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2 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: fulfilled adj : completed to perfection
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