† cossicadj.
Obsolete.
Pertaining to algebra, algebraic.
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1557 R. Record (title) The Whetstone of Witte, which is the seconde parte of Arithmeticke, containing the Extraction of Roots, the Cossike Practice, with the Rules of Equation.
1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Siv Nombers Cossike, are soche as bee contracte vnto a denomination of some Cossike signe as 1. nomber, 1. roote, 1. square, 1. Cube, etc.
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 367 Strigelius..likens the place of predestination in Divinity to the Cossick Rule in Arithmetic.
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iii. xx. 233 Algebra, or the Analyticks Specious, Symbolical, or Cossick.
1674 M. Dary Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 366 An universal series for any equation of two cossic notes.
1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iii. 331 Algebra was sometimes called the cossic art.
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1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Si There bee some called nombers denominate vulgarely: and other bee called nombers denominate Cossikely.
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