The Collaborative International Dictionary
as \as\ ([a^]z), adv. & conj. [OE. as, als, alse, also, al swa, AS. eal sw[=a], lit. all so; hence, quite so, quite as: cf. G. als as, than, also so, then. See Also.]
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Denoting equality or likeness in kind, degree, or manner; like; similar to; in the same manner with or in which; in accordance with; in proportion to; to the extent or degree in which or to which; equally; no less than; as, ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil; you will reap as you sow; do as you are bidden.
His spiritual attendants adjured him, as he loved his soul, to emancipate his brethren.
--Macaulay.Note: As is often preceded by one of the antecedent or correlative words such, same, so, or as, in expressing an equality or comparison; as, give us such things as you please, and so long as you please, or as long as you please; he is not so brave as Cato; she is as amiable as she is handsome; come as quickly as possible. ``Bees appear fortunately to prefer the same colors as we do.''
--Lubbock. As, in a preceding part of a sentence, has such or so to answer correlatively to it; as with the people, so with the priest. -
In the idea, character, or condition of, -- limiting the view to certain attributes or relations; as, virtue considered as virtue; this actor will appear as Hamlet.
The beggar is greater as a man, than is the man merely as a king.
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While; during or at the same time that; when; as, he trembled as he spoke.
As I return I will fetch off these justices.
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Because; since; it being the case that.
As the population of Scotland had been generally trained to arms . . . they were not indifferently prepared.
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Expressing concession. (Often approaching though in meaning).
We wish, however, to avail ourselves of the interest, transient as it may be, which this work has excited.
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That, introducing or expressing a result or consequence, after the correlatives so and such. [Obs.]
I can place thee in such abject state, as help shall never find thee.
--Rowe.So as, so that. [Obs.]
The relations are so uncertain as they require a great deal of examination.
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As if; as though. [Obs. or Poetic]
He lies, as he his bliss did know.
--Waller. For instance; by way of example; thus; -- used to introduce illustrative phrases, sentences, or citations.
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Than. [Obs. & R.]
The king was not more forward to bestow favors on them as they free to deal affronts to others their superiors.
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Expressing a wish. [Obs.] ``As have,''
Note: i. e., may he have.
--Chaucer.As . . as. See So . . as, under So.
As far as, to the extent or degree. ``As far as can be ascertained.''
--Macaulay.As far forth as, as far as. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.As for, or As to, in regard to; with respect to.
As good as, not less than; not falling short of.
As good as one's word, faithful to a promise.
As if, or As though, of the same kind, or in the same condition or manner, that it would be if.
As it were (as if it were), a qualifying phrase used to apologize for or to relieve some expression which might be regarded as inappropriate or incongruous; in a manner.
As now, just now. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.As swythe, as quickly as possible. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.As well, also; too; besides.
--Addison.As well as, equally with, no less than. ``I have understanding as well as you.''
--Job xii. 3.As yet, until now; up to or at the present time; still; now.
Usage examples of "as now".
It disappeared into the rain and the billowing smoke from the empty Hobart house, where the roof was now sharing its gift of fire with the walls.
He hadn't been fully conscious when they put it in and was now amazed at the length.
The bar was now dispensing equipment and gear which Killashandra could not readily identify.
But the man was now covering Bayley with his own gun, and French had hers.
Jeremy Porter was nowhere to be seen, though Bayley heard the intermittent tapping of fingers on a keyboard somewhere behind him.
The illusion was now perfect: this was his street, and in front of him was his apartment building.
But there had been no doubt in Sharon's mind: the body in the car, the body that was now in their morgue, was of her husband.
Instead of the white lab coat she was now wearing a beige cashmere sweater and freshly pressed black pants.
For a while they played hacker hide-and-seek, trying to block each other, till Jeremy finally did some sort of end run and persuaded MAPHIS that Leo's domain was now empty, so any instructions coming out of it were system errors and should be ignored.
His eyes were still blank but his face twitched, and Bayley had the eerie sense that Porter was now conscious of what was happening around him, but unable to control anything, down to and including his own body.
Once or twice in his life he'd had little precognitive flashes hunches, psychic nudges but he was now gripped not by a flash but a kind of cramp: a certainty that something was going to happen.
He became aware that a double-barrelled shotgun was now poking out of the window which had just slid down.
Nice neighbors, the kind of folks that drop everything when they hear on the radio that the Red Cross is getting low on O, and none of them knew that Audrey Wyler, the quiet widow who lived between the Sodersons and the Reeds, was now starring in her own Hammer film.
The arm, Steve saw, was now hardly attached to the rest of her body at all.
There were brown patches beneath her eyes they seemed to be unfurling like wings and her left sneaker was now a solid red instead of white.