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[syn: aforesaid(a), aforementioned(a), said(a)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Said \Said\,
imp. & p. p. of Say.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Said \Said\, a.
Before-mentioned; already spoken of or specified; aforesaid;
-- used chiefly in legal style.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Say \Say\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Said (s[e^]d), contracted from
sayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Saying.] [OE. seggen, seyen, siggen,
sayen, sayn, AS. secgan; akin to OS. seggian, D. zeggen, LG.
seggen, OHG. sag[=e]n, G. sagen, Icel. segja, Sw. s[aum]ga,
Dan. sige, Lith. sakyti; cf. OL. insece tell, relate, Gr.
'e`nnepe (for 'en-sepe), 'e`spete. Cf. Saga, Saw a
saying.]
1. To utter or express in words; to tell; to speak; to
declare; as, he said many wise things.
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Arise, and say how thou camest here. --Shak.
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2. To repeat; to rehearse; to recite; to pronounce; as, to
say a lesson.
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Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
In what thou hadst to say? --Shak.
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After which shall be said or sung the following
hymn. --Bk. of Com.
Prayer.
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3. To announce as a decision or opinion; to state positively;
to assert; hence, to form an opinion upon; to be sure
about; to be determined in mind as to.
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But what it is, hard is to say. --Milton.
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4. To mention or suggest as an estimate, hypothesis, or
approximation; hence, to suppose; -- in the imperative,
followed sometimes by the subjunctive; as, he had, say
fifty thousand dollars; the fox had run, say ten miles.
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Say, for nonpayment that the debt should double,
Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble? --Shak.
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It is said, or They say, it is commonly reported; it is
rumored; people assert or maintain.
That is to say, that is; in other words; otherwise.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
said
adj 1: being the one previously mentioned or spoken of; "works
of all the aforementioned authors"; "said party has
denied the charges" [syn: aforesaid(a),
aforementioned(a), said(a)]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "said":
aforementioned, aforenamed, aforesaid, articulated,
beforementioned, enunciated, foregoing, forementioned, forenamed,
former, lingual, linguistic, named, nuncupative, oral, parol,
pronounced, same, sounded, speech, spoken, such, unwritten,
uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocal, vocalized, voiced, voiceful
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Security Association ID
SAID
(SAID) A 32-bit field added to packet headers
for encryption and authentication in the proposed
Internet Protocol Version 6.
(1997-07-09)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
SAID. Before mentioned.
2. In contracts and pleadings it is usual and proper when it is desired
to speak of a person or thing before mentioned, to designate them by the
term said or aforesaid, or by some similar term, otherwise the latter
description will be ill for want of certainty. 2 Lev. 207: Com. Dig.
Pleader, C IS; Gould on Pl: c. 3, Sec. 63.