استحسنهُ

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استحسنهُX He counted, accounted, reckoned, or esteemed, him, or it, حَسَن [i. e. good, goodly, beautiful, comely, pleasing, &c.; he approved, thought well of, or liked, him, or it]; as also حسّنهُ , Verbal.Noun تَحْسِينٌ. Hence the saying, صَرْفُ هٰذَا ٱسْتِحْسَانٌ وَ المَنْعُ قِيَاسٌ [The making this word perfectly declinable is approvable, but the making it imperfectly declinable is agreeable with analogy].

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