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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of spiflicate.

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Examples

  • He got spiflicated, built a roarin 'fire in the old stove -- an' there y'are, plain as daylight.

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

  • "If we had lived up to the comic papers, Morty," I said, "we would have spiflicated a red child, given a merry toot and disappeared in a cloud of dust!"

    The Motormaniacs Lloyd Osbourne 1907

  • I was spiflicated, Your Highness, and I wot not of what I wouldst.

    Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886

  • "Humph! bad luck to them," muttered Mike Brady; "it's not the first time that my windpipe has been pretty near spiflicated by the knives o 'the redskins, the murtherin' varmints!"

    The Young Fur Traders 1859

  • _No_, he did not say he had slain them, but he used nautical expressions which amount to the same thing, I believe; he said he had spiflicated lots of 'em and sent no end of 'em to somebody's locker.

    Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters Francis B. Pearson 1859

  • Those were just two occasions when my cunning plans were thwarted and I got spiflicated as a result under house rule regulations.

    Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2008

  • When they were carved properly into pork, the men thought them none the less delicious because they had come to their death by water instead of by the ordinary butcher's knife; and, as I had the opportunity of testing this opinion in a savoury little pig's fry which Ching Wang presented me with the same evening for supper, I cannot but acknowledge that I agreed thoroughly with the judgment of the hands in the matter of "spiflicated pork," as Tom Jerrold called it.

    Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874

  • All gaze after them, except THE PRESS, who is tragically consulting his spiflicated notes.]

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • All gaze after them, except THE PRESS, who is tragically consulting his spiflicated notes.]

    Complete Plays of John Galsworthy John Galsworthy 1900

  • All gaze after them, except THE PRESS, who is tragically consulting his spiflicated notes.]

    The Foundations John Galsworthy 1900

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