(prep.) In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration
of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes
place.
(prep.) Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action;
the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state;
the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.
(prep.) Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the
end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves,
or is done.
(prep.) Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which,
anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side
of; -- opposed to against.
(prep.) Indicating that toward which the action of anything is
directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.
(prep.) Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything
acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a
compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.
(prep.) Indicating that in the character of or as being which
anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.
(prep.) Indicating that instead of which something else controls in
the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is
done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of;
-- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.
(prep.) Indicating the space or time through which an action or
state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.
(prep.) Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of
which, anything is done.
(conj.) Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old
English, the reason of anything.
(conj.) Since; because; introducing a reason of something before
advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of
an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly
equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is
sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by
what has gone before.
(n.) One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side;
that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis
of against, and commonly used in connection with it.
