Definitions

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  • An obsolete form of because.

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  • conjunction Obsolete spelling of because.

Etymologies

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by +‎ cause

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Examples

  • It is bycause of what he was ascend into his prisonce on account off.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Such extreme licentiousnesse is vtterly to be banished from our schoole, and better it might haue bene borne with in old riming writers, bycause they liued in a barbarous age, & were graue morall men but very homely

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Then bycause euery thing that by nature fals down is said heauy, & whatsoever naturally mounts upward is said light, it gaue occasion to say that there were diuersities in the motion of the voice, as swift & slow, which motion also presupposes time, by cause time is

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Whereof I cannot perceive the reason, but if it be bycause she sholde provyde an horse for an evil housebonde to ride to the

    Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850 Various

  • Yet _Chaucer_ and others in the staffe of seuen and sixe do almost as much a misse, for they shut vp the staffe with a _disticke_, concording with none other verse that went before, and maketh but a loose rime, and yet bycause of the double cadence in the last two verses serue the eare well inough.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • And bycause I founde the diuisor 4 tymes in the diuidente, I haue set

    The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

  • _ But yet bycause you shall perceaue iustly the reason of Diuision, it shall be good that you do set your diuisor styll agaynst those nombres fro {m} whiche you do take it: as by this example I wyll declare.

    The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

  • And then yf you lyst, you [* 119a] may adde the one to the other in the same place, or els you may adde them both together in a newe place: which waye, bycause it is moste playnest, I wyll showe you fyrst.

    The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

  • Pope had savyd Himself with the Cardynalls in Castell Angell; whiche tydinges bycause they ware not written unto Venyce, but upon relation of

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

  • I iudg best implicat in thowg. or of trial or mark bycause of swiftnes collocat. & differe & to make woords sequac.

    Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875

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