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To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

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To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

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To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

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To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

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A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

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The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

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To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.

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To bring or draw out; to cause to appear; to produce against counter agency or influence; to extract; to evolve; as, to educe a form from matter.

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Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

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To call out; to summon forth.

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To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket,…

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To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; -- opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scriptur…

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To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand.

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To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misjudge; to misapprehend.

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To construe wrongly; to interpret erroneously.

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To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.

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To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.

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Rennet. See 3d Reed.

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To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

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To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spir…

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Taken.

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To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

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The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream…

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The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream…

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To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applie…

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A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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