Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as sith for since.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete Since; afterwards. See 1st sith.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • conjunction obsolete From or since the time that.
  • conjunction obsolete since then, after that.

Etymologies

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From Old English siþþan (siþ + þan ("then")). Compare German seitdem.

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Examples

  • A Stroke of Midnight takes place in a single day, picking up pretty much immediately after the previous book, and also takes place entirely within the sithen.

    A Stroke of Midnight 2005

  • And it is not longe sithen the sepulcre was alle open, that men myghte kisse it and touche it.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • There was dwellynge somtyme a ryche man, and it is not longe sithen, and men clept him Gatholonabes; and he was fulle of cauteles and of sotylle disceytes; and he hadde a fulle fair castelle, and a strong, in a mountayne, so strong and so noble, that no man cowde devise a fairere ne a strangere.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And sithen hitherward might no knight see her, but that he died anon.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And it is not long sithen, that a knight of Rhodes, that was hardy and doughty in arms, said that he would kiss her.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And never since, neither the King of Armenia nor the country were never in peace; ne they had never sith plenty of goods; and they have been sithen always under tribute of the

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And nevere sithen, nouther the kyng of Ermoyne, ne the contree, weren never in pees, ne thei hadden never sithen plentee of godes; and thei han ben sithen alle weyes undre tribute of the

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • For first he let slay his wife that he loved right well; and for the passing love that he had to her when he saw her dead, he fell in a rage and out of his wit a great while; and sithen he came again to his wit.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And nevere sithen, nouther the kyng of Ermoyne, ne the contree, weren never in pees, ne thei hadden never sithen plentee of godes; and thei han ben sithen alle weyes undre tribute of the

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • There was dwellynge somtyme a ryche man, and it is not longe sithen, and men clept him Gatholonabes; and he was fulle of cauteles and of sotylle disceytes; and he hadde a fulle fair castelle, and a strong, in a mountayne, so strong and so noble, that no man cowde devise a fairere ne a strangere.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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  • "Sir, said Sir Melias, ye say sooth. But, sir, sithen ye have made me a knight ye must of right grant me my first desire that is reasonable. Ye say sooth, said Galahad."

    - Thomas Malory, 'The Holy Grail'.

    September 8, 2009

  • next - si(nce) then

    September 5, 2011