I-dĕn′ti-cal, a.
a. [Lat. as if identicus, from idem, the same; Fr. identique, It. & Sp. identico.]
Sense 1. The same; not different; as, the identical person.
I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction, as strong as memory can give, that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then exist. Reid.
Sense 2. Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; as, an identical proposition.
When you say body is solid, I say that you make an identical proposition, because it is impossible to have the idea of body without that of solidity. Fleming.