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Many brewing words, from ferment (OED, "root of ferv-re to boil") to yeast (OED "The underlying base jes- is found also in Skr. yás(y)ati to seethe, boil"), are also connected with boiling, probably because of the bubbling that takes place in fermenting liquid.
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Maybe in a ferv days, when the novelty had worn off, he d be able to walk away.
The Bounty Hunter Thompson, Vicki Lewis 1995
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Do I delight to do his will, and place my happinefs in adoring, praifing, and ferv - ing him?
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
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Th nor, was forty to part with 1 hit zeal to ferv-e them.
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Nimirum Se - ptemtrionales Populi tot infultibus, tot viribus, variifque temporibus in Italicos agros fe fe exonerarunt, ut Provinciam fortiffimam jam rerura dominam fenfim debilitarint,? tque ex Regina ferv.
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Poffibly they expeft to fee. fbme Friend or Acquaintance there, and as if Chrift were to be ferv d (as he was born) in an Inn, make his Hoofe the common rendez - vous in which they meet their Aflbciates.
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Where complete and fubftential jufttce has. been done* a new trial will not bo granted, though the judge who tried the caufe may have been miilaken in point of law; as where an action was brought by a perfon for a violent affault on her niece, who lived with her, per quod ferv. ami/it, and the judge held that the aunt Hood in loco parentis, whereon large damages were given; — the plaintiff undertaking to pay the damages to the niece* and the niece not to proceed in an action which
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* 'am thy fellow-ferv'ant, and of thy brethren the
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«. fo uffiii, aider, j\rTirVer AjuutCvo; va, *. ferv? reuh. ferviablc Ajiitatdrc, f. m» hlfer, qui affille Ajuutrice,/.
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Not even the toil and dangers of foreign fojourners (hall now feparate me from ferv - ing, from guarding you, far as the litde ftrength Nature fliall allow.
jwjarvis commented on the word ferv
word root, from Latin fervere: to boil. Examples: effervescent, fervor
January 20, 2011