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Definition of Tasked
1. task [v] - See also: task
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tasked
Literary usage of Tasked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"T was an image of the Virgin That had tasked his utmost skill; But, alas !
his fair ideal Vanished and escaped him still. Day and night the anxious master ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"... and the varied learning and research of the two brothers were tasked to make
it the most perfect contribution to philological science ever published. ..."
3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson, Rev Thomas (reviser) Thomson (1870)
"... attested his unwearied diligence as well a professional skill. Many of these
were constructed in situations that tasked the utmost of ..."
4. Literary Criticisms and Other Papers by Horace Binney Wallace (1856)
"... concentrated and tasked. She lingers below her destiny in being contented with
even the greatest popularity; the native and true atmosphere of her ..."
5. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"... of Both Armies tasked to their Utmost.—Final Capitulation of the City by
General Pemberton, After a Prolonged and Brilliant Siege. ..."
6. Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and by Abraham Hayward (1873)
"But the projects he conceived, the literary works he executed, the journeys he
undertook in his decline, might have tasked a strong man in maturity. ..."
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