draw up
verb- To compose (a document), especially following a standard form; prepare a plan. · I asked my lawyer to draw up a new will.
- To arrange in order or formation. · Sergeant, please draw the men up in ranks of three.
- To cause to come to a halt. · Draw up the carriage just around the corner!
- To come to a halt. · The tractor drew up alongside the haystack.
- To withdraw upwards.
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Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot coffee, for I observe that you are shivering.”
All these he bequeathed to me, with a thousand Roman crowns, which he had in ready money, on condition that I would have anniversary masses said for the repose of his soul, and that I would draw up a genealogical tree and history of his house.
It is curious—is it not?—that a man should draw up so important a document in so haphazard a fashion.
What procureur has ever ventured to draw up an accusation against M.
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