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- adjective Obsolete form of
emphatic .
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Examples
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On Easter-day we find the following emphatick prayer:
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On Easter-day we find the following emphatick prayer:
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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The beauties and arts of graceful, and forcible composition are by daily exercise insensibly formed; the knowledge of words, and the command of flowing or emphatick enunciation by the organs thus continually rendered apt and flexible by exercise, are habitually improved, and at length denote a peculiar result of advantages not enjoyed by the generality of men.
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On Easter-day we find the following emphatick prayer:
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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On Easter-day we find the following emphatick prayer:
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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College, whom he called ‘a fine Jacobite fellow,’ overheard him uttering this soliloquy in his strong, emphatick voice: ‘Well, I have a mind to see what is done in other places of learning.
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'a fine Jacobite fellow, 'overheard [2] him uttering this soliloquy in his strong, emphatick voice:' Well, I have a mind to see what is done in other places of learning.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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'a fine Jacobite fellow, 'overheard [219] him uttering this soliloquy in his strong, emphatick voice:' Well, I have a mind to see what is done in other places of learning.
Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 James Boswell 1767
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'a fine Jacobite fellow, 'overheard him uttering this soliloquy in his strong, emphatick voice:' Well, I have a mind to see what is done in other places of learning.
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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But these men mutually supported each other, and died obedient to the stern and emphatick injunction of their comrade, (Peter Poyas,) "Do not open your lips!
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