TO GRASP AT

Definition: TO GRASP AT

TO GRASP AT

1. To catch at; to try to seize; as, Alexander grasped at universal empire,

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage, and thereby come to have a distinct interest from the rest of the community, contrary to the end of society and government: therefore in well ordered commonwealths, where the good of the whole is so con sidered, as it ought, the legislative power is put into the hands of divers persons, who duly assembled, have by themselves, or jointly with others, a power to make laws, which when they have done, being separated again, they are themselves subject to the laws they have made; which is a new and near tie upon them, to take care, that they make them for the public good. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Japanese Kanji 

空�'掴む (to grasp at the air). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くう�'つかむ (to grasp at the air). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: ragtops.

-3 letters: agoras, aortas, argots, attars, gators, groats, ottars, pargos, pastor, ragtop, sapota, satrap, stator, strata, tarots, tatars.

-4 letters: agars, agora, aorta, apart, aport, argot, ataps, attar, gator, goats, gorps, grasp, groat, grots, ottar, paras, pargo, parts, pasta, ports, praos, prats, proas, progs, prost, ragas, ratos, roast, rotas, sapor, sport, sprag, sprat, start.

+3 letters: postgraduate.

+4 letters: postgraduates.

+5 letters: parasitologist, postgraduation, progestational.

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