SCRUPLE
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Scru"ple (?), n. [L. scrupulus a small sharp or pointed stone, the twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to Gr. &unr_; the chippings of stone, &unr_; a razor, Skr. kshura: cf. F. scrupule.] 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
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2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.
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I will not bate thee a scruple.
Shak.
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3. Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.
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He was made miserable by the conflict between his tastes and his scruples.
Macaulay.
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To make scruple, to hesitate from conscientious motives; to scruple. Locke.
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Scru"ple, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scrupled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scrupling (?).] To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.
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We are often over-precise, scrupling to say or do those things which lawfully we may.
Fuller.
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Men scruple at the lawfulness of a set form of divine worship.
South.
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Scru"ple, v. t. 1. To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.
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Others long before them . . . scrupled more the books of heretics than of gentiles.
Milton.
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2. To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple. [R.]
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Letters which did still scruple many of them.
E. Symmons.
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