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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fulfill \Ful*fill"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fulfilled}; p. pr &
vb n. {Fulfilling}.] [OE. fulfillen, fulfullen AS
fulfyllan ful full + fyllan to fill. See {Full}, a., and
{Fill}, v. t.] [Written also {fulfil.}]
1. To fill up to make full or complete. [>Obs.] ``Fulfill
her week'' --Gen. xxix. 27.
Suffer thou that the children be fulfilled first
for it is not good to take the bread of children and
give to hounds. --Wyclif (Mark
vii. 27).
2. To accomplish or carry into effect, as an intention,
promise, or prophecy, a desire, prayer, or requirement,
etc.; to complete by performance; to answer the
requisitions of to bring to pass, as a purpose or design;
to effectuate.
He will fulfill the desire of them fear him --Ps.
cxlv. 199.
Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends
--Milton.
Servants must their masters' minds fulfill. --Shak.
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