Such dem. adj. and pron.

Forms: see below. [OE. swelc, swilc, swylc, corresp. to OFris. sellich, -ik, selk, sek, sullik, sulch, sulk (mod.Fris. suk, sok), OS. sulîk, (solîk), MLG. sol(l)ik, sollek, solk (LG. sü(l)k, sö(l)k), MDu. sulc, selc, solc, swilc, swelc, also sulic, -ec (Du. zulk, WFlem. also zuk), OHG. sulîh, -ich, -ech, solîh, -ech, solch-, sol- (MHG. solich, solch, solh, also sölch, sölh, sülich, sülc, sölk, selch, silch, mod.Ger. solch), ON. slíkr (MSw. sliker, Sw. slik, Da. slig) whence SLIKE a., Goth. swaleiks:—OTeut. *swalîko-, *swilîko-, lit. so formed, f. swa SO adv. + *lîko- body, form (cf. LIKE a.).

  The OE. swelc and swilc represent primitive *swalîko- and *swilîko- respectively, the latter being an analogical formation on *hwilîko- WHICH; cf. OE. hwilc beside hwelc (:—*hwalîko-), and Goth. hwileiks. Evidence for the rounding of swilc to swylc appears late in the 9th c., and a sporadic spelling swulc is found from c. 1000. Swylc and swulc became in ME. swülch, swulch, which, by the absorption of w and loss of l, gave such (in ME. written also soch), the modern standard form. The dropping of w was carried through into the other types swe(l)ch and swi(l)ch, whence the widespread dial. forms sech and sich. Thus, and by similar cross-influences, a large variety of forms arose, which can be grouped according to (1) the quality of the vowel, (2) the retention or loss of w, (3) the retention or loss of l, as well as (4) the palatalization or non-palatalization of c. The unpalatalized forms SWILK and SIC (swelk, swik, silk, etc.) are treated separately in their alphabetical places.

  The vocalism of the continental forms is in many points obscure. Some of them indicate the possibility of there having been new formations distinct from the original types, and there has no doubt been interaction of the forms of WHICH, the development of which, presumably on account of the difference of the initial sound, has not been entirely parallel.]

  A.  Illustration of Forms.

  1.  α. 1 swelc, suelc, suælc, swælc, suoelc. Also 5 swelk, suelk (see SWILK).

[c. 725.  Corpus Gloss. (Hessels), A 204. At queue, end suelce.]

c. 831.  Charter, in O. E. Texts, 446. Suelc man se ðisses landes bruce.

c. 888.  Ælfred, Boeth., xix. Ne se deað þeah swelces ne recþ.

c. 950.  Lindisf. Gosp., Matt. ix. 8. Potestatem talem, mæht suælc.

  β.  1 swilc, 1–2 suilc, 2–3 swilch, suilch. (See also SWILK.)

[c. 725.  Corpus Gloss. (Hessels), A 881. Atqueve, onsuilce.]

c. 831.  Charter, in O. E. Texts, 446. Suilc man sue hit aweʓe.

c. 995.  Anc. Charters B. Mus., Cott. VIII. 38. On bocum & an swilcum lytlum.

1154.  O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.), an. 1137. Þe land was al fordon mid suilce dædes.

c. 1160.  Hatton Gosp., Matt. ix. 8. Swilcne anweald.

a. 1200.  Moral Ode, 220. Swilche freonde.

c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 11. Alle þo þe leueð þat swilch þing hem muge furðrie oðer letten. Ibid., 165. Of swilch mai grisen men þe ani god cunnen.

  γ.  1–2 swylc, (swylic), 1, 3 swulc, 3 swulc(c)h, masc. acc. sing. swulne.

c. 897.  K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xxxvii. 264 (Cott. MS.). Ða swylcan.

a. 950.  Ælfred’s Boeth., xxxix. § 2 (Cott. MS.). He ne con onʓitan … forhwy swylc God ʓeþafað.

c. 1000.  Judith, 65. Hæfde ða his ende ʓebidenne … swylcne he ær æfter worhte.

c. 1000.  Beowulf, 880. Swulces hwæt.

1032.  in Anglia, XI. 9. Na hyrde we … æniʓ wurde hus aræred swylic þæt mære was.

c. 1175.  12th Cent. Hom., 2. Swylce tacnæ wurcen swylce ðu wyrcst.

c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 185. Swulc se he hit here makeð.

c. 1205.  Lay., 5333. Sone swa heo ihurden swulch worde. Ibid., 5345. Þane we nimen swulne ræd.

α. 1225.  Ancr. R., 382. Ich wot swulne þet bereð … heui brunie and here.

  2.  a. 3 suweche, 3–5 sweche, (4 swheche, Kent. zuech, 5 schwe(s)che).

a. 1250.  Owl & Night. (Jesus MS.), 1711. Heo wolde … yeue answere … myd sweche worde.

a. 1300.  Deb. Body & Soul, in Map’s Poems (Camden), 338. Suweche fyve als is in werld of alle thinges.

1340.  Ayenb., 156. Be zueche fables wes y-woned þe wyse man teche his mayne.

c. 1340.  Leg. Rood, 223. Swech deþ he under feng.

c. 1450.  Capgrave, Life St. Aug., 1. Swech tresour as I haue in possession.

1466–7.  Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.), 171. At schwesche a pryse as ȝe kane akorde.

  β.  2–5, 9 Glouc. dial. swich, 3–5 suich, suych, 4–5 swiche, swych(e, (3 swic, swyhc, svich, siwiche, suwiche, schuuych, 4 Kent. zuich, zuych, 5 swyhche, sqwyche). Also 4–5 swyk, etc. (see SWILK).

c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 157. Swiche teres schedde ure drihten.

a. 1200.  Moral Ode, 80. Nis na lauerd swich se is crist, ne king swuch ure drihten.

c. 1290.  S. Eng. Leg., 459. Men þat schuuych torment iseiȝen.

13[?].  Cursor M., 10 (Gött.). King arthour, þat was so riche, Was non in his time funden suiche.

1340.  Ayenb., 37. Of zuichen þer byeþ uele maneres.

c. 1391.  Chaucer, Astrol., Prol. (1872), 2. Swich a child.

1426.  Lydg., De Guil. Pilgr., 17162. In Thapocalyps off Johan Swych a beste fond I noon.

c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 483/2. Swyche (H. swyhche, P. suche), talis.

c. 1450.  J. Metham, Wks. (E.E.T.S.), 45. In sqwyche a case, or sqwyche a chauns.

1461.  Paston Lett., II. 18. Suyche as arn right credible. Ibid. (1462), 82. Swyche talkynge.

  γ.  2–4 swuch, 3 swucch, swuc, shwuch, 4 swoch.

a. 1200.  [see 2 β].

c. 1205.  Lay., 18351. Ofte heo eoden to ræde of swucchere neode.

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 112. Swuc grure he hefde. Ibid., 312. Wreððen swuch feder, & sweamen swuchne wardein.

c. 1290.  S. Eng. Leg., 384. I nam no kyng swuch þing to habbe.

a. 1399.  Pol. Poems (Rolls), I. 271. Swoch claterers.

  3.  α. 3 sulch, swlc(h, solch.

  An early northern example of absorption of the w is given by soelce adv. in Rituale Eccl. Dunelm., 19, 69.

c. 1205.  Lay., 671. Brutus hine bi-þohte of swlchere [c. 1275. solchere] neode. Ibid., 2820. Swlc werc him þuhte swiðe muri.

  β.  3 selk(e, 3–4 sulk(e, 4–5 silk(e (see SWILK).

  4.  α. 4–5 seche, 9 dial. and vulgar sech, setch.

13[?].  Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 1543. A hundreth of seche As I am.

c. 1400.  Anturs of Arth., xxxi. (MS. Ireland). Seche game, and siche glee, Seȝhe he neuyr are.

c. 1450.  Mirk’s Festial, 51. Seche he avaunset.

1848.  Thackeray, Van. Fair, xvi. Sech a business.

1885.  C. G. Leland, Brand-New Ballads, 126.

  β.  3– (now dial.) sich; also 4–5 sych(e, 4–6 siche, 8– sitch, s.w. and Irel. zitch, zich; 4 schych, 6 schiche, shyche, scheich, shytt.

c. 1250.  Kent. Serm., in O. E. Misc., 32. Swiche lorde þet siche miracle mai do.

c. 1380.  Wyclif, Serm., Sel. Wks. II. 317. Worldly men ben siche men þat þe world haþ overcomen.

c. 1400.  [see 4 α].

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 11340. Syche counsell … kepe I none of.

a. 1425.  trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 92. With þis puluis haue I cured sich fikez.

1487.  Cely Papers (Camden), 168. The ceson ys syche at Bruges now that [etc.].

c. 1550.  Cheke, Matt. iii. 15. Let sich thinges go now.

1746.  Exmoor Scolding (E.D.S.), 24. Ees dedent thenk tha had’st a be’ zich a Labb o’ tha Tongue.

1782.  Eliz. Blower, Geo. Bateman, I. 86. I had sitch an affection for him.

a. 1847.  George Ridler’s Oven, vii in Halliwell, Dict., p. xviii. My dog has gotten zitch a trick.

1848.  Dickens, Dombey, xxxix. Sitch is his conscience!

1867.  Rock, Jim an’ Nell, lxxxvii. (E.D.S.). Ha isn’t worth zich trouble.

a. 1400[?].  Kyng & Hermyt, 281, in E.P.P. (1864), I. 24. Aboute schych mastery.

1512–3.  Trevelyan Papers, III. (Camden), 9. Schiche mo[r]tuaries as ys due. Ibid. He sayth that Jamys Clarke … wyll no paye y^e scheichys dwttes.

1556.  Machyn, Diary (Camden), 119. Ane shytt person. Ibid., 133. Shyche a man.

  γ.  3– such; also 3–5 succh, 3–6 soch, 4–6 soche, 4–7 suche, (3 socch, 4 sooche, suuche, swche, 5 sucche, 5–7 souche, 6 souch, sutche, soyche, s.w. dial. zutche, 6–7 sutch); 3 shuc, scuch, 4 shoch, 5 schwsche, 6 scwch, 6–7 shuch(e, 9 dial. shut.

  c. 1205.  Lay., 491. To wroþer heore hele habbeð heo such [c. 1275 soch] werc idon.

a. 1250.  Owl & Night. (Jesus MS.), 1511. Þe vle wes glad of suche tale.

1377.  Langl., P. Pl., B. XVI. 112. Ofte he heled suche.

c. 1380.  Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 455. Alle men tristynge in sooche indulgencis.

c. 1400.  Brut., I. lxxxv. 87. The Emperour loste soche foure of his folc as dede Kyng Arthur.

1487.  Paston Lett., III. 463. Specially souche as have knowen me.

1530.  Proper Dyaloge, in Roy, Rede me, etc. (Arb.), 134. I and suche other.

1535.  Coverdale, Bible, Ep. To make soch meanes for vs vnto his heauenly father.

1551.  T. Wilson, Logic (1580), 15 b. To keepe sutche Ceremonis.

1555.  Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889), 442. Whoosomever doo not observe souche ordre.

a. 1568.  Ascham, Scholem., II. (Arb.), 123. Any soch thing.

1574.  in W. H. Turner, Select. Rec. Oxford, 354. Soyche as should plye ther bockes.

1577–82.  Breton, Flourish upon Fancie, Wks. (Grosart), I. 6/2. Sutch his Schollers are.

1585.  in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1914), Jan., 113. Souche of the comen howse as they made choice of.

1586.  Ferne, Blaz. Gentrie, 188. Giffe she put zutche a vermine beast, in trust to keepe it.

1661.  Pr. Rupert, in 11th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 8. Souche that comands those that stay on these frontirs.

  c. 1250.  Long Life, 27, in O. E. Misc., 156. Weilawei shuc weneð to lede.

c. 1250.  Moral Ode, 222, in E. E. P. (1862), 29. God sculde alle godes frend a wihd scuche freonde.

1303.  R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 3044. No shoch kote to þe shulde be.

1466–7.  Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.), 172. I have ȝeffen ȝowe no schwsche kawse.

1501.  Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889), 388. A reysonable day scwch as pleace the maysteres to gywe.

c. 1538.  in Archbold, Somerset Relig. Houses (1892), 85. Schuche as were as warthy as some other.

1549.  Latimer, Ploughers (Arb.), 31. There was neuer shuch a preacher … as he is.

1556.  Chron. Grey Friars (Camden), 55. Then was made a proclamacyon agayne shoche sayers.

1638.  Hamilton Papers (Camden), 34. All shuch horses that should pase through that toune.

Mod.  (Birmingham). Shut a lot.

  B.  Signification.

  Such is a demonstrative word used to indicate the quality or quantity of a thing by reference to that of another or with respect to the effect that it produces or is capable of producing. Thus, syntactically, such may have backward or forward reference; in the uses of branch I it has the former, in those of branch II mainly the latter.

  The use of such and such a in the attributive position is illustrated in detail only in sense 1, but the same rules apply to the adj. generally; for special uses see branch IV.

  I.  1. Of the character, degree or extent described, referred to, or implied in what has been said.

  a.  with sing. sb.

  (a)  With a concrete sb., or an abstract sb. used in a particularized sense; now superseded by such a (see c below) except poet.

971.  Blickl. Hom., 189. Hwa lyfde þe þæt þu swylce scylde ʓefremedest?

a. 1122.  O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.), an. 1087 [1086]. Hwam ne mæʓ earmian swylcere tide?

c. 1205.  Lay., 5421. To swulche forward we beoð hidere isende.

a. 1225.  Owl & Night. (Jesus MS.), 1496. Hw may þer eny luue beo, Hwar such mon gropeþ hire þeo?

c. 1385.  Chaucer, L. G. W., 474, Prol. To be war from falsenesse & from vice By swich ensaumple.

a. 1425.  Cursor M., 4379 (Trin.). Whoso bigynne wol siche þing him owe to þinke on þe endyng.

1589.  Puttenham, Engl. Poesie, II. ix. (Arb.), 94. If one should rime to this word Restore he may not match him with Doore … such rime is strained.

1646.  Crashaw, Sospetto d’Herode, li. She thinks not fit such he her face should see.

1749.  Johnson, Van. Hum. Wishes, 298. Such Age there is, and who could wish its End?

1805.  Wordsw., Elegiac Stanzas, 30. Such Picture would I at that time have made.

1842.  Macaulay, Horatius, l. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack.

a. 1849.  Beddoes, Dream-Pedlary, ii. Such pearl from Life’s fresh crown Fain would I shake me down.

  (b).  With an abstract sb. used in a general sense.

971.  Blickl. Hom., 85. Ne us næfre swylce eʓe ne wearþ … ʓeendebyrded.

c. 1100.  O. E. Chron. (MS. F), an. 995. Hi wurðan ða swyðe bliþe þurh swilce wissunge.

c. 1275.  Sinners Beware, 171, in O. E. Misc., 77. From sucche lecherye Heo schule to helle cume.

a. 1366[?].  Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 697. Than wist I … That ydelnesse me serued well That me putte in sich Iolite.

c. 1460.  Emare, 626. Be stylle, syr,… Lette syche mornynge bene.

1535.  Coverdale, 2 Sam. iii. 12. Do not thou soch foly.

1590.  Spenser, F. Q., III. i. 50. Such loue is hate, and such desire is shame.

1700.  Dryden, Flower & Leaf, 95. Such Joy my Soul, such Pleasures fill’d my Sight.

1777.  Burke, Corr. (1844), II. 158. Such partiality to his endeavours.

1802.  Mar. Edgeworth, Moral T. (1816), I. 220. I little thought, that I should so soon be in such need.

1844.  Mrs. Browning, Lost Bower, xxxix. She never sings such music.

  (c)  Such a: see (a). (Cf. G. solch ein.)

c. 1205.  Lay., 18881. For ȝet næt hit neoðer … þat of Vðere Pendragune scal arisen swilc a sune.

c. 1290.  Beket, 1255, in S. Eng. Leg., 142. He þonkede god þat swuch a prelat under him moste beo.

13[?].  Bonaventura’s Medit., 813. Þere was neuer womman bare swyche a chylde.

1390.  Gower, Conf., I. 42. Ther may noman finde The rihte salve of such a Sor.

c. 1400.  Maundev. (1839), Prol. 3. Righte wel oughte us for … to drede and serven suche a Lord.

c. 1500.  Melusine, 360. Sayeng þat neuer tofore they herd of suche a thing.

1606.  Chapman, Gentl. Usher, II. i. Now such a huddle and kettle neuer was.

1654.  Butler, Hud., II. ii. 862. Else when we put it to the push, They had not giv’n us such a brush.

1711.  Addison, Spect., No. 23, ¶ 2. He does not believe any the most Comick Genius can censure him for talking upon such a Subject at such a Time.

1821.  Scott, Kenilw., xxii. Thou didst ill to speak to such a man of such matters.

1849.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., ix. II. 436. The Prince declared that to avert the horrors of such a persecution was one of his chief objects.

  † (d)  A such. (Cf. F. un tel, G. ein solcher.)

a. 1240.  Sawles Warde, in O. E. Hom., I. 251. To a swuch bale.

1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 379. Lute wonder it was Þat strange men in is owe lond dude a such trespas.

1307.  Elegy on Edw. I., ix. Wel longe we mowe clepe & crie, Er we a such kyng han y-founde!

  b.  with pl. sb.

a. 950.  Boeth. Metr., x. 55. Se [hlisa] is eac to lytel swelcra lariowa.

c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 157. Swiche teres scedde M. Magdalene þa heo wosch ure drihtenes fet.

1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 154. Þat water of baþe is þat on þat euere is iliche hot…. Swiche baþes þer beþ fale.

1362.  Langl., P. Pl., A. Prol. 32. Summe chosen Chaffare to cheeuen þe bettre, As hit semeþ to vre siht þat suche men scholden. Ibid. (1393), C. I. 64. Bote holy churche & charite choppe a-doun swich shryuers.

a. 1425.  [see A. 4 β].

1526.  Tindale, Rom. ii. 2. That the iudgement of God is accordynge to trueth, agaynst them which commit soche thynges.

1579.  Gosson, Sch. Abuse (Arb.), 30. The abuse of such places was so great that [etc.].

1667.  Milton, P. L., V. 401. Such high advantages thir innocence Gave them above thir foes.

1725.  Watts, Logic, 332. Such indirect and remote arguments may also be sometimes used to confirm a proposition which has been before proved by arguments more direct and immediate.

1808.  Scott, Marm., I. xxv. I love such holy ramblers.

1881.  Mivart, Cat, 128. Some muscles attached to a long bone which is relatively fixed at one end, tend to make it describe … a movement of circumduction. Such muscles are termed Rotators.

1892.  Mrs. Oliphant, Hist. Sk. Q. Anne, vi. (1894), 304. [He] was first indignant with the highflyers for expressing such opinions.

  2.  Standing predicatively at the head of a sentence or clause, and referring summarily to a statement or description just made.

  In ME. Such is (+ inf.) often = This is what it is (to be, etc.). Such is life!: an exclamatory phrase now often used trivially as an expression of resignation or acquiescence in things as they are.

1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 8675. Such it is to be ssrewe. Ibid., 11736. Suich was þe morþre of einesham, uor bataile non it nas.

c. 1320.  Cast. Love, 1161. Such beo þe duntes of batayle Þat he þolede for vs.

c. 1330.  Roland & V., 75. Þai toke him þe letter & kist his hand, Swiche was þe lawe of þe land.

c. 1381.  Chaucer, Parl. Foules, 570. Lo sich it is to haue a tunge loos. Ibid. (c. 1386), Prol., 485. And swich he was y-preued ofte sithes.

c. 1450.  Merlin, 632. Soche was the a-vision that I saugh in my slepe.

1567.  Painter, Pal. Pleas., II. 508. Sutch was the desyres of these two lovers.

1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., IV. 701. He first, and close behind him follow’d she, For such was Proserpine’s severe Decree.

1716.  Pope, Iliad, VIII. 595. For such is Fate, nor can’st thou turn its course.

1774.  Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1776), IV. 197. Such these animals appeared when brought into Europe.

1818.  Scott, Hrt. Midl., xxviii. The Lady … did not … ring a bell, because such was not the fashion of the time, but she whistled on a silver-call.

1837.  Lockhart, Scott, I. vi. 178. Such was the germ of the magnificent library and museum of Abbotsford.

1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xi. III. 71. His Majesty,—such was now the language of too many Anglican divines,—would have been [etc.].

1865.  Dickens, Mut. Fr., I. ii. With a mournful air—as who should say, ‘Here is another wretched creature come to dinner; such is life!’

1890.  Doyle, White Company, v. At the end of a year he would be free to return to the cloisters, for such had been his father’s bequest.

1896.  Law Q. Rev., July, 201. If such be the law, we are pretty sure it is not the law Parliament intended to make.

  3.  Of the same kind or class as something mentioned or referred to; of that kind; similar, the like. Obs. or arch., exc. in collocation with a numeral, indef. adj., etc. (see V).

c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 45. Mid þese þre lokes … and mid swiche weldede.

c. 1205.  Lay., 6564. Æuere he þohte embe uuel and swulche weoren his dede.

1390.  Gower, Conf., III. 312. Anon was mad a cofre sich.

c. 1400.  Maundev. (1839), xix. 205. A Pipe or a Penne or suche a thing.

c. 1450.  Two Cookery Bks., 83. Take faire peces of paynmain, or elles of such tendur brede.

1596.  Shaks., Merch. V., IV. i. 97. Let their beds Be made as soft as yours: and let their pallats Be season’d with such Viands. Ibid. (c. 1600), Sonn., liv. The Canker bloomes haue full as deepe a die, As the perfumed tincture of the Roses, Hang on such thornes, and play as wantonly.

1613–6.  W. Browne, Brit. Past., II. i. (1772), II. 19. Of rotchets, whitings or such common fish.

1697.  Dampier, Voy. (1729), I. 97. Penguins … are a Sea-Fowl, about as big as a Duck, and such Feet.

1771.  Encycl. Brit., II. 698/1. The protractor is a small semicircle of brass, or such solid matter.

1796.  Mrs. Inchbald, Nature & Art, xi. (1820), 27. You are my father—you have just such eyes, and such a forehead.

1829.  Scott, Anne of G., vii. Fustian, hides, peltry, and such ordinary articles.

  4.  Equivalent to a descriptive adj. or adv. on which it follows closely and the repetition of which is thus avoided. (Cf. 22.)

  So is now preferred.

c. 897.  K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xvi. 101. Hu he wolde ðæt mon him miltsode ʓif he suelc wære.

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 208. Iseliliche muwun heo siggen þet þene teil swuch ivindeð.

1340.  Ayenb., 51. ‘Ich habbe a to kuead heaued.’ And he zayþ zoþ, uor he heþ hit zuych ymad.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Prol., 313. Discreet he was, and of greet reuerence. He semed swich.

c. 1400.  Love, Bonavent. Mirr. (1908), 58. They wolde not be seyn suche in other mennes siȝt.

1590.  Spenser, F. Q., III. vii. 29. [He] rather ioyd to be, then seemen sich.

1667.  Milton, P. L., III. 100. Such I created all th’ Ethereal Powers And Spirits. Ibid., V. 521. That thou art happie, owe to God; That thou continu’st such, owe to thy self.

1697.  Dryden, Æneid, Ded., Ess. 1900, II. 154. A heroic poem, truly such.

1825.  Scott, Talism., xxviii. The pointless lances of the preceding day were certainly no longer such.

1865.  Kingsley, Herew., ix. Robert, who thought himself as good as his brother (though he was not such, save in valour).

  5.  The previously described or specified; the (person or thing) before mentioned.

  In this sense such (not such a) is usual with a sing. sb.

c. 1375.  Cursor M. (Fairf.), 10869. Thow shalt conceyve a child … And his name shalle þou Ihesu calle…. Suche wordis were seid to mary.

1452.  in Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., Var. Coll. IV. 201. Unto the tyme they have founde suerte of ther gode beringe; and yf they fynde not suche suerte [etc.].

1491.  Newminster Cartul. (Surtees), 252. If eny … recouere happyn agenste eny of y^e said partiez … y^t partie … ayenst whome sich recouere is had [etc.].

1551.  Sir J. Williams, Accompte (Abbotsf. Club), 1. All and singuler souche Redye money.

1667.  Milton, P. L., V. 26. Such whispering wak’d her.

1680.  New Hampsh. Prov. Papers (1867), I. 388. If any Christian … shall speak contempteously of the Holy Scriptures … such person or persons shall be punished.

1771.  Encycl. Brit., II. 698/2. Any number of inches,… with any part of an inch, can be taken…, providing such part be greater than the one hundredth part of an inch.

1818.  Cruise, Digest (ed. 2), VI. 332. For default of such issue, viz. that issue which is before mentioned.

1828.  Moore, Pract. Navig., 120. As ships never run such dist[ance] in 24 hours.

1835.  Carlyle, in Froude, Life Lond. (1884), I. ii. 43. My true wish is that such creed may long hold compactly together in you.

1878.  Act 41 & 42 Vict., c. 53 § 2. A gratuity awarded … to any clerk shall be estimated according to the period during which such clerk has served.

  II.  Where the meaning is determined by reference to a correlative or dependent clause.

  6.  a. With such in both clauses: in OE. swelc … swelc; later such as … such = L. qualis … talis, except in proverbial sentences of the type ‘Such master, such man.’

Beowulf, 1328 (Gr.). Swylc scolde eorl wesan, æþeling ærgod, swylc Æschere wæs!

a. 901.  Laws Ælfred, I. xi. Mid swelce hræʓle he ineode, mid swelce gange he ut.

971.  Blickl. Hom., 59. Eal swylce seo lange mettrumnes biþ þæs seocan mannes, þonne [etc.] … swylc is þæt lif þysses middanʓeardes.

1340.  Ayenb., 235. To zuiche lhorde zuich maine.

1390.  Gower, Conf., I. 360. Such Capitein such retenue.

c. 1400.  Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton), IV. xxix. (1859), 61. Suche as is the kyng,… suche is the peple.

1474.  Caxton, Chesse, II. ii. (1883), 33. Suche moder, suche doughter, comunely.

a. 1540.  [see LETTUCE 2].

1548–9.  (Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer, Athan. Creed. Such as the father is, suche is the sonne.

1549.  Latimer, Ploughers (Arb.), 28. Such as the noble men be, suche wyll the people be.

1560.  Bible (Geneva), 2 Cor. x. 11. Suche as we are in worde by letters when we are absent; suche wil we be also in dede, when we are present.

1586.  A. Day, Engl. Secretorie, I. (1625), 134. Consider that such as is the tree such is the fruit.

1618.  Bolton, Florus (1636), 151. Such as the Captaine is, such is the Souldier.

1725.  Berkeley, Proposal, Wks. 1871, III. 223. Such as their trade is, such is their wealth.

1821.  Scott, Pirate, xxx. He is dame Norna’s servant it’s like,—such man, such mistress!

1898.  Besant, Orange Girl, II. xxvi. Such as they are, such they have been made.

  † b.  With one of the correlatives omitted: = Such as. Obs.

Beowulf, 72 (Gr.). And þær on innan eall ʓedælan ʓeongum and ealdum, swylc him god sealde.

a. 1000.  Cædmon’s Dan., 66. Ʒehlodon him to huðe hordwearda ʓestreon, fea & freos, swilc þær funden wæs.

a. 1200.  Moral Ode, 80. Nis na lauerd swich se is crist ne king swuch ure drihten. Ibid., 120. Al his lif scal bon suilch boð his endinge.

c. 1205.  Lay., 4153. He somenede færd swulc nes næuere eær on erde. Ibid. (c. 1275), 3892. Her com a selcouþ tockne soch neuere ne com.

  c.  With what as the correlative in the dependent clause. rare.

1834.  Tracts for Times, No. 24. 5. What the Apostles are in St. Paul’s Epistles, such the Bishops are in those of Ignatius.

1850.  Newman, Diffic. Anglicans, I. xii. (1891), I. 379. What Arius, Nestorius, or Eutyches were then, such are Luther and Calvin now.

  † d.  With advb. as as the correlative in the dependent clause. Obs.

1535.  Coverdale, Judg. viii. 21. As the man is, soch [1611 so] is also his strength.

a. 1611.  Chapman, Iliad, XXIII. 517. As corn-ears do shine with dew … When fields set all their bristles up, in such a ruff wert thou, O Menelaus.

1658.  Dryden, Cromwell, xiii. He … made to Battels such Heroick Haste As if on Wings of Victory he flew.

1790.  Burns, Ballad Dumfries Elect., xiv. As flames amang a hundred woods, As headlong foam a hundred floods—Such is the rage of battle.

  7.  With correlative as pron. (see AS 23), ME. also as that, taking the place of OE. swelce, swá. Such as = Of the kind or degree that; the kind of (person or thing) that.

  According to the syntax of the subordinate clause, as may be equivalent to a relative in an oblique case = of, in, with (etc.) which.

c. 888.  Ælfred, Boeth., xxxiv. § 10. Be swelcum ʓesceaftum swelce nane sawle nabbað.

971.  Blickl. Hom., 95. Ealle hie sceolan þonne arisan … on swylcum heowe swa hie ær hie sylfe ʓefrætwodan.

c. 1100.  O. E. Chron. (MS. D), an. 1058. Mid swilcan weorðscipe swa nan oðer ne dyde ætforan him. Ibid. (a. 1122), (Laud MS.), an. 1009. Þa com him swilc wind onʓean swilce nan mann ær ne ʓemunde.

c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 83. Þe sunne schineð þer þurh, and ho nimeð al swuch hou alse ho þer on uint.

a. 1225.  Leg. Kath., 1852. Wið swuch dream … as drihtin deah to cumene.

c. 1230.  Hali Meid., 5. Of … swuch wurðschipe, as hit is to beo godes spuse.

c. 1290.  Beket, 1204, in S. Eng. Leg., 141. Of swuch a frere ase ich am.

1340–70.  Alex. & Dind., 855. Swiche werkus to swinke as oþur swainus vsen.

1377.  Langl., P. Pl., B. XIII. 433. What dauid seith of suche men as þe sauter telleth.

1480.  Cov. Leet Bk., 473. Before such persones and at such places as this case shall require.

1546.  Gardiner, Detect. Devils Sophistrie, 228. Christ … is … mocked … w^t such toyes and termes, as the Jewes deuised not more spitefull.

a. 1586.  Sidney, Arcadia, II. (Sommer), 126 b. When … Musidorus tooke on such shepherdish apparell … as I now weare.

1638.  Ford, Fancies, I. iii. Thy growth to such perfection, as no flattery Of art can perish now.

1774.  Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1776), VI. 82. If it be true that such meat as is the most dangerously earned is the sweetest.

1815.  Scott, Lett., in Lockhart (1837), III. x. 318. To finish an odd little tale within such time as will mistify the public, I trust.

1857.  Hughes, Tom Brown, II. ii. We’ll each of us give you such a thrashing as you’ll remember.

1877.  Ruskin, St. Mark’s Rest, v. 65. Such a cloak for their commercial appetite as modern church-going is for modern swindling.

  ellipt.  1586.  W. Bailey, Preserv. Eye-sight (1633), 35. We must use topicall meanes, and such as are discussive.

1695.  Dryden, trans. Dufresnoy’s Art. Paint., Pref. p. xii. In these pompous Expressions, or such as these.

1737.  Pope, Hor. Epist., II. ii. 2. You love a Verse, take such as I can send.

1780.  Mirror, No. 94. To guard such of my readers as should be disposed to indulge in it, against its … consequences.

1821.  Scott, Kenilw., xviii. He is to have no access to the lady but such as I shall point out.

1891.  Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, xl. All the ordinary conventions of a Roman marriage were carried out, except such as were purely pagan.

  † b.  With as omitted. Obs. rare.

1613.  Shaks., Hen. VIII., II. ii. 101. They haue sent me such a Man, I would haue wish’d for.

  † 8.  With as followed by a a relative usually in an oblique form. Obs.

1579.  Fenton, Guicciard., Ep. Ded. The man … was such a one, as whose virtues were farre from all suspition of partialitie.

1618.  Bolton, Florus, I. xvi. (1636), 48. Our army being … shut up within such a fastnesse as out of which it could not escape.

1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 17. Such a System of it, as from whence it would follow, that there could not be any God. Ibid., 198. By such a nature as which … is … nescient of what it doth.

  9.  In uses marked by special word-order.

  a.  In predicative use.

1154.  O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.), an. 1135. Þa … uuard þe sunne suilc als it uuare thre-niht ald mone.

c. 1205.  Lay., 7048. His hæð wes swulc swa beoð gold.

1377.  Langl., P. Pl., B. X. 253. Suche as þow semest in syȝte be in assay y-founde.

1421.  26 Pol. Poems, 83. Be suche wiþ-ynne, as ȝe outward seme.

c. 1450.  Capgrave, Life St. Aug., 38. Loke if ȝe be swech as þei be. Wold God ȝe were swech as I fynde hem.

1597.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. liv. § 5. His [right] beeing such as wee cannot reach.

1630.  Bp. Hall, Occas. Medit., § 9 (1633), 23. O God, wee are such as thou wilt bee pleased to make us.

1794.  Mrs. Radcliffe, Myst. Udolpho, lv. Her conduct was such as might have been expected from the weakness of her principles.

1817.  Jas. Mill, Brit. India, II. V. vii. 598. Be the other virtues belonging to it such as they may.

1859.  Ruskin, Two Paths, iii. § 96. Your stuffs need not be such as would catch the eye of a duchess.

  b.  Such as one or it is: having the character that he (it) has, no more and no less; used chiefly with a depreciatory or contemptuous reference, or apologetically.

a. 1240.  Ureisun, in O. E. Hom., I. 201. Þet wule bi-cluppen þe þer swuch ase þu ert þer louerd of leoue.

a. 1240.  Wohunge, Ibid., 285. A wrecche bodi … bere ich ouer worðe, and tat swuch as hit is haue ȝiuen … to þi seruise.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Reeve’s T., 201. If ther be eny Swich as it is, yet shal ye haue youre part.

1538.  Starkey, England (1878), 134. They haue theyr seruyce, such as hyt ys, al in theyr vulgare tong openly rehersyd.

1546.  J. Heywood, Prov. (1867), 42. Many men wishte … Some well fauourd vysor, on hir yll fauourd face. But with visorlyke visage, suche as it was, She smirkt, and she smylde.

a. 1700.  Dryden, Pref. to Fables, Ess. 1900, II. 249. Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that [etc.].

1719.  De Foe, Crusoe, II. (Globe), 363. To get up upon their Feet, and perhaps put on a Coat, such as it was, and their Pumps.

1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xx. IV. 463. Such as his mind was, it had been assiduously cultivated.

1878.  Hardy, Ret. Native, VI. i. But, such as the rooms were, there were plenty of them.

  c.  In attributive use after its sb.

c. 1000.  Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xxix. 263. Þa com þær heofonlic leoht … swilc swa hi ær ne ʓesa won.

1340.  Ayenb., 56. Þer huer he makeþ his miracles zuiche ase behoueþ to þe dyeule.

1460.  Capgrave, Chron. (Rolls), 84. With wordis … swech as Seint Augustin wold nevir write.

a. 1533.  Ld. Berners, Huon, cxi. 385. A fyne shyrte and dobelet … such as he wold chose.

1590.  Shaks., Com. Err., I. i. 81. A small spare Mast, Such as sea-faring men prouide for stormes.

1667.  Milton, P. L., I. 620. Tears such as Angels weep.

1757.  W. Wilkie, Epigoniad, IV. 95. Its music such, as when a stormy gale Roars thro’ a hollow cliff.

1820.  Keats, Lamia, I. 36. A mournful voice, Such as once heard,… destroys All pain but pity.

1859.  Tennyson, Guinev., 545. Beauty such as never woman wore.

  d.  Hence such as is used to introduce examples of a class: = for example, e.g.

1695.  Dryden, trans. Dufresnoy’s Art Paint., Pref. p. xvi. If … their Characters were wholly perfect, (such as for Example, the Character of a Saint or Martyr in a Play).

1774.  Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1776), III. 198. All of the cat kind, such as the lion, the tiger, the leopard, and the ounce.

1779.  Mirror, No. 31. Writers, such as Theophrastus and La Bruyere.

1842.  Loudon, Suburban Hort., 282. The grafting of plants of one family on those of another totally opposite, such as the jessamine on the orange.

1875.  Jevons, Money, xiii. 159. Many large gold coins, such as the … doubloon.

  10.  a. The principal clause may be reduced to such and the words qualified by it for the purpose of producing a terse (exclamatory) form.

c. 1420.  Sir Amadace (Camden), xlix. Seche a storme as thou was inne, That thou myȝte any socur wynne, A fulle fayre happe hit wase!

1779.  Warner, in Jesse, Selwyn & Contemp. (1844), IV. 271. Such a dinner as we had to-day!

Mod.  Oh dear! Such a fuss as never was!

  b.  The clause introduced by as may be reduced to the subj. only; when this is a pron., it may be either nom. or acc., e.g., ‘such as me’ or ‘such as I’ (sc. am).

c. 1000.  Ælfric, Hom., II. 162. Se wolde habban swilcne hlisan swa Benedictus.

c. 1412.  Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 1144. Erthen vessel, to swich a man as me Ful sittyng is.

1588.  Shaks., L. L. L., IV. iii. 131. As his, your case is such. Ibid. (1611), Wint. T., II. i. 191. Others such as he.

1617.  Donne, Serm., Luke xxiii. 40 (1660), III. 2. The Revelations of Brigid, and of Katherine, and such She-fathers as those.

1712.  Addison, Spect., No. 317, ¶ 3. Such a Road of Action as that I have been speaking of.

1716.  Hearne, Collect. (O.H.S.), V. 292. 4 Pillars,… of such Marble as the Pillars of Sarum Cathedral.

1717.  Addison, Notes Ovid, Wks. 1721, I. 234. This way of joining two such different Ideas as Chariot and Counsel to the same verb.

1740.  Richardson, Pamela (1741), I. xxiv. 67. He … look’d at me, and, as I thought afterwards, as sillily as such a poor girl as I.

1831.  Scott, Ct. Robt., xviii. Instead of such language as this.

1841.  Elphinstone, Hist. India, I. 595. He replied … that barbarity such as his was unexampled among princes.

1885.  ‘Mrs. Alexander,’ At Bay, ii. Deering could not endure the companionship of such a man as Vincent.

  c.  There is such a thing as: a phrase used to hint or suggest that the thing referred to exists and therefore must be taken into account; often used colloq. to convey a veiled threat.

1729.  Butler, Serm., Wks. 1874, II. 132. It is manifest, that there is such a thing as this self-partiality and self-deceit.

1767.  Woman of Fashion, II. 114. There is such a Thing as a Letter miscarrying.

1818.  T. L. Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, xiii. There is a girl concealed in this tower, and find her I will. There are such things as sliding panels and secret closets.

1889.  Sat. Rev., 23 March, 335/1. It may be said that there are such things as horsewhips, and it is thought that men have backs.

  11.  Such … as (OE. swá): the … that, pl. those … that; any or all … that; as many (or as much) … as.

a. 1000.  Soul’s Addr., 103 (Gr.). Sculon wit … brucan swylcra yrmþa swa þu unc ar scrife.

c. 1375.  Cursor M., 259 (Fairf.). Suche worde and werkis as we in lyue redy acountes mone we gyue.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Can. Yeom. Prol., 266. Swich thyng as that I know, I wol declare.

1390.  Gower, Conf., I. 90. Glad was hire innocence tho Of suche wordes as sche herde.

1470.  in Camden Misc. (1847), I. 6. A remembrance of suche actez and dedez as oure souveraigne lorde hadde done.

1534.  Cromwell, in Merriman, Life & Lett. (1902), I. 387. Certayne besynes … to be done … with soche spede and diligence as they convenyently may.

1539.  Taverner, Erasm. Prov. (1552), 49. Such ale as he hath brued, let him drynke him self.

1601.  Dolman, La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1618), III. 848. All these things proceede from the diuersitie of the nature … of such humours as haue engendred them.

a. 1715.  Burnet, Own Time, VII. (1823), V. 147. The electress … was forced to submit to such terms as were imposed on her.

1835.  J. Duncan, Beetles (Nat. Lib.), 182. This genus … comprehends such insects as have the antennæ slightly compressed.

1867.  Ruskin, Time & Tide, ii. § 5. There is a root of the very deepest … truth in the saying, which gives to it such power as it still retains.

  predic.  1737.  Gentl. Mag., VII. 261/2. These, being such as occur to my Memory at present.

  12.  With relative who, which (whence, where, etc.) or that (OE. þe, se þe): = ‘such … as’ (in senses 6 and 11). Now rare and regarded as incorrect.

c. 831.  Charter, in O. E. Texts, 446. Suelc mon se ðet lond hebbe.

c. 1000.  Ælfric, Hom., II. 162. Þæt he ðone cwelmbæren hlaf … on swilcere stowe awurpe, ðær hine nan man findan ne mihte. Ibid. (c. 1000), Saints’ Lives, Pref. 62. Buton he hæbbe … swylce þening men þe þeawfæstnysse him ʓebeodon.

c. 1205.  Lay., 4242. Swulc for-wonde man þe mid sorwe at-wand. Ibid., 18934. Ich con swulcne leche-craft þe leof þe scal iwurðen.

1340.  Ayenb., 139. Alle zuiche þinges þet þe kueade poure deþ and þoleþ.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Prol., 3. Whan that Aprille with hise shoures soote … hath … bathed euery veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour. Ibid. (c. 1386), Monk’s T., 741. Swich a reyn doun fro the welkne shadde That slow the fyr.

1390.  Gower, Conf., I. 57. Such thing wherof a man may lere That to vertu is acordant.

c. 1400.  trans. Secr. Secr., Gov. Lordsh., 106. Þat þou chese of wyse men … sweche þat hauyn perfeccion of enournede eloquence.

1419.  26 Pol. Poems, 70. He þat … wole … suche games bygynne Where þat he wot he may not wynne.

c. 1489.  Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, ix. 233. Lordes, lete vs doo suche a thyng, wherof we shall gete worshyp.

1515.  in Leadam, Sel. Cases Star Chamber (Selden Soc.), II. 95. To occupie eny misterye or craft without thagrement of suche Craft that he desireth to be of.

1552–3.  Act 7 Edw. VI., c. 12 § 11. At suche place, where he and his Familie … shall kepe his house.

1601.  Shaks., Jul. C., II. i. 130. Such suffering Soules That welcome wrongs.

1662.  Stillingfl., Orig. Sacræ, II. i. § 2. Such a person … who gave … evidence … that he acted no private design.

1709.  Swift, Adv. Relig., Wks. 1755, II. I. 109. Such men are often put into the commission of the peace, whose interest it is, that virtue should be utterly banished.

1709.  Strype, Ann. Ref., lii. 524. These … seemed to him … such which he never thought … would be seriously opposed.

a. 1774.  Goldsm., Hist. Greece, I. 227. Such of his friends that had not forsaken him.

1818.  Cruise, Digest (ed. 2), V. 211. The husband and wife had not such an estate in the land whereof a fine could be levied.

1829.  Scott, Anne of G., xiv. Such prisoners from whom he was desirous of extorting … information.

1873.  Newman, Idea Univ. (ed. 3), 431. In spite of such [ed. 1859 whatever] deductions from it that have to be made in detail.

1888.  ‘Sarah Grand,’ Ideala (1893), 229. He would have given her the natural joys of a woman—husband, home, children, friends, and only such intellectual pursuits which are pleasant.

  13.  Followed by a dependent clause introduced by that, † so (that), † as, as that (now rare), or by as to (formerly only † to) with infin., expressing a consequence. The meaning of such tends to be intensive = so great, etc.

  (a)  c. 1100.  O. E. Chron. (MS. F), an. 995. Þes ʓeares … wearð swylc mancwealm þæt na belaf binnan Cristes cyrcan butan fir munecan.

a. 1200.  Moral Ode, 395. Crist ȝyue us leden her swilc lif and habben her swilc ende þat we moten þuder come.

1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 252. To such prowesse he drou Þat al þe kun þat him iseiȝ adde of him ioye inou.

13[?].  Guy Warw. (A.), 266. Swiche iuel is comen him on þat he weneþ his liif forgon.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 4. He was … in his tyme swich a Conquerour, That gretter was ther noon vnder the Sonne.

c. 1450.  Merlin, 694. I am soche a fole that I love a-nother better than my-self.

a. 1533.  Ld. Berners, Huon, xciv. 304. He sounded the trompettes with suche brute that meruayle it was to here.

1600.  J. Pory, trans. Leo’s Africa, III. 109. There was such hauock made … that a sillie remnant of them was left alive.

1712.  Addison, Spect., No. 499, ¶ 3. This filled my Mind with such a huddle of Ideas, that … I fell into the following Dream.

a. 1715.  Burnet, Own Time, II. (1724), I. 189. He was a very prudent man; had such a management with it, that I never knew any Clergy-man so universally esteemed.

1800.  Wordsw., Pet Lamb, 11. ‘Drink, pretty creature, drink,’ she said in such a tone That I almost received her heart into my own.

1891.  Law Times, XC. 411/2. Allowing a foundry and other property to fall into such a state of disrepair that it was impossible to let them.

  without conj.  c. 1205.  Lay., 31585. Oswy is a swulc mon þine scome he wulle don.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Can. Yeom. Prol. & T., 849. Lo swich a lucre is in this lusty game A mannes myrthe it wol turne vn-to grame.

a. 1400.  Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS., xlii. 9. Þou art wrouht of such a kynde: Wiþ-outen loue maiȝt þou not be.

1470–85.  Malory, Arthur, VIII. xxxi. 320. He was in suche a study he herd not what Gouernayle said.

1573.  Tusser, Husb. (1878), 123. Such season may chance, it shall stand thee vpon, to till it againe, er an Sommer be gon.

1700.  Dryden, Pal. & Arc., II. 325. Such Pity wrought in ev’ry Ladies Mind, They left their Steeds, and prostrate on the Place … implor’d th’ Offenders Grace.

  (b)  c. 1369.  Chaucer, Dethe Blaunche, 28. Suche fantasies ben in myn hede So I not what is best too doo.

  (c)  1417.  [see 37 c].

1560, 1600.  [see 34 b].

1610.  B. Jonson, Alch., IV. i. 6. I ha’ told her such braue things, o’ you,… As she is almost in her fit to see you.

1625.  Bacon, Ess., Vicissit. Things (Arb.), 570. They haue such Powring Riuers, as the Riuers of Asia … are but Brookes to them.

1769.  Goldsm., Hist. Rome (1786), I. 372. Having disposed his army in such a manner as that none of the defendants could escape.

1883.  Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc., 54 (Art. ‘Southernisms’). The Faculty are favorable to such a reduction of studies as that a man can do his work well.

  (d)  a. 1450.  [see 37 b].

1581.  Pettie, trans. Guazzo’s Civ. Conv., III. (1586), 151. Thinking that his sonne was such a foole to accept his offer.

1599.  George a Greene, D ij b. This is wondrous, being blinde of sight, His deepe perseuerance should be such to know vs.

1779.  Mirror, No. 31. They may be expressed in such vague … terms, as to lay before the reader no marked distinguishing feature.

1825.  J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 41. The upper part M M X Y of the cup should be of such a form as to have the sides covered only with a thin film of the fluid.

1892.  Bierce, In Midst of Life, 109. He … had borne himself with such gallantry as to attract the attention of his superior officers.

  b.  predicative.

c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 95. Two þeroffe ben swiche þat no man ne mai underfo [etc.].

1340.  Ayenb., 8. Zuych may by þe onboȝsamnesse þet hit is dyadlich zenne.

1474.  Caxton, Chesse, IV. v. (1883), 175. The moeuynge of hem is suche That the whyte may goo in to the space of the alphyn.

1591.  Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., V. iii. 70. Beauties Princely Maiesty is such, Confounds the tongue, and makes the senses rough.

1611.  Coryat, Crudities, 170. The variety of the curious obiects which it exhibiteth … is such, that a man shall much wrong it to speake a little of it.

a. 1700.  in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ., IX. 343. Infirmitys, w^ch were such y^t she was not able to take rest in a bed.

1829.  Scott, Anne of G., xxx. Such and so gentle is René’s temper, that even my unfilial conduct will not diminish my influence over him.

1895.  Law Times, C. 3/1. The system by which solicitors are paid is such that only by circumlocution and red tape can they make a living.

1911.  Act 1 & 2 Geo. V., c. 50 § 15. A certificate … to the effect that his eyesight is such as to enable him to make accurate tests for inflammable gas.

  c.  In attributive use after its sb.

1771.  Encycl. Brit., II. 695/2. At the point … K, such that the points K, H, and B may be in the same right line, let there be fixed a fourth staff.

1840.  Lardner, Geom., 288. Let a distance CB be taken on the conjugate axis, such that the square of CB shall bear to the square of CA, the same ratio [etc.].

1876.  Trevelyan, Macaulay, II. ix. 137. Statesmen, who had assumed an attitude such that they could not … avoid being … insincere.

1895.  Thompson & Thomas, Electr. Tab. & Mem., 60. The number of them is chosen such that in a cross-section of the field [etc.].

  d.  With the clauses in reverse order, that containing such being explanatory of what precedes.

1362.  Langl., P. Pl., A. VII. 121. We mowe nouþur swynke ne swete, such seknes vs eileþ.

1567.  Allen, Def. Priesth., To Rdr. They remember well (such is theyr exercise in y^e woord) how [etc.].

1579.  A. M[unday], Captiv. John Fox, in Hakluyt, Voy. (1589), 154. There was no man that would take charge of a gally, the weather was so rough, and there was such an amasednes amongst them.

c. 1600.  Shaks., Sonn., lxxxi. You still shall liue (such vertue hath my Pen).

1673.  G. Fox, in Jrnl. Friends’ Hist. Soc. (1914), July, 98. The poore people ar redy to mutany in the market her is such a cry for corne to make them bread.

  14.  By suppression of the clause expressing comparison or relativity, such acquires an emphatic force = so great, so eminent, and the like.

c. 893.  K. Ælfred, Oros., VI. i. 252. Mid þæm bryne hio wæs swa swiþe forhiened þæt hio næfre siþþan swelc næs.

1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 796. Leuere he adde wende & bidde is mete … in a strange londe Þan þere as he him sulf king was & such þing adde an honde.

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 1725. My suster Exiona in seruage is holdyn, Þat is comen of soche kyn, coldes my hert. Ibid., 11680. Seche trust haue the troiens truly þerin.

1598.  Shaks., Merry W., II. i. 45. If it were not for one trifling respect, I could come to such honour.

1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., III. 717. When, after such a length of rowling Years, We see the naked Alps.

1849.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., x. II. 600. Never had there been such crowds in the churches.

  b.  colloq. Used as an absolute intensive, the implied clause of comparison being indeterminate and quite lost sight of.

  Ever such: see EVER adv. 9 b.

a. 1553.  Udall, Royster D., III. iii. (Arb.), 44. Ye shall not … marry…. Ye are such a calfe, such an asse, such a blocke.

a. 1616.  Beaum., etc., Laws Candy, I. ii. How have I lost a Father? Such a Father! Such a one Decius!

1780.  Mirror, No. 93. He does little things, and talks of little things, with an air of such importance! Ibid. A sad affair happened last night: my brother and sister had such a tiff!

1803.  Mary Charlton, Wife & Mistress, IV. 87. ‘Lord bless me, no, Ma’am!’ replied she: ‘it’s ever such a way off.’

1818.  Scott, Br. Lamm., x. To express himself churlishly … towards an old man, whose daughter (and such a daughter) lay before them.

1849.  R. Curzon, Visits Monast., 417. They were marvellously cool and delicious, and there were such quantities of them.

1891.  ‘J. S. Winter,’ Lumley, xiv. Oh! yes—such a happiness that it has all come right.

1900.  W. Glyn, Visits of Elizabeth (1906), 27. You would be amused at Vernon, where we stayed the night in such an inn!

  15.  Preceding an adj. used attrib., such, such a becomes advb. = so, so … a.

1522.  Skelton, Why not to Court, 652. Suche a madde bedleme For to rewle this reame, It is a wonders case.

1553.  T. Wilson, Rhet., 107 b. Mithridates … hadde suche an excellent memorie that [etc.].

1591.  Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., V. v. 84. I feele such sharpe dissention in my breast, Such fierce alarums both of Hope and Feare, As I am sicke with working of my thoughts.

1621.  Bp. Mountagu, Diatribæ, 507. Not to play such vnwise a part as those Thoes did.

1711.  Addison, Spect., No. 68, ¶ 3. If I were to give my Opinion upon such an exhausted Subject.

1742–3.  Ld. Hervey, in Johnson’s Debates (1787), II. 320. This mighty army … collected from such distant parts.

1823.  Scott, Quentin D., xxxi. All comes of his gaining an archer’s place at such early years.

1848.  Dickens, Dombey, xliv. His visage was in a state of such great dilapidation, as to be hardly presentable.

1863.  Mrs. Oliphant, Salem Chapel, ix. 143. In such a dark night as this, with such wet gleams about the streets.

1902.  Westm. Gaz., 17 Dec., 12/1. Yes, I always liked Shakespeare; you know, he has such a nice face!

  b.  Not such (a): = ‘no such’ (27 b).

1896.  Saintsbury, Donne’s Poems, I. p. xix. Chalmers, a very industrious student, and not such a bad critic.

  III.  (See also such a one, 28 d.)

  16.  Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.

c. 1460.  Metham, Wks. (E.E.T.S.), 155. Yff a man or a woman be born on sqwyche a day of the mone, ye schal conceyue that he ys, or sche ys, dysposyd so as to haue wurchyp, or ellys troubyl.

1526.  Tindale, James iv. 13. Let vs go into soche a citie.

1544.  trans. Littleton’s Tenures, 79 b. That the feoffour pay to the feoffee … such a sume at such a day.

1564.  Brief Exam., C iiij b. It is the part of … charitie … to leaue such vse of suche signes in such a Churche, free.

1664.  in Extr. St. Papers rel. Friends, Ser. III. (1912), 226. I inform’d my Lord … that … a greate number would meete att 2 of y^e Clocke att such a house.

1755.  Smollett, Quix., Pref. (1803), I. 6. The giant Golias,… whom the shepherd David slew … as it is written in such a chapter of the book of Kings.

1868.  Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1877), II. App. 588. The form always is that the King grants the bishopric or abbacy to such a person.

1913.  Oxf. Univ. Gaz., 19 Feb., 495/2. This Diploma is to certify that A. B. … attended a prescribed course of lectures … and (on such a date) satisfied … the examiners.

  b.  Such and such. (rarely predicative.)

  Hence such-and-suchness, the quality or condition of being so-and-so.

1551.  Bible, 2 Kings vi. 8. In suche a place and in suche a place [1560 Geneva In suche and suche a place] wyl I pitch. Ibid. (1560), (Geneva), 2 Sam. xii. 8. I … wolde moreouer … haue giuen thee suche and suche things.

1565.  J. Halle, Hist. Expost., 6. Suche men and suche enformed me that he can tell of thynges loste.

1611.  Shaks., Cymb., I. iii. 28. How I would thinke on him at certaine houres, Such thoughts, and such.

1625.  Hart, Anat. Ur., II. v. 82. Vpon the feeding on such and such food it was no vncouth thing for him to voyd such an vrine.

1710.  Berkeley, Princ. Hum. Knowl., § 31 Wks. 1871, I. 171. Such and such ideas are attended with such and such other ideas.

1818.  Cobbett, Pol. Reg., XXXIII. 114. I shall … proceed upon the supposition that the contents are such and such.

1855.  Thackeray, Newcomes, xlv. Lord and Lady Blank, of Suchandsuch Castle.

1861.  T. A. Trollope, La Beata, I. i. 2. Number so-and-so in such-and-such a street.

1885.  Seth, Scot. Philos., ii. 57. Every event has a character; is such-and-such an event. Ibid. It is at its such-and-suchness, at its character—in other words, at the universal in it—that we have to look.

1899.  E. Callow, Old Lond. Tav., I. 247. It became the custom to ask what coffee-house such-and-such a man frequented.

  † c.  Such or such: this or that. Obs.

c. 1530.  Judic. Urines, II. ii. 13. As ofte as I say suche vryne, or suche went beforn suche, or suche.

1676.  Glanvill, Ess. Philos. & Relig., v. 23. Though I deny such, or such a sense [of a text].

1695.  Dryden, trans. Dufresnoy’s Art. Paint., Pref. p. xxxvii. The Posture of a Poetique Figure is as I conceive, the Description of his Heroes in the performance of such or such an Action.

1796.  H. Hunter, trans. St.-Pierre’s Stud. Nat. (1799), I. 292. There is a greater distance between the understanding of Newton, and that of such or such a man, than between the understanding of that man and the instinct of an animal.

  17.  Comb. (parasynthetic.)

1591.  Shaks., Two Gent., IV. iv. 196. Such a coulour’d Perrywig.

1597.  Beard, Theatre God’s Judgem. (1612), 425. Oh that we had … such minded captaines, that would sharply represse the wrongs … which are so common.

1711.  Steele, Spect., No. 96, ¶ 4. A Lady that saw such a Gentleman at such a Place in such a coloured Coat.

  IV.  Absolute and pronominal uses.

  † 18.  The persons or things before mentioned; those, they; also with sing. reference, that person or thing. Obs.

c. 1000.  Ælfric, Hom., I. 84. Eadiʓe sind þa innoðas þe hi ʓebæron, and ða breost þe swylce ʓesihton.

a. 1250.  Owl & Night. (Jesus MS.), 1324. Hwat constu … of storre?… Al so doþ mony deor and man, Þeo of suyche no wiht ne can.

c. 1330.  Arth. & Merl., 673. Swiche schuld acomber also fele, So þat oþer had brouȝt to wele.

1535.  Coverdale, Rom. ii. 2. For we are sure that the iudgment of God is … ouer them that do soch.

1655.  Fuller, Ch. Hist., VIII. ii. § 33. Such set to order Kingston Bridge did their work by halves.

  19.  Persons or things such as those mentioned, described or referred to.

c. 897.  K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xxxvii. 265. Oft eac ða swelcan monn sceal forsion mid eallum forsewennessum.

1382.  Wyclif, Gen. xli. 19. Thes folweden other seuen oxen, in as myche defourme and leene, that neuer siche … Y sawȝ.

1390.  Gower, Conf., I. 13. In the worldes reverence Ther ben of suche manie glade. Ibid., II. 43. Sone, thou art non of swiche, For love schal the wel excuse.

c. 1450.  trans. De Imitatione, III. xxxv. 104. He takiþ non hede wheþer he illude … by true or by false…. Lete not þin herte þerfore be troubled ner drede suche.

1573.  in Bridgett & Knox, Q. Eliz. & Cath. Hier. (1889), vii. 112. Her Maiestie had choise ynough of souch at that tyme, and yet hath.

1634.  Milton, Comus, 15. To such my errand is.

1867.  Rock, Jim an’ Nell (E. D. S.), lxxxix. Let un beckon Hagegy Bess; wi’ zich, I reckon, Ha now delight’th vor mang.

  b.  And such: and suchlike, and the like.

[a. 1400–50.  Wars Alex., 1889. Þe somme of siluer & of siche & of sere stanes.]

1652.  News fr. Lowe-Countr., 6. Cures Collicks, Belly-Ach, and such.

1849.  J. G. Saxe, Poems, Proud Miss MacBride, xix. Little by little he grew to be rich, By saving of candle-ends and sich.

1894.  Mrs. Dyan, Man’s Keeping (1899), 203. A smaller table held ices, squashes, and such.

1904.  Windsor Mag., Jan., 296/2. A little place hung about with Eastern draperies and altar-cloths and such.

  20.  With dependent rel. pron.: Such people as, those (people) who, whose, etc.; all or any that.

  In OE. and ME. also sing. = such a man.

835.  Charter, in O. E. Texts, 448. Swælcum se hit ʓeðian wile.

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 84. He misseið þi swuche þet is cwic in God. Ibid., 382. Ich wot swulne þet bereð boðe togedere heui brunie and here.

1372.  Langl., P. Pl., B. X. 26. Þe sauter seyth þe same bi suche þat don ille.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Melib., ¶ 45. By … assent of swiche as weren wise.

c. 1400.  Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483), IV. xxxiv. 82. The gouernement of a reame shold be … executed by suche as were of grettest bounte.

c. 1489.  Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, ix. 208. Ye aske counseyll of suche that canne not connseyl theymselfe.

1543.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. ccvii. 245. We may fortune to mete with suche that shall pay for our scotte.

1563.  Hyll, Art Garden. (1593), 143. This being also drunk, helpeth such which be stopped in the brest.

1613.  Shaks., Hen. VIII., I. i. 76. Such To whom as great a Charge, as little Honor He meant to lay vpon.

1625.  Massinger, New Way, II. i. Such whose fathers were right worshipful.

1748.  G. White, Serm. (MS.). To such from whom we look for advantages.

1777.  W. Cameron, in Transl. & Paraphr. Ch. Scot., xiv. 1. Let such as would with Wisdom dwell, frequent the house of woe.

1800.  Syd. Smith, Six Serm., 65. Such of their fellow-creatures who have fixed their faith in an amiable and benevolent religion.

1829.  in Nairne Peerage Evidence (1874), 76. Such of you to whom it may appertain to issue and pay … the said annuity.

1876.  Swinburne, Note Engl. Repub., 21. The mere love-offering of preserved souls and such whose minds are dedicated to nothing temporal.

  b.  People of the same kind as.

1823.  Scott, Quentin D., xvi. Such as I are free in spirit when our limbs are chained.

1850.  Tennyson, In Mem., xxxiv. What then were God to such as I?

1869.  Sir F. H. Doyle, Lect., iii. 96. To consider whether it be not to such as him, rather than to such as them, that we ought to look.

  21.  Such a thing; the thing mentioned or referred to.

Beowulf, 996. Wundorsiona fela secga ʓehwylcum, þara þe on swylc starað.

a. 900.  Cynewulf, Elene, 571 (Gr.). Cwædon þæt hio on aldre owiht swylces ne ær ne sið æfre hyrdon.

1154.  O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.), an. 1137. Suilc & mare þanne we cunnen sæin we þolenden.

c. 1175.  Cott. Hom., 30. Heo dweloden swyðe þa ða heo swylces axoden.

c. 1380.  Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 436. Ȝif a best bad a man do siche.

1845.  Bailey, Festus (ed. 2), 77. Do Thou grant, Lord! That when wrongs are to be redressed, such may Be done with mildness.

1885.  C. G. Leland, Brand-New Ballads, 127.

  † b.  With correl. or rel. Such a thing … (as). Obs.

c. 893.  K. Ælfred, Oros., I. x. 48. Hit is scondlic … ymb swelc to sprecanne hwelc hit þa wæs.

a. 1250.  Prov. Ælfred, 83, in O. E. Misc., 106. Hwych so þe mon soweþ al swuch he schal mowe.

1390.  Gower, Conf., I. 178. Ofte swich as men beginne Towardes othre, swich thei finde, That set hem ofte fer behinde, Whan that thei wene be before.

  † c.  Such as: that which, what, whatever.

c. 1340.  Medit. Passion, in Hampole’s Wks. (1895), I. 92. Graunte me grace … euere to knouleche me for sich as I am, a sinful wrecche.

c. 1440.  Alphabet of Tales, 184. He sett befor þaim suche as he had in his cell.

c. 1460.  Towneley Myst., xxvii. 278. Ye ar welcom … To sich as we haue.

1474.  Caxton, Chesse, II. iv. (1883), 51. After that he had eten suche as plesid hym he voyded the mete. Ibid. (1484), Fables of Æsop, I. xi. He that is wyse must not … take hede to his wordes but lete hym go for suche as he is.

1568.  trans. Thevet’s New found worlde, xxv. 41. The Indians … brought vs thither suche as the land … bringeth forth.

  22.  Referring to a descriptive sb. or phrase (cf. 4).

c. 1430.  Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, IV. xxxi. (1869), 193. Alle knyhtes that hauen swerdes resceyuen not swiche colees. Gret joye it were … if thei hadden swiche.

1477.  Earl Rivers (Caxton), Dictes, 11 b. Ware the of the wordes of lyers, and suche punysshe.

1565.  Harding, Answ. Jewel, 211. If he had offered bread and wine onely,… it had ben no newe oblation, for such had been made by Melchisedech.

1581.  Marbeck, Bk. Notes, 494. With him that is holie, virtuous, and good, a man (keeping companie with such) shall have a smacke of his holinesse.

a. 1637.  B. Jonson, Discov., De vita humana (1640), 105. Like Children, that imitate the vices of Stammerers so long, till at last they become such.

1662.  J. Davies, trans. Olearius’ Voy. Ambass., 402. They were forc’d to … travel so arm’d to secure themselves against the Robbers thereabouts: but they looked more like such themselves.

a. 1700.  Evelyn, Diary, 2 Dec. 1666. To examine whether the soile … would be proper to make clinker-bricks, and to treate with me about some accomodation in order to making such.

1771.  Encycl. Brit., II. 698/1. It were easy to transfer to the diameter of a circle the chords of all arches to the extent of a semicircle; but such are rarely found marked upon rules.

1828.  Scott, Aunt Marg. Mirror, ii. Two or three low broad steps led to a platform in front of the altar, or what resembled such.

1848.  Thackeray, Bk. Snobs, xiii. He will not have his young friends to be snobs in the future, or to be bullied by snobs, or given over to such to be educated.

1889.  Geikie, in Nature, 19 Sept., 486. To call for more facts and experiments, if such are possible.

1912.  Eng. Hist. Rev., XXVII. Jan., 27. A forest became such by a stroke of the pen, not by any physical change.

  23.  Such and such: such and such persons or things; also sing., this and this.

a. 1450.  Knt. de la Tour, xv. He saide … that suche and suche had saine her do hit.

1574.  Hellowes, Gueuara’s Fam. Ep. (1577), 310. Not contented to take the wheat, [etc.] … to giue vnto such and such out of y^e doores.

1576.  Fleming, trans. Caius’ Dogs (1880), 34. Giving warnyng to them of the house, that such & such be newly come.

1602.  Shaks., Ham., II. i. 57. I saw him yesterday, or tother day; Or then or then, with such and such.

1893.  F. Adams, New Egypt, 147. We have done such, and such, and such.

  V.  Uses with special classes of words and in idiomatic phrases.

  *  In collocation with indef. adjs., numerals, etc.

  When used absol. the phrases in 24–27 become a kind of composite pronouns.

  24.  With many (more), any, some, all, every: many (etc.) … of the (same) kind, many … like this.

  With a sing. sb. the construction many a such, any such a, etc., was formerly common.

c. 888.  Ælfred, Boeth., xxxiv. § 6. Ʒeþyld & rihtwisnes & wisdom, & maneʓe swelce cræftas.

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 382. Ȝif eni mon ei swuch þing ortroweð bi him.

c. 1380.  Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 443. When ony suche men asken þe sacrid ooste. Ibid. (1382), Eph. v. 27. Not hauynge wem, or spot,… or ony such thing.

c. 1400.  Rom. Rose, 7123. Many a such comparisoun.

a. 1425.  Cursor M. (Trin.). 13712. Moises wol we alle suche stone.

1526.  Tindale, Mark ix. 37. Whosoever receave eny soche a chylde in my name, he receaveth me.

1548.  Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Luke xvii. 134. Beefore ye haue any perceiueraunce that any suche thyng is to come.

1548–9.  (Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer, Litany. All suche as haue erred and are deceyued.

1549.  T. Some, Latimer’s 2nd Serm. bef. Edw. VI., To Rdr. (Arb.), 53. A fewe moo suche Preachers.

1550.  Cranmer, Lett. to Voysey, in Misc. Writ. (Parker Soc.), 428. All such benefices … as … have been … impropried.

1570.  Googe, Pop. Kingd., III. 33. Masse blesseth euery such as seekes in welthie state to bee.

1599.  Shaks., Much Ado, V. iv. 49. Some such strange bull leapt your fathers Cow.

1607.  Hieron, Wks., I. 241. Euery such shall bee cut off by the hand of God.

1653.  H. More, Antid. Ath. (1662), 97. A many such miracles.

1663.  Butler, Hud., I. i. 356. He ne’er gave quarter t’ any such.

1778.  Miss Burney, Evelina, xvi. I never kept company with any such gentry.

1832.  Brewster, Nat. Magic, xiii. 331. Several such strata.

1836.  Thirlwall, Greece, xviii. (1839), 77. If we may properly attribute any such objects to him.

1837.  Lockhart, Scott, IV. vii. 222. Some such excursion had been … recommended to him by his own physicians.

1895.  Baring-Gould, Noémi, xxiv. Some such a colourless, cadaverous light as that which [etc.].

  25.  Such other (arch.), † other such; as pron. such others, arch. other such. Phr. † and such other, and the like, and such-like.

c. 888.  Ælfred, Boeth., xxiv. § 3. On swilcum & on oðrum swelcum lænum & hreosendum weorðscipum.

c. 1000.  Ælfric, Exod. vii. 11. Hiʓ worhton oðer swilc þing þurh hira drycræft.

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 242. Þeos & oðer swuche dredfule þouhtes.

a. 1425.  Langl., P. Pl., A. I. 104 (MS. U). [Cherubin and Seraphin] and siche mo oþere.

c. 1450.  Brut., II. ccxxvii. 299. Ploghmen, & such oþer laborers.

c. 1482.  J. Kay, trans. Caoursin’s Siege of Rhodes, ¶ 5. Gorones, culuerynes, serpentines and such other.

1530.  Palsgr., 463/2. I brede a chylde, or brede yonge, as a woman or any other suche beest dothe.

1532.  Dial. on Laws Eng., II. xlii. 106. A Captayne … shall be bounde for the offence of hys squyres And an hoste for his ghest and such other.

1588.  Kyd, Househ. Philos., Wks. (1901), 268. By fires, tempests, inundations, and other such.

1600.  J. Pory, trans. Leo’s Africa, II. 94. Either cheese, butter, milk, or any other such commoditie.

1707.  Freind, Peterborow’s Cond. Sp., 131. Such other place as shall be judged proper.

1725.  De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 86. Roots, yams, mangoes, and such other articles.

1762.  Kames, Elem. Crit., xviii. § iv. (1774), II. 122. Observance, opponent,… and such others of three syllables.

1867.  Swinburne, Blake (1868), 150. Behmen, Swedenborg, or such others.

1871.  Ruskin, Fors Clav., x. 15. There are, indeed, other such in the world.

  26.  Such another, another such: another … of the kind, another similar. (Rarely another such a, † such a … such another: one … another, with a sing. sb.)

  Such another is used idiomatically in Shakespeare, where we should now say simply either (a) ‘such (a), as in Two Gent., III. i. 133, Tr. & Cr., I. ii. 282 (Fo. 1), or (b) ‘another,’ ‘a second,’ as in Merry W., I. iv. 160.

a. 1300.  Sat. People Kildare, iv. in E. E. P. (1862), 153. Soch an oþir an erþe i note.

c. 1375.  Cursor M., 1942 (Fairf.). For nankyn chaunce sal I take suche a-noþer veniaunce.

a. 1553.  Udall, Roister D., III. v. (Arb.), 56. R. Royster. Did not you make me a letter brother? Scriuener. Pay the like hire, I will make you suche an other.

1594.  Shaks., Rich. III., I. iv. 5. I would not spend another such a night. Ibid. (1597), 2 Hen. IV., II. iv. 275. Such other Gamboll Faculties hee hath … for the which the Prince admits him; for the Prince himselfe is such another.

1620.  E. Blount, Horæ Subs., 352. Heere are besides the ancient Statues of the Horatij and Curiatij, and such another of Neroes Mother as I haue mentioned to be in the Capitoll.

1623.  Middleton, More Dissemblers, V. ii. How? such another word, down goes your hose, boy.

1684.  Roscommon, Ess. Transl. Verse, 258. Another Such had left the Nation thin, In spight of all the Children he brought in.

1720.  Humourist, 65. Such a Person can do nothing ill, and such another … nothing well.

1756.  Amory, Buncle (1770), I. 173. She was such another genius as Chubb.

1852.  Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s C., xxix. 273. We’ll never get another such a master.

1861.  T. L. Peacock, Gryll Grange, xxxii. That chance has passed from her; and she will not easily find such another.

1867.  Swinburne, Blake (1868), 180. The ‘frowning babe’ of the last stanzas is … the same or such another as the one whose birth is first spoken of.

1871.  Ruskin, Fors Clav., v. No foolish being … will ever be capable of saying such another foolish thing.

  b.  Similarly such a second.

1828.  Scott, Tapestr. Chamb. (ad med.), I would not run the risk of such a second night.

  27.  No († none) such adj., rarely † no such a; absol. or as pron. now only none such (cf. NONESUCH, NONSUCH), formerly no such (and † such none). a. No (person or thing) of the kind; none of the kind.

a. 900.  Cynewulf, Crist, 290. Nan swylc ne cwom æniʓ oþer ofer ealle men.

a. 1122.  O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.), an 1032. Her … atywde þæt wildefyr ðe nan mann æror nan swylc ne ʓemunde.

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 96. Ne chastie ȝe neuer nenne swuchne mon bute o þisse wise.

1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 3063. In þe world such non is.

13[?].  Guy Warw. (C.), 122. On this half the see noon suche was.

a. 1400.  Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS., xxix. ii. 69. Þe Iew … seide þer nas non such child þrinne.

c. 1430.  Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, IV. lix. (1869), 205. Ther sook neuere noon non swich milk ne droouh noon swich brest.

1535.  Coverdale, Ecclus. xlv. 13. Before him were there sene no soch fayre ornamentes. Ibid. (1535), Acts xxi. 25. We haue wrytten, and concluded, that they shulde obserue no soch, but onely [etc.].

1582.  Stanyhurst, Æneis, etc. (Arb.), 145. Syth mye nose owtpeaking, good syr, your liplabor hindreth, Hardlye ye may kisse mee, where no such gnomon apeereth.

1601.  R. Holtby, in Archpr. Controv. (Camden), I. 185. They had no such ignorance that could excuse them admittinge that he was a superior.

1607.  Hieron, Wks., I. 237. No such shall inherite the kingdomne of Christ and of God.

1647.  Trapp, Marrow Gd. Authors, in Comm. Ep., 697. The Emperour Commodus would needs be stiled ὑπεραίρων, or the Surpasser, as if there were none such.

1663.  Butler, Hud., I. i. 44. ’Tis plain enough he was no such.

1749.  Berkeley, Word to Wise, Wks. 1871, III. 440. There can be no such thing as happy life without labour.

1774.  trans. Helvetius’ Child of Nature, II. 86. I would … have no such a tête à tête with such a man.

1831.  Scott, Cast. Dang., ix. ‘Who was it passed through your past even now, with the traitorous cry of Douglas?’ ‘We know of no such.’

1849.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. II. 119. Objection was taken by some zealous Protestants to the mention made of the Roman Catholic religion. There was no such religion.

1867.  Swinburne, in Fortn. Rev., Oct., 428. There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter.

  b.  No great; advb. qualifying an adj. (cf. 15 b) = not (a) very, not a. † Nothing such: nothing of any account.

1579.  Spenser, Sheph. Cal., Sept., 79. I thought the soyle would haue made me rich: But nowe I wote, it is nothing sich.

1606.  Shaks., Ant. & Cl., III. iii. 44. Why me think’s by him, This Creature’s no such thing.

1612.  Bacon, Ess., Death (Arb.), 384. Death is no such enemy, when a man hath so many followers about him.

1663.  Dryden, Wild Gallant, I. If that be all, there’s no such hast.

1695.  Congreve, Love for L., V. i. Fifty in a hale constitution, is no such contemptible age.

1773.  Goldsm., Stoops to Conq., V. ii. Five-and-twenty miles in two hours and a half is no such bad driving.

1782.  Miss Burney, Cecilia, V. xii. As you happen to be quite alone, a little agreeable company would be no such bad thing.

1867.  M. Arnold, Celtic Lit., 87. So long as Celt and Teuton are … at least, no such great while out of their cradle.

1870.  W. Morris, Earthly Par., III. 279. Clad in attire of no such wretched price.

  c.  Phr. No such † matter or thing: nothing of the kind; also exclamatorily, = not at all, not a bit of it, quite the contrary.

1538.  Pole, Lett., in Strype, Eccl. Mem. (1721), I. App. lxxxiii. 213. Neither you nor no man else … can bring no such thing against mine opinion.

1560.  Bible (Geneva), 2 Sam. xiii. 12. No suche thing oght to be done in Israel: commit not this folie.

1584.  Peele, Arraignm. Paris, I. i. Pan. We meet not now to brawl. Faun. There’s no such matter, Pan.

1588.  Greene, Pandosto, Wks. (Grosart), IV. 267. The goodman … desired her to be quiet, for there was non such matter.

c. 1600.  Shaks., Sonn., lxxxvii. In sleepe a King, but waking no such matter.

1755.  Gray, Lett. to Chute, 14 Aug. They thought me rheumatic and feverish, no such thing!

1814.  L. Hunt, Feast Poets, etc. (1815), 60. The vices … are only ‘imputed’ to him;—to use a pithy and favourite mode of quotation, ‘There’s no such thing!’

1867.  Augusta Wilson, Vashti, xv. I shall do no such thing.

  28.  Such a(n) one, formerly also † such one, freq. as one word † suchon.

  a.  Such a person or thing as that specified or referred to; one of that kind.

c. 1375.  Cursor M., 85 (Fairf.). Of suche an [Cott. suilk an] sulde men mater take.

c. 1380.  Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 47. Þei schullen presenten hym to þe nexte custode of þat place where euere þei fynden sychon.

1390.  Gower, Conf., I. 47. Ther is manye of yow Faitours, and so may be that thow Art riht such on.

c. 1400.  Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483), IV. xxxiii. 82. Good ryght is that vpon suche one be take vengeaunce.

1535.  Coverdale, Job xiv. 3. Thinkest thou it now well done, to open thine eyes vpon soch one?

1559.  Aylmer, Harborowe, F ij. It is a great enterprise … to pulle a quenes crowne of hir head: and specially such a ones.

1594.  O. B., Quest. Profit. Concern., L ij b. Such ones are said to harrow hell, to make their sonnes Gentlemen.

1654.  O. Sedgwick, Fun. Serm., 15. The death of such a one is an exceeding loss.

1732.  Mandeville, Enq. Origin Honour, 166. To such a one, a Clergyman should preach the Strictness of Morality.

1816.  Hazlitt, Pol. Ess. (1819), 82. A Jacobin is one who would haue his single opinion govern the world…. Such a one is Mr. Southey.

1885.  Swinburne, Misc. (1886), 298. Such an one … is by common consent a blackguard.

  b.  Followed by rel. pron. as, formerly † that, etc.: One of the kind that; one who, a thing that.

1390.  Gower, Conf., I. 96. He mot him binde To such on which of alle kinde Of wommen is thunsemlieste.

c. 1400.  Maundev. (1839), 287. Suche an on as is of gode maneres.

1530.  Cromwell, in Merriman, Life & Lett. (1902), I. 330. Dilligent and honest And suchon that … wilbe gladde to serue your grace in any thing.

1539.  Great Bible, Ps. lxviii. 21. The hearie scalpe of soch one [1611 such a one] as goeth on still in his wyckednes.

1583.  Stocker, Civ. Warres Lowe C., IV. 23. He was a verie noble young Prince, and such a one as in whom, was great hope of good.

1599.  Shaks., Much Ado, V. i. 7. Such a one whose wrongs doth sute with mine.

1673.  O. Walker, Educ., 235. Such a one … as is a discreet and virtuous person.

1884.  Swinburne, Misc. (1886), 28. He was merely a royalist, and such an one as may be bred and reared out of the middle class.

  c.  Followed by rel. adv. as: One of the same kind as; one like (so-and-so).

c. 1400.  26 Pol. Poems, in Wiþ suchon as I to make debat.

1535.  Coverdale, Ps. xlix. 21. Thou … thinkest me to be euen soch one as thy self.

1596.  Harington, Apol. Ajax (1814), 21. A passing proud fellow. Such a one as Naaman the Syrian.

1611.  Bible, Philem. 9. Being such a one as Paul the aged.

1726.  Welsted, Dissemb. Wanton, Wks. (1787), 5. By marrying some commodious person; such a one as Mr. Toby.

1868.  Thirlwall, Lett. (1881), II. 195. It was just such a one as that which was the occasion of Wordsworth’s sonnet.

1885.  Swinburne, Misc. (1886), 225. Such an one as these.

  d.  A certain one not specifically named (see 16); So-and-so. Obs. or arch.

1560.  Bible (Geneva), Ruth iv. 1. Ho, suche one [1611 such a one], come, sit downe here.

1566.  Pasquine in Traunce, 24. Then did the coniurer aske, whether he was such a one or such a one, naming many and sundry persons that dyed long ago.

1603.  Shaks., Meas. for M., II. i. 114. That such a one, and such a one, were past cure of the thing you wot of.

1678.  Otway, Friendship in F., I. i. He hath been with my Lord such-a-one.

1712.  Arbuthnot, John Bull, II. iii. Instead of plain Sir and Madam … he calls us Goody and Gaffer such a one.

1798.  W. Hutton, Life (1816), 52. [She] mentioned several such-a-ones who solicited her hand.

1812.  Byron, Waltz, xiii. Sir—Such-a-one.

1832.  Ht. Martineau, Hill & Valley (1843), 162. They said that ‘neighbour such-a-one was a prisoner.’

  † e.  As adj. following the sb.: Such as. Obs.

1535.  Coverdale, 1 Macc. iv. 47. They … buylded a new aulter soch one as was before.

1546.  J. Heywood, Prov. (1867), 64. A larom suche one As folke ring bees with basons.

a. 1716.  South, in Chambers, Cycl. Eng. Lit., I. 465/1. Sensuality is … one kind of pleasure, such a one as it is.

  29.  Miscellaneous.

  a.  Such much: so much, thus much.

1832.  Carlyle, Lett. to J. Carlyle, 2 July. Such much for Annandale, where you see there are … many mercies still allotted to us.

  † b.  What such: of what kind. Obs.

1671.  H. M., trans. Erasm. Colloq., 152. What such soever an one thy husband be. Ibid., 555. Consider here with me what such they be.

  † c.  Who such: such as, whoever. Obs.

1667.  Marvell, Corr., Wks. (Grosart), II. 226. That you may returne who such take it [sc. an oath].

  † d.  Such a like, such … like: = SUCH-LIKE.

1474.  Cov. Leet Bk., 389. Intrelles of bestes or such filthy thyng like.

1541.  Sir T. Wyatt, Let. to Privy Counc., in Poet. Wks. (1858), p. xxxiv. Alleging that he had once swerved from him in such a like matter.

1577.  Vautrouillier, Luther on Ep. Gal., 95. Such a like thing of late happened to that miserable man Doctor Kraus of Hal.

1608.  [see LIKE a. 1 d].

  e.  Such a few, such a many (colloq.): so few, so many.

1841.  Thackeray, Gt. Hoggarty Diam., xiii. No one could have thought it could have done such a many things in that time.

  30.  Preceding a poss. pron., as such his = that or this (those or these) of his. Rarely with correlative as. Obs. or arch.

1565.  Allen, Def. Purg. (1886), 6. I … submit myself to the judgment of such our masters … as … are made the lawful pastors of our souls. Ibid. (1581), Apologie, 121. God giueth not the tast of such his comfortes to any, but [etc.].

1600.  W. Watson, Decacordon (1602), 265. Such their friends as they themselues made choice of.

1647.  Clarendon, Hist. Reb., IV. § 13. The Minister … Resisted such their Licence.

1709.  Steele, Tatler, No. 1, ¶ 1. I shall … publish such my Advices and Reflections.

1787.  Minor, IV. xix. 307. A few words of such my personages as have not previously been … disposed of.

1837.  Sir F. Palgrave, Merch. & Friar, Dedic. p. xxi. When you pay such your visit to the civic muniment room.

  31.  With a cardinal numeral, which now always precedes such: (So many) of that kind, or of the kind that.

1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 439. Hii hadde suche þritti men as were in hor side.

1377.  Langl., P. Pl., B. I. 106. Cherubyn and seraphin suche seuene and an-othre.

c. 1530.  Ld. Berners, Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814), 334. He had to do all at ones wyth suche vi. as syr Rowland is.

a. 1568.  Ascham, Scholem., II. (Arb.), 107. This golden sentence, diuerslie wrought upon, by soch foure excellent Masters.

1575.  Gascoigne, Posies, Notes Instruct., Wks. 1907, I. 471. Rythme royall is a verse of tenne sillables, and seven such verses make a staffe.

1582.  N. Lichefield, trans. Castanheda’s Conq. E. Ind., 16. Since it was so expedient to have a Pilot, the Generall then requested to have two such.

1600.  Shaks., A. Y. L., IV. i. 119. Orl. And wilt thou haue me? Ros. I, and twentie such.

1634.  Milton, Comus, 575. The … innocent Lady … gently ask’t if he had seen such two.

1709.  J. Ward, Introd. Math., IV. ii. (1734), 367. By the Rectangle of any two Abscissa’s is meant the Rectangle of such two parts as, being added together, will be equal to the Transverse Diameter.

1766.  Fordyce, Serm. Yng. Women (1767), I. i. 70. What is the shallow admiration of an hundred such?

1820.  Byron, Juan, III. lxxxvi. x. Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?

  † 32.  With a cardinal numeral such is used to denote multiplication by the number in question; e.g., such five (as or so) = five times as many or as much (as). Obs.

  OE. oþer swilc = as much or as many more; swilc healf = half as much.

Beowulf, 1583. Slæpende fræt folces Deniʓea fyftyne men and oðer swylc ut offerede.

c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., II. 180. Ʒenim þæs selestan wines & grenes eles swilc healf. Ibid., 214. Þry lytle bollan fullan ʓemengde wiþ swilc tu wæteres.

c. 1290.  S. Eng. Leg., 102. Þat is suych a þousent more wurth þanne al þat þing þat is.

a. 1300.  Floriz & Bl., 360. Grante him þat pu wilt so, And tak mid amoreȝe suche two.

c. 1369.  Chaucer, Dethe Blaunche, 408. To have moo floures swche seven As in the walkene sterris bee.

1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VI. 83. He hadde suche þre so hardy men in his oost as þe oþer hadde in his.

c. 1412.  Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 1195. I se þou woldest sorowe swyche two As I.

1470–85.  Malory, Arthur, X. viii. 426. He is able to bete suche fyue as ye and I be.

    ** In phrases with sbs.

  33.  Such kind, † sort, † such (a) manner (of), † of such manner: of such a kind.

1303.  R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 243. Þy god ys of swych manere, Þogh þou forsake hym ryght now here, To-morwe mayst þou com aȝeyn. Ibid., 1737. Aȝens swyche maner wyuys Þat wyl nat amende here lyuys.

a. 1325.  MS. Rawl. B. 520, lf. 52. Of suuche manere felonies.

1340.  Ayenb., 10. Kueade wordes of zuyche manere.

c. 1380.  Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 390. To occupie siche maner londe or lordeschip. Ibid. (1382), Gen. xliii. 32. A fowle thing thei wenen sich a manere feeste.

a. 1450.  Myrc, 39. Wrastelynge, & schotynge, & suche maner game.

1470–85.  [see MANNER sb.¹ 9].

1513.  More, in Grafton, Chron. (1568), II. 788. If suche kind of wordes had not bene.

a. 1542.  Wyatt, in Tottel’s Misc. (Arb.), 37. I am not of such maner condicion.

c. 1645.  Howell, Lett., II. liv. (1892), 453. A holy kind of liquor made of such sort of flowers.

1670.  Roberts, Advent. T. S., 200. When such kind of Reports are imprinted into the Fancy of the People.

1709.  J. Ward, Introd. Math., III. i. § 5 (1734), 290. Of such kind of Polygons there are infinite Varieties.

1804–6.  [see SORT sb.² 7 b].

1841.  F. E. Paget, Tales of Village (1852), 488. Such kind of things are not uncommon … among gay young men.

  34.  a. † In such manner: in this or that way. In such manner or † sort as: in the way that, as.

1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 7779. So þat þe king in such manere suluer wan ynou.

1484.  Caxton, Fables of Auian, vii. He prayd in suche maner as foloweth.

1592.  West, 1st Pt. Symbol., § 100 g. The one doth,… couenant with the other to doe … some … thing or things in such sort as they haue concluded therof amongst themselues.

1628.  Hobbes, Thucydides (1822), 47. In such sort as it should seem best.

1709.  Berkeley, Th. Vision, § 72. The Faintness, which enlarges the Appearance, must be applied in such Sort, and with such Circumstances, as have been observed to attend the Vision of great Magnitudes.

1818.  Cruise, Digest (ed. 2), IV. 395. In such sort, manner, and form … as the husband should thereafter … appoint.

  b.  In such (a) manner or sort (arch.) as, as that, that: in such a way that, so that.

1449.  J. Metham, Wks. (E.E.T.S.), 301. Help me to adorune ther chauns in sqwyche manere, so that [etc.].

1560.  Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 169 b. Themperour answereth y^e protestantes Ambassadours … in suche sorte as it coulde not be wel perceived, whether [etc.].

1576.  Fleming, Panopl. Epist., 59. I will write of my selfe … in such sort, that I varie not from the president … of many noble … personages.

c. 1600.  Shaks., Sonn., xcvi. 13. I loue thee in such sort, As thou being mine, mine is thy good report.

1625.  Bacon, Ess., Cunning (Arb.), 437. Let him … moue it himselfe, in such sort, as may foile it.

1665.  Bunyan, Holy Citie, To Rdr. A ij b. That one so low … as I, should busie my self in such sort, as to meddle [etc.].

1668.  Moxon, Mech. Dyalling, 10. Apply one of the sides of your Clinatory … to the Plane, in such sort that the Plumb-line … may fall upon the Circumference of the Quadrant.

1712.  Addison, Spect., No. 321, ¶ 30. In such a manner as they shall not be missed.

1771.  Encycl. Brit., II. 693/2. An index … which … is joined to the centre A, in such manner as that it can move round.

1821.  Shelley, Lett. to Ollier, 8 June, in Mem. (1859), 155. In such a manner as it shall be difficult for the reviser to leave such errors.

1825.  Scott, Betrothed, Concl. Damian shrunk together in such sort that his fetters clashed.

1885.  Finlayson, Biol. Relig., 31. But the man who is spiritually dead is, at the same time, in such sort living, that [etc.].

  † 35.  Such-a-thing = Thingumbob, What’s-his-name. (Cf. F. Monsieur Chose.) Obs.

1756.  Mrs. Calderwood, in Coltness Collect. (Maitland Club), 185. Who knows who Mr. Such-a-thing is?

  36.  Such time as (or that): the time when, the moment at which. (rarely with as omitted.) Occas. used (quot. 1634) as conjunctional phr. = When, while; also pleonastically with when (quot. 1607). Obs. or arch.

1411.  Rolls of Parlt., III. 650/2. Atte such resonable tyme as it likyth the forsaid Lord the Roos to assigne.

1518.  in Leadam, Sel. Cases Crt. Requests (Selden Soc.), 15. Vnto suche tyme as he … payde vnto the seid John for his fees ix.s.

1550.  in Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. (1907), Var. Coll. IV. 220. Untyll suche tyme that Mr. Meyor … shall take any order for the same.

1607.  Shaks., Cor., III. iii. 19. And when such time they haue begun to cry, Let them not cease.

1611.  Bible, Transl. Pref., ¶ 2. At such time as the professours and teachers of Christianitie … were liberally endowed.

1634.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 82. He attained the Georgian Confines, in a darke night, such time as the Persians slept.

1660.  Wood, Life (O.H.S.), I. 349. Till such time the sickness is ceased in their house.

a. 1761.  Law, Comf. Weary Pilgr. (1809), 16. Till such time as something has disturbed his state.

  37.  (See also SUCHWISE.) a. In († on) such (a) wise: in such a manner, so, thus. arch.

c. 1375.  Cursor M., 3292 (Fairf.). He … saide til hir on suche a wise. mayden saide he [etc.].

1390.  Gower, Conf., I. 1. So that it myhte in such a wyse … Beleve to the worldes eere.

c. 1440.  Generydes, 34. Gret pite that she in suche a wyse Shuld sette hyr wurchippe atte so litill prise.

a. 1555.  Latimer, Serm. & Rem. (Parker Soc.), 149. Whoso in such wise fighteth with the devil, shall have the victory.

1838.  Mrs. Browning, Isobel’s Child, vii. All smiles come in such a wise, Where tears shall fall or have of old.

1887.  Morris, Odyss., XII. 294. Eurylochus spake in suchwise.

1913.  D. Bray, Life-Hist. Brāhūī, 5. She believes that in such wise will it [the miscarried fœtus] be given life, and with luck be born anew in due time.

  b.  In († by, † on, † upon) such wise: in such a manner, so that, as to.

a. 1225.  Leg. Kath., 1956. Þis pinfule gin wes o swuch wise iginet, þet [etc.].

a. 1450.  Knt. de la Tour, xvii. To be ielous … in suche wise as to shame hym selff and his wiff.

c. 1477.  Caxton, Jason, 24. The raynes of his horse faylled … in suche wise as he tumblid the hede vnder. Ibid. (c. 1489), Sonnes of Aymon, i. 28. He smote a knyghte … by suche a wyse that he ouerthrewe hym doun deed.

1568.  Grafton, Chron., II. 10. He destroyed the land … in such wise, that .ix. yeres after it lay vnlaboured.

1858.  Sears, Athan., X. 80. The pneumatology of the sacred writers brings home to us the doctrine of the resurrection in such wise as to give it [etc.].

1903.  Westm. Gaz., 12 Jan., 10/1. He … gave proof of a cruel … disposition, in suchwise that [etc.].

  † c.  In such wise as: in the way that, as. Obs.

1390.  Gower, Conf., I. 106. In such wise as he compasseth, His wit al one alle othre passeth.

1417.  Hen. V., in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. III. I. 61. [They] have … doon theire Ambassiat in suche wyse as we halde us wel apaide.

1534.  More, Comf. agst. Trib., II. xvi. Wks. 1192/1. He that is illuded by the dyuell, is in suche wise deceiued and worsse to, then be they by their dreame.

1630.  Prynne, Anti-Armin., 9. We must receive Gods promises in such wise as they are generally set forth vnto vs.

  *** 38.  As such. a. As being what the name or description implies; in that capacity.

1711.  Steele, Spect., No. 41, ¶ 5. When she observed Will. irrevocably her Slave, she began to use him as such. Ibid. (1712), No. 386, ¶ 2. Witty Men are apt to imagine they are agreeable as such.

1797.  Encycl. Brit., XVI. 566/2. Her son was proclaimed her heir, and as such great duke of all the Russias.

1831.  Scott, Cast. Dang., xx. A Welsh knight, known as such by the diminutive size of his steed.

1851.  Carpenter, Man. Phys. (ed. 2), 434. Biliary matter does not pre-exist as such in the blood.

1851.  Pugin, Chancel Screens, 10. No parochial churches, built as such, ever had close screens.

1891.  Edge, in Law Times, XC. 395/1. The defendant is the rector of the parish, and, as such, occupies the glebe land.

1911.  Act 1 & 2 Geo. V., c. 48 § 4. The trade or business carried on in the house or place by the licence holder as such.

  b.  The sense ‘in that capacity’ passes contextually into: Accordingly, consequently, thereupon. colloq. or vulgar.

1721.  in Swayne, Churchw. Acc. Sarum (1896), 351. [He] did … publickly Declare … That he had chosen the said William Clemens to be his parish Clerk … And bid the Congregation to … accept him—as such Witness Henry Biggs, F. Barber, [etc.].

1800.  J. King, in Corr. W. Fowler (1907), 33. I very much longed to hear from you … and as such I did not the least esteem it for its having been delayed for the reasons assigned.

1814.  W. Fowler, Ibid., 297. H.R.H. Princess Augusta … motioned for me to come to her Highness. As such she addressed me in the most pleasant manner possible.

  c.  (Earlier † as it is such, etc.) Intrinsically considered; in itself; quâ (so-and-so).

1654.  Z. Coke, Logick, 2. Philosophy, which comprehends Metaphysicks, which considereth things as they are such.

1670.  Milton, Hist. Eng., VI. 291. True fortitude glories not in the feats of War, as they are such, but as they serve to end War soonest by a victorious Peace.

1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 839. If Matter as such, had Life, Perception, and Vnderstanding belonging to it.

1732.  Berkeley, Alciphr., II. § 4. Is there anything in the nature of vice, as such, that renders it a public blessing?

1777.  Cowper, Let. J. Hill, 25 May. His later Epistles, I think, are worth little, as such, but might be turned to excellent account by a young student of taste and judgement.

1849.  Ruskin, Seven Lamps, vi. § 7. 169. History, as such, was indeed entrusted to the painters of its interior.

1884.  trans. Lotze’s Metaph., 68. The abstract conception of a Thing as such.