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Definition of Look after
1. Verb. Keep under careful scrutiny. "Keep an eye on this prisoner!"
Definition of Look after
1. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To watch or protect; to keep safe. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Look After
Literary usage of Look after
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... to look after the matter, and whilst there the conveyances in controversy were
m;ule. 4. It only remains to add that the creditors. ..."
2. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1910)
"Then he addressed himself to Cardinal de' Medici, and commissioned him to look
after me, adding that he should be very sorry to let me slip through his ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The clergyman deputed by the bishop to look after the prisoners had to inquire
constantly "quse illorum ..."
4. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"Amongst the labouring people, the first thing you have to look after is, common
honesty, speaking t/te truth, and refraining from t/iiiv- ing ; and to ..."
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