All 5 Uses of
stipulate
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- At the stipulated hour next morning, Nicholas repaired to the lodgings of Miss Snevellicci, which were in a place called Lombard Street, at the house of a tailor.†
Chpt 24
- After a most pathetic leave-taking, Mr Lillyvick and his bride departed for Ryde, where they were to spend the next two days in profound retirement, and whither they were accompanied by the infant, who had been appointed travelling bridesmaid on Mr Lillyvick's express stipulation: as the steamboat people, deceived by her size, would (he had previously ascertained) transport her at half-price.†
Chpt 25
- The only stipulation he would make in his own favour was, that she should give him credit for the best intentions.†
Chpt 27 *
- For the second, I shall stipulate that for my trouble in negotiation and persuasion, and helping you to this fortune, I have five hundred pounds.†
Chpt 47
- With this stipulation, Mrs Nickleby, who was troubled, night and day, with a vision of a hot messenger tearing up to the door to announce that Nicholas had been taken into partnership, quitted that branch of the subject, and entered upon a new one.†
Chpt 63
Definition:
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(stipulate as in: she stipulated) to formally state -- such as a condition, or a requirement of a contract, or an opinion of a circumstance that has legal significance