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Definition of Perpended
1. perpend [v] - See also: perpend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perpended
Literary usage of Perpended
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the English Paragraph by Edwin Herbert Lewis (1894)
"It seems to me that of all cultivated men who ever wrote English, Hooker perpended
paragraphs the least. The early editions of the Ecclesiastical Polity are ..."
2. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"... und perpended the effects of the »-ime. which we did very diligently, noting,
conferring, and revolving every thing in luve contained, with deep study ..."
3. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1894)
"This, by the help of the observation already premised, and I hope already weighed
and perpended by your Reverences and Worships ..."
4. Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and by Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862)
"... for illuminations, or divine dreams. yet rightly perpended may prove but animal
visions, and natural night-scenes of their awai- ing contemplations. ..."
5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"As a man of thought, and as a man who set serious value by his thought : as a
man who perpended every paragraph, and who carefully elaborated every ..."
6. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"... Hrothgar in a speech dissuading from arrogance and prompting to liberality,
which the poet may well have designed to be perpended by his own patrons. ..."
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