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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Since \Since\, preposition 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Since \Since\ (s[i^]ns), adverb [For sins, contr. fr. OE. sithens, sithenes, formed by an adverbial ending (cf. {Besides}) from OE. sithen, also shortened into sithe, sin, AS. si[eth][eth]an, sy[eth][eth]an, seo[eth][eth]an, afterward, then, since, after; properly, after that; fr. s[=i][eth] after, later, adverb and preposition (originally a comparative adverb, akin to OS. s[=i][eth] afterward, since, OHG. s[=i]d, G. seit since, Goth. sei[thorn]us late, ni [thorn]anasei[thorn]s no longer) + [eth]on 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.
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Since \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}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "since": aeons ago, after, after all, after that, afterwards, ages ago, ago, as, as long as, as things go, back, back when, backward, because, behind, being, being as how, below, cause, considering, ever since, ex post facto, following, for, forasmuch as, from away back, from time immemorial, gone by, in that, in the aftermath, in the sequel, inasmuch as, insofar as, insomuch as, into the past, later, long since, next, parce que, reminiscently, retroactively, retrospectively, seeing, seeing as how, seeing that, since long ago, since time began, subsequent to, subsequently, then, thereafter, thereon, thereupon, therewith, until now, whereas
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