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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
put case en · VERB
Meanings
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(idiomatic, obsolete) To take as a hypothesis; to suppose (that).
Put case that the soul after the departure from the body may live.
1646, Jos[eph] Hall, The Balme of Gilead: Or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for Nat[haniel] Butter, →OCLC:But put case they continue; thou art not so poor as thou wast born […]
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 3:If my legitimate vengeance be a blow,
Mistrusting my bare arm can deal that blow,
I claim co-operation of a stick
1868-1869, Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book Put case a person wrongs me past dispute
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