Verb

To pronounce.

To recite.

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To communicate, either verbally or in writing.

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To indicate in a written form.

(impersonal) To have a common expression; (used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact).

* 1815 , :

They say that Hope is happiness; But genuine Love must prize the past.

* 1819 , Great Britain Court of Chancery, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery , page 8:

It is said , a bargain cannot be set aside upon inadequacy only.

* 1841 , Christopher Marshall, The Knickerbocker (New-York Monthly Magazine) , page 379:

It’s said that fifteen wagon loads of ready-made clothes for the Virginia troops came to, and stay in, town to-night.

(informal, imperative) Let's say; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.

* 1984 , (Martin Amis), Money: a suicide note?

I've followed Selina down the strip, when we're shopping, say , and she strolls on ahead, wearing sawn-off jeans and a wash-withered T-shirt

To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

You have said ; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

To this argument we shall soon have said ; for what concerns it us to hear a husband divulge his household privacies?

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Verb

(en verb)

To try; to assay.

(Ben Jonson)