the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Steal
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
(2):
(v. i.) To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.
(3):
(v. t.) To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; - with away.
(4):
(n.) A handle; a stale, or stele.
(5):
(v. t.) To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.
(6):
(v. t.) To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
(7):
(v. t.) To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
(8):
(v. i.) To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Steal'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/steal.html. 1828.
