Hypertext Webster Gateway: "claimed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Claim \Claim\ (kl[=a]m), v.?. [imp. & p. p. {Claimed}
(kl[=a]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Claiming}.] [OE. clamen,
claimen, OF. clamer, fr. L. clamare to cry out, call; akin to
calare to proclaim, Gr. ? to call, Skr. kal to sound, G.
holen to fetch, E. hale haul.]
1. To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority,
right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to
demand as due.
2. To proclaim. [Obs.] --Spenser.
3. To call or name. [Obs.] --Spenser.
4. To assert; to maintain. [Colloq.]
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