Word Finder - claimed

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To demand ownership of.

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To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.

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To demand ownership or right to use for land.

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To demand compensation or damages through the courts.

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To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

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To cause the loss of, usually by violent means.

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A fire claimed two homes.

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To proclaim.

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To call or name.

Darkyn claimed there was, but she saw no silver lining to her existence.

You claimed me the first time you touched me, he said with a smile.

It was the same thrum she felt with Gabriel, after she'd been claimed as his mate.

He was serious when he claimed to want her.

Sofi claimed Jenn would have a protector, and there was no need to worry about what Jonny might do.

She always claimed to be a widow.

Betsy and I claimed world class ability while Quinn just rolled his eyes.

She had always claimed that he would listen if she presented an opposing opinion.

She claimed not, but he wasn't entirely certain.

Deidre couldn't understand the relationship and how permanent he claimed it was.

These are all the materials, excepting the timber, stones, and sand, which I claimed by squatter's right.

Shipton claimed Jerry fell in the water while they were shooting rapids and Shipton himself nearly drowned trying to save him.

He claimed to be a vampire, but it made no sense.

They claimed to have done so in the spirit of good will and a desire to protect the privacy of the tipster.

He never offered financial support, and though he claimed to want to see his daughter, visits never came to fruition.

An antiquity of 150o years is claimed for the foundation of the monastery, but it is certain that the first person who raised it to importance was the emperor Alexius Comnenus III.

Alexander refused the bargain and definitely claimed the whole.

But a positive identity of pitch cannot be claimed for any period of time, and certainly not for the early organs; the foot-rule of the organ-builder, which had to do with the lengths of the pipes, and which varied in every country and province, could easily cause a difference of a semitone.

But in 1756, when the government was evidently approaching its fall, an unexpected vacancy occurred in the chief justiceship of the king's bench, and he claimed the office, being at the same time raised to the peerage as Baron Mansfield.

He was a member of the commission for ecclesiastical causes, and although afterwards he claimed that he had used all his influence to dissuade James from removing the tests, and in other ways illegally favouring the Roman Catholics, he signed the warrant for the committal of the seven bishops, and appeared as a witness against them.

The Jews claimed that the city was theirs, because King Herod had founded it.

Many cities in Greece and Italy claimed to possess the genuine Trojan Palladium.

Its teaching as to the name of God, which claimed to be based on the authority of such eminent saints as St.

He claimed precedence over even princes of the blood, and one.

As the Celts marched south the earl of Ross slew Ronald Macdonald, whose inheritance was claimed by John of the Isles.

As representing the pope, the suzerain of Henry, he claimed the regency and actually divided the chief power with William Marshal, earl of Pembroke.

The Cretans themselves claimed for their island to be the birthplace of Zeus, as well as the parent of all the other divinities usually worshipped in Greece as the Olympian deities.

In 1248 Tlemcen was captured The by Abu Yahia Yarmorasen (Ghamarasan) who was Sultanate of chief of the Zenata tribe of Berbers and claimed Tlemcen.

On the 26th of January 1688 he was admitted a liveryman of the city of London, having claimed his freedom by birth.

The Spanish government claimed the islands, and Bismarck, in order to avoid a struggle which would have been very disastrous to monarchical government in Spain, suggested that the pope should he asked to mediate.

In consequence of an oracle which had commanded him to marry his daughters to a lion and a boar, he wedded them to Polyneices and Tydeus, two fugitives, clad in the skins of these animals or carrying shields with their figures on them, who claimed his hospitality.

He always claimed to be the founder of the Positive Philosophy.

This was at one time claimed as the original source of all the Perceval romances, but this theory cannot be maintained in face of the fact that the writer gives in one place what is practically a literal translation of Chretien's text in a passage which there is strong reason to believe was borrowed by Chretien from an earlier poem.

He therefore claimed in both spheres the supreme administrative, legislative and judicial authority.

The Temporal now claimed its proper rights.

For the organization of these churches no divine sanction is claimed, though all are theoretically modelled on the lines laid down in the Christian Scriptures.

James threw Scotland into the whirlpool of European politics, dealing with Spanish envoys and with the duchess of Burgundy, the patroness of the mysterious Perkin Warbeck, who claimed to be Richard, duke of York, son of Edward IV.

She had claimed, since the riots at Perth in 1559, the Power of the Keys, with the power of excommunicating even the king, a sentence practically equivalent to outlawry.

In 1686 James claimed and used the dispensing power as to penal laws against Catholics, in face of the opposition of two of the Scottish bishops (who were ejected from their sees) and of parliament.

The Scottish timbre is rarely wanting, even in places where scholastic or classical custom might have claimed, as in other literatures, an exclusive privilege.

Giving himself out as the successor of David, he claimed royal honours and absolute power in the new " Zion."

Later on Hermann Schyn claimed descent for the peaceful Baptists from the Waldensians, who certainly, as the records of the Flemish inquisition, collected by P. Fredericq, prove, were wide-spread during the 15th century over north France and Flanders.

This famous romance of chivalry survives only in a Castilian text, but it is claimed by Portugal as well as by Spain.

A few words follow as to the threefold way in which the speaker claimed to have grasped each of these Four Truths.

North-west of this another Asoka pillar has been discovered, recording his visit to the cairn erected by the Sakyas over the remains of Konagamana, one of the previous Buddhas or teachers, whose follower Gotama the Buddha had claimed to be.

At the other end the nobles claimed the superiority.

In 1292 the bishop claimed to have a market every Friday, a fair on the eve, day and 1 The title prince-bishop, attached in Austria to the sees of Laibach, Seckau, Gurk, Brixen, Trent and Lavant, and in Prussia to that of Breslau, no longer implies any secular jurisdiction, but is merely a title of honour recognized by the state, owing either to the importance of the sees or for reasons purely historical.

In 1773 the duke Karl Eugen of Wurttemberg claimed young S chiller as a pupil of his military school at the "Solitude" near Ludwigsburg, where, instead of his chosen subject of study, theology, he was obliged to devote himself to law.

Caine claimed to have received a charter from Stephen and a confirmation of the same from Henry III., but no record of these is extant, and the charter actually issued to the borough by James II.

Its boundary lines with Colombia and Peru were in 1909 still unsettled, large areas of territory being claimed by all three republics.