identicaladj.n.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius iii. v. 350 With your fingers, you handle, the reall, corporall, substanciall, identicall presence of Christ, behold the same with your eyes, and choppe him vppe at a morsell [L. Modum reales, corporeas, substantiales, identicas eius præsentias digitis contrectetis].

a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 36 The Spirit..leades not every man in the same identicall path.

1670 D. Holles True Relation Unjust Accusation of French Gentlemen 19 I would not be understood to take upon me to repeat still the very Identical words that were spoken by any, but I am very confident, that I do not vary a tittle from the sense of what every one said.

1774 C. J. Phipps Voy. N. Pole 13 To lend me the identical pendulum with which Mr. Graham had made his experiments.

1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers iii. i. 305 I cannot remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction..that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then exist.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. ix. 188 This is the very identical man.

1832 H. Martineau Demerara ii. 23 The case is wholly changed by the second and third parties being identical.

1890 A. R. Wallace Darwinism (new ed.) 2 Descended from one pair of ancestral crows of the same identical species.

1933 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 23 12 The name is identical with that of the ancient post station of Sorabile, on the road through the centre of the island.

1958 J. N. D. Kelly Early Christian Doctrines ix. 235 While finite beings can be of the same kind of substance, they cannot actually be the same identical substance.

1967 E. M. Beeuwkes et al. Ess. Hist. Nutrition & Dietetics iii. 210/1 (note) Mr. Lorenz..states that ‘Mum’, often called ‘Brunswick Oat Beer’ in the 1600's, is similar to, if not identical with ‘spruce beer’.

2005 Z. Smith On Beauty 177 It was the identical feeling she felt in churches and upscale stores and courtrooms. Places she sensed the truth was rarely told.

1599 T. Blundeville Art of Logike i. v. 12 What is Identicall predication? It is a kinde of speech whereby one selfe thing is spoken of it selfe, as when we say, Iohn is Iohn.

1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum ii. 230 Man is man, viz. Subject to errours. Note. Identicall Axiomes.

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. ii. 369 The greatest assurance, and the most eminent knowledge we can haue of any thing, is of such Propositions, as in the schooles are called Identicall; as if one should say, Iohn is Iohn, or a man is a man.

1696 W. Lorimer Remarks Goodwins Disc. vii. 40 The Major Proposition is self-evidently false, when stript of its Identical dress.

1719 H. Stebbing True Meaning & Consequences iii. 63 This would amount only to this Identical Proposition, that a sincere Christian will be a sincere Christian.

1770 tr. C. von Wolff Logic vi. 106 Thus it appears, that the use of Identical Propositions are unavoidable in Syllogisms.

1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 247 Propositions, of the cast termed by logicians identical..which..leave every thing exactly as they find it: propositions declaring that what is right ought to be done, and what is wrong ought not to be done, and so forth.

1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic i. ii. 63 As regards its matter it is perfectly identical, and as regards its form it is only synthetical because one and the same subject is expressed from two different points of view.

1903 R. Adamson Devel. Mod. Philos. I. i. iv. 105 Thus ultimately the grounds for all that is known are to be found in certain simple identical propositions. But an identical proposition is not really distinguishable from a notion.

1988 R. M. Lemos Metaphysical Investig. ix. 235 It is true that the propositions they express are identical propositions and that, as such, they are not informative.

2002 A. Cortens in W. P. Alston Realism & Antirealism i. iii. 53 I think it would suffice to hold that propositions are identical when and only when they are a priori necessarily equivalent.

1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 76 The learneder Papistes say, that when they auerre the Church cannot erre, they meane..the Bishops and Prelates of the church, representing the whole church in generall Councels; and so these controuersies are Identicall: for wee, saying that the Councels may erre, therein with all implie (and that by their owne confession) that the Churche may erre.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. iv. 105 When we have to do with any thing whose very essence..consists in being greatest, there majus and minus do alter the very essence of the thing, and is identical with magis and minus.

1766 E. Capell Refl. Originality in Authors 61 No two writers I may truly say could possibly treat one subject more differently, than these have done: in the Italian there is but little similar, nothing strictly identical with what we meet with in our countryman.

1785 Let. Dec. in Lett. & Papers Agric. (Bath & West of Eng. Soc.) (1786) III. xxiii. 180 By common sense, the writer does not mean common opinion; for nothing is more vague and liable to error than that; but those ideas which are the same in all men, as proceeding from identical or similar sensations.

1822 Monthly Rev. Nov. 260 These ingredients of capital cannot be replaced, except by articles identical to them in kind and quantity.

1860 B. F. Westcott Introd. Study Gospels (ed. 5) iii. 191 The incidents..are often identical and always similar.

1868 W. Peard Pract. Water-farming xiii. 129 A law..based on, and nearly identical with our present Fishery Act.

1896 Duke of Argyll Philos. Belief 79 Crystals have no structure in the organic sense. They are cases of..cohesion of identical particles.

1934 A. L. Haskell Balletomania iii. 67 Dancing is so subtle that six ballerinas will perform the same enchainement in an almost identical manner, and yet create an entirely different impression.

1968 A. K. Armah Beautyful Ones are not yet Born xi. 168 The taxi wound its way through a series of narrow, twisting roads between rows of identical houses, story apartments each with its detached servants' quarters.

2006 A. Davies Goodbye Lemon ii. 239 The walrusy sound of desperation is identical, I realize, to the noises that Dex made when he went under the water.

1806 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) I. 274 Identical figures, are such as have all the sides and all the angles of the one, respectively equal to all the sides and all the angles of the other, each to each; so that if the one figure were applied to, or laid upon the other, all the sides of the one would exactly fall upon and cover all the sides of the other.

1851 A. Crosby First Lessons Geom. (ed. 2) 61 Identical figures agree in all their parts; that is, they have the same number of surfaces, lines, and angles, which are all equal each to each, and are similarly situated in respect to each other.

1922 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 101 82 Whenever it is possible to dissect a repeat into a number of identical figures, the figure so derived is a repeat.

1841 W. Mackenzie Physiol. Vision xvi. 253 (heading) Corresponding or identical points of the retina.

1880 L. Owen tr. F. Giraud-Teulon Elem. Treat. Function of Vision i. ii. 16 The same object being depicted upon the two retinae, at homologous points, must give rise to a single sensation... This..has been called the doctrine of identical points.

1932 S. Duke-Elder Text-bk. Ophthalmol. I. xxvii. 1028 Points on the two retinæ from which images are projected to the same place in the common visual field are called corresponding (or identical) points.

2001 U.S. Patent 6,290,357 B1 3 A peripheral stimulus icon with slightly great luminosity..is projected at the identical point within the visual field.

1889 S. Schönland tr. A. Weismann Ess. Heredity vi. 381 Under conditions of nutriment which are as identical as possible, two egg-cells develope into unlike twins, one into identical [Ger. ähnlichen] twins; although we cannot yet affirm that the latter result invariably follows.

1927 Q. Rev. Biol. 2 415/2 The Texas armadillo typically produces four identical quadruplets from a single egg.

1941 J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man ii. 48 Fraternal twins of like sex, though as we would expect they show considerably less resemblance than identical twins, are more alike than pairs of brothers or sisters born at different times.

1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. vi. 77 The best method of studying the extent of genetic factors is by means of identical and fraternal twins.

1973 Oxf. Times 6 Apr. 8 On Monday the first LP by the only identical triplet sisters act in British show business was released.

1994 New Scientist 12 Feb. 40/2 If one identical twin has the disease, there is a 40 per cent likelihood that the other twin will too.

2004 N.Y. Times Mag. 18 July 58/2 When we saw the specialist, we found out that I was carrying identical twins.

1812 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 102 37 By taking the fluxion of 1/f, making r only variable, we get..an identical equation.

1875 I. Todhunter Algebra for Schools ix. §149 An identical equation is one in which the two sides are equal whatever numbers the letters stand for; for example, (x + b) (x − b) = x² − b² is an identical equation.

1835 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1834 525 No equation is admissible, of which one side may not be proved to be..an ‘identical transformation’ of the other.

1888 G. G. Morrice tr. F. Klein Lect. on Ikosahedron i. i. 7 Every group contains..that simplest group which consists of the identical operation alone.

1954 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 246 426 The only transformation (besides the identical transformation) which transforms any square into itself is the reflexion in the centre of the polyhedron.

2008 Jrnl. Sound & Vibration 314 233 We have R² = I..where I is the identical transformation.