adjective
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diplomacy (esp of opinions expressed by two or more governments) having the same wording or intention regarding another power
identic notes
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an obsolete word for identical
Etymology
Origin of identic
1640–50; < Medieval Latin identicus the same, equivalent to Late Latin ident ( itās ) identity + -icus -ic
Example Sentences
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He insisted that he was friendly, that he had acted from the friendliest possible motives in reminding Russia and China by identic notes of their obligation as signatories of the Kellogg Pact not to fight.
From Time Magazine Archive
To Leroy Sossamon, blond and blue-eyed, of Bethel High School and to Ophelia Holley, chocolate brown, Governor Gardner awarded two large identic silver loving cups for their prize-winning essays.
From Time Magazine Archive
By adopting identic reports from this conference, each body in effect agreed to the new legislation in its final form.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perfectly amazing to professional diplomats, the Bullitt-Litvinoff agreement was apparently verbal, confirmed in written statements by each which were not identic notes but differed in vital respects.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moreover, the Ego, I, myself, as Will, as a continuously identic intelligent agent, am not given to myself immediately in my Presentment, any more than is the real object.
From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander
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