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Definition of Raises
1. raise [v] - See also: raise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Raises
Literary usage of Raises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"It Is needless to consider the question as to whether the joint answer of the
heirs of WT Johnson raises an issue of fact, except as to whether the land Is ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"To a degree that raises wonder ; in a manner that raises wonder. Ctf-nv, that by
so small an agitation as only the mr- We made a jubilance so disposed to ..."
3. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"it is found, and at times remedies the bad turns of Fortune, which only raises
by striking. It can find full scope in the will when it cannot be exercised ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The book raises problems that it does not solve; but the masterly and sympathetic
exposition of the Jewish temperament invites a better comprehension of ..."
5. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"When the lead 'support raises (by expansion) the point D the point с becomes the
fulcrum, and the line t> E represents the complimentary arm of an imaginary ..."
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