a. ? Obs. [ad. med.L. Francic-us, f. Francus FRANK sb.1] = FRANKISH.
1698. Phil. Trans., XX. 445. Books written in the Samaritan … Francic … and Islandic, &c.
1782. Burney, Hist. Music (1789), II. iv. 261. Lai (lay) seems a word purely Francic and Saxon, it is neither to be found in the Armoric language, nor in the dialect of Provence.
1831. For. Q. Rev., VII. 379. We consider his position as incapable of defence when he asserts that the language which the Saxons introduced into England must have been Francic, for there is evidence almost amounting to proof that it must have been Scandinavian.
1833. G. S. Faber, Recapit. Apostasy, 37. Or under the short-lived Francic Emperorship.
