v
(obsolete) To encourage.
v
(transitive, often law) To issue a formal command.
v
(transitive) To impose or charge, especially as punishment for an infraction.
v
(transitive, intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed) To learn about; study; educate; teach.
v
To end a period of debate on an issue by requiring a decision to be made with respect to that issue.
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To request that (certain people) assemble; to gather (certain people) for a meeting.
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(transitive) To assume jointly.
v
(obsolete) To contribute; to conduce.
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(obsolete, transitive) To spend (time, or a period).
v
(transitive) To summon judicially to meet or appear.
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(obsolete, transitive) To convoke; to call together.
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(transitive) To convene, to cause to assemble for a meeting.
v
(transitive) To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.
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(transitive) To set apart for a special use
n
(law, informal) deposition
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(law, intransitive) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition
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obsolete typography of devise [(transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).]
n
(archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
v
(transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
n
Something devised or invented.
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Obsolete form of devise. [(transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).]
n
Obsolete form of devisee. [(law) The person or entity to whom property is devised in a will.]
v
Obsolete form of devise. [(transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).]
v
(transitive, law) to make (a bill) into law
v
(transitive) To prescribe under authority; to ordain
n
The act by which something is established; establishment.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become familiar with something or someone.
n
(idiomatic) The right to make a final decision.
v
To be (in) one's destiny.
v
(intransitive) To hold a conference or consultation.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To inaugurate.
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(transitive) To induct into office with a formal ceremony.
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To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
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To bring in as a member; to make a part of.
n
(UK, historical, law) Prior to the abolition of inrollment in 1849, the act of preparing a parliamentary bill for royal assent by entering it onto a roll, incorporating any amendments.
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To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
n
The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order.
v
To introduce or add (something that is different or foreign).
v
(law, transitive) To put an injunction against. (Used both of the party who applies for the injunction and of the judge who grants it.)
v
(intransitive) To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.
v
(transitive) To install (someone) in office; to establish.
n
The act or process of introducing.
v
To design a new process or mechanism.
v
(intransitive) To participate, take part or get involved in something.
v
(intransitive) To form friendships with others.
v
To answer (something) with; to respond to (something) with.
v
(law, rare) To annul a law by enacting a new law, as opposed to repealing the former law.
v
(transitive) To place an order for (something).
v
(transitive, intransitive, informal, rare) To give (someone) an ovation (prolonged enthusiastic applause).
v
(transitive) To make something popular.
n
(accounting) An asset recognized in respect an expense incurred in a period for which the benefit will be received in a future period.
n
One who proffers something.
n
The act by which something is proferred.
n
The act of seeking assistance or advice.
n
Obsolete form of reprieve. [The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.]
n
A document authorizing such an action.
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(transitive) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
v
(transitive) To instruct somebody, usually subconsciously, in the etiquette of a society
v
Obsolete spelling of subpoena [(transitive) To summon with a subpoena.]
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(obsolete) To vote or vote with.
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To make or become familiar with and adept in handling a new environment.
v
(transitive, figuratively) to educate about, to teach about.
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