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sith

noun
/siːθ//sɪθ/

Etymology

From Middle English sith (“journey, movement, lifetime, period, occasion”), from Old English sīþ (“journey, movement, trip, point in time, occasion”), from Proto-West Germanic *sinþ, from Proto-Germanic *sinþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to go, head”). Cognate with Faroese sinn (“time”), Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌸𐍃 (sinþs, “path, movement”), Icelandic sinn (“time”). See also send.

  1. derived from *sent-✻
  2. inherited from *sinþaz✻
  3. inherited from *sinþ✻
  4. inherited from sīþ
  5. inherited from sith

Definitions

  1. A journey, way.

    • The holy gost before vs glad / ffull softly on his sithe

  2. One's journey of life, experience, one's lot, also by extension life, lifetime.

    • Christ's sith of sorrow and suffering.

  3. An instant in time, a point in time or an occasion.

    • Of them the other philosophers have, by siths, taken their beginning.
    • The foolish man thereat woxe wondrous blith, / As if the word so spoken, were halfe donne, / And humbly thanked him a thousand sith, / That had from death to life him newly wonne.
    • His land mortgag'd, he, sea-beat in the way, / Wishes for home a thousand siths a day.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Archaic form of since.

      • Therefore we need not fear them, sith Christ is with us; […]

    2. One of a fictional order of creatures from the Star Wars universe who represent the…

      One of a fictional order of creatures from the Star Wars universe who represent the antithesis and ancient enemies of the Jedi.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA