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Definition of Caviled
1. cavil [v] - See also: cavil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caviled
Literary usage of Caviled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rhode Island: Its Making and Its Meaning; a Survey of the Annals of the by Irving Berdine Richman (1902)
"After his death his executors presented a claim for^1oo. This likewise was caviled
at, and the matter was allowed to stand till October, 1678, ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1907)
"... So-caviled Webster's Dictionaries." Have you seen it? If not, then let us send
you a copy. We think it will interest you. ..."
3. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1908)
"Pedagogues have caviled much about materials, seeking for them an absolute value;
it is folly to expect to find a single absolute direction, in the progress ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1859)
"find. lug it contained several poems attributed to Gay which had never before
appeared in his Works, caviled at the bookseller for having reprinted these ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Yet this was that of all his actions in the government which his enemies most
looked askance upon, and caviled at in the popular assemblies: crying out how ..."
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