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  • adjective Obsolete form of historic.

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Examples

  • Have resolved to sail upon the morning tide and commence our historick voyage to His Majesty's slave plantations in Guyana with our cargoe of nutritious high-fiber Bread-fruit.

    Scrutiny On the Bounty: Captain Bligh's Secret Logbook 2003

  • Have resolved to sail upon the morning tide and commence our historick voyage to His Majesty's slave plantations in Guyana with our cargoe of nutritious high-fiber Bread-fruit.

    Scrutiny On the Bounty: Captain Bligh's Secret Logbook 2003

  • It is a delight to see Stephenson's gears grind; they are cunningly die-cut, burnished to a fine luster, laid into an eye-pleasing Engine For Moving Scenery Through History of nigh-Piranesian design, the whole crafted of delicately-watered historick tool-steel.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2004

  • Ritson, who had the virulence of a hornet and the same insect's inability to produce honey of his own, was considered by the reactionaries to have "punched Tom Warton's historick body full of deadly holes."

    Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888

  • Says I, "That will give Liberty jest as imperious and showy a look as spurs would, and be fur more historick and symbolical."

    Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881

  • It may gratify the publick interest to mention the circumstance, that my investigations to this end have enabled me to verify the fact (of much historick importance, and hitherto hotly debated) that Shearjashub

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

  • Now, however, she assumes her place on the historick roll.

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

  • I can advance another step in my historick undertaking — but

    A History of New York 1809

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