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 ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company of; as, to invite to dinner, or a wedding, or an excursion.
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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 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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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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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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The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.
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The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.
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To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.
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To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable…
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To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.
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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 bring in; to introduce; to usher in.
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A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
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To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.
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Received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company; as, a welcome visitor.
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To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.
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To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…
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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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Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.
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To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.
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To call out; to summon forth.
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To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…
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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
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of Have
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A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time.
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The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company; as, an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend.
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To bring forth young.
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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…
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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 cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
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The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.
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obs. p. p. of Shake.
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To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…
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To change the place of in any manner; to move.
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Taken.
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Obedient; docile.
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Obedient; docile.
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of Bid
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of Bid
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The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.
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The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.
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The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company; as, an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend.
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The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company; as, an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend.
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Using or containing invitations.
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Using or containing invitations.
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Capable of being tempted; liable to be tempted.
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Capable of being tempted; liable to be tempted.
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One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil.
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One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil.
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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 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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of Bid
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To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to re…
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To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.
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