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gainst, in mod. edd. usually “'gainst”: used in the various senses of ‘against’, the temporal meaning being least usual; =AGAINST 2 Shr. II. i. 309 [317] “ the wedding day,” R2 V. ii. 66 (Qq2-5 “against”), Rom. III. v. 154; =AGAINST 3 Tit. V. ii. 206 (Qq “against”), Ham. I. i. 158 “gainst that season comes.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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