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veraltetExpressing distance or motion. From (a place); off.

Take the chicken out of the freezer.

Sir said Galahad by this shelde ben many merueils fallen / Sir sayd the knyght hit befelle after the passion of our lord Ihesu Crist xxxij yere that Ioseph of Armathye the gentyl knyghte / the whiche took doune oure lord of the hooly Crosse att that tyme he departed from Iherusalem with a grete party of his kynred with hym

Against headache, vertigo, vapours which ascend forth of the stomach to molest the head, read Hercules de Saxonia and others.

Expressing distance or motion. Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).

He hasn't been well of late.

And he axed his father: howe longe is it agoo, sens this hath happened hym? And he sayde, of a chylde.

one that I brought vp of a puppy […] I was sent to deliuer him, as a present to Mistris Siluia, from my Master.

Obama has been obliged to make nice of late in hope of rescuing the moribund two-state process and preventing resumed West Bank settlement building.

Expressing distance or motion. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).

There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.

Though Washington does not officially recognize Moscow, the Hoover Administration permits a Soviet Russian Information Bureau to flourish in a modest red brick house on Massachusetts Avenue, within a mile of the White House.

There are now upwards of 1.4 million 99ers in America facing a life with no benefits and few prospects for finding a job in a market in which companies are still not hiring.

Expressing separation. Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.

Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.

And ther with on his handes and on his knees he wente soo nyghe that he touched the holy vessel / and kyste hit / and anone he was hole / and thenne he sayd lord god I thanke the / for I am helyd of this sekenesse

Antigonus [took] upon him to favour a souldier of his by reason of his vertue and valour, to have great care of him, and see whether they could recover him of a lingering and inward disease which had long tormented him […]

I am almost entirely cured of my rheumatism—just a little pain in my knee now and then, to make me remember what it was, and keep on flannel.

Expressing separation. Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.

He seemed devoid of human feelings.

But schemes are perfectly accidental: some will appear barren of hints and matter, but prove to be fruitful […]

Yet for long spells Villa looked laboured and devoid of ideas.

veraltetExpressing separation. Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.

He was kindly treated by the people at Saco, and recovered of his wounds.

Expressing origin. Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.

The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.

They wondred all, and marveylled sayinge amonge themselves: Loke, are not all these which speake off galile? And howe heare we every man his awne tongue wherein we were boren?

My father was born of a family of weavers in Manchester, England.

Nothing may come of these ideas, yet their potential should not be dismissed.

Expressing origin. Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual.

Jesus of Nazareth (after hometown)

Anselm of Canterbury (after diocese)

Anselm of Aosta (after birthplace)

Anselm of Bec (after monastery)

Expressing origin. Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of.

The invention was born of necessity.

Faire knyght said Palomydes me semeth we haue assayed eyther other passyng sore / and yf hit may please the / I requyre the of thy knyghthode telle me thy name / Sir said the knyȝt to Palomydes / that is me loth to doo / for thou hast done me wronge.

Undoubtedly it is to be understood, that inflicting deserved punishment on all evil doers, of right, belongs to God.

The woman who danced for me said she was there of her own free will, but when I pushed a bit further, I discovered that she "owed a man a lot of money", and had to pay it back quickly.

Expressing origin. Indicates the source or cause of the verb.

It is said that she died of a broken heart.

He smelled of beer and cigarette smoke and his own body.

Two men, one from Somalia and one from Zimbabwe, died of terminal illnesses shortly after their incarceration ended.

Expressing origin. Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.

I am tired of all this nonsense.

Lib Dems were appalled by Mr Boles’s offer, however kindly meant: the party is so frightened of losing its independence under Mr Clegg that such a pact would “kill” him, says a senior member.

Thus, one finds individuals dead of a gunshot wound with potentially lethal levels of drugs.

Expressing agency. Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).

I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.

After a good while, the iewes toke cousell amonge themselves to kyll him. But their layinges awayte wer knowen of Saul.

[S]he might appeare to be the lively patterne of another Lucrece, yet know I certainly that, both before that time and afterward, she had beene enjoyed of others upon easier composition.

The family is ordained of God.

Expressing agency. Used to introduce the “subjective genitive”; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also ‘Possession’ senses below).

The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.

In Blood and Sand, meanwhile, Valentino repeatedly solicits the attention of women who have turned away from him.

Somehow Croatia has escaped the opprobrium of the likes of the German Christian Democrats and others that are against any rapid enlargement of the European Union to the include rest of the western Balkans.

Expressing agency. Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.

It was very brave of you to speak out like that.

When this was over, Mr. Woodhouse gratefully observed,—"It is very kind of you, Mr. Knightley, to come out at this late hour to call upon us."

Morrissey's spokesperson says he is considering the offer. It would perhaps be rude of him to decline.

Expressing composition, substance. Used to indicate the material or substance used.

Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.

The mallet is made of a hard heavy wood resembling ebony, is about twelve inches in length, and perhaps two in breadth, with a rounded handle at one end, and in shape is the exact counterpart of one of our four-sided razor-strops.

Expressing composition, substance. Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.

She wore a dress of silk.

Perhaps symbolically, Van Doesburg was building a house of straw: he died within a few months of completion, not in Meudon but in Davos, of a heart attack following a bout of asthma.

It's 25km of rolling pitch from the start of the 175 to Nansi. If you want to continue riding through more undeveloped natural landscape, head up the east side of Tsengwen Reservoir.

Expressing composition, substance. Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.

I'll have a dozen of those apples, please.

What a lot of nonsense!

His papers at this period contain a mass of very unedifying and uninteresting documents […].

He is never chased; he would run away with rope-walks of line.

Expressing composition, substance. Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.

Germany's formal name is the Federal Republic of Germany.

Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.

This having the rainy month of March and April to water it, sprung up very pleasantly, and yielded a very good crop […].

In his studio in the Behlendorf woods, near the Baltic city of Lübeck, Günter Grass reflects on the outcry over his fictive memoir Peeling the Onion.

Expressing composition, substance. Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second; “which is also”.

I'm not driving this wreck of a car.

As he swallowed the soup his heart warmed to this fool of a girl.

"I'm having a bitch of a day," he says, after ordering a restorative pint of Guinness and flopping down in a seat by the front window.

Introducing subject matter. Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-matter; concerning, with regard to.

I'm always thinking of you.

[H]e spoke of his uncle with warm regard, was fond of talking of him […]

You must not judge of Celia's feeling from mine. I think she likes these small pets.

while producing Cook, which includes more than 250 seasonal recipes by 80 different chefs, we washed up more than 500 times (oh, how I dreamed of dishwashers).

Introducing subject matter. Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning.

He told us the story of his journey to India.

Recession and rising unemployment have put paid to most thoughts of further EU enlargement.

Introducing subject matter. Introduces its subject matter.

This behaviour is typical of teenagers.

The same secludedness and isolation to which the schoolmaster whale betakes himself in his advancing years, is true of all aged Sperm Whales.

Having partitive effect. Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment; “from among”.

Most of these apples are rotten.

But as for me said sire Gareth I medle not of their maters therfore there is none of them that loueth me / And for I vnderstande they be murtherers of good knyghtes I lefte theyre company

The dead bodies of the Koreish were despoiled and insulted; two of the most obnoxious prisoners were punished with death […]

Many of the civilisational achievements of Mesopotamia are the product of that symbiosis.

Having partitive effect. Indicates a given part.

We want a larger slice of the cake.

everyone, even the ladies of the village, called the dish tzigayner shmeklekh, or “gypsies' penises.”

That, I think, is the buried core of the outrage people feel most generally.

altertümlichHaving partitive effect. Some, an amount of, one of.

On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.

And the folysshe sayde to the wyse: geve us of youre oyle, for oure lampes goo out?

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, […]

Dunning, however, is of the old school, and does not like new faces; so he will have no Irishman at his door, as is the case with two out of three of the houses at which one calls, now-a-days.

Having partitive effect. Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below; see also double possessive).

He is a friend of mine.

He is just what I should have liked a son of mine to be.

In its flattering way, the press tried to invest this habit of Bush's with the sense that it was indicative of a particularly sharp wit.

Expressing possession. Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare “origin” senses, above.

He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.

The building was erected in two years, at the parochial expence, on the foundation of the former one, which was irreparably damaged by the hurricane of Auguſt, 1712.

Thus, as he dressed, the thoughts and the rage of yesterday began to stir and move in his mind again.

Within ten seconds, the citizens of New York, Cleveland, Detroit and Toronto were being given first-hand experience of what it was like to live in the nineteenth century.

Expressing possession. Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.

The owner of the nightclub was arrested.

In a much-anticipated radio broadcast the Duke of Edinburgh said last night that Britain will be a grim place in the year 2000 […]

The third son, William John (1826-1902), was headmaster of the Boys' British School, Hitchin […]

Expressing possession. Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the “possessive genitive”. (With abstract nouns, this intersects with the subjective genitive, above under "agency" senses.)

Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.

The breasts of young girls sometimes become tender at puberty in sympathy with the evolution of the sexual organs […]

It amounts to knocking on the door of No 10 then running away.

Forming the “objective genitive”.

Forming the “objective genitive”. Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.

She had a profound distrust of the police.

And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Antifeminism has been a credible cover and an effective vehicle because the hatred of women is not politically anathema on either the Right or the Left.

altertümlichExpressing qualities or characteristics. Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier; in respect to, as regards.

My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.

This fact becomes very noticeable when a cultivated tongue ceases to be used any longer by the educated, and is heard only from the mouths of the illiterate. The variations which spring up under such circumstances are easy of observation, because we have an ideal standard preserved by which to compare the present with the past.

He was huge, raw-boned, knotty, long of body and long of leg, with the head of a war charger.

Still nimble of mind and fleet of foot, Morris buzzed here and there, linking well and getting stuck in at every opportunity.

Expressing qualities or characteristics. Indicates a quality or characteristic; “characterized by”.

Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.

His frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and firmness.

No other man has made so deep a mark on his time and on our world unless he has been a man of action, a Cromwell or a Napoleon.

Expressing qualities or characteristics. Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.

A young man of 20 has been paying interest at an exorbitant rate of 10%.

She was a tall young girl of about twenty-two or three, holding herself erect and with fine dignity.

A police car, traveling southbound at a speed of 40.0 m/s, approaches with its siren producing sound at a frequency of 2 500 Hz.

umgangssprachlichExpressing qualities or characteristics. Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives modified by certain common adverbs of degree.

It's not that big of a deal. (Standard form: It's not that big a deal.)

Such hegemonic projects often appropriate certain local traditions and re-inscribe them as "national," while dismissing other traditions which pose too great of a threat to the reproduction of the existing socio-political order.

For some individuals, even 1000 calories/day may be too great of a deficit.

While it is quite obvious that the state continues to try and dilute the voting power of Native Americans, at least as big of a challenge is the need for mobilizing Native American voters.

Expressing a point in time. During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.

Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.

For, sometimes of an afternoon when Miss Pupford has been reading the paper through her little gold eye-glass[…], she has become agitated, […]

If there was a type Ida despised, Sir Claude communicated to Maisie, it was the man who pottered about town of a Sunday […]

Expressing a point in time. For (a given length of time).

I’ve not taken her out of a goodly long while.

Expressing a point in time. Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.

After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.

The cab driver's claim he was sleepwalking during the attack has already been supported by his wife of 37 years.

Expressing a point in time. Before (the hour); to (the hour).

I’ll be ready at ten of two

What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.

I'll be ready by five of noon.

"Fellow Democrats," he began, "I left Washington at a quarter of two this morning […]"

umgangssprachlichExpressing a point in time. Before (the hour); to (the hour). Often used without the hour.

I’ll be ready at ten of

Wednesday was more of the same. Out at 08:30, got to the office by quarter of, clients all day.

Variante von have and 'veEye dialect spelling of have and 've, chiefly in depictions of colloquial speech.

I have refrained from giving many details which I might of done, from feelings of delicacy; indeed, they were of so dark and dreadful a nature, that I could do no more than hint at them

"I had a woman up here last week to look at my feet, and when she have been the bill you'd of thought she had my appendicitus out."

‘You must of left your door unlocked. Or even open.’

"You couldn't of known," Livio says.