From (fr&obreve;m),
prep. [AS. fram, from; akin to OS. fram out, OHG. & Icel. fram forward, Sw. fram, Dan.
frem, Goth. fram from, prob. akin to E. forth. &?;202. Cf. Fro,
Foremost.]
Out of the neighborhood of; lessening
or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of
space or time at which
the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which
anything proceeds; --
the antithesis and correlative of to; as,
it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun;
separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and
from bad to worse; the
merit of an
action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of
facts from personal
knowledge, or from testimony.
Experience from the time past to
the time present.
Bacon. The
song began from Jove.
Drpden.
From high
Mæonia's
rocky shores I came.
Addison. If the wind blow any way
from shore.
Shak. &fist; From sometimes denotes away from, remote from, inconsistent
with. "Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing." Shak. From, when joined with another preposition or an adverb, gives an opportunity for abbreviating
the sentence. "There followed him great multitudes of people . . . from [the land] beyond Jordan." Math. iv. 25. In certain constructions, as from forth, from out, etc., the ordinary and more obvious arrangment is inverted, the sense being more distinctly forth from, out from -- from being virtually the governing preposition,
and the word the adverb. See From off, under Off,
adv., and From afar, under Afar,
adv.
Sudden
partings such as press
The life from out young hearts.
Byron.
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