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Contribute v. t. (past & past part. contributed; pres. part. contributing) To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor. "England contributes much more than any other of the allies."

Contribute v. i.

To give a part to a common stock; to lend assistance or aid, or give something, to a common purpose; to have a share in any act or effect. "We are engaged in war; the secretary of state calls upon the colonies to contribute."

To give or use one's power or influence for any object; to assist. "These men also contributed to obstruct the progress of wisdom."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Contribute" Quotes from Famous Books

... are Two Adjudged Cases that may Contribute to the Clearing up this Point. The First is in the War between England and Holland.[4] a Dutch man of war takes an English Merchant man and Afterwards an English man of war Meets the Dutchman of war and his Prize and ...

— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various

... is done is done," she said briskly. "I'll tell Gora and engage that she will never mention it. You have suffered enough. Now let us discuss ways and means. Does this new business permit you to contribute anything to the ...

— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton

... that an indiscriminate mixture of methods is confusing and interferes with unity of thought. If more than one is used, it requires skillful handling to maintain such a relation between them that both contribute to the clear and emphatic ...

— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks

... have but one advantage, that of showing the points the enemy thinks weakest and best calculated to hurt. This, being the case, Anson, without boring A. with daily accounts which in the end become very irksome, should pay attention to these very points, and contribute to avoid what may be turned to account by the enemy. To hope to escape censure and calumny is next to impossible, but whatever is considered by the enemy as a fit subject for attack is better modified ...

— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 • Queen Victoria

... miserable narrow plank it was. Into this vehicle were crammed a dozen people and an innumerable host of portmanteaus, large and small, carpet-bags, baskets, brown-paper parcels, bird-cage and inmate, &c., all of which, as is generally the case, were packed in a manner the most calculated to contribute the largest amount of inconvenience to the live portion of the cargo. And to drag this grand affair into Melbourne were harnessed thereto the most wretched-looking objects in the shape of horses that I had ...

— A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53. • Mrs. Charles (Ellen) Clacey

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