Industry, the first principle of a Citizen, is an infallible specifick to keep the spirits awake, and prevent that stagnation and corruption of humours which make our fine gentlemen such horrible torments to one another and to themselves.
I should be wanting (saith Mr. Marten) as well to the publick as myself, did I not reveal the stupendious effects of my specifick in the gout, which daily experience more and more confirms.
For there be many other things of Consideration herein, beside the intensive Gravity (or, as some call it, the specifick Gravity) of the Medium.
But being desirous to compute the thickness of the Skin of Gold, by means of the specifick Gravities of the Metals, viz.
So far from it, that there want not good Indications, as we shall see by and by, that every kind of Vegetable requires a peculiar and specifick Matter for its Formation and Nourishment.
I should be a Cure for the unnatural Desire of John Trott for Dancing, and a Specifick to lessen the Inclination Mrs. Fidget has to Motion, and cause her always to give her Approbation to the present Place she is in.
The Bark of the Root is a Specifick to those afflicted with the Gripes.
Much less taciturn than Hooper about the composition of his nostrum was Robert Turlington, who secured a patent in 1744 for "A specifick balsam, called the balsam of life.
What specifick difference can be produc'd between a Knave, a Coward, and a Traytor.
They have since orderd a Tax to the Value of Six Millions of Dollars in Specie; to be paid partly in specifick Articles for the Supply of the Army, and the Remainder in Gold & Silver or Bills of the new Emission.
And I am the more satisfied, because I understand that our Legislature have anticipated the Measure and already begun to assess the Towns for their respective Proportions of the specifick Articles.
Sidenote: The absolute Gravity of Solids, are in a proportion compounded of their Specifick Gravities, and of their Masses.
Sidenote: Solids whose Masses are in contrary proportion to their Specifick Gravities are equall in absolute Gravity.
A TABLE of the Specifick Gravities of several Solid and Fluid Bodies.
For the Water will press upon the Quicksilver, and raise it in the small Tube, till it bears the same Proportion to the Height of the Water, that the Specifick Gravity of Water bears to that of Quicksilver, or about a fourteenth Part so high.
Is to shew that Fluids of different Specifick Gravities, as Water A B, and Oil A C, will stand at unequal perpendicular Altitudes, in Proportion to their Quantities, and Difference of Specifick Gravities.
A Parcel of Air weighed in the Balance; its Specifick Gravity to that of Water determined thereby; an artificial Storm, shewing that high Winds may make the Barometer sink much and suddenly.
The Praxis of the Hydrostatical Balance, whereby the Specifick Gravities of several particular Bodies are actually found out.
The Hydrostatical Balance explain'd, with the Methods of determining the Specifick Gravities of all Sorts of Bodies, whether Solid or Fluid, thereby.
Which, by the by, is one ready Way also of finding the Specifick Gravity of Quicksilver to Water, by measuring their several Altitudes.
Hydrostatical Balances, for determining the Specifick Gravity of Fluids and Solids.
Perhaps we may thereby also judge (as other Creatures seem to do) what is wholsome, what poyson; and in a word, what are the specifick properties of Bodies.
So that it seems, as to the refraction made in a Liquor, the specifick gravity is of no efficacy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "specifick" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
