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Quotation dates: 1715, 1827, 1909
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INFLICK, v. Gen.Sc. form of Eng. inflict. See P.L.D. §63.2.Abd. 1715 Hist. Papers Jacobite Period (S.C.) 59:
He fortunatly made his escape, and shuned the punishment they had resolved to inflick on him.Sc. 1827 Wilson Noctes Amb. (1863) I. 359:
There's nae punishment ower severe to inflick on me, Mem.Abd. 1909 J. Tennant J. Jaffray 30:
I'm nae ignorant o' yer statute nor the pains ye can inflick, but yer law's the law o' man an nae o' God.
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