To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
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To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience.
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To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
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To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
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Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; pr…
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Taken.
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Taken.
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The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…
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To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.
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To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.
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To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
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To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
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Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…
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That which is due; payment.
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The act of obligating.
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To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocea…
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A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a perso…
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The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.
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The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property…
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To carry or send back.
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To bring back; to restore.
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The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.
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The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation.
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State; condition; position of affairs.
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To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; -- often with up.
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The act of summoning; a call by authority, or by the command of a superior, to appear at a place named, or to attend to some duty.
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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
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The total amount households, firms and government want to spend in an economy.
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To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
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An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message con…
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To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
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The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
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The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.
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The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as,…
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The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency.
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of Insist
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Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
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The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
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The act of requiring, as of right; a demand or application made as by authority.
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A final proposition, concession, or condition; especially, the final propositions, conditions, or terms, offered by either of the parties in a diplom…
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Use; usage; employment.
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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…
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The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…
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To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.
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To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.
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and derivatives. See Behoove, &c.
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To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
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To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
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A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
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To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.
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To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.
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A rib; a side; a region or coast.
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To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.
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To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of…
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To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
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A mound or small hill.
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Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; pr…
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To wait for; to await.
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To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority.
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The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
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To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.
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To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.
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To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
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Taken.
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The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…
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One who demands.
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One who demands.
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To wait for; to await.
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To wait for; to await.
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The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…
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The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…
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To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.
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Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; pr…
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To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
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To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.
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A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
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Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to w…
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To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.
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The act of requiring; demand; requisition.
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Taken.
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The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penu…
What consumers are willing and able to buy.
To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…
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To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…
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