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  • noun Archaic spelling of logic.

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Examples

  • Nothing could be worse, in logick and feeling, than his speech on the bill of last year.

    English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century 1854

  • PS my verification word was "logick" How appropriate.

    Around Walt Disney Animation Studios Steve Hulett 2009

  • So… by the same logick, music was to a guy like, say, John Coltrane?

    Musick with a "ck" James Lloyd Davis 2012

  • This News-Paper cannot replace our Towne Cryers, and here is the logick ...

    Keith Blanchard: Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Why the Town Crier Shall Perish Not, E'en Though the News-Paper Be Heere 2009

  • I aprechiates yore proper youse ov logick-related langwage.

    ceeling cat did send down - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • I cannot tell by what logick we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms; and having passed that general visitation of God, who saw that all that he had made was good, that is, conformable to his will, which abhors deformity, and is the rule of order and beauty.

    Religio Medici 2007

  • It is a singular piece of wisdom to apprehend truly, and without passion, the works of God, and so well to distinguish his justice from his mercy as not to miscall those noble attributes; yet it is likewise an honest piece of logick so to dispute and argue the proceedings of God as to distinguish even his judgments into mercies.

    Religio Medici 2007

  • If general councils may err, I do not see why particular courts should be infallible: their perfectest rules are raised upon the erroneous reasons of man, and the laws of one do but condemn the rules of another; as Aristotle oft-times the opinions of his predecessors, because, though agreeable to reason, yet were not consonant to his own rules and the logick of his proper principles.

    Religio Medici 2007

  • But, upon due consideration, that Percy is a clergyman, it was agreed that Percy should teach practical divinity and British antiquities; Dr Johnson himself, logick, metaphysicks and scholastick divinity.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • His taking up the topick of their not having so much learning, was, though ingenious, yet a fallacy in logick.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

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