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''Chiefly followed by'' to'', and sometimes by'' at ''or'' on: to object or be reluctant; to balk, to exception.
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(RQ:Fuller Holy Warre) deſiring him novv to ratifie them, and in demonſtration thereof to give his hand to the Kings Embaſſadours. The Caliph demurred hereat, as counting ſuch a geſture a diminution to his State; (..)
(RQ:Sheridan Rivals)
(quote-book)|year=1876|volume=II|page=119|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=gGwQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA119|oclc=752917287|passage=What! thou demurrest? I tell thee I'll be his surety, and thou hast my warrant.
(quote-book)|location=Manchester|publisher=(...) by &91;and Evans|Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. for&93; J. E. Cornish,(nb...)|year=1878|page=147|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=O6VBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA147|oclc=32787065|passage=Thou still demurrest? Read once more / The lines obnoxious to thy score, / And sure I am thou'lt find / There's not a passage in the book / Where, lesson'd thus, thou mayst not look, / Nor leave thy scrawls behind.
(RQ:Arnim Mountains)
(quote-journal)
To submit a (l).
(RQ:Coke Institutes)
(RQ:Macaulay History of England)'s plea to be true in fact, but denied that it was a sufficient answer.
(RQ:Rabelais Gargantua)
To suspend judgment or proceedings because of a difficulty or doubt; to off the conclusion or determination of a matter; to delay, to hesitate, to pause.
(RQ:Hayward Edward 6) there muſt be much vvaſt of time if the ''Engliſh'' ſhould lye at ''Guiſnes'' and the ''French'' at ''Ardes'', and that the equality vvould be more, and the diſhonour to one of the ſides leſſe, if the entervievv ſhould be vpon the ''Frontires'', then if one part ſhould be dravven into the territory of the other. Vpon this rubbe the ''Engliſh Embaſſadors'' thought fit to demurre, and ſo ſent into ''England'' to receiue directions from the ''Lords'' of the counſaile.
(RQ:Milton Reason). This is all vve get by demurring in Gods ſervice.
(RQ:Fuller Church History)
(RQ:Bentley Epistles)
(RQ:Burney Evelina)
''Followed by'' upon: to be captivated or fixated; to on, to linger.
To object or take exception to (something).
(RQ:Gladstone Homeric Synchronism)
(RQ:Purchas Pilgrimage) ſitteth in iudgement, and out of the books taketh reckoning of eurie mans life, and pronounceth ſentence accordingly. (..) The third, of the meane ſort, vvhoſe iudgement is demurred vntill the day of ''Reconciliation'', (the tenth of ''Tiſri'',) that if in the meane time they ſeriouſly repent them ſo, that their good may exceed their euill, then are they entred into the ''Booke of life''; if othervviſe, they are recorded in the ''Blacke Bill of Death''.
(RQ:Quarles Emblemes)
(RQ:d'Urfey Butler's Ghost) I ſvvear by yonder pole, / Nay by my fathers Rurall ſoul, / Henceforth to take a rougher courſe, / And, vvhat you vvould demur, to force.
To have doubts or hesitate about (something).
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
An act of objecting or exception|taking exception; a scruple; also, an exception taken or objection to something.
(RQ:Ward Simple Cobler)
(RQ:Pope Arbuthnot)
(RQ:Dickens Nicholas Nickleby)
(quote-book) du Toit was publishing.
An act of continuing; a continuance.
(RQ:Strype Ecclesiastical Memorials)
(RQ:Burnet Church of England)
(RQ:Ray Low-countries)
A state of having doubts; a hesitation, a pause.
(RQ:Temple Works) That I ſhould have the Character of Ambaſſador Extraordinary, and the ſame Allovvance I ſhou'd have had in ''Spain'': Upon this Offer I made no Demurr, but immediately accepted it, and ſo my Ambaſſy vvas declar'd in ''May'' 1674.
(senseid) (synonym of).
(RQ:Swift Cadenus and Vanessa)
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