Stickit minister, a candidate for the clerical office who fails,
disqualified by incompetency or immorality.
Stick"-lac` (?), n. See the Note under Lac.
Stic"kle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stickled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Stickling.] [Probably fr. OE. stightlen, sti&?;tlen, to dispose,
arrange, govern, freq. of stihten, AS. stihtan: cf. G. stiften to
found, to establish.] 1. To separate combatants by intervening. [Obs.]
When he [the angel] sees half of the Christians killed, and the
rest in a fair way of being routed, he stickles betwixt the
remainder of God's host and the race of fiends.
Dryden.
2. To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on
insufficient grounds.
Fortune, as she 's wont, turned fickle, And for the foe began to
stickle.
Hudibras.
While for paltry punk they roar and stickle.
Dryden.
The obstinacy with which he stickles for the wrong.
Hazlitt.