Since , conj. Seeing that; because; considering; -- formerly followed by that.
Since that my penitence comes after all,
Imploring pardon.
Shak.
Since truth and constancy are vain,
Since neither love, nor sense of
pain,
Nor force of reason, can persuade,
Then let example be obeyed.
Granville. Syn. -- Because; for; as; inasmuch as; considering. See Because.
Since , prep. From the time
of; in or during the time subsequent to; subsequently to; after; -- usually with a past event or time
for the object.
The Lord hath
blessed thee, since my coming.
Gen. xxx.
30. I have
a model by which he build a nobler poem than any
extant since the ancients.
Dryden.
Since (s&ibreve;ns),
adv. [For sins, contr. fr.
OE. sithens, sithenes, formed by an adverbial ending (cf. Besides) from OE. sithen, also shortened into sithe, sin, AS. siððan, syððan, seoððan, afterward, then, since, after; properly, after that; fr. sīð after, later, adv. and prep. (originally a comparative adv., akin to OS.
sīð afterward, since, OHG. sīd, G. seit since, Goth. seiþus late, ni þanaseiþs no longer) + ðon instrumental of the demonstrative and article. See That.]
1. From a definite past time until now; as, he went a month
ago, and I have not seen
him since.
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We since become the slaves to one man's lust.
B. Jonson. 2. In the time past, counting backward from the present; before this or now; ago.
How many ages since has Virgil writ?
Roscommon. About two years since, it so fell out, that he was brought to a
great lady's house.
Sir P. Sidney.
3. When or that. [Obs.]
Do you remember since we lay all night in the
windmill in St. George's field?
Shak.
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