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Definitions

1. 1

   A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe.

2. 2preposition

   In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.

3. 3preposition

   Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.

4. 4preposition

   Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done.

5. 5preposition

   Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against.

6. 6preposition

   Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.

7. 7preposition

   Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.

8. 8preposition

   Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.

9. 9preposition

   Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.

10. 10preposition

    Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.

11. 11preposition

    Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.

12. 12conjunction

    Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old English, the reason of anything.

13. 13conjunction

    Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.

14. 14noun

    One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.