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单词 for that
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for thatconj.

Brit. /fə ðət/, /fə ˈðat/, /ˈfɔː ðət/, U.S. /fər ðət/, /fər ˈðæt/, /fɔr ˈðæt/, /ˈfɔr ðət/
Forms: Also 1600s for that that.
Etymology: See for prep. 20a(b).
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.
2. For the purpose that; in order that. Obsolete.
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).
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