[…]nor is there found, in sea or on land, a sweeter or pleasanter of gifts than she;for she is prime in comeliness and seemlihead of face and symmetrical shape of perfect grace; her check is ruddy dight, her brow flower white, her teeth gem-bright, her eyes blackest black and whitest white, her hips of heavy weight, her waist slight and her favour exquisite.
"By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."
1867, Frederick Metcalfe,The Oxonian in Iceland, page202:
"A summerly day for you," said my host; "You ought to be here in winter. It is impossible then to get out of the doorsfor the snow and wind. Ugh! dreadful weather!"
1864, George Etell Sargent,The Story of a City Arab, page313:
I could not see his hands,for the thick gloves he wore, and his face was partially concealed by a red woollen comforter; but his entire appearance and manners tallied with what I had seen of Yorkshire farmerhood.
For we would have you know it, / The loſs will fall on us, not on the Poet: / For he writes notfor money, norfor praiſe, / Nor to be call'd a Wit, nor to wear Bayes:[…]
By thestandards of, usually with the implication that those standards are lower than one might otherwise expect; considering.
Mr. Joseph Blenkinshaw was perhaps not worth quite so much as was reported; butfor all that he was a very wealthy man[…]
1968, J. J. Scarisbrick,Henry VIII, page240:
For all his faults, there had been something lofty and great about him - as a judge, as a patron of education, as a builder, as an international figure.
OFor a Muſe of Fire, that would aſcend / The brighteſt Heauen of Inuention :
1858 March 27, “The Lay of the Brief”, inPunch, Or, The London Charivari, page129:
Oh! but to breathe the air / By their side under summer skies! To watch the blush on their cheeks, / The light in their liquid eyes. / Oh! butfor one short hour, / To whisper a word of love;[…]
(in expressions such as 'for a start')Introducing the first item(s) in a potential sequence .
He took the swing shiftfor he could get more overtime.
Used in various other more-or-less idiomatic ways to construe individual verbs, indicating various semantic relationships such as target, purpose, result, etc.; see also the entries for individual phrasal verbs, e.g.ask for,look for,stand for, etc.
to accountfor one's whereabouts to carefor a relative to settlefor second best to allowfor mistakes
(nonstandard, in representations of dialectal speech, especially that of black speakers)To,the particle for marking the following verb as aninfinitive.
1896,McClure's magazine, page270:
“'Ugh—I'll not be ablefor get up. Send for M'sieu le Curé—I'll be goin'for die for sure.'
1898 December 17, “Mr. Owens' Experience”, inForest and Stream, volume51, page485:
[It was a] firs rate placefor shoot a woodcocks, I tell you. [...] I say [it] wass no usefor spen money. [...] An I say in "So wass I. I see lot of sy-pokes fly up an twist off like screw-cork an spit whistle, but I wass'nt ablefor get aim on him."
2007, H. Nigel Thomas,Return to Arcadia: A Novel (Tsar Publications):
"She say that when nigger people step out o' they place and startfor rub shoulders with Bacra, trouble just 'round the corner."
Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", inThe Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8
1998, Henrik Ibsen, translated by Odd Tangerud,Puphejmo : Dramo en tri aktoj[4]:
NORA (komencas elpreni el la skatolo, sed baldaŭforĵetas ĉion). Ho, se mi kuraĝus eliri. Se nur neniu venus. Se nur ne dume okazus io hejme. Stulta babilaĵo; neniu venos. Nur ne pensi. Brosi la mufon. Delikataj gantoj, delikataj gantoj.For el la pensoj!For, for! Unu, du, tri, kvar, kvin, ses — (krias) Jen, tie ili venas —
NORA (begins to unpack the box, but soon pushes it allaway). Oh, if I dared go out. If only no one would come. If only I could be sure nothing would happen here in the meantime. Stupid nonsense; no one will come. Only I mustn't think about it. I will brush my muff. What lovely, lovely gloves.Out of my thoughts,Away, away! One, two, three, four, five, six— (Screams) There, someone's coming—
for inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
for inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"for", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Karl Gottlob Zumpt, 1846,A school-grammar of the Latin language, p146
Is nū for þȳ Godes þēowum and mynstermannum ġeorne tō wearnienne þæt sēo hālġe lār on ūrum dagum ne ācōliġe oþþe ātēoriġe swā swā hit wæs ġedōn on Angelcynne nūfor ānum fēawum gēarum, swā þæt nān Englisċ prēost ne cūðe dihtan oþþe āsmēaġan ānne pistol on Lǣden, oþ þæt Dūnstān ærċebisċop and Æðelwold bisċop eft þā lāre on munuclīfum ārǣrdon.
That's why God's servants and monks should be very careful not to let this sacred learning cool or fade in our time, the way it did in England a few yearsago, when none of our priests could compose or interpret a letter in Latin, until archbishop Dunstan and bishop Æthelwold revived learning in monastic life.
