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  • verb transitive To place in a high location.
  • verb transitive To hang or mount.
  • verb transitive, idiomatic To cajole or dare to do something.
  • verb transitive, idiomatic To store away.
  • verb transitive, idiomatic To house, shelter, or take in.
  • verb transitive, idiomatic To present, especially in "put up a fight".
  • verb transitive To endure, put up with,tolerate.

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  • For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 2 Timothy 4:3

    March 1, 2011

  • Ah, the Calamine Doctrine.

    March 1, 2011

  • Citation on roughneck.

    July 1, 2012