1881 E. C. C. Stanford Brit. Patent 142 2 The glutinous solution is strained.., and may be concentrated or dried. It is named ‘algin’ and consists of ‘algic acid combined with the soda or other alkali employed’.

1913 Chem. Abstr. 7 2692 In the manuf[acture] of artificial threads, sol[utio]ns of algic acid are squirted through fine openings and exposed to the action of coagulating agents such as metal salt sol[utio]ns.

1915 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 108 i. 932 Constituents of the cell walls of the Fucoideae are..algin, the calcium salt of algic acid.

1827 T. L. McKenney (title) Tour to the Lakes... Also, a vocabulary of the Algic, or Chippeway language, formed in part..upon the basis of one furnished by the hon. Albert Gallatin.

1834 H. R. Schoolcraft Narr. Exped. Itasca Lake App. iv. 304 This term is in use by the Algic or Algonquin tribes, particularly by the Chippewas.

1899 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 38 186 In pōhḗ gŭnŭl.., we have the ending -ŭl of the obviative, or accus[ative] of the third person, which appears in all the Algic idioms.

1902 Actes Douzième Congrès Internat. des Orientalistes Rome 1899 2 201 In the sixteenth century.., when the Algic races were at the summit of their prosperity, many tribes speaking dialects of this stock ranged from Newfoundland and Labrador..to the Savannah river.

1986 A. F. McEvoy Fisherman's Prob. (1998) ii. 33 The Yurok speak an Algonquian (or Algic) language.

2009 C. F. Meyer Introducing Eng. Linguistics (2010) ii. 42 Of the forty-four languages in the Algic language family.., thirteen have died.

1828 N. Amer. Rev. July 105 In its structure, the Algic [Note: From Algonquin] or Chippewa presents the frame of a language, rich in grammatical forms.

1878 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. 3 258 The principal means employed in Algic for this end [sc. diversification of meaning] consists (as in our own..) in a sufficiently regular..process of compounding.

1966 K. Teeter in Amer. Anthropol. Assoc. Abstr. 66 A linguistic history of this family (for which I have suggested that the name ‘Algic’, a term with precedent).

1987 Current Anthropol. 28 650 The relationship of Algonkian-Ritwan (now called Algic) to Mosan and Kutenai in his Algonkian-Wakashan grouping..has turned out to be correct.

2000 R. L. Trask Dict. Hist. & Compar. Linguistics 14 Attempts at finding further relatives for Algic have not won general acceptance.

1839 H. R. Schoolcraft Algic Researches I. 12 The term Algic is introduced in a generic sense for all that family of tribes who, about A.D. 1600, were found spread out, with local exceptions, along the Atlantic, between Pamlico Sound and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, extending northwest to the Missinipi of Hudson's Bay, and west to the Mississippi.

a1853 W. W. Warren Hist. Ojibways i, in Coll. Minnesota Hist. Soc. (1885) V. 30 The red men who first greeted our Pilgrim Fathers on the rock-bound coast of Plymouth, and who are so vitally connected with their early history, were Algics.

1856 Reynolds's Misc. 17 May 252/2 The country was still occupied by the aborigines.., although that family of the Algics which had originally been located to the west of the ‘Great Bend’..had departed.

1921 Sprague's Jrnl. Maine Hist. Apr. 61 The aborigines of the state of Maine..belonged to one of the four nations of the greatest of the native races of North America, the Algic or Algonquin.

1997 S. Michaelson in S. Michaelson & D. E. Johnson Border Theory vii. 229 Amerindians can be shown to be in various ‘states’; the Algic, upon encounter, were in ‘the hunter state’.