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adjective Being the very one; identical: the same boat we rented before.
adjective Similar in kind, quality, quantity, or degree.
adjective Conforming in every detail: according to the same rules as before.

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Together. So ryde thay of by resoun bi the rygge bonez, Euenden to the haunche, that henged alle samen, & heuen hit vp al hole, & hwen hit of there. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), l. 1345. On foote & on faire horsse fought thei samme. Alisaunder of Macedoine (E. E. T. S.), l. 342. For what concord han light and darke sam? Spenser, Shep. Cal., May.
Identical numerically; one in substance; not other; always preceded by the definite article or other definitive word (this or that). In this sense, same is predicable only of substances (things or persons), or of other kinds of objects which, having individuality are for the purposes of speech analogous to individual things, especially places and times. It is a relative term, implying that what comes to mind in one connection and what comes to mind in another connection are one individual or set of individuals in existence. The very same man that beguiled Master Slender of his chain cozened him of it. Shak., M. W. of W., iv. 5. 37. There was another bridge … built by the same man at the same time. Coryat, Crudities, I. 29. The very same dragoons ran away at Falkirk that ran away at Preston Pans. Walpole, Letters, II. 3.
Of one nature or general character; of one kind, degree, or amount: as, we see in men everywhere the same passions and the same vices; two flames that are the same in temperature; two bodies of the same dimensions; boxes that occupy the same space. Same, used in this way, expresses less a different meaning from def. 1, than a different (and often loose) mode of thinking; the thought is often that of equality rather than that of identity. Those things, says the Philosopher, are the same whose essence are one and the same. … Those things are said to be the same, says the Philosopher, in number, whose matter is one and the same. … Those things are the same in species whose ratio of essence is one. Burgersdicius, tr. by a Gentleman, i. 20. I rather pity than hate Turk and Infidel, for they are of the same Metal and bear the same Stamp as I do, though the Inscriptions differ. Howell, Letters, I. vi. 32. It hath bin inevitably prov'd that the natural and fundamental causes of political happines in all governments are the same. Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii. Ignatius Loyola … in the great Catholic reaction bore the same part which Luther bore in the great Protestant movement. Macaulay, Von Ranke's Hist. Popes. Bigotry is the same in every faith and every age. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 6. The same sentiment which fits us for freedom itself makes us free. H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 467. This ambiguity in the word same, whereby it means either individual identity or indistinguishable resemblance, has been often noticed, and from a logical or objective point of view justly complained of, as “engendering fallacies in otherwise enlightened understandings.” J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 81.

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With Simms the same was attempted, but in vain. — History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6)
18. And be it further enacted_, That all acts, or parts of acts, contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed Approved, June 30th, 1834. — Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.
And `he that entereth not by the door into the sheep-fold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber Explain to me what you mean, Mother, an' it like you You know how Adam sinned in Paradise?" — The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel
Brahmā the Creator, a more popular version of Prajāpati, is still too impersonal to have much hold on the popular imagination; the same is the case with Agni the Fire-god. — Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India
The astral plane, in the region of a lynching mob, or other body of persons filled with rage, becomes a frightful scene of auric radiation A person filled with the emotion of pure love, fills his aura with the most beautiful tints and shades of high rosy color, and to behold the same is a pleasure fully appreciated by the occultist. — The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms

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Middle English, from Old Norse samr; see sem-¹ in Indo-European roots.

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from Middle English same, samme, samen; from (a) Anglo-Saxon same, similarly, in the same way, used only in combination with swā, so, as (swā same swā, the same as); cf. sam, conjunction, whether, or (sam … sam, whether … or); as a prefix sam,- denoting agreement or combination; = Old Saxon sama, samo, same = Middle Low German same, sam = Old High German sama, Middle High German same, sam, adverb, the same, likewise; (b) Anglo-Saxon samen, together, = Old Saxon saman = OFries. semin, samin, samen = Middle Low German samene = Old High German samant, Middle High German sament, samt, German samt, sammt, zu-sammen, together, together with, = Icelandic saman = Swedish samman = Danish sammen = Gothic (Moesogothic) samana, together, = Russian samnu, together; (c) as an adjective not in Anglo-Saxon, but of Scandinavian origin, from Icelandic samr = Swedish samma, samme = Danish samme = Old High German sam = Gothic (Moesogothic) sama, the same; = Greek ἅμα, at the same time, together, ὁμός, the same (later ὁμοίος, like), = Sanskrit sama, even, like, equal; cf. Sanskrit sa (in comp.), with, sam, with; Latin simul, together, similis, similar: see simultaneous, similar, etc.
from Middle English same, from Icelandic samr = Swedish samma, samme = Danish samme = Old High German sam = Gothic (Moesogothic) sama, the same: see same, adv.

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