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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
But what is used for but that, usually after a negative, and excludes everything contrary to the assertion in the following sentence. [bd]Her needle is not so absolutely perfect in tent and cross stitch but what my superintendence is advisable.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. [bd]Never fear but what our kite shall fly as high.[b8] --Ld. Lytton. {What ho!} an exclamation of calling. {What if}, what will it matter if; what will happen or be the result if. [bd]What if it be a poison?[b8] --Shak. {What of this}? {that?} {it?} etc., what follows from this, that, it, etc., often with the implication thatthatit is of no consequence. [bd]All this is so; but what of this, my lord?[b8] --Shak. [bd]The night is spent, why, what of that?[b8] --Shak. {What though}, even granting that; allowing that; supposing it true that. [bd]What though the rose have prickles, yet't is plucked.[b8] --Shak. {What time}, [or] {What time as}, when. [Obs. or Archaic] [bd]What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.[b8] --Ps. lvi. 3. What time the morn mysterious visions brings. --Pope. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
ThatThat\That\, pron., a., conj., & adv. [AS. [eb][91]t, neuter nom. & acc. sing. of the article (originally a demonstrative pronoun). The nom. masc. s[c7], and the nom. fem. se[a2] are from a different root. AS. [eb][91]t is akin to D. dat, G. das, OHG. daz, Sw. & Dan. det, Icel. [ed]at (masc. s[be], fem. s[d3]), Goth. [ed]ata (masc. sa, fem. s[d3]), Gr. [?] (masc. [?], fem. [?]), Skr. tat (for tad, masc. sas, fem. s[be]); cf. L. istud that. [fb]184. Cf. {The}, {Their}, {They}, {Them}, {This}, {Than}, {Since}.] 1. As a demonstrative pronoun (pl. {Those}), thatthatusually points out, or refers to, a person or thing previously mentioned, or supposed to be understood. That, as a demonstrative, may precede the noun to which it refers; as, thatthatwhich he has said is true; those in the basket are good apples. The early fame of Gratian was equal to thatthatof the most celebrated princes. --Gibbon. Note: ThatThatmay refer to an entire sentence or paragraph, and not merely to a word. It usually follows, but sometimes precedes, the sentence referred to. ThatThatbe far from thee, to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked. --Gen. xviii. 25. And when Moses heard that, he was content. --Lev. x. 20. I will know your business, Harry, thatthatI will. --Shak. Note: ThatThatis often used in opposition to this, or by way of distinction, and in such cases this, like the Latin hic and French ceci, generally refers to thatthatwhich is nearer, and that, like Latin ille and French cela, to thatthatwhich is more remote. When they refer to foreign words or phrases, this generally refers to the latter, and thatthatto the former. Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and Reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor thatthata bad we call. --Pope. If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that. --James iv. 16. 2. As an adjective, thatthathas the same demonstrative force as the pronoun, but is followed by a noun. It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for thatthatcity. --Matt. x. 15. The woman was made whole from thatthathour. --Matt. ix. 22. Note: ThatThatwas formerly sometimes used with the force of the article the, especially in the phrases thatthatone, thatthat other, which were subsequently corrupted into th'tone, th'tother (now written t'other). Upon a day out riden knightes two . . . ThatThatone of them came home, thatthatother not. --Chaucer. 3. As a relative pronoun, thatthatis equivalent to who or which, serving to point out, and make definite, a person or thing spoken of, or alluded to, before, and may be either singular or plural. He thatthatreproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame. --Prov. ix. 7. A judgment thatthatis equal and impartial must incline to the greater probabilities. --Bp. Wilkins. |