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/aɪdˈɛntɪkəl/ /aɪdˈɛnɪkəl/ Listen

adjective

Identical adj.

The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. "I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction... that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then exist."

Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; tautological. "When you say body is solid, I say that you make an identical proposition, because it is impossible to have the idea of body without that of solidity."

Identical equation (Alg.), an equation which is true for all values of the algebraic symbols which enter into it.

Identical, Identic adj. In diplomacy (esp. in the form identic), precisely agreeing in sentiment or opinion and form or manner of expression; applied to concerted action or language which is used by two or more governments in treating with another government.

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... his authority. They differ in the time of the event (John assigns to first Passover, synoptics to the last) and in a possibly greater sternness in the synoptic account. These differences are no greater than appear in other records of identical events (compare Mt. viii. 5-13 with Lk. vii. 2-10), while the repetition of such an act would probably have been met by serious opposition. If the temple was cleansed but once, John indicates the true time. At the beginning of the ...

— The Life of Jesus of Nazareth • Rush Rhees

... Cohen's translation (Appendix II.) is preceded by an Italian version (Appendix I.), taken directly from Muratori's edition of Marin Sanudo's Vite dei Dogi (Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, 1733, xii. 628-635). The two versions are by no means identical. Cohen's "translation" is, presumably an accurate rendering of Sanudo's text, and must have been made either from the original MS. or from a transcript sent from Italy to England. Muratori's Italian is a rifacimento of the original, which has ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron

... something even greater than beauty, something that is food for reflection and imagination, the source of quick-coming fancies. Compare the picture of the pines in Brooke's poem Pine-Trees and the Sky: Evening, with Browning's treatment of an identical theme in Paracelsus, remembering that Browning's lines were written when he was twenty-two years ...

— The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century • William Lyon Phelps

... be observed, that people have generally the identical faults and vices they accuse others of; ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. - Volume 19, No. 531, Saturday, January 28, 1832. • Various

... the window might, indeed, have been part of the identical stretch of country which the youthful ...

— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy

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