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"text": "bole:"
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"ref": "1649, Jeremy Taylor, “An Apology for Authorized and Set Forms of Liturgy Against the Pretence of the Spirit”, in Charles Page Eden, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D., volume V, published 1849, page 294",
"text": "[…]or else[…]the churches were very incurious to swallow such a bole, if no pretension could have been reasonably made for their justification.",
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"A bolus; a dose."
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"ref": "1816, Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Adam and Charles Black, published 1862, page 220",
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"A small closet."
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