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for what
b. With a preceding preposition. spec. in for what: for which purpose or reason, wherefore. Obsolete.With for what compare use of this phrase introducing direct and indirect questions at Phrases 1b. Cf. for whon at whon pron. 2, for why adv. 3.
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c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11509 Wille iss hire þridde mahht Þurrh whatt menn immess ȝeornenn.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2831 Ure preost..nohht ne mihhte trowwenn. Þatt word tatt himm þurrh gabriæl Wass seȝȝd o godess hallfe. Forr whatt himm wass hiss spæche..Þurrh drihhtin all biræfedd.
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 39 Gif ðu na þing ne luuest..ðurh hwat ðu miht forliesen godes luue.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 81 Þis monne me mei sermonen mid godes worde, for hwat he scal his sunne uor-saken and bileuen.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 280 He..bid me ofte theachen him sum hwet wið hwat he muchte his licome deruen.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 2533 Hengist..him grantede..is doȝter abbe to wif, Vor ȝwat þe king ȝeue him þe contreie of kent.
?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 122 Whannin commiþ þi fair schrute? Mid whate þou art ischrid aboute?
c1425 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Harl.) 165 Hyi vnder ȝete an welle..Of wat [c1325 Calig. wan] þe kyng ofte dronk.
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for what
b. for what: for what purpose, with what object; for what reason, why, wherefore. Obsolete.In Old English usually with dative or instrumental rather than accusative of the neuter interrogative pronoun; cf. for whon at whon pron. 2, for why adv.Cf. also for what at sense A. 14b.
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eOE Royal Psalter ix. 34 Propter quid inritauit impius dominum : fore hwæt [OE Lambeth Psalter forhwan, lOE Salisbury Psalter for hwæt] bysmrade se arleasa?
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14113 Forr all mann kinn to shæwenn swa. Forr whatt he comm onn erþe.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4814 Forr whatt iss drihhtin me þuss wraþ.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1657 Iacob tolde him for-quat he swanc So fer.
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