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Hypothecate

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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Anticipate 76% connected

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

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Expect 76% connected

To wait for; to await.

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Pledge 76% connected

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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Construct 76% connected

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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Develop 76% connected

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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Explicate 76% connected

Evolved; unfolded.

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Formulate 76% connected

To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

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Reconstruct 76% connected

To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.

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Retrace 76% connected

To trace back, as a line.

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Theorization 74% connected

The act or product of theorizing; the formation of a theory or theories; speculation.

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Theorization 74% connected

The act or product of theorizing; the formation of a theory or theories; speculation.

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Theorizer 74% connected

One who theorizes or speculates; a theorist.

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Theorizer 74% connected

One who theorizes or speculates; a theorist.

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Theory 74% connected

A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.

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Theory 74% connected

A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.

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Conjecture 92% connected

An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Speculate 92% connected

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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Suppose 92% connected

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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Theorize 92% connected

To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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