lic

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See also: LIC, Lic, líc, lić, lîç, Lic., lic., and -lic

English

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Noun

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lic (plural lics)

  1. Abbreviation of license/licence.

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Irish

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lic f

  1. (archaic, dialectal) Alternative form of leic: dative singular of leac

Lower Sorbian

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  • IPA(key): /lit͡s/, [lʲit͡s]

Verb

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lic

  1. second-person singular imperative of licyś

Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *līk, from Proto-Germanic *līką.

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līċ n

  1. dead body, corpse
    Ōga cwæþ þæt hē wisse hwǣr þæt līċ bebyrġed wǣre.
    Oga said he knew where the body was buried.
  2. (rare outside of poetry) body (living or dead)
    • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
      Hū, ne sæġde iċ ǣr þæt sē þe bær līċ ġefrēdan wolde, þæt hē hit sċolde mid barum handum ġefrēdan?
      Didn't I say before that if you want to feel someone's bare body, you have to feel it with your bare hands?
  3. form

Usage notes

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  • *līką was the general word for "body" in Proto-Germanic (as still in Gothic), but by the time of written Old English, līċ has come to mean a dead body specifically, and the general word for "body" is līchama.
  • The older sense “body (living or dead)” is preserved mainly in poetry and in certain compounds such as līcþēote (“pore,” literally “body pipe”). Some other compounds even preserve the yet older sense “form,” otherwise totally obsolete: eoforlīċ (“bore figure,” e.g. a boar crest on a helmet). See also the derived terms -līċModern English -ly and ġelīċlike, which both originally meant “formed” or “shaped” at some point in Proto-Germanic.

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Descendants

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  • Middle English: lich, lik
    • English: lich
    • Scots: lyke, lich

Polish

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lic

  1. genitive plural of lico

Scottish Gaelic

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lic f

  1. dative of leac

Slovene

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lic

  1. genitive dual/plural of lice

Spanish

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Etymology

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Clipping of licenciado (bachelor).

Noun

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lic m or f (plural lics)

  1. (informal) bachelor