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amongst, prep.|əˈmʌŋst|
Forms: 3–4 amanges, (amongus), 4–6 amonges, 5 -is, -ys, 5–7 amongs, 6 amongest(e, 6– amongst, 'mongst. Northern 3–6 amanges, 5–7 amangs, 7 amangst. Also 5 emanges, -ez, emongis, 6 emonges, emongs, emongest(e.
[f. among (amang, emong) with adverbial genitive -es, as in besides, betimes, in 16th c. corrupted to -st, by form-assoc. with superlatives, cf. agains(t, amids(t.]
Less usual in the primary local sense than among, and, when so used, generally implying dispersion, intermixture, or shifting position.
1. = among 1.
a1400Sir Perc. 604 So commes the rede knyghte inne Emangez thame. 1559in Strype Ann. Ref. I. App. vi. 9 Did he place himself amongest the prestes? c1590Marlowe Faustus 51 Faustus is feasted mongst his noblemen. 1652Ashmole Theatr. Chem. Brit. 217 Amongs the Wormys smale. 1851Helps Friends in C. I. 4 Red brick houses, with poplars coming up amongst them. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. x. (1878) 172, I walked about amongst them.
2. = among 2.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame 1633 They amonges al the pres Shul thus be shamed. 1556Lauder Tractate 78 Amangs the heuinlie companye.
3. = among 3.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 1619 Godes hus, Her heuenegate amongus us. 1258Procl. Hen. III, We senden ȝew þis writ..to halden a manges ȝew ínehord. 1366Mandeville xix. 211 Thei hadde no pore men amonges hem. 1556Robinson More's Utopia 22, I spende almost al the day abrode emonges other. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. (1877) 22 A God amongest men. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. xi. iv, As those holy Fishers once amongs Thou flamedst bright with sparkling parted tongues. 1816J. Wilson City of Plague i. iv. 23 'Tis the first death Hath been amongst us. 1851Helps Friends in C. I. 116 To live amongst those with whom one has not anything like one's fair value.
4. = among 4.
c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 784 Amonges other of his honest thinges, He had a gardin walled all with ston. c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. (1714) 44 The kepyng of the See I rekyn not amongs the Ordynarye chargs. 1551Recorde Pathw. Knowl. Ep. Ded., Amongest them all, I wyll take the exaumples of kyng Phylippe of Macedonie, and of Alexander his sonne. 1586T. B. La Primaudaye's Fr. Acad. II. 41 Amongest terrestrial creatures..God hath created none with two legges onely..but man. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. §14 (1873) 83 The opinion of plenty is amongst the causes of want. 1711Steele Spect. No. 2. ⁋3 Frugal Maxims, amongst which the greatest Favourite is ‘A Peny Saved is a Peny got.’ 1785C. Wilkins Bhagvat vii. 52 A few amongst ten thousand mortals strive for perfection. 1840Hood Up Rhine 4 Amongst other memorials, there is an old family watch.
5. = among 6.
1366Mandeville xviii. 195 The more worschipe he hath amonges hem. 1536Beerley in Four Cent. Eng. Lett. 34 Fowll vycys don amonckst relygyus men. 1588A. King Canisius' Catech. H ij b, Y⊇ sonday being yairefter amanges y⊇ Christians callit y⊇ day of our lord. 1599Thynne Animadv. (1875) 1 One annciente and gretlye Estemed Custome emongeste the Romans. 1676Hobbes Iliad i. 100 Nor will the sickness 'mongst the People cease. 1802Scott Minstr. Scot. Bord. i. 39 This original miscellany holds a considerable value amongst collectors.
6. = among 7–8.
c1460Townley Myst. 217 Emanges us alle I red we kest To bring this thefe to dede. 1527in Bury Wills (1850) 118 Delte emongeste the poore people. a1569A. Kingsmill Man's Estate xiii. (1580) 110 Thei parted my garmentes emongest them. 1607Dekker in Shaks. Cent. Praise 74 Dispersing his giftes, amongst none but his honest breathren. 1640Bk. War-Comm. Covenanters 2 The divisione of the said troupe horss amangst the parochess.
7. = among 9.
1509Fisher Wks. (1876) 296 Yf ony faccyons or bendes were made secretely amongest her hede Officers. 1543Henry VIII Parl. Speech 24 Dec., What Charity and Love is amongst you, when one calleth the other Heretick and Anabaptist? 1558Queen Elizabeth in Strype Ann. Ref. I. App. iii. 3 Whereupon riseth amonges the common sort..unfruteful dispute. 1756Burke Subl. & B. Wks. I. 213 How are the partisans of proportional beauty agreed amongst themselves? |