Verb

(issu)

To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any enclosed place.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV

There was a very light off-shore wind and scarcely any breakers, so that the approach to the shore was continued without finding bottom; yet though we were already quite close, we saw no indication of any indention in the coast from which even a tiny brooklet might issue , and certainly no mouth of a large river such as this must necessarily be to freshen the ocean even two hundred yards from shore.

* 1922 , (James Joyce), '' Episode 12, ''The Cyclops

A powerful current of warm breath issued at regular intervals from the profound cavity of his mouth while in rhythmic resonance the loud strong hale reverberations of his formidable heart thundered rumblingly...

To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.

To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun.

To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring.

* Bible, 2 Kings xx. 18

thy sons that shall issue from thee

To extend; to pass or open; as, the path issues into the highway.

To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock.

To turn out (in a given way); to have a specified issue or result, to result (in).

* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, p. 171:

But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues , of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins.

(legal) In pleading, to come to a point in fact or law, on which the parties join issue.

To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank.

To deliver for use; as, to issue provisions.

To send out officially; to deliver by authority; as, to issue an order; to issue a writ.

* 2014 , , " Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:

Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.

Verb

(en-verb)

To not allow.

I wanted to go to the party, but I was denied .

* 1847 , Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey Chapter XVI

'Do! pray do! I shall be the most miserable of men if you don't. You cannot be so cruel as to deny me a favour so easily granted and yet so highly prized!' pleaded he as ardently as if his life depended on it.

To assert that something is not true.

I deny that I was at the party.

Everyone knows he committed the crime, but he still denies it.

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To disallow

to refuse to give or grant something to someone

My father denied me a good education.

* J. Edwards

To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it.

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(sports) To prevent from scoring.

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To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.

* Bancroft

the falsehood of denying his opinion

* Keble

thou thrice denied , yet thrice beloved

(obsolete) To refuse (to do or accept something).

* Shakespeare

if you deny to dance