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verb

Include v. t. (past & past part. included; pres. part. including)

To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five. "The whole included race, his purposed prey." "The loss of such a lord includes all harm."

To conclude; to end; to terminate. (Obs.) "Come, let us go; we will include all jars With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity."

Synonyms: To contain; inclose; comprise; comprehend; embrace; involve.

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... three kinds @r@si, arya and mleccha (foreigners). Upamana which is regarded as a means of right cognition in Nyaya is not even referred to in the Vais'e@sika sutras. The Nyaya sutras know of other prama@nas, such as arthapatti, sambhava and aitihya, but include them within the prama@nas admitted by them, but the Vais'e@sika sutras do not seem to know them at all [Footnote ref 1]. The Vais'e@sika sutras believe in the perception of negation (abhava) through the perception of the locus to which such negation refers (IX. i. 1-10). The Nyaya sutras ...

— A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1 • Surendranath Dasgupta

... include likewise the history nearly of the first half of her own life, or until she had reached the twenty-ninth year of her age; and as she died in 1616, at the age of sixty-three years, there remain thirty-four years of her life, ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

... amendment to include," said Mr. Willey, "the qualification of reading generally, and also of writing his name; two tests, one the reading generally, and the other the writing his ...

— History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States • Wiliam H. Barnes

... no science was taught or expected, but gradually we succeeded in obtaining the consent of the Chinese ministers to enlarge our faculty so as to include chairs of astronomy, mathematics, chemistry, and physics. International law was taught by the [Page 210] president; and by him also the Chinese were supplied with their first text-books on the law of nations. What use had they for books on that subject, so long as they held no intercourse ...

— The Awakening of China • W.A.P. Martin

... with the official Queen of Heaven—(this may have been done occasionally by monks); sometimes as in the case of Michelangelo and Guinicelli, the beloved was the sole goddess; other poets, among whom we may include Dante and Goethe, conceived her as enthroned ...

— The Evolution of Love • Emil Lucka

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