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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Construe

To translate. To translate into English means to set an English word in the place of a foreign word, and to put the whole sentence in good grammatical order. (Latin, construo, to construct.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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