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- noun Obsolete form of
power .
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Examples
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Behold (Realize and experience) the promise of God and his powre which is called amongst you a Bitter Sting.
How Venetian Is Venetian Painting? Hope, Charles 1982
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But the women vse to powre water vpon their own bodies, and to rubbe themselues against some roughe stone: and then with a piece of a Cipresse, Ceadre, or Encence tree, to grate their whole bodie, vntill it be some what bollen or swollen.
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Also, to powre out milke, meate, or any kinde of drinke vpon the ground or to make water within their tabernacle: which whosoeuer doth willingly, he is slaine, but otherwise he must pay a great summe of money to the inchanter to be purified.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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They neuer wash their dishes or bowles: yea, when their flesh is sodden, they wash the platter wherein it must be put, with scalding hot broth out of the pot, and then powre the said broth into the pot againe.
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They haue 9. or 10. great vautes which are full of those barrels which are seldome remooued: for they haue trunks which come downe through the roofe of the vautes in sundry places, through which they powre drinke downe, hauing the caske right vnder it to receiue the same, for it should be a great trouble to bring it all downe the stayres.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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When these woordes are sayde, they that drawe the water powre three buckettes of water on the headdes of euery one of them, and stand neere about the well, and washe them all wette from the headde to the foote, although they be apparelled with sylk.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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You shall see them sometimes (to season their bodies) come out of their bathstoues all on a froth, and fuming as hoat almost as a pigge at a spit, and presently to leape into the riuer starke naked, or to powre colde water all ouer their bodies and that in the coldest of all the winter time.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Also, to powre out milke, meate, or any kinde of drinke vpon the ground or to make water within their tabernacle: which whosoeuer doth willingly, he is slaine, but otherwise he must pay a great summe of money to the inchanter to be purified.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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They neuer wash their dishes or bowles: yea, when their flesh is sodden, they wash the platter wherein it must be put, with scalding hot broth out of the pot, and then powre the said broth into the pot againe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Lord God to defend you both with his shield, to sustein you with inuincible fortitude, to gouerne you with his spirit of prudence, and to powre vpon you all manner of blessings.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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