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Definition of Ask over
1. Verb. Invite someone to one's house. "They ask over him to write the letter"; "Can I invite you for dinner on Sunday night?"
Generic synonyms: Bespeak, Call For, Quest, Request
Related verbs: Ask In, Invite
Derivative terms: Invitation, Invitatory, Invite, Invitee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ask Over
Literary usage of Ask over
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1908)
"I was watching carefully, however, and read " ask over " (n) which to me was
quite unexpected, though reasonable considering the interruption. ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"the mother would ask over and over sometimes when they sat on the stoop of the
cabin and watched the sunset disappearing and the topaz night ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"talent, for they ask over and over again that all citizens should be equally
eligible to all preferment, civil, military, or ecclesiastical, ..."
4. Reports of Cases in Law and Equity in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court (1872)
"We insist that it was the duty of the ticket agent to ask over which route he
was going; to inform him of the difference in the fare; that a ticket, ..."
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