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  • adjective Obsolete form of specific.
  • noun Obsolete form of specific.

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Examples

  • Had we such Ideas of Substances, as to know what real Constitutions produce those sensible Qualities we find in them, and how those Qualities flowed from thence, we could, by the specifick

    Locke's Philosophy of Science Kochiras, Hylarie 2009

  • I had thot it was a specifick college that started it, I wanna say Duke for some reasun… but who knows?

    I iz addin’ some much needed - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Whether this difference be specifick, or accidental, though we inquired with great diligence, we could not be informed.

    A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 2003

  • 'I love Mr. Lee exceedingly,' wrote Boswell, 'though I believe there are not any two specifick propositions of any sort in which we exactly agree.

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Whether this difference be specifick, or accidental, though we inquired with great diligence, we could not be informed. '

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • That clergymen may be considered as sinners in general, as all men are, cannot be denied; but this reflection will not counteract their good precepts so much, as the absolute knowledge of their having been guilty of certain specifick immoral acts.

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Wild nations trust to simples; and, perhaps, the Peruvian bark is not the only specifick which those extensive regions may afford us.

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Mr. Olmstead in a letter to Mr. Mitchell has mentioned the specifick sum of 700 dollars as competent to the purchase of such apparatus as will be sufficient for his experiments, for the illustration of a course of lectures.

    Letter from Joseph Caldwell to Col. William Polk, April 1, 1818 1818

  • What I say here, therefore, does not appear to me in any respect to contradict what I said before, when I observed that it was unphilosophical to expect any specifick event that was not indicated by some kind of analogy in the past.

    An Essay on the Principle of Population 1800

  • I said before, when I observed that it was unphilosophical to expect any specifick event that was not indicated by some kind of analogy in the past.

    An Essay on the Principle of Population 1798

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