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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
said
    adj 1: being the one previously mentioned or spoken of; "works
           of all the aforementioned authors"; "said party has
           denied the charges" [syn: aforesaid(a),
           aforementioned(a), said(a)]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Said \Said\,
   imp. & p. p. of Say.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Said \Said\, a.
   Before-mentioned; already spoken of or specified; aforesaid;
   -- used chiefly in legal style.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Say \Say\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Said (s[e^]d), contracted from
   sayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Saying.] [OE. seggen, seyen, siggen,
   sayen, sayn, AS. secgan; akin to OS. seggian, D. zeggen, LG.
   seggen, OHG. sag[=e]n, G. sagen, Icel. segja, Sw. s[aum]ga,
   Dan. sige, Lith. sakyti; cf. OL. insece tell, relate, Gr.
   'e`nnepe (for 'en-sepe), 'e`spete. Cf. Saga, Saw a
   saying.]
   1. To utter or express in words; to tell; to speak; to
      declare; as, he said many wise things.
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            Arise, and say how thou camest here.  --Shak.
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   2. To repeat; to rehearse; to recite; to pronounce; as, to
      say a lesson.
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            Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
            In what thou hadst to say?            --Shak.
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            After which shall be said or sung the following
            hymn.                                 --Bk. of Com.
                                                  Prayer.
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   3. To announce as a decision or opinion; to state positively;
      to assert; hence, to form an opinion upon; to be sure
      about; to be determined in mind as to.
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            But what it is, hard is to say.       --Milton.
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   4. To mention or suggest as an estimate, hypothesis, or
      approximation; hence, to suppose; -- in the imperative,
      followed sometimes by the subjunctive; as, he had, say
      fifty thousand dollars; the fox had run, say ten miles.
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            Say, for nonpayment that the debt should double,
            Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble? --Shak.
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   It is said, or They say, it is commonly reported; it is
      rumored; people assert or maintain.

   That is to say, that is; in other words; otherwise.
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5. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
Security Association ID
SAID

    (SAID) A 32-bit field added to packet headers
   for encryption and authentication in the proposed
   Internet Protocol Version 6.

   (1997-07-09)


6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
SAID. Before mentioned. 
     2. In contracts and pleadings it is usual and proper when it is desired 
to speak of a person or thing before mentioned, to designate them by the 
term said or aforesaid, or by some similar term, otherwise the latter 
description will be ill for want of certainty. 2 Lev. 207: Com. Dig. 
Pleader, C IS; Gould on Pl: c. 3, Sec. 63. 



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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
aforementioned, aforenamed, aforesaid, articulated, beforementioned, enunciated, foregoing, forementioned, forenamed, former, lingual, linguistic, named, nuncupative, oral, parol, pronounced, same, sounded, speech, spoken, such, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocal, vocalized, voiced, voiceful
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