Construe Definition

Construe Sentence Examples

• The court will construe the Articles of Religion and formularies according to the legal rules for the interpretation of statutes and written instruments.

• If the dog is allowed to play with certain stuffed toys, it may construe that to mean that any play thing is an acceptable target.

• Under the impulse given by Lessing and Kant he turned to the original records of Christianity, and attempted to construe for himself the real significance of Christ.

• This is achieved; and Briinnhilde's horror and bewilderment at meeting Siegfried again as a stranger in his own shape creates a situation which Siegfried cannot understand, and which Hagen pretends to construe as damning evidence that Siegfried has betrayed Gunther's honour as well as Briinnhilde's.

• By them a written law has been substituted for that unwritten law which nations had been wont to construe with a latitude more or less corresponding to their power.