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  1. adverb To the same extent or degree; equally: The child sang as sweetly as a nightingale.
  2. adverb For instance: large carnivores, as the bear or lion.
  3. adverb When taken into consideration in a specified relation or form: this definition as distinguished from the second one.
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  • 'Journal,' as a French word, or, if you please, as an English word--whence came that? —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
  • Coming back to the hearth-rug he spoke to his niece in French, as was the custom with the pair when they were alone And now, dear Mina," said he, "what has made you set your mind on what seems distinctly the least desirable of these houses It's the cheapest, I expect, and I want to economize People always do as soon as they've got any money," reflected Duplay in a puzzled tone. —  Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House
  • 237.).--The word claret seems to me to be the same as the French word clairet_, both adjective and substantive; as a substantive it means a low and cheap sort of claret_, sold in France, and drawn from the barrel like beer in England; as an adjective it is a diminutive of clair_, and implies that the wine is transparent JOHN LAMMENS Manchester Suicide at Marseilles (Vol. —  Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
  • By this movement he had turned Wellington's right flank, was as near Salamanca as were the British, and had it in his power, unless checked, to place himself on the road between Salamanca and Ciudad, and so to cut their line of retreat Seeing his position thus turned, Wellington made a corresponding movement, and the two armies marched along lines of hills parallel with each other, the guns on both sides occasionally firing. —  Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War
  • Her mistress had not considered her as was her wont. —  Mary Gray
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  1. Middle English, from Old English ealswā; see also.
  2. Latin as.

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  1. from Middle English as, ase, als, alse, also, alsa, alswa, al so, al swa, from Anglo-Saxon alswā, ealswā, eal swā (= Old Saxon alsō = OFries. as, ase, asa, als, alse, alsa = Dutch als = Old High German alsō, Middle High German alsō, alse, German alsō, als), literally ‘all so,’ wholly so, quite so, just so, being the demonstrative adverb so, qualified by the intensive adverb all. As a demonstrative, the word retains its full form (see also); as a relative or correlative, the word, through weakening of force and accent, has been reduced to as. As is thus historically so with an absorbed intensive, whose force has disappeared; and it has all the relational uses of so, the differences being only idiomatical. The peculiar form and uses of as have arisen out of the correlation so … so (Anglo-Saxon swā … swā, or, without separation, swā swā), in which both terms were orig. demonstrative. The second term passed into the relative use, and the first, remaining demonstrative, was strengthened by the adverb all (Anglo-Saxon eal swā … swā). The second term, as a relative, became weak in accent, and, after assuming the prefix all in conformity to the first, was gradually reduced, through also, alse, als, ase, to as, to which, in turn, the first term in many constructions conformed. The resulting correlations so … so, so … as, as … so, as … as, through involution of uses, transposition of clauses, and ellipsis of one or the other term, extending often to the whole clause, present in modern English a complication of constructions which cannot be fully exhibited except at great length, and in connection with the earlier uses. They are also involved with the kindred correlations such … as (such being historically so, with an absorbed relational suffix) and same … as, in which the relative conjunction as varies with that, and leads to the use of as as a simple relative pronoun.
  2. Latin, a unit, one pound of money, etc., usually derived from ἂς, said to be the Tarentine form of Greek εἰς, one; but this derivation is very doubtful. See ace.
  3. Middle English as, etc. (see ace); in def. 2 = Dutch aas = Swedish ass (ess, ace) = German ass, in technical sense from Latin as: see as.
 

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