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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
urge .
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Examples
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Aurum potabile, [4162] he discommends and inveighs against it, by reason of the corrosive waters which are used in it: which argument our Dr. Guin urgeth against D. Antonius.
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For as Felisacus in his tract de justa uxore urgeth, if that law of Constantine the Great, or that of Theodosius and
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For when Nero burnt Rome, as Calisto urgeth, he fired houses, consumed men's bodies and goods; but this fire devours the soul itself, and [5352] one soul is worth a hundred thousand bodies.
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So the same nature urgeth a man to love his parents, ([4588] dii me pater omnes oderint, ni te magis quam oculos amem meos!) and this love cannot be dissolved, as Tully holds, [4589] without detestable offence: but much more God's commandment, which enjoins a filial love, and an obedience in this kind.
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Why should these Christians (Caelius urgeth) reject us and appropriate God unto themselves, Deum illum suum unicum, &c.
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The same may be said of bleeding at the nose, if it be suddenly stopped, and have been formerly used, as [1477] Villanovanus urgeth: And [1478] Fuchsius, lib.
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Some are of opinion, and maintain that paradox or problem, that wise men beget commonly fools; Suidas gives instance in Aristarchus the Grammarian, duos reliquit Filios Aristarchum et Aristachorum, ambos stultos; and which [1338] Erasmus urgeth in his Moria, fools beget wise men.
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Cyprian well urgeth to Demetrius, are you molested with dearth and famine? is your health crushed with raging diseases? is mankind generally tormented with epidemical maladies?
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They must not therefore compel or intrude; [5872] quis enim (as Fabius urgeth) amare alieno animo potest? but consider withal the miseries of enforced marriages; take pity upon youth: and such above the rest as have daughters to bestow, should be very careful and provident to marry them in due time.
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Mercurialis, consil. 86, for a melancholy young man urgeth, [1545] it as a chief cause; why was he melancholy? because idle.
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