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In Arabick, [image of arabick script] The Lord shall rise as the sun.
Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life; or, Necessary Directions for Its Beginning and Progress Upon Earth... Part II. 1637-1708 1712
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"Burn cork, and quench it in aqua vitæ, then dissolve it in a sufficient quantity of water, wherein you shall have melted a little gumm arabick, in order to make an ink as black as common ink.
minerva commented on the word arabick
See arabic. Can also mean a written code.
January 9, 2008
minerva commented on the word arabick
What he vouchsafed to read of other of your letters has given my lord such a curiosity as makes him desire you to continue your accounts. Pray do: but not in your hellish Arabick...
Mowbray to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
January 9, 2008