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verb

Fulfill v. t. (past & past part. fulfilled; pres. part. fulfilling) (Written also fulfil)

To fill up; to make full or complete. (Obs.) "Fulfill her week" "Suffer thou that the children be fulfilled first, for it is not good to take the bread of children and give to hounds."

To accomplish or carry into effect, as an intention, promise, or prophecy, a desire, prayer, or requirement, etc.; to complete by performance; to answer the requisitions of; to bring to pass, as a purpose or design; to effectuate. "He will, fulfill the desire of them fear him." "Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends." "Servants must their masters' minds fulfill."

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"Fulfill" Quotes from Famous Books

... Louise. Josie would skip across the stepping-stones and help Ingua wash the breakfast dishes and sweep the bare little rooms of the cottage and then together they would feed the chickens, gather the eggs and attend to such daily tasks as Ingua was obliged to fulfill. With Josie's help this was soon accomplished and then the child was free for the day and could run across to join Mary Louise, while Josie sallied to the village ...

— Mary Louise in the Country • L. Frank Baum (AKA Edith Van Dyne)

... valuable was to be found at the bottom, he would not hesitate to pick it up. His lordship, after some banter, threw in a guinea; Goldsmith, not to be outdone in this kind of bravado, in attempting to fulfill his promise without getting wet, accidentally fell in, to the amusement of all present, but persevered, brought out the money, and kept it, remarking that he had abundant objects on whom to bestow any further proofs of ...

— Oliver Goldsmith • Washington Irving

... judge of them. It does not teach that any particular fact proves any other, but points out to what conditions all facts must conform, in order that they may prove other facts. To decide whether any given fact fulfills these conditions, or whether facts can be found which fulfill them in a given case, belongs exclusively to the particular art or science, or to our ...

— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

... cared very much for his future. She cared very much that life should give him a chance to fulfill the best of ...

— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page

... you so—and that fellow wishes to be ennobled! Let us try again. Count Lothundiaz, will you advance two thousand doubloons in gold to your son-in-law that he may fulfill his promises to the King ...

— The Resources of Quinola • Honore de Balzac

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