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Sue   /su/   Listen
verb
Sue  v. t.  (past & past part. sued; pres. part. suing)  
1.
To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo. "For yet there was no man that haddle him sued." "I was beloved of many a gentle knight, And sued and sought with all the service due." "Sue me, and woo me, and flatter me."
2.
(Law)
(a)
To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially.
(b)
To proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process.
3.
(Falconry) To clean, as the beak; said of a hawk.
4.
(Naut.) To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship.
To sue out (Law), to petition for and take out, or to apply for and obtain; as, to sue out a writ in chancery; to sue out a pardon for a criminal.



Sue  v. i.  (past & past part. sued; pres. part. suing)  
1.
To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead. "By adverse destiny constrained to sue For counsel and redress, he sues to you." "Caesar came to Rome to sue for the double honor of a triumph and the consulship." "The Indians were defeated and sued for peace."
2.
(Law) To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.
3.
To woo; to pay addresses as a lover.
4.
(Naut.) To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship.






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... iii. p. 599,) have assumed the right of Common Pricker, i.e. Searcher for the devil's marks, and had his own tests, which were infallible. He complains, good man, "that in many places I never received penny as yet, nor any am like, notwithstanding I have hands for satisfaction, except I should sue; [he should have sued by all means, we might then have had his bill of particulars, which would have been curious;] but many rather fall upon me for what hath been received, but I hope such suits will be ...
— Discovery of Witches - The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster • Thomas Potts

... daughter, the most virtuous of her sex. Her education has been adequate to the qualities which nature bestowed upon her. I may without vanity assert, that Italy cannot produce her parragon.—The first families of my country might be proud to receive her into their bosom, princes might sue for her alliance. But I had rather my Matilda should be happy ...
— Italian Letters, Vols. I and II • William Godwin

... Henry's discontented subjects. He was shunned as a man accursed by heaven. His authority seemed to have slipped entirely out of his hands, and his kingdom was on the point of going to pieces. In this wretched state of his affairs there was but one thing for him to do,—to go to Gregory, and humbly sue for pardon and re-instatement in ...
— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers

... mound round about the city, he built wooden stages on it which he filled with archers and slingers, and these succeeded in killing the people of the city daily. After three days "the city stank," and envoys came bearing rich gifts to sue for peace. With the envoys came the wife of Nemart and her ladies, who cast themselves flat on their faces before the ladies of Piankhi's palace, saying, "We come to you, O ye royal wives, ye royal daughters, and royal sisters. Pacify ye for us Horus (i.e. the ...
— The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians • E. A. Wallis Budge

... most daungerous hap that can be imagined I am come hither. And now with prouoked teares downe falling from my waterie eyes along my pale cheekes, and bowed downe to the earth prostrating my selfe to your virginall feete I humblie craue and sue for your fauourable graces: whereat theyr soft and tender heartes mooued with pittie towardes mee, and halfe weeping with mee for companie, and as it were dutifullye striuing with theyr armes to lift mee vp from the grounde, ...
— Hypnerotomachia - The Strife of Loue in a Dreame • Francesco Colonna


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