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sympathetic ink

[ sim-puh-thet-ik ingk ]

sympathetic ink

noun

  1. another term for invisible ink
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sympathetic ink1

First recorded in 1715–25
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Example Sentences

The fire of inspiration brings out, as it were, designs traced beforehand in sympathetic ink.

A solution of muriate of copper forms a yellow and sympathetic ink, and acetate of cobalt a rose or purple.

The first page looked as if it had been written over with some sort of sympathetic ink; but not a word could be deciphered.

In all minds it lay written, but invisibly, as in sympathetic ink; at his word it starts into visibility in all.

This appears to have been the last detected attempt to use a sympathetic ink upon the race-course.

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