Such

And in his time such a conqueror
That greater was there none under the sun. Chaucer.

His misery was such that none of the bystanders could refrain from weeping. Macaulay.

* The indefinite article a or an never precedes such, but is placed between it and the noun to which it refers; as, such a man; such an honor. The indefinite adjective some, several, one, few, many, all, etc., precede such; as, one such book is enough; all such people ought to be avoided; few such ideas were then held.

That thou art happy, owe to God;
That thou continuest such, owe to thyself. Milton.

In rushed one and tells him such a knight
Is new arrived. Daniel.

To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year. James iv. 13.

* Such is used pronominally. "He was the father of such as dwell in tents." Gen. iv. 20. "Such as I are free in spirit when our limbs are chained." Sir W. Scott. Such is also used before adjectives joined to substantives; as, the fleet encountered such a terrible storm that it put back. "Everything was managed with so much care, and such excellent order was observed." De Foe.

Temple sprung from a family which . . . long after his death produced so many eminent men, and formed such distinguished alliances, that, etc. Macaulay.

Such is used emphatically, without the correlative.

Now will he be mocking:
I shall have such a life. Shak.

Such was formerly used with numerals in the sense of times as much or as many; as, such ten, or ten times as many.

Such and such, or Such or such, certain; some; -- used to represent the object indefinitely, as already particularized in one way or another, or as being of one kind or another. "In such and such a place shall be my camp." 2 Kings vi. 8. "Sovereign authority may enact a law commanding such and such an action." South. -- Such like or character, of the like kind.

And many other such like things ye do. Mark vii. 8.