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identic, a.|aɪˈdɛntɪk| [ad. scholastic L. identic-us (see identity): cf. F. identique (in Furetière 1690), It., Sp., Pg. identico.] 1. = identical 1.
1664Butler Hud. ii. i. 149 The Beard's th' Identick Beard you knew. 1789H. Walpole Let. in Miss Berry's Corr. (1865) I. 177, I concluded it must be a son..but asking my sister..she assured me it was..the identic being. c1811Fuseli in Lect. Paint. v. (1848) 465 The identic owner of those crutches. 1866Cornh. Mag. Nov. 629 The new democratic axiom that aristocracy is a single and identic species of social vermin. 2. = identical 2.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, ciii, Death, though it Estrange Perhaps, the Notion of Identike vse, Quickens a better Ray of Light in vs. 1751Harris Hermes iii. iv. (1786) 399 Whence..do these common Identic Ideas come? 1838Blackw. Mag. XLIII. 768 Literature and pedagogism are in Germany identic in spirit. 1876Skene Celtic Scotl. I. 193 The Irish language still spoken there, which is identic with the Gaelic of the Scotch Highlands. 3. In diplomacy, applied to action or language in which two or more governments or powers agree to use precisely the same form, in their relations with some other power, so as to impress the latter by a simultaneous expression of unanimous opinion; esp. in identic note.
1863Kinglake Crimea (1877) II. App. 391 The form of a simple identic declaration. 1879in Dk. Argyll East. Quest. I. iv. 141 All appearance of identic action seemed to be undesirable. 1880Earl Granville in Times 10 Aug. 6/1 Europe was unanimous in presenting an identic Note to the Porte. |