From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Since \Since\, prep.
From the time of; in or during the time subsequent to;
subsequently to; after; -- usually with a past event or time
for the object.
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The Lord hath blessed thee, since my coming. --Gen.
xxx. 30.
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I have a model by which he build a nobler poem than any
extant since the ancients. --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Since \Since\, conj.
Seeing that; because; considering; -- formerly followed by
that.
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Since that my penitence comes after all,
Imploring pardon. --Shak.
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Since truth and constancy are vain,
Since neither love, nor sense of pain,
Nor force of reason, can persuade,
Then let example be obeyed. --Granville.
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Syn: Because; for; as; inasmuch as; considering. See
Because.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Since \Since\ (s[i^]ns), adv. [For sins, contr. fr. OE. sithens,
sithenes, formed by an adverbial ending (cf. Besides) from
OE. sithen, also shortened into sithe, sin, AS.
si[eth][eth]an, sy[eth][eth]an, seo[eth][eth]an, afterward,
then, since, after; properly, after that; fr. s[imac][eth]
after, later, adv. and prep. (originally a comparative adv.,
akin to OS. s[imac][eth] afterward, since, OHG. s[imac]d, G.
seit since, Goth. sei[thorn]us late, ni [thorn]anasei[thorn]s
no longer) + [eth]on instrumental of the demonstrative and
article. See That.]
1. From a definite past time until now; as, he went a month
ago, and I have not seen him since.
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We since become the slaves to one man's lust. --B.
Jonson.
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2. In the time past, counting backward from the present;
before this or now; ago.
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How many ages since has Virgil writ? --Roscommon.
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About two years since, it so fell out, that he was
brought to a great lady's house. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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3. When or that. [Obs.]
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Do you remember since we lay all night in the
windmill in St. George's field? --Shak.
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