a. [a. F. typique (1582 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. typicus, a. Gr. τυπικός typical, figurative, f. τύφος TYPE; see -IC. So Pg. typico, Sp. and It. tipico.]
1. = TYPICAL a. 1.
1610. Donne, Pseudo-martyr, 5. Those Typique times, and Sacrifices of the old law.
1692. J. Salter, Triumphs Jesus, 7 Of various colour’d Plumes their wings are made The Rain-bows to ’em are but Typick shade.
1839. Bailey, Festus, x. (1848), 110. This air-filled bowl is typic of the world.
1856. Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, IX. 134. Already swearing at my feet That I’m the typic She.
1886. Swinburne, Stud. Prose & Poetry (1894), 181. With what passionate magnificence of rapture the poet would have sung the fall of the typic prison.
2. Of a fever: Conforming to a particular type (see TYPE sb.1 4); recurring at regular intervals; intermittent; periodic. ? Obs.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXVIII. xvi. II. 335. As touching feavers,… if it bee any of these Typicke and Periodicall agues, which be intermittent and returne by fits.
1857. Dunglison, Med. Lex., Typic, typical,… characterized by periodicity, as a ‘typical fever’; or one which observes a particular type.
