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Definition of Stroy
1. v. i. To destroy.
Definition of Stroy
1. Verb. (obsolete) To destroy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stroy
1. to destroy [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: destroy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stroy
Literary usage of Stroy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"stroy men's lives are not the ministers of Christ, the Saviour; and see- ' ing
they know not what spirit they are of, the lives, bodies, and souls ' of men ..."
2. The Law of Evidence in Civil Cases by Burr W. Jones (1908)
"Declarations proper to show character of possession—Not to de stroy record title.
355. Declarations as to boundary lines. 356. Declarations of agents. 357. ..."
3. A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad (1912)
"stroy the opinion one had of them." This is the danger incurred by an author of
fiction who sets out to talk about himself without disguise. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Game Laws, and on Fisheries: With an Appendix, Containing by Joseph Chitty (1812)
"... that every person who shall shoot at, kill or de- AD nor. stroy with any gun, &c.
any hare, &c. (the same being proved, &c. before two Justices, &c. ..."
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