To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.
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To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry.
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To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.
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To wait for; to await.
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The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between…
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To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.
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To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…
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Evolved; unfolded.
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To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
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To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.
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To trace back, as a line.
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The act or product of theorizing; the formation of a theory or theories; speculation.
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The act or product of theorizing; the formation of a theory or theories; speculation.
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One who theorizes or speculates; a theorist.
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One who theorizes or speculates; a theorist.
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A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.
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A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.
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An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.
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To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…
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To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the real…
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To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.
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