Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as sicker, sickerly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete See
sicker .
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Examples
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For this mervaylle is azenst kynde, and not with kynde, that the fissches, that han fredom to enviroun alle the costes of the see, at here owne list, comen of hire owne wille to profren hem to the dethe, with outen constreynynge of man: and therfore I am syker, that this may not ben, with outen a gret tokene.
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For this mervaylle is azenst kynde, and not with kynde, that the fissches, that han fredom to enviroun alle the costes of the see, at here owne list, comen of hire owne wille to profren hem to the dethe, with outen constreynynge of man: and therfore I am syker, that this may not ben, with outen a gret tokene.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For this mervaylle is azenst kynde, and not with kynde, that the fissches, that han fredom to enviroun alle the costes of the see, at here owne list, comen of hire owne wille to profren hem to the dethe, with outen constreynynge of man: and therfore I am syker, that this may not ben, with outen a gret tokene.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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wit and wisdom. þat alle þing ou {er} {} goþ. syker he may sitte.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Christ, when he was with his apostles, "taughte hem oute this prayer, bot be thou syker, nother in Latyn nother in Frensche, bot in the langage that they usede to speke." [
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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