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First recorded in 1875–80; from Latin Indicus “of India,” from Greek Indikós; see India, -ic
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“Dharma,” one of the great untranslatable Indic words, can mean “duty,” or “religion” or “vocation,” but it is fundamentally a duty to oneself, to one’s nature.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
“The Mahabharata is one of two ancient poems. It was written in Sanskrit, an ancient Indic language that is no longer spoken.”
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
We cannot say that they strike us as so many improvements on Kālidāsa; they certainly often destroy or obliterate characteristic Indic features.
From The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany by Remy, Arthur F. J.
The Gulistān and Būstān of Saʻdī, some maxims of Bhartṛhari and a few scattered fragments were all that was known in Europe of Indic or Persian literature before the end of the eighteenth century.
From The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany by Remy, Arthur F. J.
This view, usually considered Iranian and Zoroastrian, is as radically, if not so emphatically, Indic.
From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Hopkins, Edward Washburn
Does, duz, 3d pers. sing. pres. indic. of Do.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Or take a scruple each of pil. indic. foetid, agarici, trochis ati; one scruple of rhubarb pills, six grains of lapis lazuli, make into pills with epithimium, and take them once a week.
Duck-batches, land trodden by cattle in wet weather Bats s. corners of ploughed fields: low-laced boots Bawker: Bawker-stone s. a stone for whetting scythes Be, indic. ex.
From A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire by Williams, Wadham Pigott
The Tenses, etc., of these verbs are found as follows: 1 2 1 2 Pres. indic. ete or tede. elele.
From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Williamson, Robert Wood
The sense requires lay, i.e. the 3rd p. s. pt. t. indic., but properly the word is the present participle, lying.
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
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