɪk|
[f. fist n.1 + -ic]
Pertaining to or concerned with the fists or their use in boxing; pugilistic.
1806Sporting Mag. XXVIII. 146 Having a little knowledge of the fistic science. 1812S. Jones in D. E. Baker Biog. Dram. III. 451 The fistic hero in this afterpiece was several times interrupted by hisses. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. ii. xii, This was another common procedure of the ladies, when heated by verbal or fistic altercation. |