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  • adverb Obsolete spelling of publicly.

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Examples

  • The teachers and chief brethren do first hear their preparatory confessions, and when they judge them meet they are called publickly to confess, confederate and be bap - tized, both themselves and their children, if not up grown; the up grown are called upon to make their own confession, and so to be baptized as their parents were.

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

  • "publickly" in a church after Divine Service, and bidding the congregation to "_tremble at the Word of God_."

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • If so, perhaps it might at once be said publickly, that an Edition at such or such price was printing, or would be printed to supply whoever chose to subscribe before a given time, and that no more would be printed than subscribed for? but this is a mere thought of my own.

    Letter 302 2009

  • Mr. Lofft would have said (perhaps publickly) that I had not only offended in relation to the new Vollm but had most ungratefully set him aside in the original publication.

    Letter 70 2009

  • This calumny must not stand, if you do not publickly withdraw this statement, I will be forced to demand satisfaction from you on the field of honor.

    The Snuggie is a "cheap knockoff" that "undermines the integrity" of Slanket. Ann Althouse 2009

  • September 25, 2008 at 7:34 am just realized teh last 3 letters of teh acronym is anotter one for some, er, nawt so publickly talked about stuffs….

    We getz along great - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • One entry would become the foundation of the “Polynesian culture” argument centuries later: Tahitian royalty invited Cook to a ceremony during which “a young Fellow above 6 feet high performed the rights of Venus to a little girl about 11 to 12 years of age publickly.”

    Trouble in Paradise William Prochnau and Laura Parker 2008

  • Cecilia had neither spirits nor power to resist him; yet, offended by his violence, and shocked to be thus publickly pursued by him, her looks spoke a resentment far more mortifying than any verbal reproach.

    Cecilia 2008

  • Mr. Tyrold required to hear nothing more, to establish a prosecution, and to seize her, publickly, from Bellamy.

    Camilla 2008

  • Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England 1856, 6:113fHe was sentenced to be "publickly whipt att the post" and was booted from the colony.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

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