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siððan

  • adverb
  • conjunction
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Grammar
siððan, siððon, syððan, seoððan. [From síþ ðam ; cf. Ger. seit*-*dem.]
Wright's OE grammar
§151; §301; §560;
adv.
Afterwards, since
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  • Gé faraþ siððan

    postea transibitis,

      Gen. 18, 5.

  • Siððon,

      Exon. Th. 131, 33 ; Gú. 465.

  • Sioððan,

      Elen. Kmbl. 2292 ; El. 1147.

  • Syððan (

    exinde

    ) ongan se Hǽlend bod*-*ian,
      Mt. Kmbl. 4, 17.

  • Ðá ongan hyne syððan hingrian

    postea esuriit,

      4, 2.

  • Hé biþ ðonne seoððan ðǽm englum gelíc,

      Blickl. Homl. 49, 7.

  • Siððon,

      59, 7.

  • Ða ðe seoððan after Cristes cyme wǽron tó Gode gecyr*-*rede,

      81, 15.

  • Ðá æfter ðisse dǽde his noma wæs á seoððan mǽre ge*-*worden,

      219, 4.

  • Á syððan ðenden wunaþ húsa sélest,

      Beo. Th. 571 ; B. 283.

  • Siððan á,

      Andr. Kmbl. 2387 ; An. 1195 : 2757 ; An. 1381.

  • Seoððan á,

      Cd. Th. 289, 16 ; Sat. 398.

  • Siððan ǽfre,

      Elen. Kmbl. 1012 ; El. 507.

  • Hí sunnan ne geseóþ syððan ǽfre,

      Ps. Th. 57, 7.

  • Á forþ sioð*-*ðan,

      Ps. C. 103.

  • Hraðe seoððan,

      Beo. Th. 3879 ; B. 1937.

  • Nǽnig efenlíc ðam ǽr ne siððan,

      Exon. Th. 3, 21 ; Cri. 39.
conj.
where the tense of the verb in the clause introduced by siððan is past, in the other clause present,
since
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  • Ðé is ungelíc wlite, siððdan ðú lǽstes míne láre,

      Cd. Th. 38, 28 ; Gen. 613 : Exon. Th. 44, 13 ; Cri. 702.

  • Wé ælþeódige wǽron, siððon se ǽresta ealdor Godes bebodu ábræc

    we have been exiles, since Adam broke God's commands,

      Blickl. Homl. 23, 4.
  • Hú lang tíd is, syððan him ðis gebyrede ? Mk. Skt. 9, 21.

  • Ðeós syððan ic ineode ne geswác ðæt heó míne fét ne cyste,

      Lk. Skt. 7, 45.

  • Manige geár syndon ágán nú seoððan úre bisceopas tó mé gewreoto sende,

      Blickl. Homl. 187, 3.
where the tense is the same in each clause,
after
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  • Ðonne biþ his wela for náuht, siððan hí ongitaþ . . . ,

      Bt. 27, 3 ; 100, 2.

  • Ðú scealt Isaac onsecgan, siððan ðú gestígest dúne,

      Cd. Th. 172, 32 ; Gen. 2853 : 174, 22 ; Gen. 2882.

  • Him eorla mód ortrýwe wearþ, siððan hié gesáwon fyrd Faraonis,

      187, 22 ; Exod. 155.

  • Wǽron Adames dagas, siððan (

    postquam

    ) hé gestrínde
      Seth, Gen. 5, 4.

  • Syððan,

      18, 12.

  • Syððan Iohannes geseald wæs, com se Hǽland,

      Mk. Skt. 1, 14.
  • Hwæt biþ hit búton flǽsc, seoððan se écea dǽl of biþ ? Blickl. Homl. iii. 31 : Cd. Th. 309, 7 ; Sat. 706.
Etymology
[Later forms are sithenes, which gives modern since, sin, still used in dialects, and sithe, sith, which latter is common in Elizabethan writers.]
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v.  seoððan syððan.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “siððan.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/27885.

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  • siððan, adv.; con.

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