"unic" meaning in English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} unic (not comparable)
  1. (now nonstandard) Obsolete form of unique. Tags: alt-of, nonstandard, not-comparable, obsolete Alternative form of: unique
    Sense id: en-unic-en-adj-3nC5jwMj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries
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          "text": "Now as the inclinations are different, the truth which is unick in it ſelf appeares in divers forms, according to the quality of the ſpirits, which conceives it, like the Æthiopians repreſenting the uglineſſe of the devill, have a cuſtome contrary to other people, they paint him white; ſo after this manner the diverſity of humours produces diverſity of conceptions and difference of opinions upon the ſame ſubject.",
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          "text": "To these questions M. Paul Jablochkoff answers as follows, in the most categorical manner, that with any electric machine whatever, by means of his new apparatus, ‘the amplifier,’ he not only distributes through a single conductor to several points the current of a unic source of electricity, but also increases it.",
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          "text": "Though it is interesting that at a distance of about 10 hours from Batavia there exists an absolutely isolated people, which has been visited by very few (perhaps 15) Europeans, it is only because of their mentality that the Badoejs are a unic ethnological phenomenon.",
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          "text": "In order to do this, we would need to obtain a greater understanding of the set of unic Lyapunov functions corresponding to a given stable LTI system, and then investigate the possibility of obtaining results similar to Theorem 1 for unic Lyapunov functions.",
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