Part 4467

<blockquote>We can do nothing against the truth, but <b>for</b> the truth. <i>2 Cor. xiii. 8.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>It is <b>for</b> the general good of human society, and consequently of particular persons, to be true and just; and it is <b>for</b> men's health to be temperate. <i>Tillotson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Aristotle is <b>for</b> poetical justice. <i>Dennis.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; <?/ntending to go to.</def>

<blockquote>We sailed from Peru <b>for</b> China and Japan. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.</def>

<blockquote>And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life <b>for</b> life, eye <b>for</b> eye, tooth <b>for</b> tooth, hand <b>for</b> hand, foot <b>for</b> foot. <i>Ex. xxi. 23, 24.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.</def>

<blockquote>We take a falling meteor <b>for</b> a star. <i>Cowley.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>If a man can be fully assured of anything <b>for</b> a truth, without having examined, what is there that he may not embrace <b>for</b> tru<?/? <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Most of our ingenious young men take up some cried-up English poet for</b> their model. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>But let her go <b>for</b> an ungrateful woman. <i>Philips.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to <i>notwithstanding</i>, <i>in spite of</i>; -- generally followed by <i>all</i>, <i>aught</i>, <i>anything</i>, etc.</def>

<blockquote>The writer will do what she please <b>for</b> all me. <i>Spectator.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>God's desertion shall, <b>for</b> aught he knows, the next minute supervene. <i>Dr. H. More.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>For</b> anything that legally appears to the contrary, it may be a contrivance to fright us. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.</def>

<blockquote><b>For</b> many miles about There 's scarce a bush. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Since, hired <b>for</b> life, thy servile muse sing. <i>prior.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>To guide the sun's bright chariot <b>for</b> a day. <i>Garth.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>We 'll have a bib, <b>for</b> spoiling of thy doublet. <i>Beau. & Fl.</i></blockquote>

<cs><mcol><col>For</col>, &or; <col>As for</col></mcol>, <cd>so far as concerns; as regards; with reference to; -- used parenthetically or independently. See under <er>As</er>.</cd>

<blockquote><b>As for</b> me and my house, we will serve the Lord. <i>Josh. xxiv. 15.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>For</b> me, my stormy voyage at an end, I to the port of death securely tend. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>For all that</col>, <cd>notwithstanding; in spite of.</cd> -- <col>For all the world</col>, <cd>wholly; exactly. "Whose posy was, <i>for all the world<i>, like cutlers' poetry."</cd> <i>Shak.</i> -- <mcol><col>For as much as</col>, &or; <col>Forasmuch as</col></mcol>, <cd>in consideration that; seeing that; since.</cd> -- <col>For by</col>. <cd>See <er>Forby</er>, <tt>adv.</tt></cd> -- <col>For ever</col>, <cd>eternally; at all times. See <er>Forever</er>.</cd> -- <mcol><col>For me</col>, &or; <col>For all me</col></mcol>, <cd>as far as regards me.</cd> -- <mcol><col>For my life</col>, &or; <col>For the life of me</col></mcol>, <cd>if my life depended on it. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd> <i>T. Hook.</i> -- <mcol><col>For that</col>, <col>For the reason that</col></mcol>, <cd>because; since. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>For that<i> I love your daughter." <i>Shak.</i></cd> -- <mcol><col>For thy</col>, &or; <col>Forthy</col></mcol> <ety>[AS. <ets>for<?/<ets><?/]</ety>, <cd>for this; on this account. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Thomalin, have no care <i>for thy<i>." <i>Spenser.</i></cd> -- <col>For to</col>, <cd>as sign of infinitive, in order to; to the end of. <mark>[Obs., except as sometimes heard in illiterate speech.]</mark> -- "What went ye out <i>for to<i> see?" <i>Luke vii. 25.</i></cd> See <er>To</er>, <tt>prep.</tt>, 4. -- <col>O for</col>, <cd>would that I had; may there be granted; -- elliptically expressing desire or prayer.</cd> "<i>O for</i> a muse of fire." <i>Shak.</i> -- <mcol><col>Were it not for</col>, &or; <col>If it were not for</col></mcol>, <cd>leaving out of account; but for the presence or action of. "Moral consideration can no way move the sensible appetite, <i>were it not for<i> the will."</cd> <i>Sir M. Hale.</i></cs>

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<hw>For</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>conj.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old English, the reason of anything.</def>