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- adjective Obsolete form of
inclined . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
encline .
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Examples
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Saying had one very good effect; for that younker, who before was a little enclin'd by his Constitution to be lazy, grew on a Sudden
Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader Louise Manly 1896
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Fools, and vain Cocquets; but in such a manner, as even pleased them, and made them more than half enclin'd to believe that he spoke Truth.
The Present State of Wit (1711) In a Letter to a Friend in the Country John Gay 1708
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Assignations of Vice; if you are enclin'd to lash the Follies and
A Vindication of the Press Daniel Defoe 1696
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If an Author be enclin'd to write for Reformation of Manners, let him repair to St. _Pauls_ or _Westminster-Abbey_, and observe the indecent
A Vindication of the Press Daniel Defoe 1696
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They were the rather enclin'd to push this forward by how much they thought it would singularly mortify the Crolians, and all the sorts of Dissenters, for they had all along declar'd their abhorrence of the Abrogratzians to such a Degree that they publickly endeavour'd to have got a general Concurrence of the whole Nation in the Publick
The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon Daniel Defoe 1696
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For my own Part I am enclin'd to believe he never was so much his Friend, but died as he cou'd, a juggler, and that if he sign'd any thing in form of the late
Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718) Daniel Defoe 1696
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But as this however enclin'd them to be continually Snarling at one another, so as in all Quarrels it generally appears one Side must go down.
The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon Daniel Defoe 1696
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But this I propound onely as a conjecture, not that I am more enclin'd to this _Hypothesis_ then the seminal, which upon good reason I ghess to be
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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But O as to embrace me she enclin'd I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Sonnets John Milton 1645
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2617: Men well enclin'd to heare what thou command'st.
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