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- adjective Obsolete form of
philosophic .
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Examples
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What philosophick heroism was it in him to appear with such manly fortitude to the world while he was inwardly so distressed!
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Pope may have had from Bolingbroke the philosophick stamina of his Essay; and admitting this to be true, Lord Bathurst did not intentionally falsify.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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What philosophick heroism was it in him to appear with such manly fortitude to the world, while he was inwardly so distressed!
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Nor was his energy confin'd alone To friends around his philosophick throne; Its influence wide improv'd our letter'd isle.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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He was lying in philosophick tranquillity with a greyhound of Col's at his back, keeping him warm.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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His Vanity of Human Wishes has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his London.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Some ingenious persons of a philosophick turn have assured us that our pulpits were set too high, and that the soporifick tendency increased with the ratio of the angle in which the hearer's eye was constrained to seek the preacher.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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What philosophick heroism was it in him to appear with such manly fortitude to the world, while he was inwardly so distressed!
Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767
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His _Vanity of Human Wishes_ has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his _London_.
Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 James Boswell 1767
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Pope may have had from Bolingbroke the philosophick _stamina_ of his Essay; and admitting this to be true, Lord Bathurst did not intentionally falsify.
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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