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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
infer .
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Saviour, "Feed my sheep"; by which was given all power necessary for a pastor; as the power to chase away wolves, such as are heretics; the power to shut up rams, if they be mad, or push at the other sheep with their horns, such as are evil, though Christian, kings; and power to give the flock convenient food: from whence he inferreth that St. Peter had these three powers given him by
Leviathan 2007
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From which words he inferreth three sorts of sins, and three sorts of punishments; and that none of those sins, but the last, shall be punished with hell fire; and consequently, that after this life there is punishment of lesser sins in purgatory.
Leviathan 2007
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But from the power to teach only, he inferreth also a coercive power in the Pope over kings.
Leviathan 2007
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But to prove that Christians are not to tolerate infidel or heretical kings, he allegeth a place in Deuteronomy where God forbiddeth the Jews, when they shall set a king over themselves, to choose a stranger: 384 and from thence inferreth that it is unlawful for a Christian to choose a king that is not a Christian.
Leviathan 2007
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A certain rabbin, upon the text, Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams, inferreth that young men, are admitted nearer to God than old, because vision, is a clearer revelation, than a dream.
The Essays 2007
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Another interpretation of baptism for the dead is that which I have before mentioned, which he preferreth to the second place of probability: and thence also he inferreth the utility of prayer for the dead.
Leviathan 2007
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He inferreth that “to abstain from sinning,” — that is, sinning customarily and against conscience, so as to endanger the loss of the favour of God, — “is no such great mastery, no such matter of difficulty, to such men.”
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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That man is of a base state and courage we suppose, that liueth in a citie and beareth him self so vpright, as neither he inferreth iniurie to others, ne yet suffereth wrong him selfe.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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A certain rabbin, upon the text, Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams, inferreth that young men are admitted nearer to God than old, because vision is a clearer revelation than a dream.
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A certain rabbin, upon the text, _Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams_, inferreth that young men are admitted nearer to God than old, because vision is a clearer revelation than a dream.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Various 1885
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