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underlie [′ən·dər‚lī] (geology) To lie or be situated under; to occupy a lower position, or to pass beneath. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Bushy's, but the world's cornfields; that their yield would be one of the great economic facts, like the wheat crop of Russia, which underlie all the activities of men, in peace or war. Moreover, primary substances are most properly called substances in virtue of the fact that they are the entities which underlie every. I know that it is futile to, spurn them, or lash them for trying to get on in the world, and that the world is what it must be from the selfish motives which underlie our economic life. |
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