Word Meanings - SINCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

by an adverbial ending from OE. sithen, also shortened into sithe, sin, AS. si, sy, seo, afterward, then, since, after; properly, after that; fr. sisi afterward, since, OHG. sid, G. seit since, Goth. seipus late, ni sei no longer) + instrumental

Additional info about word: SINCE

by an adverbial ending from OE. sithen, also shortened into sithe, sin, AS. si, sy, seo, afterward, then, since, after; properly, after that; fr. sisi afterward, since, OHG. sid, G. seit since, Goth. seipus late, ni sei no longer) + instrumental of the 1. From a definite past time until now; as, he went a month ago, and I have not seen him since. We since become the slaves to one man's lust. B. Jonson. 2. In the time past, counting backward from the present; before this or now; ago. w many ages since has Virgil writ Roscommon. About two years since, it so fell out, that he was brought to a great lady's house. Sir P. Sidney. 3. When or that. Do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in St. George's field Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SINCE)

• Ago
• Past
• gone
• since
• Whereas
• Since
• seeing
• forasmuch as
• inasmuch as
• when in fact

Related words: (words related to SINCE)

• SEEMINGNESS
  Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby.
• SINCERELY
  In a sincere manner. Specifically: Purely; without alloy. Milton. Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely.
• SEERSUCKER
  A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.
• SEEK
  Sick. Chaucer.
• WHEREAS
  1. Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow. 2. When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that;
• SEEMING
  1. Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Shak. 2. Apprehension; judgment. Chaucer. Nothing more clear unto their seeming. Hooker. His persuasive words, impregned With reason,
• SINCERENESS
  See FL
• SEEDLESS
  Without seed or seeds.
• SEEDCOD
  A seedlip.
• SEETHER
  A pot for boiling things; a boiler. Like burnished gold the little seether shone. Dryden.
• SEED-LAC
  A species of lac. See the Note under Lac.
• SEEL
  1. Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. "So have I seel". Chaucer. 2. Time; season; as, hay seel.
• SEEL; SEELING
  The rolling or agitation of a ship in a sterm. Sandys.
• SINCERITY
  The quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness. I protest, in the sincerity of love. Shak. Sincerity is a duty no less plain than important. Knox.
• SEEDLING
  A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.
• SINCERE
  sincerus, of uncertain origin; the first part perhaps akin to sin- in singuli , and the second to cernere to separate (cf. 1. Pure; unmixed; unadulterated. There is no sincere acid in any animal juice. Arbuthnot. A joy which never was sincere
• SEE
  1. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised. Chaucer. Jove laughed on Venus from his sovereign see. Spenser. 2. Specifically: The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. The
• SEEK-SORROW
  One who contrives to give himself vexation. Sir P. Sidney.
• SEEDNESS
  Seedtime. Shak.
• MESEEMS
  It seems to me.
• WORMSEED
  Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• LOPSEED
  A perennial herb , having slender seedlike fruits.
• GAPESEED
  Any strange sight. Wright.
• BESEECH
  1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton. Syn. -- To beg; to crave. -- To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate.
• BESEEMING
  1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret.
• UPSEEK
  To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey.
• BERSEEM
  An Egyptian clover extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called
• HAGSEED
  The offspring of a hag. Shak.
• UNFORESEE
  To fail to foresee. Bp. Hacket.
• BESEEN
  1. Seen; appearing. 2. Decked or adorned; clad. Chaucer. 3. Accomplished; versed. Spenser.
• FORESEE
  1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3. 2. To provide. Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon.
• RESEEK
  To seek again. J. Barlow.
• OUTSEE
  To see beyond; to excel in cer
• UNSEEM
  Not to seem. Shak.