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Definition of Molesting
1. molest [v] - See also: molest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Molesting
Literary usage of Molesting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 1638-1674 by New York (State)., Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1868)
"... and Commissaries of Fort Orange against molesting Indians within that jurisdiction.
... all Inhabitants of this Jurisdiction, molesting any Indians, ..."
2. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts by George Francis Dow (1914)
"For withholding or molesting, mowing and carrying away the hay on a parcel of
meadow. Withdrawn.f Mr. John Ruck, administrator of the estate of Tho. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Surveying and Boundaries by Frank Emerson Clark (1922)
"Lithographed copies shall also be received and shall be prima facie evidence of
the original and of the content? thereof." § 645. Penalties for molesting ..."
4. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans (1847)
"But the restless adversaries of our prosperity, still pursued us, molesting and
disquieting our peaceable assemblies. One of the sheriffs of the | city, ..."
5. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1840)
"... and from molesting, invading, and interrupting the complainers in the exercise
of the functions of the several offices ol ministers of the •aid parishes ..."
6. Ecclesiastical Biography: Or, Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the by Christopher Wordsworth (1853)
"Whereby it is to bee thought of till-» king, that although he cannot be utterly
excused for molesting the godly and innocent preachers of that time, ..."
7. A History of the Commonwealth of Florence: From the Earliest Independence of by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1865)
"... in Florence—Jealousy of the French king—Borgia again commanded by France to
cease from molesting Florence—and compelled to restore Arezzo—Ill-government ..."