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CONJUNCTIONS. As parenthetical == "as regards which," &c.

As = "as regards which," "though," "for," was sometimes used parenthetically in a sense oscillating between the relative "which," "as regards which," and the conjunction "for," "though," "since." It is used as a relative in

“But say or he or we, (as neither have [pl. see 12, Neither],)
Received that sum.
”

As is used in a transitional manner for "as regards which" or "for indeed," in

“Though I die for it, as no less is threatened me.
”

“When I was young, as, yet, I am not old.
”

“If you will patch a quarrel
As matter whole you've not to make it with.
”

Here in the second example, "When I was young as I yet, or still, am," would have retained the relatival signification of as, but the addition of "not old" obliges us to give to as the meaning not of "which," but "as regards which" or "for." So in

“She dying, as it must be so maintained.
”

A Shakespearean Grammar. Edwin Abbott Abbott. London and New York. Macmillan and Company. 1870.

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