a. Obs.–1 [f. as prec. + -IC.] = prec.
1650. R. Gentilis, trans. Malvezzi’s Considerat., 181. The people of Rome who hoped for liberty through Marcus his valour, feared he would lose the beauty of his forestick horridnesse, by meanes of manuring; Cæsar almost assured himselfe that he had lost it.
