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Deed   /did/   Listen
noun
Deed  n.  
1.
That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; a word of extensive application, including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small. "And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done?" "We receive the due reward of our deeds." "Would serve his kind in deed and word."
2.
Illustrious act; achievement; exploit. "Knightly deeds." "Whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn."
3.
Power of action; agency; efficiency. (Obs.) "To be, both will and deed, created free."
4.
Fact; reality; whence we have indeed.
5.
(Law) A sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract. Note: The term is generally applied to conveyances of real estate, and it is the prevailing doctrine that a deed must be signed as well as sealed, though at common law signing was formerly not necessary.
Blank deed, a printed form containing the customary legal phraseology, with blank spaces for writing in names, dates, boundaries, etc.
6.
Performance; followed by of. (Obs.)
In deed, in fact; in truth; verily. See Indeed.



verb
Deed  v. t.  To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son. (Colloq. U. S.)



adjective
Deed  adj.  Dead. (Obs.)






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"Deed" Quotes from Famous Books



... was strong, and a great fencer; there is a famous botte which he invented, bearing his name; perhaps Walter H. Pollock knows it. I gave the free-lance or condottiero a glance, and proposed to prig the iron sofa and lay waste the enemy. It was a deed after his Dugald Dalgetty heart, and we carried it off and ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland

... was, that the proud and noble monastery of St. Alban's was endowed by a murderer's hand, and built to allay the fierce tortures of an assassin's conscience. Ethelbert, king of the East Angles, fell by the regal hand of Offa, king of Mercia; and from the era of that black and guilty deed many a fine monastery dates its ...
— Bibliomania in the Middle Ages • Frederick Somner Merryweather

... This wampum was given to me that I might remain in peace. I shook hands with you when I left St. Mary's. My heart was in friendship. I have taken no rest since I heard of the foul deed of our friends, the people of Vieux Desert, and Torch Lake, in killing a citizen of the American Government, the ...
— Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers • Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

... one can see plainly the old and venerable looking stone wall beginning at "Morey's Bound" on the top of the high rock and running along in a westerly direction at about twenty rods distance northerly from the street. In the deed of the Downing Farm to Thorndike Procter 13 Sept., 1700, the two bounds testified to by Felton and by Marsh are mentioned as follows:—the line of the Downing Farm running from the northwest corner bound "southwestward unto a white oak tree ...
— House of John Procter, Witchcraft Martyr, 1692 • William P. Upham

... we took thought, and decided who might—perhaps—most desire to kill him for evil recollection's sake, then we might watch and prevent the deed." ...
— Hira Singh - When India came to fight in Flanders • Talbot Mundy


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