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Sith(e, Syth(e, Suith, prep. and conj. [ME siþþe (Layamon), sith, syth (Chaucer), syth(e (a1450), OE siþþan, ON síðan. Cf. Sithen, Sithens.]
A. prep. Since some specified time, during that period between a specified time and the present. c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) lxxxviii 15.
Fourmeth none fairer sith the flode of Noy 1554 Knox III 259.
Syth the fyrst fashionynge of man 1554 Knox III 278.
Transubstantiation … hatched by Pope Nicolas and sythe that tyme fostered and nurryshed by al his children
B. conj. a. Since, seeing or considering (that). b. If.a. (1) c1590 Fowler I 283/49.
How can our bliss in barren things … be found … Sith we be barren of good works 1598 James VI Basil. Doron 67/7. 1639 Fugitive Poetry II xv 2/4.
Sith tyme is left yit kindlie to cum in(b) a1651 Calderwood V 763.
Can the kettill and earthen pott … continue long together without ruine to the one, suith the strenth of Israel … can not abide an oxe and an asse to plew together?(2) c1400 Troy-bk. ii 589 (D).
The which is sooth syth that it is [c. syth as it is] In-to proverbe seyd aft I-wys c1590 Fowler I 298/118.
Sithe that the franck frie bountye of thy God Hath drauen theé furth of these wayesb. a1500 K. Hart 351.
‘Madame,’ scho said, ‘keip Pietie fast Syth scho ask no licence to hir len’
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