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URGE, L. urgeo. This belongs probably to the family of Gr. and L. arceo.

1. To press to push to drive to impel to apply force to, in almost any manner.

And great Achilles urge the Trojan fate.

2. To press the mind or will to press by motives, arguments, persuasion or importunity.

My broth did urge me in his act.

3. To provoke to exasperate.

Urge not my father's anger.

4. To follow close to impel.

Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.

5. To labor vehemently to press with eagerness.

Through the thick deserts headlong urg'd his flight.

6. To press as, to urge an argument to urge a petition to urge the necessity of a case.

7. To importune to solicit earnestly. He urged his son to withdraw.

8. To apply forcibly as, to urge an ore with intense heat.

URGE, To press forward as, he strives to urge upward.

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The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.

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