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Webster 1913 Edition
Eric
{
Er′i-ach
,Er′ic
, }Noun.
[Ir.
eiric
.] (Old Irish Law)
A recompense formerly given by a murderer to the relatives of the murdered person.
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Eric
Eric
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Proper noun
Eric
- A male given name.
- 1859 Frederic William Farrar: Eric, or Little by Little: A Tale of Roslyn School. Chapter II:
- "What's your name?" "Eric - I mean Williams." "Then why don't you say what you mean?"
- 1959 Roentgens, Rads and Riddles: A Symposium on Supervoltage Radiation Therapy. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission 1959. page 71:
- Mark it. Professor Roberts does not like the name Eric. This happens to be one of his given names, and it is a very honorable one. Eric was the first Viking explorer of the North American continent, and this ERIC we hope will be an explorer in the fields of complex therapy.
- 1859 Frederic William Farrar: Eric, or Little by Little: A Tale of Roslyn School. Chapter II:
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male given name
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Proper noun
Eric
- A male given name, variant of Erich borrowed from English or from French Éric.
eric
eric
English
Noun
eric (plural erics)
- A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.
- 1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber 1999, p. 18:
- The court-poets of Wales [...] could demand an eric of ‘nine cows, and nine-score pence of money besides’.
- 1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber 1999, p. 18:
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- eriach
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989