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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
press .
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Examples
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All which qualities called sensible are in the object that causeth them but so many several motions of the matter, by which it presseth our organs diversely.
Leviathan 2007
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A great and potent nobility, addeth majesty to a monarch, but diminisheth power; and putteth life and spirit into the people, but presseth their fortune.
The Essays 2007
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The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
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The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
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Anaximenes, that the earth by reason of its latitude is borne upon by the air which presseth upon it.
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For as to the first it is said, “He that presseth into the light shall be oppressed of the glory.”
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He presseth no husbandman, nor Marchant: for the Countrey is so populous, that these being left at home, the youth of the Realme is sufficient for all his wars.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Come, Friar John, let us go break our fast; for, if I hit on such a round refection in the morning as will serve thoroughly to fill the mill-hopper and hogs-hide of my stomach, and furnish it with meat and drink sufficient, then at a pinch, as in the case of some extreme necessity which presseth, I could make a shift that day to forbear dining.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Come, Friar John, let us go break our fast; for, if I hit on such a round refection in the morning as will serve thoroughly to fill the mill-hopper and hogs-hide of my stomach, and furnish it with meat and drink sufficient, then at a pinch, as in the case of some extreme necessity which presseth, I could make a shift that day to forbear dining.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Hideous to behold is he on whom injustice presseth alone.
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