Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Lumine Sicco

(In). Disinterestedly; as a dry question to be resolved without regard to other matters.

“If physiological considerations have any meaning, it will be always impossible for women to view the subject [of women's suffrage] in lyrnine sicco.” - The Nineteenth Century (The Hon: Mra. Chapman April, 1886).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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