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Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Expressing distance or motion.

   • Take the chicken out of the freezer.
   • Against headache, vertigo, vapours which ascend forth of the stomach to molest the head, read Hercules de Saxonia and others.
2. 2

   Expressing separation.

   • Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
   • And ther with on his handes and on his knees he wente soo nyghe that he touched the holy vessel / and kyste hit / and anone he was hole / and thenne he sayd lord god I thanke the / for I am helyd of this sekenesse
   • Antigonus [took] upon him to favour a souldier of his by reason of his vertue and valour, to have great care of him, and see whether they could recover him of a lingering and inward disease which had long tormented him […]
3. 3

   Expressing origin.

   • The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
   • They wondred all, and marveylled sayinge amonge themselves: Loke, are not all these which speake off galile? And howe heare we every man his awne tongue wherein we were boren?
   • My father was born of a family of weavers in Manchester, England.
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   1. 4

      Expressing agency.

      • I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
      • After a good while, the iewes toke cousell amonge themselves to kyll him. But their layinges awayte wer knowen of Saul.
      • [S]he might appeare to be the lively patterne of another Lucrece, yet know I certainly that, both before that time and afterward, she had beene enjoyed of others upon easier composition.
   2. 5

      Expressing composition, substance.

      • Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
      • The mallet is made of a hard heavy wood resembling ebony, is about twelve inches in length, and perhaps two in breadth, with a rounded handle at one end, and in shape is the exact counterpart of one of our four-sided razor-strops.
   3. 6

      Introducing subject matter.

      • I'm always thinking of you.
      • [H]e spoke of his uncle with warm regard, was fond of talking of him […]
      • You must not judge of Celia's feeling from mine. I think she likes these small pets.
   4. 7

      Having partitive effect.

      • Most of these apples are rotten.
      • But as for me said sire Gareth I medle not of their maters therfore there is none of them that loueth me / And for I vnderstande they be murtherers of good knyghtes I lefte theyre company
      • The dead bodies of the Koreish were despoiled and insulted; two of the most obnoxious prisoners were punished with death […]
   5. 8

      Expressing possession.

      • He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
      • The building was erected in two years, at the parochial expence, on the foundation of the former one, which was irreparably damaged by the hurricane of Auguſt, 1712.
      • Thus, as he dressed, the thoughts and the rage of yesterday began to stir and move in his mind again.
   6. 9

      Forming the "objective genitive".

   7. 10

      Expressing qualities or characteristics.

      • My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
      • He was huge, raw-boned, knotty, long of body and long of leg, with the head of a war charger.
   8. 11

      Expressing a point in time.

      • Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
      • For, sometimes of an afternoon when Miss Pupford has been reading the paper through her little gold eye-glass[…], she has become agitated, […]
      • If there was a type Ida despised, Sir Claude communicated to Maisie, it was the man who pottered about town of a Sunday […]
   9. 12

      Eye dialect spelling of have and 've, chiefly in depictions of colloquial speech.

      • I have refrained from giving many details which I might of done, from feelings of delicacy; indeed, they were of so dark and dreadful a nature, that I could do no more than hint at them
      • "I had a woman up here last week to look at my feet, and when she have been the bill you'd of thought she had my appendicitus out."
      • ‘You must of left your door unlocked. Or even open.’
   10. 13

       Initialism of Old French.

   11. 14

       Initialism of Old Frisian.

   12. 15

       Abbreviation of OnlyFans.

   13. 16

       Initialism of Ordinary Form.

   14. 17

       Abbreviation of outfield.

   15. 18

       Abbreviation of outfielder.

   16. 19

       Abbreviation of OnlyFans (“an account on OnlyFans”).

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