Found 3 hits - Term: and so forth, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
forth \forth\, v.as. foreth, fr. for akin to d. voort, g.
fort root78. see fore, for, and cf. afford,
further, adv.
1. forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from
a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one,
two, three, and so forth.
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lucas was paul's companion, at the leastway from the
sixteenth of the acts forth. --tyndale.
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from this time forth, i never will speak word.
--shak.
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i repeated the ave maria; the inquisitor bad me say
forth; i said i was taught no more. --strype.
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2. out, as from a state of concealment, retirement,
confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice
or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves.
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when winter past, and summer scarce begun,
invites them forth to labor in the sun. --dryden.
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3. beyond a certain boundary; away; abroad; out.
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i have no mind of feasting forth to-night. --shak.
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4. throughly; from beginning to end. obs. --shak.
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and so forth, back and forth, from forth. see under
and, back, and from.
forth of, forth from, out of. obs. --shak.
to bring forth. see under bring.
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see also:
fore for afford further and so forth back and forth
from forth and back from forth of
forth from to bring forth bring
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
and \and\, conj. as. and; akin to os. endi, icel. enda, ohg.
anti, enti, inti, unti, g. und, d. en, od. ende. cf, an if,
ante-.
1. a particle which expresses the relation of connection or
addition. it is used to conjoin a word with a word, a
clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.
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note: a it is sometimes used emphatically; as, "there are
women and women," that is, two very different sorts of
women. b by a rhetorical figure, notions, one of
which is modificatory of the other, are connected by
and; as, "the tediousness and process of my travel,"
that is, the tedious process, etc.; "thy fair and
outward character," that is, thy outwardly fair
character, --schmidt's shak. lex.
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2. in order to; -- used instead of the infinitival to,
especially after try, come, go.
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at least to try and teach the erring soul. --milton.
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3. it is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive.
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when that i was and a little tiny boy. --shak.
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4. if; though. see an, conj. obs. --chaucer.
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as they will set an house on fire, and it were but
to roast their eggs. --bacon.
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and so forth, and others; and the rest; and similar things;
and other things or ingredients. the abbreviation, etc.
et cetera, or c., is usually read and so forth.
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see also:
an ante- and so forth
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
and so forth
adv : continuing in the same way syn: and so on, etcetera, etc.
see also:
and so on etcetera etc.
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