SINCE

Etymology

Adverb

since (not comparable)

From a specified time in the past.

Preposition

since

From: referring to a period of time ending in the present and defining it by the point in time at which it started, or the period in which its starting point occurred.

Continuously during that period of time.

At certain points during that period of time.

Antonyms

• until

Conjunction

since

From the time that.

Because.

(obsolete) When or that.

Synonyms

• (from the time that): sithen (obsolete); see also since

• (because): sith (obsolete); see also because

Anagrams

• :*nices, censi, escin, icens, nices, scien, snice

Source: Wiktionary

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Since, adv. Etym: [For sins, contr. fr. OE. sithens, sithenes, formed by an adverbial ending (cf. Besides) from OE. sithen, also shortened into sithe, sin, AS. si, sy, seo, afterward, then, since, after; properly, after that; fr. sisi afterward, since, OHG. sid, G. seit since, Goth. seipus late, ni sei no longer) + 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. 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. w 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.

Since, prep.

Definition: 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, conj.

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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