Saying




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Saying \Say"ing\, n.
That which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially a
proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb.
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Many are the sayings of the wise,
In ancient and in modern books enrolled. --Milton.
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Syn: Declaration; speech; adage; maxim; aphorism; apothegm;
saw; proverb; byword.
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Say \Say\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Said (s[e^]d), contracted from
sayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Saying.] [OE. seggen, seyen, siggen,
sayen, sayn, AS. secgan; akin to OS. seggian, D. zeggen, LG.
seggen, OHG. sag[=e]n, G. sagen, Icel. segja, Sw. s[aum]ga,
Dan. sige, Lith. sakyti; cf. OL. insece tell, relate, Gr.
'e`nnepe (for 'en-sepe), 'e`spete. Cf. Saga, Saw a
saying.]

1. To utter or express in words; to tell; to speak; to
declare; as, he said many wise things.
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Arise, and say how thou camest here. --Shak.
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2. To repeat; to rehearse; to recite; to pronounce; as, to
say a lesson.
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Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
In what thou hadst to say? --Shak.
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After which shall be said or sung the following
hymn. --Bk. of Com.
Prayer.
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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.
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But what it is, hard is to say. --Milton.
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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.
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Say, for nonpayment that the debt should double,
Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble? --Shak.
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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.
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saying
n 1: a word or phrase that particular people use in particular
situations; "pardon the expression" [syn: saying,
expression, locution]
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saying [seiiŋ]
sagend; Spruch

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saying

mondás


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saying

Redensart f; Sprichwort n; Spruch m; Ausspruch m
saying

sagend
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96 Moby Thesaurus words for "saying":
Parthian shot, adage, address, affirmance, affirmation, allegation,
ana, analects, announcement, annunciation, answer, aphorism,
apostrophe, apothegm, assertion, asseveration, averment,
avouchment, avowal, axiom, byword, catchword, collected sayings,
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dictate, dictum, distich, enunciation, epigram, exclamation,
expression, gnome, golden saying, greeting, interjection,
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observation, oracle, phrase, pithy saying, position,
position paper, positive declaration, precept, predicate,
predication, prescript, proclamation, profession, pronouncement,
proposition, protest, protestation, proverb, proverbial saying,
proverbs, question, reflection, remark, saw, say, say-so, sentence,
sententious expression, sloka, stance, stand, statement,
stock saying, subjoinder, sutra, teaching, text, thought, truism,
utterance, verse, vouch, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying,
witticism, word, words of wisdom



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