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SUE, su. L. sequor. See Seek and Essay.
1. To seek justice or right from one by legal process to institute process in law against one to prosecute in a action for the recovery of a real or supposed right as, to sue one for debt to sue one for damages in trespass. Matthew 5
2. To gain by legal process.
3. To clean the beak, as a hawk a term of falconry.
To sue out, to petition for and take out or to apply for and obtain as, to sue out a writ in chancery to sue out a pardon for a criminal.
SUE, To prosecute to make legal claim to seek for in law as, to sue for damages.
1. To seek by request to apply for to petition to entreat.
By adverse destiny constrain'd to sue
For counsel and redress, he sues to you.
2. To make interest for to demand.
Caesar come to Rome to sue for the double honor of a triumph and the consulship.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Sue'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/sue.html.
Entry for 'Sue'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/sue.html.
