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What does "since" mean?

Since: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.When or that. [Obs.] Do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in St. George's field Shak.
  2. 3.From the time of; in or during the time subsequent to; subsequently to; after; -- usually with a past event or time for the object. The Lord hath blessed thee, since my coming. Gen. xxx.
  3. 4.I have a model by which he build a nobler poem than any extant since the ancients. Dryden.
  4. 5.Seeing that; because; considering; -- formerly followed by that. Since that my penitence comes after all, Imploring pardon. Shak. 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. See Because.

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