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  • adjective Obsolete spelling of prolific.

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Examples

  • Barker without his roguery -- men whom nature intended to flourish at St. James, but whose fate fortune in some fit of prolifick humor fixed and nailed to this Sinope.

    As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur

  • Water, that 'tis impossible all its particles should rally, and continue their Activity and prolifick Quality, till their Arrival in the Womb.

    Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob

  • Now what may it be that endues these liquors with such prolifick virtue?

    Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

  • Israel Tonge was, as Echard describes him, "a city divine, a man of letters, and of a prolifick head, fill'd with all the Romish plots and conspiracies since the Reformation".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • 'Yes, Sir; but that has been owing to the people being less thinned at one period than another, whether by emigrations, war, or pestilence, not by their being more or less prolifick.

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Perhaps it is not to be wondered at that the author — “the prolifick Mr. Fielding,” as the Prompter calls him, attributed its condemnation to causes other than its lack of interest.

    Fielding 1843

  • Perhaps it is not to be wondered at that the author — “the prolifick Mr. Fielding,” as the Prompter calls him, attributed its condemnation to causes other than its lack of interest.

    Fielding 1843

  • He frequently talks of giving the prolifick powers of nature room to exert themselves.

    An Essay on the Principle of Population 1800

  • He frequently talks of giving the prolifick powers of nature room to exert themselves.

    An Essay on the Principle of Population 1798

  • 'Yes, Sir; but that has been owing to the people being less thinned at one period than another, whether by emigrations, war, or pestilence, not by their being more or less prolifick.

    Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767

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