the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Build
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.
(2):
(v. i.) To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.
(3):
(v. i.) To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.
(4):
(v. t.) To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.
(5):
(v. t.) To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; - frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution.
(6):
(n.) Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Build'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/build.html. 1828.
