Definitions for relick
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1. RELICKnoun

   Etymology: reliquiæ, Lat. relique, Fr.

   1. That which remains; that which is left after the loss or decay of the rest. It is generally used in the plural.

   Up dreary dame of darkness queen,
   Go gather up the reliques of thy race,
   Or else go them avenge. Fairy Queen, b. i.

   Shall we go see the relicks of this town. William Shakespeare.

   The fragments, scraps, the bits and greasy reliques
   Of her o’ereaten faith are bound to Diomede. William Shakespeare.

   Nor death itself can wholly wash their stains,
   But long contracted filth ev’n in the soul remains;
   The relicks of inveterate vice they wear,
   And spots of sin. John Dryden, Æneis.

   2. It is often taken for the body deserted by the soul.

   What needs my William Shakespeare for his honour’d bones,
   The labour of an age in piled stones;
   Or that his hallow’d reliques should be hid
   Under a star-ypointed pyramid. John Milton.

   In peace, ye shades of our great grandsires, rest;
   Eternal spring, and rising flow’rs adorn
   The relicks of each venerable urn. Dryden.

   Shall our relicks second birth receive?
   Sleep we to wake, and only die to live? Matthew Prior.

   Thy relicks, Nicholas Rowe, to this fair shrine we trust,
   And sacred place by John Dryden’s awful dust;
   Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies,
   To which thy tomb shall guide enquiring eyes. Alexander Pope.

   3. That which is kept in memory of another, with a kind of religious veneration.

   Cowls flutter’d into rags, then reliques leaves
   The sport of winds. John Milton.

   This church is very rich in relicks; among the rest, they show a fragment of Thomas á Becket, as indeed there are very few treasuries of relicks in Italy, that have not a tooth or a bone of this saint. Joseph Addison, Remarks on Italy.

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1. rickle

2. licker

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1. Alex

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of relick in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of relick in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

References

1. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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