To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.
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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 reality would involve or admit of; to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration; to assume to be true; as, let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the result?
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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 take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.
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To wait for; to await.
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To infold or involve; to wrap up.
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To assume or take beforehand; esp., to do or undertake without leave or authority previously obtained.
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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 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 dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.
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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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A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
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Premise.
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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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To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.
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Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
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One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator.
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One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator.
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That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…
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That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…
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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 form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.
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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 pos…
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To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.
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To have an opinion; to judge; to think; to suppose.
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To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator.
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To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
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Saw.
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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 form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.
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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.
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