purport

• Hence these caverns were also styled and The author above quoted gives us the terms variously exhibited: [422 Hesychius renders it in the plural, and as a neuter Whether it be compounded Cai-Ait, Cai-Atis, or Cai-Ades, the purport is the same. —  A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
• How? Because in all the Vedвnta-texts the sentences construe in so far as they have for their purport, as they intimate that matter (viz. —  The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
• In order to make himself heard it was necessary for him to show from the texts of the Upani@sads that they supported him, and that their purport was also the same. —  A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1
• But the rumor might have been whispered about, and as the purport was to give a psilanthropic explanation and solution of the phrases, Son of God and Son of Man,--so Saint John met it by the true solution, namely, the eternal Filiation of the Word Ib. —  Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.
• Know ye, unknown knight, that you are in the presence of an august society who are here met at one of their accustomed convocations, whereof the purport is the frequent quaffing of those most glorious liquors of which the sacred Rhine is the great father. —  Vivian Grey

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