Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete variants of employ, employment.
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- verb Obsolete spelling of
employ . - verb Obsolete spelling of
imply .
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Examples
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But they imploy a great deal of Americans and its a US company.
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I think APML would be the best technology to imploy.
Radical Idea For News Sites: Show What’s New On Your Homepage - Publishing 2.0 2008
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And such a Name, such a Record, I should be glad, said she, you would avoid, by becoming a good Mistress of a Family; and imploy your Parts in being an obedient Wife, a discreet Governess of your Children and
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Appartments, adorn'd with rich Furniture of all Sorts; some were the Work of hers and her Husband's Ancestors, who delighted to imploy poor
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Continuing still in feare of the losses he had sustained by traffique, and minding never more to imploy his money that way, but to keep this light vessell, which had holpen him to all his wealth: he commanded his men to put forth their Oares, and shape, their course for his owne dwelling.
The Decameron 2004
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And if such an Island may be for the stapling of our commodities, to the which they of Cambalu would not saile, yet we might hauing ships there, imploy them in passing betweene Cambalu and that stapling place.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I went then to Cambaya to imploy a good round summe of money in
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But wherein men should seeke the common commoditie, and what way, and by what meane that is to bee brought about, is the point or summe of the matter, since euery good man is ready to imploy his labour.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For how can such men imploy themselues to seeke the trade, that are inclined to such vices? or howe can God prosper them in your affaires?
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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You are therefore to remember well what conference and talke hath bene had with you here before your going touching the sayd barke, to what purposes she may best serue, and the maner how to imploy her, and thereupon to giue your order and direction vnto him, as the time and place shall require.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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