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Ethelred. Baker, Chronicles, p. 16. Though the relict of a man or woman hath liberty to contract new relations, yet I do not find they have liberty to cast off the old. Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 84. Who cou'd love such an unhappy Relict as I am? Steele, Grief A-la-Mode, iii. 1. 3t. A thing left behind; a relic. To breake the eggeshell after the meat is out, wee are taught in our childhood, and practice it all our lives, which neverthele e is but a superstitious relict .