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  1. auxiliary verb Used before a verb in the infinitive to show:
  2. auxiliary verb Something that will take place or exist in the future: We shall arrive tomorrow.
  3. auxiliary verb Something, such as an order, promise, requirement, or obligation: You shall leave now. He shall answer for his misdeeds. The penalty shall not exceed two years in prison.
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  • We shall, therefore, do well to give a moment's consideration to Chopin's fingering, especially as he was one of the boldest and most influential revolutionisers of this important department of the pianistic art. —  Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician, Volume 2
  • I shall, therefore, preface my remarks on particular compositions and groups of compositions by some general observations It is sometimes said that there are hardly any traces of a development in the productions of Chopin, and that in this respect he is unlike all the other great masters. —  Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician, Volume 2
  • And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jesus of Nazareth - A Biography
  • Write and tell me that we shall, and that you are not disgusted with me meanwhile. —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II
  • Let me assure him, however, that if my life be spared, my name shall one day be known to the world—at least to such extent that common inquiry shall be unnecessary. —  William Lloyd Garrison
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  1. Middle English schal, from Old English sceal; see skel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. A defective verb, classed with can, may, will, etc.: (1) Pres. 1st and 3d person shall, also dial. (Scots) sall, sal, from Middle English shal, schal, schalle, schel, ssel, scheal, sceal, seal, also sal, sel, sæl, (Anglo-Saxon sceal; 2d person shalt, from Middle English shalt, schalt, ssalt, salt, from Anglo-Saxon scealt; plural shall, from Middle English shul, shulen, shullen, schulen, schullen, sholen, sculen, scullen, sulen, sullen, etc., from Anglo-Saxon sculon, sculun, sceolon; (2) preterit 1st and 3d person should, dial. (Scots) suld, from Middle English sholde, scholde, ssolde, scolde, sculde, solde, from Anglo-Saxon scolde, sceolde; 2d person shouldest, shouldst, from Middle English schuldest, etc.; plural should, from Middle English sholden, scholden, ssolden, scolden, sulden, etc., from Anglo-Saxon scoldon, sceoldon; infinitive Middle English schulen, from Anglo-Saxon sculan; = OS, skal, scal (preterit skulda, skolda, sculda, scolda, infinitive skulan) = OFries. skil, skel, schel (preterit skolde, infinitive skila, skela, schela, sela) = Dutch zal (preterit zoude, infinitive zullen) = Old High German scal, scol, sal, sol (preterit scolta, solta, infinitive sculan, scolan, solan, suln), MHG, sol (preterit solte, infinitive scholn, soln), German soll (preterit sollte, infinitive sollen) = Icelandic skal (plural skulum, preterit skyldi, skyldu, infinitive skulu) = Swedish skall (preterit skulle, infinitive skola) = Dan, skal (preterit skulde, infinitive skulle) = Gothic (Moesogothic) skal (plural skulum, preterit skulda, infinitive skulan); a preterit-present verb, the Anglo-Saxon sccal, etc., being orig, preterit, from Teutonic √ skal, owe, be in debt, be liable (whence also Anglo-Saxon scyld = D. G. schuld = Swedish skuld, skull = Danish skyld, fault, debt, guilt); cf. Lithuanian skelu, I am indebted, skilti, owe, be liable; Latin scelus, guilt (later English scel-erate, scelerous, etc.); Sanskrit √ skhal, stumble.
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