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Sir Walter Scott Pay Sum Journal December Whitsunday

Sentence 1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, December 14:

At Whitsunday and Martinmas I will have enough to pay up the incumbrance of £3000 due to old Moss's daughter.
Definition (
intransitive
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and
transitive
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) To pay
in total
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a sum which is
owed
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, especially when the sum has been owed for a period of time.

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