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/ənd soʊ fɔrθ/ Listen

verb

Forth v.

Forward; onward in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth. "Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth." "From this time forth, I never will speak word." "I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me say forth; I said I was taught no more."

Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves. "When winter past, and summer scarce begun, Invites them forth to labor in the sun."

Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out. "I have no mind of feasting forth to-night."

Throughly; from beginning to end. (Obs.)

And so forth, Back and forth, From forth. See under And, Back, and From.

Forth of, Forth from, out of. (Obs.)

To bring forth. See under Bring.

conjunction

And conj.

A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence. Note: (a) It is sometimes used emphatically; as, "there are women and women," that is, two very different sorts of women. (b) By a rhetorical figure, notions, one of which is modificatory of the other, are connected by and; as, "the tediousness and process of my travel," that is, the tedious process, etc.; "thy fair and outward character," that is, thy outwardly fair character,

In order to; used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go. "At least to try and teach the erring soul."

It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive. "When that I was and a little tiny boy."

If; though. See An, conj. (Obs.) "As they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs."

And so forth, and others; and the rest; and similar things; and other things or ingredients. The abbreviation, etc. (et cetera), or &c., is usually read and so forth.

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... sort of governess person. She takes me out walks, and sits by when my music-master comes, and so forth. She is new, and she won't do, but I may as well make her useful while ...

— Olive in Italy • Moray Dalton

... surrender would have been as clear a case of murder as was the butchery on Magus Moor. Yet throughout Dalrymple's indictment is no hint of any such offence. Claverhouse is accused of oppression by excessive fines and illegal quartering of troops, of malversation, and so forth; but of taking man's life unlawfully ...

— Claverhouse • Mowbray Morris

... King James IV. of Scotland granted to his faithful subjects, Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar, burgesses of Edinburgh, leave to import a printing-press and letter, and gave them licence to print law books, breviaries, and so forth, more particularly the Breviary of William, Bishop of Aberdeen. Walter Chepman was a general merchant, and probably his chief part in the undertaking at the outset was of a financial character. Andrew Myllar had for some years carried on the business of a bookseller ...

— A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 • Henry R. Plomer

... of the children's worker. While it is very desirable to use this regard as a means of influencing their reading, care must be taken to guard against a merely sentimental attitude on the part of the girls toward the worker. As a rule, girls want stories about people, other girls, school stories and so forth, and will take a book that you say is a good one without looking into it. If she likes it she will come to you to select another, and in this way you can lead her from pure fiction to historical fiction and biography and so on up to good literature, all through, at ...

— Library Work with Children • Alice I. Hazeltine

... parent, said, "My uncle would sup with us." So she arose straightway and going to the market-street bought all she required; then, returning to her dwelling she borrowed from the neighbours whatever was needed of pans and platters and so forth and when the meal was cooked and supper time came she said to Alaeddin "O my child, the meat is ready but peradventure thine uncle wotteth not the way to our dwelling; so do thou fare forth and meet him ...

— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton

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