Preposition

(English prepositions)

Against.

* 1621 , , The Proceedings of the English Colony in Virginia [http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/john_smith.html]

Many hatchets, knives, & pieces of iron, & brass, we see, which they reported to have from the Sasquesahanocks a mighty people, and mortal enemies with the Massawomecks.

In the company of; alongside, along side of; close to; near to.

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In addition to; as an accessory to.

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* 1590 , Sir (Philip Sidney), (w, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia) ,

With that she told me that though she spake of her father, whom she named Chremes, she would hide no truth from me: ...

* 1697 , (Virgil), (John Dryden) (translator), '', in ''The Works of Virgil ,

With this he pointed to his face, and show'd

His hand and all his habit smear'd with blood.

* 1861 , (Alexander Pope), The Rev. George Gilfillan (editor) The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne'', in '' The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ,

See where, on earth, the flowery glories lie,

With' her they flourish'd, and ' with her they die.

* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2

With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.

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In support of.

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(obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.

* 1300s? , Political, Religious and Love Poems , “An A B C Poem on the Passion of Christ”, ed. (Frederick James Furnivall), 1866

Al þus with iewys I am dyth, I seme a wyrm to manus syth.

* , 266

Ysiphile, betrayed with Jasoun, / Maketh of your trouthe neyther boost ne soun;

* , V-ii

He was torn to / pieces with a bear:

* 1669 , (Nathaniel Morton), New England’s Memorial

He was sick and lame of the scurvy, so as he could but lie in the cabin-door, and give direction, and, it should seem, was badly assisted either with mate or mariners

Using as an instrument; by means of.

* 1430? , “The Love of Jesus” in Hymns to the Virgin and Christ , ed. (Frederick James Furnivall), 1867, p.26

Þirle my soule with þi spere anoon,

* 1619 , (Francis Beaumont) and (John Fletcher), A King and no King , Act IV

you have paid me equal, Heavens, / And sent my own rod to correct me with

* 1620 , (William Bradford). Of Plymouth Plantation [http://narcissus.umd.edu:8080/eada/html/display.jsp?docs=bradford_history.xml&action=show]

They had cut of his head upon the cudy of his boat had not the man reskued him with a sword,

* 1677 , (w), The plain-dealer , Prologue

And keep each other company in spite, / As rivals in your common mistress, fame, / And with faint praises one another damn;

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(obsolete) As nourishment, more recently replaced by on.

* , IV-iii

I am fain to dine and sup with water and bran.

Having, owning.

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