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Webster 1913 Edition

(-?kt)

Noun.

[L.

relicta

, fr. of

relictus

, p. p. of

relinquere

to leave behind. See

A woman whose husband is dead; a widow.

Eli dying without issue, Jacob was obliged by law to marry his

relict

, and so to raise up seed to his brother Eli.

South.

Noun.

[L. relictus, relicta, from relinquo, to leave.]

A widow; a woman whose husband is dead.