单词 | for that |
释义 | for thatconj. 1. a. For the reason that, because. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > cause or reason > [conjunction] > because forth thatc888 for-thonOE forthy thec1000 for thatc1175 forthon thatc1175 forwhyc1384 for why thata1400 cause1556 'cos1828 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3826 Ða wake menn to frofrenn. For þatt he wisste wel þatt teȝȝ Off himm forrdredde wærenn. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 365 And seist for þat ich fleo bi nihte þat ich ne mai iseo bi lihte. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 14 In moiste bodies for þat þe smale lymes ben feble. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. iv. 77 For that I loue your daughter..I must aduance the colours of my loue. View more context for this quotation 1620 J. Wilkinson Treat. Statutes conc. Coroners & Sherifes (new ed.) 1 The Statute of Westminster..rehearseth, For that that people of small condition..be..chosen [etc.]. a1643 J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 116 For that her mistress had corrected her, her stomack riseth against it. 1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 26 For that wine is dear, We will be furnish'd with our own. 1894 Yellow Bk. 1 67 It is hard to trace folly, for that it is inconsequent, to its start. b. The modern use of for that in reported speech (when both words are conjs.) is to be distinguished from the above. ΚΠ 1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. II. i. 8 The courier conjured him..that he should read them forthwith, for that they contained matter of great importance. 1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 20 Bidding him raise His drooping head..For that she was a woman. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1889) II. xvii. 282 He had told them to go to their supper..for that nothing more would be done that day. 1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab i. 6 That we were needlessly encumbering ourselves, for that..rice might be procured..in the villages. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [phrase] > in order that for thatc1175 to that that1502 to purpose that1582 in order that1671 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1019 Þatt waȝhe rifft wass henngedd tær Forr þat itt hidenn shollde. All [etc.]. c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 146 Al folk he dede him loue, For þat noman schuld him schoue. 1428 in Surtees Misc. (1890) 7 For þt þair praiers suld stand John Lyllyng to availl. 1572 R. Harrison tr. L. Lavater Of Ghostes ii. ii. 104 I thought good to repeate these things..the rather for that the reader might see, that [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < conj.c1175 |
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