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Definition of Squired
1. squire [v] - See also: squire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squired
Literary usage of Squired
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of by Ezra Scollay Stearns, William Frederick Whitcher, Edward Everett Parker, Lewis Publishing Company, Lewis publishing company, Chicago (1908)
"... and "squired together" many couples in marriage. He later became interested
in the meat business and, still later, in the wood and lumber business. ..."
2. Modern Business Arithmetic: A New and Complete Treatise on Commercial Arithmetic by Uriah Curtis (1908)
"How many cement blocks 20 inches square will be squired to lay a walk 5 feet wide
and 66 ft. 8 in. long? 3. How many marble blocks 8 inches square will be ..."
3. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"The timid errors of the ancients, that it •squired a certain degree of heat, and
could only flourish in he neighborhood of the sea, were insensibly exploded ..."
4. Leviathan, Or, The Matter, Forme & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall by Thomas Hobbes (1651)
"... amongst them the kingdom of God, which id been rejected by them in the time
of Samuel, when they squired a King after the manner of other Nations. ..."
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