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
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