Definition of "publick" [publick]

• Obsolete spelling of public. (adjective)

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• "Person who he had never, more than at a Distance, admir'd: – That he had indeed, spoke to her in publick Company, but that he never had a Thought which tended to her Dishonour."
• "Nor did her Fears deceive her: Never was a Family more distracted than that of Myrtano's, the reliefs and indignant Temper of his Wife being, by his keeping a watchful Eye over all her Actions, prevented from bursting out in publick, she'd itself in the most trivial Concerns."
• "Sun; otherwise the publick will be apt to fix the place of my birth in"