Definition of Retick
1. Verb. Sew. "Tick a mattress"
Generic synonyms: Run Up, Sew, Sew Together, Stitch
Derivative terms: Tick, Ticking
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Literary usage of Retick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confession of Faith: The Larger and Shorter Catechism with the Scripture by Church of Scotland (1810)
"A man that is an he- retick, after the first and second admonition, reject: Ver. 11. Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned ..."
2. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... and wrought great victories by means of their painful works against our adversaries. retick, yet ho was a learned one.' Never any saying had more of ..."
3. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... retick, yet he was a learned one.' Never any saying had more of falsity and truth in it ..."
4. The Universal Etymological English Dictionary: Containing an Additional ...by Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1737)
"... о Number; I. UNITA'RIAN [of «m:V«, L;] an He retick who denies the Union of the God head in Three ..."