Definition of "construed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of construe. (verb)

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• "He understands style to mean "which words are right for a given context" and thus the most damning indictment he can make of a writer like Denis Johnson is that "he does not respect words enough to think they should mean something," a formulation by which "meaning" in construed in the most literal, predetermined, unimaginative of ways."
• "Intelligent Design, as normally construed, is pseudoscience."
• "Alchemistry, as normally construed, is a primitive attempt to understand natural substances."