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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of perpend.

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Examples

  • This by the help of the observation already premised, and I hope already weighed and perpended by your reverences and worships, I shall forthwith make appear.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • This by the help of the observation already premised, and I hope already weighed and perpended by your reverences and worships, I shall forthwith make appear.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • The man perpended, and when he replied did so after the style of the late and great Ollendorf.

    A Prefect's Uncle 1928

  • Mrs. Glamorys herself gave "At Homes," every Sunday afternoon, and so, on the morrow, after a sleepless night mitigated by perpended sonnets, the love-sick young tutor presented himself by invitation at the beautiful old house in Hampstead.

    The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895

  • Sir Antony held his head solemnly on one side, weighed him with puritanical scrupulosity to a quarter of an ounce on his delicate balance, listened attentively at the chest with his silver-mounted stethoscope, and perpended the net result of his investigation with professional gravity; then he gave

    Philistia Grant Allen 1873

  • The criticisms towards the close of his letter on certain of our failings are worthy to be seriously perpended; for he is not, as I think, without a spice of vulgar shrewdness.

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

  • Mrs. Glamorys herself gave 'At Homes', every Sunday afternoon, and so, on the morrow, after a sleepless night mitigated by perpended sonnets, the love-sick young tutor presented himself by invitation at the beautiful old house in Hampstead.

    Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship Anthony Trollope 1848

  • It was a brave offer, and discreetly to be perpended.

    Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1832

  • Because the tar. gz file has all filenames perpended with wordpress/this first path component needs to be stripped while unpacking:

    Codex - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • I wasn't logged in at all (hardly use digg), just added the perpended digg. com/to the URL and then pasted it again on a new tab (chrome) with the digg Url. They're (still) a startup.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2009

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