Gallic
['gælɪk]
Definition
(adj.) of or pertaining to Gaul or the Gauls; 'Ancient Gallic dialects'; 'Gallic migrations'; 'the Gallic Wars' .
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Definition
(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, gallium.
(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, galls, nutgalls, and the like.
(a.) Pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallican.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. French.
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Definition
adj. pertaining to Gaul or France.—adj. Gall′ican of or pertaining to France: esp. pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church in France.—n. one holding Gallican doctrines.—n. Gall′icanism the spirit of nationalism within the French Church—as opposed to Ultramontanism or the absolute subjection of everything to the personal authority of the pope.—adv. Gallice (gal′i-sē) in French.—n. Gall′icism the use in English or any other language of a word or idiom peculiar to the French.—vs.t. Gall′icīze Gall′icīse to make French in opinions habits &c.
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Examples
- As late as 1786 improvements were being attempted in England on this old Gallic machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We are Home and de Bassompierre, Caledonian and Gallic. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is true that the Gauls made use of an instrument nearly two thousand years before, but this contrivance fell into disuse with the decline of the Gallic fields. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This was surely a summing of a year's exploration not less laconic than Caesar's review of his Gallic campaign. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The image is latent, until it is developed by pouring over the plate a mixture of pyro-gallic acid in distilled water, acetic acid, and nitrate of silver. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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