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Say   /seɪ/   Listen
verb
Say  v. t.  To try; to assay. (Obs.)


Say  v. t.  (past & past part. said; pres. part. saying)  
1.
To utter or express in words; to tell; to speak; to declare; as, he said many wise things. "Arise, and say how thou camest here."
2.
To repeat; to rehearse; to recite; to pronounce; as, to say a lesson. "Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated In what thou hadst to say?" "After which shall be said or sung the following hymn."
3.
To announce as a decision or opinion; to state positively; to assert; hence, to form an opinion upon; to be sure about; to be determined in mind as to. "But what it is, hard is to say."
4.
To mention or suggest as an estimate, hypothesis, or approximation; hence, to suppose; in the imperative, followed sometimes by the subjunctive; as, he had, say fifty thousand dollars; the fox had run, say ten miles. "Say, for nonpayment that the debt should double, Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?"
It is said, or They say, it is commonly reported; it is rumored; people assert or maintain.
That is to say, that is; in other words; otherwise.


Say  v. i.  (past & past part. said; pres. part. saying)  To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply. "You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge." "To this argument we shall soon have said; for what concerns it us to hear a husband divulge his household privacies?"


Say  past  obs.. Saw.


noun
Say  n.  
1.
Trial by sample; assay; sample; specimen; smack. (Obs.) "If those principal works of God... be but certain tastes and says, as it were, of that final benefit." "Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes."
2.
Tried quality; temper; proof. (Obs.) "He found a sword of better say."
3.
Essay; trial; attempt. (Obs.)
To give a say at, to attempt.


Say  n.  
1.
A kind of silk or satin. (Obs.) "Thou say, thou serge, nay, thou buckram lord!"
2.
A delicate kind of serge, or woolen cloth. (Obs.) "His garment neither was of silk nor say."


Say  n.  A speech; something said; an expression of opinion; a current story; a maxim or proverb. (Archaic or Colloq.) "He no sooner said out his say, but up rises a cunning snap." "That strange palmer's boding say, That fell so ominous and drear Full on the object of his fear."





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"Say" Quotes from Famous Books



... fullness, and a more finely attuned ear hears through this calm the beat of a heart that felt joy and sorrow deeply. Everywhere there is apparent a love of nature interpreted with all the modern subtlety of feeling. Meyer was a Swiss and his landscape, is that of Switzerland, one might even say that of Zuerich. Nature hardly ever speaks in herself, but only in her human relationship; not the field alone, but the field and the sower (121), the field and the reaper (118); not the lake alone, but the lake and the solitary oarsman (124). The poet loves ...
— A Book Of German Lyrics • Various
... to your question as to the disposition of the people being such as to justify their speedy return to the control of political power, I would say no. ...
— Report on the Condition of the South • Carl Schurz
... they say that thou art a wilful maid who needest watching and stern guarding. They shake their heads at such loose marriage, and tell me to take warning and not fall into like folly and sin through overmuch love ...
— The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn - A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot • Evelyn Everett-Green
... all the mutual relations of men, whether they produce or exchange or consume, to be relations of commutative justice,—in a word, social relations; suppose, I say, that, perceiving this, you wish to give this natural society a legal existence, and to establish ...
— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon
... Does He fulfil your notions of what the poor man's friend should be? Do you, in your hearts, wish He had been somewhat richer, more glorious, more successful in the world's eyes—a wealthy and prosperous man, like Solomon of old? Are any of you ready to say, as the money-blinded Jews said, when they demanded their true King to be crucified, "We have no king but Caesar?—Provided the law-makers and the authorities take care of our interests, and protect our property, and do not ...
— Sermons on National Subjects • Charles Kingsley


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