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| prep. | (frm) |
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| [AS.
fram, from; akin to OS. fram out, OHG. *** Icel.
fram forward, Sw. fram, Dan. frem, Goth.
fram from, prob. akin to E. forth. &?]202. Cf.
Fro, Foremost.] |
Out of the neighborhood of;
lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out
of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement
of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation,
absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with,
and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state,
etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less
frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which
anything proceeds; -- the antithesis and correlative of to;
as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he
took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun;
separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung
from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and
from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the
principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts
from personal knowledge, or from testimony.
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