Lexicographical Neighbors of Ployed
Literary usage of Ployed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"ployed in the formal ceremony of excommunication. The ringing of the bell apprises
the faithful within the church of what is CEEE.MONY OF EXCOMMUNICATION. ..."
2. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"... ployed for two or three Days past in drawing up a Re- septemb- monstrance of
the ill Usage he had met with, to be presented to the General as soon as he ..."
3. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... ployed means which they must have known were exceptionable and offensive.
Nor can it be supposed that they will ever be really desirous of it, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... Norway, and Lapland furnaces of 30 to 40 feet in height and 1000 to 2000 cubic
feet capacity are em-ployed. Of late years, however, large furnaces have ..."
5. The Dictionary of English History edited by Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling (1896)
"This was ono of Beaufort's last public acts ; he gradually retired from political
life, and cm- ployed his last years in tho affairs of his ..."
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