Did you perhaps mean one of these? Illicium, indicia, indium
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Singular of indicia.
Wiktionary
- n. An indication; a sign.
Etymologies
- From Latin indicium. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I think that's an indicium of fraud, right there, when the signatures don't match.”
“ESC research presents a possibility for cure that if ignored or deliberately shelved would be the singularly greatest indicium of an abnegation of human rights and an abjuring of the true meaning of a right to life.”
“Totum enim corpus tegit arenis, nec ullum indicium sui praebet, nisi ex ea parte qua invitatas aves vel animalia capit.”
“Totum enim corpus togit arenis nec ullum indicium sui prebet nisi ex ea parte qua inuitatas aues uel animalia capit.”
“De legibus. profligatae in repub. disciplinae est indicium jurisperitorum numerus, et medicorum copia.”
“Vltra vallem in supremo montes Oliueti apice discipulus cernentibus, Dominus noster Iesus Christus eleuatis manibus ascendit in coelum, et super eundem locum digna habetur Ecclesia, in qua eiusdem Ascensione tale seruatur in rupe pauimenti indicium, quod sinistri pedis Christi videtur vltimum vestigium.”
“Qui audiens beneficia Dei exhibita humano generi in incarnatione Christi, et resurrectionem mortuorum, et indicium futurum, et quod ablutio peccatorum esset in baptismo: dixit se velle baptizari.”
“The tree indicium is a trademark of Thorndike Press.”
“[215] _Profiteri indicium_, 'to declare that you will state everything.”
“Itaque consulente Cicerone frequens senatus decernit, Tarquinii indicium falsum videri, eumque in vinculis retinendum, neque amplius potestatem [235] faciundam, nisi de eo indicaret, cujus consilio tantam rem esset mentitus.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘indicium’.
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Ada, or Ardor
I only started dog-earing 2/5 of the way through, so I'll have to re-read at some point in order to complete this list.
fatidic, herbarium, volitation, plafond, pseudopodal, hongry, dolent, dackel, fubsy, hurdies, palpebral, twayblade and 98 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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Philately
Definitions mainly taken from this glossary.
aerogramme, aerophilately, black jack, cachet, cancellation, cinderella, albino, album weed, ambulante, aniline ink, authentication mark, back-of-book and 104 more...
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Ada, or Ardor ~Vladmir Nabokov
granoblastically, cicerone, aerocable, anachronistically, parvis, athwart, mnemonic, squitteroo, nusshaus, edelweiss, intermezzo, cabriole and 183 more...
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reesetee In stamp collecting, the stamp impression of a postage meter or the imprint on postal stationery (as opposed to an adhesive stamp), indicating prepayment and postal validity. Aug 26, 2008
yarb ...one remarkable indicium: the immobility of perceptual Time.
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor Jun 5, 2008
john from Garner's Usage Tip of the Day:
"a graphical element on printed matter that indicates paid postage. In this sense the word is occasionally used in the singular form -- e.g.: "It uses a two-dimensional bar code; the indicium, or 'stamp,' includes both machine-readable and human-readable information." Cheryl Currid, "Creating Stamps on Printer Is Another Hassle Made Easy," Houston Chron., 27 Aug. 1999, Tech. §, at 3." Mar 31, 2008