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construer

  • a word derived from construe.
    construe
    verb (used with object)
    to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret.

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Of course Tom couldn't object to this, as was it not simply lying there to be appealed to in case the sentence should prove too hard altogether for the construer?

From Tom Brown at Rugby by Thomas Hughes