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Definition
to interpret (understand) something as have a specific meaning
- But men may construe things after their fashion,
Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.1.3 — Act 1 Scene 3 — The same. A street (21% in)
construe = understand something to have a specific meaning
- Vexed I am Of late with passions of some difference, Conceptions only proper to myself, Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors; But let not therefore my good friends be grieved— Among which number, Cassius, be you one— Nor construe any further my neglect, Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.1.2 — Act 1 Scene 2 — The same. A public place (16% in)
- ] Hark, hark, one knocks: Portia, go in awhile; And by and by thy bosom shall partake The secrets of my heart: All my engagements I will construe to thee, All the charactery of my sad brows.2.1 — Act 2 Scene 1 — Rome. BRUTUS'S orchard (91% in)
There are no more uses of "construe" in Julius Caesar.
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