Definition of Peasing

1. pease [v] - See also: pease

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peasing

peasantries
peasantry
peasants
peasanty
peascod
peascods
pease
pease pudding
peasecod
peasecods
peased
peasen
peases
peashooter
peashooters
peasing (current term)
peasized
peason
peasouper
peasoupers
peastone
peastones
peasweep
peasweeps
peat
peat-moss
peat bog
peat moss
peataries
peatary

Literary usage of Peasing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle: In which are Included Memoirs of a Lady by Tobias George Smollett, George Cruikshank (1831)
"... peasing this son of the church, who at length, in consideration of the friendship he professed for the young" gentleman, consented to forgive what had ..."

2. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851)
"... peasing the disputes of religion; matters of so high importance, that they could not be decided without the presence and concurrence of the princes of ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... led a le existence until in Socrates he found the sole individu- peasing his wants, and in intercourse with him the satis- for which he had longed. ..."

4. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1815)
"... Messenian, offers his goes to Themistocles at Salamin, peasing the wrath of the gods, i. 562 ; he is recalled, ii, 23 ; he daughter to he sacrificed for ..."

5. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by J(ohn) Payne Collier (1866)
"... and hanish rigour quite, And pay the det to him that she did owe: Craving his helpe in peasing Goddesse yre, That she to health the sooner might ..."

6. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution by David Hume (1810)
"Others submitted to the conquerors, in hopes of ap- ' peasing their fury by a servile obedience.r And every man's attention being now engrossed in concern ..."

7. The Civil War in Song and Story, 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"The steamer peasing, the prisoners and boat were sent adrift. Nothing of interest occurred on the route down the river, until at a point between the ..."

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