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enter upon

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  1. take possession of
    She entered upon the estate of her rich relatives

How To Use enter upon In A Sentence

  • Prepare! your toils only begin: wrap yourself in furs, and provide food, for we shall soon enter upon Chapter 7
  • In these verses, I. Theophilus is put in mind, and we in him, of St. Luke's gospel, which it will be of use for us to cast an eye upon before we enter upon the study of this book, that we may not only see how this begins where that breaks off, but that, as in water face answers to face, so do the acts of the apostles to the acts of their Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • Aware, however, that the term naturalness would lead to a deeper disquisition than I here mean to enter upon, I shall take it in its common meaning, as it represents the common aspect of nature. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
  • Every ingenuous person, who is invited to embrace a certain profession, that of the church for example, will desire, preparatorily to his final determination, to examine the evidences and the merits of the religion he embraces, that he may enter upon his profession under the influence of a sincere conviction, and be inspired with that zeal, in singleness of heart, which can alone prevent his vocation from being disgraceful to him. Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries
  • Lord Reid stated that jurisdiction in a narrow sense meant only that the tribunal be entitled to enter upon the inquiry.
  • It is time for you to enter upon the second stage.'
  • The countries are about to enter upon their first trade agreement as a unit.
  • And, indeed, Virgil's theme here is less the development of a character or the portraiture of a hero than the idealisation of the people of the Italy which he loved so well, who needed only a divinely guided leader and civiliser to enter upon the glorious career that was in store for them. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
  • I enter upon my task without proving the importance of the subject.
  • Foreigners shall take possession of their land and become masters of all its wealth (v. 6): A bastard shall dwell in Ashdod; a spurious brood of strangers shall enter upon the inheritances of the natives, which they have no more right to than a bastard has to the estates of the legitimate children. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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