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an if
2. Now usually in form an. = and conj.1 II. (conditional). Formerly also in † an if, † if an (obsolete). Now archaic, literary, and regional (Scottish and English regional (chiefly northern)).
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > if, in case, or lest [conjunction]
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lestc1000
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anda1225
lest whena1300
in case1357
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lest thatc1400
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. ii. l. 132 And myȝte kisse þe kynge for cosyn, an she wolde.
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth viii. sig. D.iiiv An nede shall compell a man to slepe.
a1593 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta (1633) ii. ii I must have one that's sickly, An't be but for sparing victuals.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 576 There ant shall please you. View more context for this quotation
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 232 Nay then two treyes, an if you grow so nice. View more context for this quotation
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. v. 27 in Wks. II Rip off my hose, an' you be men.
a1698 F. Sheppard Cal. Reform'd in Duke of Buckingham et al. Misc. Wks. (1704) 221 This over-grown Beast here, an't please your Highness,..calls my Valour in Question.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xi. ii. 109 If an she be a Rebel. View more context for this quotation
1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals iii. iv An' we've any luck.
1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 325 What signifies the life o' man, An' 'twere na for the lasses, O.
1816 S. T. Coleridge Christabel Pref. p. vii But an if this will not do.
1821 W. Combe Third Tour Dr. Syntax xxxiv. 35 An' please your Rev'rence, here we are.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 75 An if he live, we will have him of our band.
1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 18 But an it please thee not.
1901 E. Step Shell Life iii. 40 The reader whose interest..extends only to external forms and coverings may, an it please him.., skip this chapter.
1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 3/1 An ye see ooer John ye mun tell him.
1972 F. Mowat Whale for Killing x. 123 Some fellers been shooting at it. It could get hurted, Skipper, an' they keeps it up.
extracted from anconj.n.
an if
b. an if, and if: (see an conj. 2, and conj.1 13b) = If. (Also occasionally if an.) archaic.
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1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 282 An doȝter..Ich ȝivis þe to þi wif & ȝif þou wolt bileue here.
c1394 P. Pl. Crede 17 Þerfor lerne þe byleue leuest me were And if any werldly wiȝt wisse me couþe.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 232 Nay then two treyes, an if you grow so nice. View more context for this quotation
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xi. ii. 109 If an she be a Rebel.
1816 S. T. Coleridge Christabel Pref. p. vii But an if this will not do.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 75 An if he live, we will have him of our band.
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