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- noun Archaic form of
relic .
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Examples
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Maybee it wuz a relick frum the time-space invershun thingee that happened, and breefly in Cheezland nufing wuz free
…then let the dough rise - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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London, where he had then chambers, he happened to arrive there before he was up; and being shewn into the room where he was to breakfast, finding himself alone, he examined the contents of the apartment, to try whether he could undiscovered steal anything to send to his friend Bewley, as another relick of the admirable Dr. Johnson.
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She has left her virginity as a relick of popery, and marries in her tribe without a ring.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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You must pardon him if he like his own times better than these, because those things are follies to him now that were wisdom then; yet he makes us of that opinion too when we see him, and conjecture those times by so good a relick.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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"The good old man," too is a portrait so strongly individualized that I cannot help thinking some very personal experience went to the making of it -- experience of a sort that was sure to be revived at Tew, where "so good a relick of the old times" was not likely to be wanting.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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This game is certainly of great antiquity, and the only relick (with the exception of wrestling) of the ancient tournament.
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In 1760 [426], when Dr. Burney visited Dr. Johnson at the Temple in London, where he had then Chambers, he happened to arrive there before he was up; and being shewn into the room where he was to breakfast, finding himself alone, he examined the contents of the apartment, to try whether he could undiscovered steal any thing to send to his friend Bewley, as another relick of the admirable Dr. Johnson.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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When at Rome he had been 'an ardent suitor' to the Cardinal Duke 'for a relick of the precious wood of the Holy Cross, in obtaining which I shall think myself most happy.' {162b}
Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Andrew Lang 1878
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In the way many persons were healed of disorders, and the relick soon became much resorted to by the pilgrims on account of the miracles performed by it (Lambarde's "Dictionarium," 1730, p. 431).
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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A relick has recently been discovered on the east bank of Bushy Brook in
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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