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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encline.

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  • But to have received benefits from one, whom we acknowledge our superiour, enclines to love; because the obligation is no new depession: and cheerfull acceptation, (which men call Gratitude,) is such an honour done to the obliger, as is taken generally for retribution.

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • But since there is in all Men something like a natural Principle which enclines them to DEVOTION or the Worship of some unseen Power;

    jonrowe.blogspot.com 2009

  • That the Words are capable of either of the Senfes: but the Notation of the Word icT/of enclines more to the latter,/.

    The History of infant-baptism 1707

  • For he that from any effect hee seeth come to passe, should reason to the next and immediate cause thereof, and from thence to the cause of that cause, and plonge himselfe profoundly in the pursuit of causes; shall at last come to this, that there must be (as even the Heathen Philosophers confessed) one First Mover; that is, a First, and an Eternall cause of all things; which is that which men mean by the name of God: And all this without thought of their fortune; the solicitude whereof, both enclines to fear, and hinders them from the search of the causes of other things; and thereby gives occasion of feigning of as many Gods, as there be men that feigne them.

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

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