Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Burnt in.

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  • adjective obsolete Burnt in.

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  • adjective obsolete burnt in

Etymologies

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Latin inurere, inustum, to burn in; prefix in- in + urere to burn.

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Examples

  • 'Professor Palafox/the maestro thundered,' usury is usury and we inust allow the merchants of Antwerp no Mexican loophole through which they can defile the law of the church. '

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

  • It sounds plausibly, and is likewise very easily said, that the good inust be done for its own sake, that the law of the reason must be per se the direct motive to moral action; but as Kant positively admits elsewhere the possibility that man can act also against his better knowledge, and consequently against his conscience, hence this undeniable fact proves that rational knowledge is not per se a sufficient motive to moral action.

    Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

  • I inust go back to Mr. Chou's, but first let me show you something. "

    The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955

  • 264 ChrisUctti ComtnaUoiL First, the words of Jesus Christ inust act be taken iD'a seDse too rigorous.

    Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin, Pastor of the French ... Jacques Saurin , Robert Robinson , Henry Hunter, Joseph Sutcliffe 1813

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