Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An old form of
construe .
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- verb Obsolete spelling of
construe .
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Examples
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I smiled at your couplet of Lattin, your Daughter may be able in time to conster it as she has already made some considerable proficiency in her accidents, but her
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 - 18 March 1776 1963
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If you send this once to him you must resolve to be sick howsoever, for he will never leave examining your water, till he has shaked it into a disease: [12] then follows a writ to his drugger in a strange tongue, which he understands, though he cannot conster.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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He is critical in a language he cannot conster, and speaks seldom under Arminius in divinity.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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I will conster to them whence you come; who you are and what you would are out of my welkin; I might say element, but the word is overworn.
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By the by, have you found any friend that can conster
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815
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Who does not take up Plautus first, and conster, [1]
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Jonathan Swift 1706
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"Takuan, I'm sure option one might cause some conster ..."
Boing Boing 2009
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"Takuan, I'm sure option one might cause some conster ..."
Boing Boing 2009
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And the thought strikes me, with terror and conster - nation, that I am just going into eternity, where I see nothing but that I must suffer the severest tokens of his wrath forever.
Sermons on various important subjects of doctrine and practice 1812
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In consequence of this action, the parties the enemy had in Cien Pozuelos and Valdemoro fled, car - rying with them to Madrid terror and conster - nation.
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