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Definition of Cast about
1. Verb. Search anxiously.
Definition of Cast about
1. Verb. (intransitive) To try to find; look around; search; meditate. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To plan; plot; contrive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cast About
Literary usage of Cast about
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Yet still Apollo pitied Hector fall'n, Nor suffer'd aught unseemly there to rest,
But cast about the dead a golden shield, That not a single hair should ..."
2. The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life by Hannah More (1827)
"... the popular power, his attention was directed to devest it, as much as possible,
of its mischiefs, by the entrenchments that be strove to cast about it. ..."
3. A Review of the Administration and Civil Police of the State of New York by Ferris Pell (1819)
"... politic to cast about for new and more beneficial incentives. The wish to bury
the past in oblivion, and unite in some great and generous system of ..."
4. Chronicles of the City of Perugia, 1492-1503 by Francesco Maturanzio, Edward Strachan Morgan (1905)
"after they had remained quiet and had never moved against man or town of the
district or city of Perugia until the year 1494 now cast about for means to ..."
5. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"... to throw or cast about, sc. the legs and feet ; from Ни лл or. to throw.—'Shirley.
BAMBOOZLE, v. To delude, to mislead, -ER. to cheat, to cozen, ..."
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