Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An erroneous spelling of
cantle .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Same as
cantle , v. t.
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Examples
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How he longed to be with her on that cantile - vered terrace on, a continent far, far away.
Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995
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Two systems, the commercial or mer - cantile, and the agricultural, are considered and con - demned, on vague grounds, so that “the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord” (Modern Library [1937], p. 651).
ECONOMIC HISTORY FRANK H. KNIGHT 1968
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We find it first stated in an essay, Della moneta: trattato mer - cantile (1686), by an Italian scholar, Geminiano
Dictionary of the History of Ideas NICHOLAS GEORGESCU-ROEGEN 1968
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The linear concept was fostered by the mer - cantile class and the rise of a money economy.
TIME AND MEASUREMENT G. J. WHITROW 1968
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I wish that the mer - cantile class could enjoy the same extensive com - merce that they did formerly.
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By Mr. Porter of Quincy, from the committee on Insur - ance, on a petition, a Bill to change the name of the Mer - cantile Marine Insurance Company.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1785
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By Mr. Barker of Maiden, from the committee on Mer - cantile Affairs, on a petition, a Bill to incorporate the Wakefield Industrial School Company.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1785
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North End Free asking to be discharged from further consideration of the ii»pen»ary. petition of M.C. Grier and others for the * incorporation of the North End Free Dispensary Association of Boston, and recommending its reference to the committee on Mer - cantile Affairs.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1785
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By Mr. Noyes of Boston, from the committee on Mer - cantile Affairs, leave to withdraw, on the petition of M.C. Grier and others for the incorporation of the North End Free Dispensary Association of Boston.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1785
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By Mr. Breed of Lynn, from the committee on Mer - cantile Affairs, asking to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject-matter of the order relative to subjecting all electric lighting companies to the laws re - lating to gas companies, and recommending its reference to the committee on Manufactures.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1785
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