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† eftˈsoon, -soons, adv. Obs. or arch.
Forms: 1 eftsóna, 3–5 eft-, efsone, 4–7 eft(e)soone, (6 eft sonne), 3–6 eft(e)sons, -nes, -nis, (4 efsoins, 5 eftones, aftsounes, 6 eftsens, 7 eftsonce, 8 effesons), 4–7 eft(e)soones, (6 effsoones), 6– eftsoons, 7– eftsoon. In several of the forms sometimes written as two words.
[f. eft adv. + soon; in the later forms with -s after the analogy of advbs. from genitive cases.]
1. A second time, again.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Mark x. 1 Þa comon eft meniᵹu to him and..he hi lærde eft sona. c1300St. Brandan 231 Gret travayl ȝou is to come er ȝe eftsone lond i-seo. c1400Mandeville v. 51 The Sarazines countrefeten it [Bawme] be sotyltee of Craft..the Apotecaries countrefeten it eftsones. c1449Pecock Repr. 540 It is no nede forto write the same proof of resoun eftsoone here. 1576Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 303 It therefore needeth not now eftsoones to be rehearsed. 1637R. Ashley tr. Malvezzi's David Persecuted 166 Those other are seldom delivered out of their dangers but they returne eftsoones to their misdoings.
b. quasi-adj. with vbl. n.
1571[see 3]. 1611Cotgr., Iteration..repetition..eftsoones-doing.
2. Indicating sequence or transition in discourse: Again, moreover, likewise.
950[see eft adv. 2]. c1175Lamb. Hom. 133 Eft-sone godes word is icleped sed. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 7 Eftsone ure helendes on tocume þincð dieliche and grisliche all manne. c1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 2417 So watz Adam in erde with one bygyled..& Samson eft sonez. c1400Destr. Troy 2478 Then Elinus, eftesones, he drest hym to say. 1601Holland Pliny II. 217 Vnlesse the party do eat some garlick before, and eftsoones in the gathering [of the white Ellebore] sup off some wine..it wil..offend the head.
3. Afterwards, soon afterwards. (The notion of ‘soon’, though app. implied in the etymology, is not distinctly evidenced in early examples, and down to 17th c. is sometimes absent; but in mod. archaistic use the sense is commonly ‘forthwith, immediately’.)
1297R. Glouc. Chron. (1724) 397 Anoþer gret mayster he slou, & efsone þe þrydde. 1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 81 Hacon..praied him ȝit eftsonne To com tille Inglond. 14..E.E. Misc. (1855) 78 Eft sone set hit one the fyre to hit boyle. 1530–1Act 22 Hen. VIII, c. 12 If he do not accomplishe the order..to be eftsones taken and whipped. 1571Act 13 Eliz. c. 12 If any Person Ecclesiastical shall not reuoke his errour, or after such reuocation eftsoones affirms such untrue doctrine..such eftsoones affirming shalbe iust cause to deprive such person, etc. 1598Ord. Prayer in Liturg. Serv. Q. Eliz. (1847) 680 Those disloyal defections in Ireland..turned eftsoons into violent commotions. 1608Shakes. Per. v. i. 256 Toward Ephesus Turn our blown sails; eftsoons I'll tell thee why. 1610Holland tr. Camden's Brit. i. 558 Henry the fourth Earle, efts-once honorably employed. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. i. xxix, Not one eftsoons in view was to be found. a1764Lloyd Progr. Envy Wks. 1774 I. 136 She wav'd it round: Eftsoons there did appear Spirits and witches. a1856Longfellow Elected Knight vii, Sir Oluf questioned the knight eftsoon. 1871Sunday Mag. 118 They eftsoons fell down, as men very nigh dead.
4. From time to time, occasionally, repeatedly.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxliii. (1495) 700 They [wylowes] mowe efte sones be shred and paryd without a ladder. 1540T. Raynalde Byrth Man. (1614) 153 Infirmities, which eft-soones happen to Infants in their infancy. 1605Camden Rem. (1636) 81 Maugre, a name eftsoones vsed in the worshipfull family of Vavasors, Malgerius, in old histories. 1609Holland Livy ix. xxxiii. 338 He eftsoons [identidem] rehearsed and reiterated the law æmylia. 1632Sherwood, Eftsoone, souvent. 1720Stow's Surv. (ed. Strype 1754) I. i. vi. 31/2 Both these do happen eftsoons.
5. eftsoons as: as soon as.
c1555in Ridley's Wks. (1841) 256 Dr. Ridley..eftsoons as he had heard the cardinal named..put on his cap. c1555Latimer Serm. & Rem. (1845) 278 The other prisoner..eftsoons as he was placed, said to the lords. |