adv. Obs. = FORASMUCH.
1454. in Burton & Raine, Hemingbrough, 393. Forsomykill as I have certeyn knawledge.
1562. Winȝet, Cert. Tractates, ii. (1888), I. 16. Forsamekle as we delyuerit certane articulis to zow tweching zour doctryne, ordour, &c.
1611. Bible, Luke xix. 9. And Iesus said vnto him, This day is saluation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is the sonne of Abraham.
c. 1620. Z. Boyd, in Zion’s Flowers (1855), App. 30/1. Be in kend to all men be thir present lettres me M. Zachary Boyd minister at the Baronie kirk of Glasgow forsameikle as by a band.
