Meaning

(obsolete) A journey, way..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) A journey, way.
2. (obsolete) One's journey of life, experience, one's lot, also by extension life, lifetime.
3. (obsolete) An instant in time, a point in time or an occasion.
4. Archaic form of since.

Example Sentences

The holy gost before vs glad / ffull softly on his sithe

Christ's sith of sorrow and suffering.

Of them the other philosophers have, by siths, taken their beginning.

The foolish man thereat woxe wondrous blith, / As if the word so spoken, were halfe donne, / And humbly thanked him a thousand sith, / That had from death to life him newly wonne.

His land mortgag'd, he, sea-beat in the way, / Wishes for home a thousand siths a day.

Therefore we need not fear them, sith Christ is with us; […]

Welcome deere Roſencraus, and Guyldensterne, / Moreouer, that we much did long to ſee you, / The need we haue to vſe you did prouoke / Our haſtie ſending, ſomething haue you heard / Of Hamlets transformation, ſo call it, / Sith nor th'exterior, nor the inward man / Reſembles that it was, what it ſhould be, / More then his fathers death, that thus hath put him / So much from th'vnderſtanding of himſelfe / I cannot dreame of: […]

I had almost askt-⁠-⁠-qui gurges, aut quis tartarus hoc ſcelus-⁠-eſt auſus attrectare? ſith in ſo many thouſãds of years from the fal of the reprobate and faithleſſe angels it neuer came into the head of anie deuil to ſuggeſt to the hart of any mã before this time ſo nefarious, flagitius, portentuous a wickedneſſe, as this was?

Word Forms

• siths
• sithe

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