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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
periphrase .
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In the Latin the idea of servitude implies that of subordination of man to things; and when later feudal law declared the serf attached to the glebe, it only periphrased the literal meaning of the word servus. [
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888
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