0 to understand the meaning, especially of other people's actions and statements, in a particular way: --
Any changes to the plan would be construed as indecision.
1 to understand the meaning of something in a particular way: --
The ethical imperative derived from these principles is that one ought to do what maximizes moral value so construed.
The focus of this study is narrowly construed.
These reasons have all been construed as paternalist motives for the state to intervene.
This creative and challenging book contributes to a better understanding of how speakers of different languages construe space in different ways.
Allowing heretical or schismatic baptism blurred that boundary, and was construed only problematically in terms of the cosmic narrative that required redefinition by both sides.
Secondly, were these effects present only in the years that were construed as conferring mandates?
In either case the two gerunds are symmetrically coordinated or parallel, in that each one could be construed as being in construction with the auxiliary.
On this analysis, the voicing alternation is construed as having a consistent function, marking 'marked ' number.
