Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Identical \I*den"tic*al\, a. [Cf. F. identique. See {Identity}.]
   1. The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as,
      the identical person or thing.

            I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago,
            without a conviction . . . that I, the same
            identical person who now remember that event, did
            then exist.                           --Reid.

   2. Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the
      predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the
      subject; tautological.

            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.

   {Identical equation} (Alg.), an equation which is true for
      all values of the algebraic symbols which enter into it.