Him , pron. [AS. him, dat. of hē. √183. See He.]
The objective case of he. See
He.
Him that is
weak in the
faith receive.
Rom. xiv. 1. Friends who have given him the most sympathy.
Thackeray. &fist; In old English his and him were respectively the genitive and dative forms of it as well as of he. This use is now obsolete. Poetically, him is sometimes used with the reflexive sense of himself.
I never saw but Humphrey, duke of Gloster,
Did bear him like a
noble gentleman.
Shak.
Him (?), pron. Them. See Hem. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Hear it pronounced