construe

• Will not those who have the power to construe, and carry out their construction, so construe it? —  A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861
• There would he decline, construe, and conjugate aloud, his only witnesses being the poultry, who would now and then raise a gobble, gobble, gobble, while the ducks with their quack, quack, quack_, were still more impertinent in their replies. —  Jacob Faithful
• Then they crossed to Jamaica, where they enjoyed ample opportunity to compare the condition of that island, under British rule, with Cuba under the government of the Spaniards, as also to learn how the Jamaicans construe the word "hospitality". —  The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection
• Sadgrove was put up to construe, so there was no opportunity for further conversation, had we desired it I wasn't surprised that Potter avoided me in the playground after school. —  Boycotted And Other Stories
• When I was put up to construe, I managed to get through my passage without any sign of trepidation; and when at last the class was dismissed, I took the wind out of the sails of my boycotters by remaining some minutes later than any one else, completing the decoration of my new quarters It was easy enough in the playground that afternoon to keep clear of my fellow human beings; and I had, as I persuaded myself, a jolly hour in the gymnasium all by myself. —  Boycotted And Other Stories

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