I*den"tic*al (?), a. [Cf. F. identique. See Identity.]

1.

The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing.

I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then exist.
Reid.

2.

Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; tautological.

When you say body is solid, I say that you make an identical proposition, because it is impossible to have the idea of body without that of solidity.
Fleming.

Identical equation (Alg.), an equation which is true for all values of the algebraic symbols which enter into it.

 

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I*den"tic, I*den"tic*al , a.

In diplomacy (esp. in the form identic), precisely agreeing in sentiment or opinion and form or manner of expression; -- applied to concerted action or language which is used by two or more governments in treating with another government.

 

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