Promise: alternatives and connections

An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenome…

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That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge;…

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To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.

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To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.

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In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person,…

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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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imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.

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To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.

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Rennet. See 3d Reed.

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To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.

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To prophesy; to foretell; to practice prediction; to utter prophecies.

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Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.

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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 signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.

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The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.

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To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedic…

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The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

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To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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A game of chance played with dice.

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To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.

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To face down; to outstare.

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To appoint.

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To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

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That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.

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A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agr…

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An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.

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The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed;…

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The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.

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A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with a reverent appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed.

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A word; an oral utterance.

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A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by th…

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Belief; faith; fidelity.

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The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice…

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The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.

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The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.

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To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

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To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

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A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

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A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

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The person to whom a promise is made.

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The person to whom a promise is made.

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One who engages or undertakes; a promiser.

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One who engages or undertakes; a promiser.

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Containing a promise or binding declaration of something to be done or forborne.

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Containing a promise or binding declaration of something to be done or forborne.

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Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; relia…

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Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; relia…

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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 make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

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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 foretell.

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To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.

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A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

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To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.

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To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.

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