- past progressive of construe.
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When other young instructors were construing Tennyson and Browning, Cross discovered a taste for the directness and raciness of Chaucer.
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The boys were construing the portion of Virgil which had been set them overnight.
From Soldiers of the Queen by Avery, Harold