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Definition of Pried
1. pry [v] - See also: pry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pried
Literary usage of Pried
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Ord. pried., I, 104). About the same time the Friars established themselves in
Armenia and in Georgia ("Bull. ..."
2. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"recriminating stare, and I leaned my head up against my mother, and I breathed
until the stink got to me and then I pried myself upright and walked out of ..."
3. The universal etymological English dictionaryby Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1731)
"... [in the Cman-Vm} a juridical ail, whereby a pried as a judge, and by virtue
of a power delegated to him irom ..."
4. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1907)
"pried. [33 Mont. 7, 81 Pac. 394.] MECHANIC'S LIEN.—A verification to a claim of
lien "that the matters and things therein stated are true, to the beat of ..."
5. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"... and broke it to pieces, calling him at the fame time a pried of Baal ; and at
a late period of our author's life it was remembered by him, ..."
6. A Comparative Display of the Different Opinions of the Most Distinguished (1811)
"... has been compelled to make, of that property Dr. pried- " which it was their
... pried ..."
7. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1848)
"... suspected, and ill-used. feelings, fears and hopes; pried into the mysteries
of its own nature; and provoked internal dissatisfactions and struggles. ..."
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