Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as Salic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Salic.

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  • adjective obsolete Salic; Salian

Etymologies

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Middle French salique, from Latin Salicus, from Salii ("Salian Franks") + -icus

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Examples

  • They were not always contented with this species of Salique law, which certainly is somewhat inconsistent.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • The whole public law of Europe had its origin in equivocal expressions, beginning with the Salique law.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The hostess, a civil, quiet, laborious drudge, came to take his orders for dinner, but declined to make answer on the subject of the horse and guide; for the Salique law, it seems, extended to the stables of the Golden Candlestick.

    Waverley 2004

  • In order that his own progeny might succeed him, he set aside the Salique law (which had been imposed by France) just before his death, in

    Washington Irving 2004

  • The report says the estimated financial loss so far from the still-burning Marieskop and Salique state forests in Mpumalanga is

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • She said although the department had not been touched by the first wave of fires, "this ended during the second week, and we lost at least one plantation, at Salique".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • And although Henry the II was unable to enter into this inheritance during the lifetime of Rodolph, the latter's nephew, the Emperor Conrad the Salique, assumed control of the kingdom which then was incorporated into the German Empire.

    The Counts of Gruyère Mrs. Reginald de Koven

  • Which verses _Philip de Valois_ then possessing the Crowne as next heire male by pretexte of the law _Salique_, and holding our _Edward_ the third, aunswered in these other of as good stuffe.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Ambition and warlike Genius, imagining himself aggrieved by the _Salique

    An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland Henry Brooke

  • Nothing was ever framed more wise than the Salique Laws, which in France and many parts of Germany exclude women from reigning, for few of us have that masculine capacity so necessary to conduct with impartiality and justice the affairs of

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

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