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verb

Include v. t. (past & past part. included; pres. part. including)

To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five. "The whole included race, his purposed prey." "The loss of such a lord includes all harm."

To conclude; to end; to terminate. (Obs.) "Come, let us go; we will include all jars With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity."

Synonyms: To contain; inclose; comprise; comprehend; embrace; involve.

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... of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,—a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others. ...

— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett

... retorts the little lawyer, with a queer smile upon his face, "just at present I have got no use for that tongue of yours. You may be all eyes and ears, the more the better; but, I'm going to include you in a very important private consultation; and, don't you open your mouth until somebody asks you to; and then mind you get it open quick enough ...

— The Diamond Coterie • Lawrence L. Lynch

... so that she might be able to get down to Exeter, via London, early in the day. It behoved her to go to London on the route. She had things to buy and people to see, and to London she went. "Good-bye, my dear," she said, seeming to include the husband as well as the wife in the address. "I have spent a most pleasant fortnight, and have been most delighted to become acquainted with your husband. You are Cecilia Holt no longer. But it would have been sad indeed not to know him who has made you Cecilia Western." Then she put out her ...

— Kept in the Dark • Anthony Trollope

... typewrite this will, and guaranteed to arrange for the witnessing and signing of it, and promised that Jones should get whatever he wanted. Jones at first objected, but was finally won over. Rewritten many times to include new ideas of the conspirators, the document finally reached the form of the will of June 30, 1900, in which Patrick substituted himself for the Rice Institute and made himself ...

— True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office • Arthur Train

... to thank the Editor of the Athenaeum for allowing me to reprint the poem "Detachment" and the first chapter of this book. The courtesy of the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette in permitting me to use again any of my contributions to his paper also enables me to include in the fifth chapter the tragic incident of ...

— Living Alone • Stella Benson

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