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- noun Plural form of
adminicle .
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Examples
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It is true, that these declarations are not produced as being in themselves evidence properly so called, but only as adminicles of testimony, tending to corroborate what is considered as legal and proper evidence.
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But 3dly, The other adminicles, undoubtedly proven by concurring witnesses, are _per se_ sufficient; and therefore you saw us, at the desire of the judges, forbear to call the far greatest part of our witnesses ....
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And this is the present case as to some of the adminicles. 2dly, The antecedent concomitant, and subsequent circumstances of fact, do sustain the testimony and make the _semi-plenary_ probation to become full.
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It is true, that these declarations are not produced as being in themselves evidence properly so called, but only as adminicles of testimony, tending to corroborate what is considered as legal and proper evidence.
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It is true, that these declarations are not produced as being in themselves evidence properly so called, but only as adminicles of testimony, tending to corroborate what is considered as legal and proper evidence.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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It is true, that these declarations are not produced as being in themselves evidence properly so called, but only as adminicles of testimony, tending to corroborate what is considered as legal and proper evidence.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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From time to time the wind wuthered in the chimney at his back; from time to time there swept over Bloomsbury a squall so dark that he must rise and light the gas; about him was the chill and the mean disorder of a house out of commission — the floor bare, the sofa heaped with books and accounts enveloped in a dirty table – cloth, the pens rusted, the paper glazed with a thick film of dust; and yet these were but adminicles of misery, and the true root of his depression lay round him on the table in the shape of misbegotten forgeries.
The Wrong Box 2004
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1872 Daily News 2 Oct. 5 Floriculture and other adminicles of civilisation.
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From time to time the wind wuthered in the chimney at his back; from time to time there swept over Bloomsbury a squall so dark that he must rise and light the gas; about him was the chill and the mean disorder of a house out of commission -- the floor bare, the sofa heaped with books and accounts enveloped in a dirty table-cloth, the pens rusted, the paper glazed with a thick film of dust; and yet these were but adminicles of misery, and the true root of his depression lay round him on the table in the shape of misbegotten forgeries.
The Wrong Box Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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"It is true, there are some few of the adminicles that are proven only by one witness; but as to this you may consider, 1st, That a witness deponing _de facto proprio_, is in law more credited than any other single witness.
vendingmachine commented on the word adminicles
Icy cold and administrative flavored
September 11, 2016