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An auxiliary verb qualifyng the meaning of another verb, byexpressing: (a) Ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftenerexpressed by can.How may a man, said he, with idle speech, Be won to spoil the castleof his health ! Spenser.For what he [the king] may do is of two kinds; what he may do asjust, and what he may do as possible. Bacon.For of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these: "Itmight have been." Whittier.(b) Liberty; permission; allowance.Thou mayst be no longer steward. Luke xvi. 2.(c) Contingency or liability; possibility or probability.Though what he learns he speaks, and may advance Some general maxims,or be right by chance. Pope.(d) Modesty, courtesy, or concession, or a desire to soften aquestion or remark.How old may Phillis be, you ask. Prior.(e) Desire or wish, as in prayer, imprecation, benediction, and thelike. "May you live happily." Dryden. May be, and It may be, are usedas equivalent to possibly, perhaps, by chance, peradventure. See 1stMaybe.