Crossword-Solution: CONSTRUES 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Wherever the unsophisticated savage or barbarian meets with activity that is at all obtrusive, he construes it in the only terms that are ready to hand--the terms immediately given in his consciousness of his own actions.
The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1997
Return again in haste; Thou seest our mistress’ ornaments are chaste.” But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him; He in the worst sense construes their denial.
The Rape of Lucrece William Shakespeare 1998
The verse follows— “_Sic ait_; _atque oculos Rutulorum rejicit arvis_”— which the same Ruæus thus construes: “Jupiter, after he had said this, immediately turns his eyes to the Rutulian fields and beholds the duel.” I have given this place another exposition—that he turned his eyes from the field of combat that he might not behold a sight so unpleasing to him.
Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry John Dryden 2014
But if I acknowledge, with Judge Douglas, that this decision properly construes the Constitution, I cannot conceive that I would be less than a perjured man if I should refuse in Congress to give such protection to that property as in its nature it needed.
The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Three Abraham Lincoln 2001
Which means he construes Greek and Latin, works Problems in mathematics, can chop logic, And is a conjurer in philosophy, Both natural and moral.--Pshaw! a man Whom nobody, that is anybody, knows! Who, think you, follows him? Why, an M.D., An F.R.S., an F.AS., and then A D.D., Doctor of Divinity, Ushering in an LL.D., which means Doctor of Laws--their harmony, no doubt, The difference of their trades! There's nothing here But languages, and sciences, and arts.
The Hunchback James Sheridan Knowles 2007
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Used 2 times in crossword archives (1951–1955).