Pries

//pɹaɪz// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of pry form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

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"Nothing is more wretched than a man who traverses everything in a round, and pries into the things beneath the earth, as the poet says, and seeks by conjecture what is in the minds of his neighbours, without perceiving that it is sufficient to attend to the demon within him, and to reverence it sincerely."

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