subs. (colloquial).—Generally THE IDENTICAL = the self-same; the person, point, argument, or action in question.
1664. BUTLER, Hudibras, pt. ii., c. i, I. 149. The beard’s TH’ IDENTIQUE beard you knew.
1891. N. GOULD, The Double Event, p. 283. ‘I’m THE IDENTICAL’ said Jack.
