CLAIM,
1. To call for to ask or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right or supposed right to challenge as a right to demand as due as, to claim a debt to claim obedience, or respect.
2. To assert, or maintain as a right as, he claims to be the best poet of the age.
3. To have a right or title to as, the heir claims the estate by descent he claims a promise.
4. To proclaim.
5. To call or name.
CLAIM, n.
1. A demand of a right or supposed right a calling on another for something due, or supposed to be due as a claim of wages for services. A claim implies a right or supposed right in the claimant to something which is in anothers possession or power. A claim may be made in words, by suit, and by other means. The word is usually preceded by make or lay to make claim to lay claim.
2. A right to claim or demand a title to any debt, privilege or other thing in possession of another as, a prince has a claim to the throne.
Homers claims to the first rank among Epic poets have rarely been disputed.
3. The thing claimed, or demanded.
4. A loud call.
The King James Bible has stood its ground for nearly 400 years. However, during that time the English language has changed, and with it the meanings of some words it used. Here are more than 6,500 words whose definitions have changed since 1611.Wikipedia
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