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▪ I. yet, v. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 1 ᵹeotan, 2–4 ȝeote(n, 3 yeote, (Orm.) ȝetenn, 3–5 yhet, 3–6 ȝet, 4 yete, ȝhet, ȝit, 4–5 ȝete, ȝeete, ȝute, 5 ȝett(e, ȝut, 5–7 yet, 6 yette, 7 yeat, 9 yett, yat. pa. tense. α. 1 ᵹeat, ᵹet, pl. ᵹ uton, 3 ȝeat, yhet, pl. ȝeoten, 3–4 ȝette, 4 ȝete, yeett, yeyt, 4–6 ȝet, 5 yette, 6 yet. β. 3 yhotte, 4 yot, ȝot, 5 ȝote. γ. 2 ȝettede, 4 ȝetede, -id(e, ȝeetide, 4–5 ȝettid(e. pa. pple. α. 1 ᵹoten, 3 yhoten, -in (Orm. ȝotenn), ȝhutten, yotten, iȝoten, iȝotten, 3–4 iȝote, 4 ȝoten, ȝooten, ȝote, yȝote, 4–6 yoten, 5 yȝutte, ȝut, yat, 6 iȝotun. β. 4–5 yeten, ȝette, (4 ȝitte), 5 ȝeten, 5–6 ȝett, 6 Sc. ȝet, ȝit, ȝyt. γ. 5 ȝetted, -yd.
[Com. Teut. str. vb. = to pour, to melt metal, pour out, flow: OE. ᵹéotan, pa. tense ᵹéat, guton, pa. pple. goten, = OFris. giata, iata, (NFris. jit, WFris. jiette, EFris. jôte), (M)LG. geten, (M)Du. gieten, OHG. gioȥan (MHG. gioȥen, G. giessen), ON. gjóta only in senses, to drop one's young, twinkle with the eyes, Goth. giutan; f. Teut. geut- (:gaut-: gut-):—gheud- (:ghoud-: ghud-), whence L. fū̆d- in fundĕre, pa. tense fūdī to pour. For other derivatives and cognates, see gote n., gush v., gut n. The simpler form of the root (gheu-) is found in Gr. χέϝω I pour, χεῦµα pouring, Skr. hu, juhóti to pour in sacrifice. (Compounds are bigeten, inyet, outyet.)]
1. trans. To pour. Also absol.
c1000ælfric Lev. viii. 24 He ᵹet þæt blod uppan þæt weofod. c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 98 Ᵹeot on fæt, þonne hio ᵹenoh þicce sie. Ibid. III. 246 Aquarius, þæt is..se þe wæter ᵹyt. c1205Lay. 19771 Six amppullen fulle Heo ȝeoten i þan welle. Ibid. 29255 Þer biforen he gon ȝeoten Draf and chaf and aten. a1300Cursor M. 3805 And oyel he yeett apon þat stan And made to godd a voo onan. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xii. (Mathias) 251 [She] brocht a preciuse vnyment, Til ennownte hymne in entent, & apone cristis hed it ȝete. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula etc. 35 Be þer ȝette in of a ȝolk of an ey. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 2789 With þis haly water he yode To þe seke man for his gode. In his mouthe he ȝettid thryse. 1483Cath. Angl. 426/2 To ȝett be twene, jnterfundere. a1500Bollard in Arnolde Chron. (1502) 64/1 Than thou most moyst them twyes or thries in the day not yeting [v.r. ȝitteng] but dewyng or springling. 1513Douglas æneis vi. iv. 37 The fat olie did he ȝet and peir Apoun the entraillis, to mak thaim birn cleir. 1666Despaut. Gram. F ij, (Jam.) Fundo, to yet, or power forth. Ibid. G j, Fundo.., to yeat forth. 1866T. Edmondston Gloss. Shetland & Orkney, Yat, to pour in large quantity, S.
b. To shed (tears or blood; also light).
a900Cynewulf Crist 173 Ic tearas sceal ᵹeotan ᵹeomormod. c900tr. Bæda's Hist. ii. vi. (1890) 114 Ond þa ærest longe nihtes in halᵹum ᵹebedum [he] wæs, & his tearas ᵹeat. c1175Lamb. Hom. 39 Þu scalt..ȝeoten þine teres swiðe sariliche. c1200Ormin 1773 Þatt blod tacnede Cristess blod Þatt ȝotenn wass o rode. c1275Lay. 19142 Þar was mochel blod iȝote. a1300E.E. Psalter lxxviii[i]. 3 Þai yhotten blode, als watre strem, In vmgange of Ierusalem. c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. met. vii. (1868) 29 Þe sterres couered wiþ blak cloudes ne mowen geten a doun no lyȝt. 1501Douglas Pal. Hon. Prol. 47 Phebus furth ȝet depured bemis cleir. 1513― æneis iii. v. 121 And with lang sobbis furth ȝettand teris in vane.
Const. inf.a1400–50Wars Alex. 5042 So did his princes..With ȝedire ȝoskingis & ȝerre ȝett out to grete.
c. To pour forth or cause to flow in a flood. Sc.
1513Douglas æneis v. xii. 36 Thar wes na strenth of valeant men to waill, Nor large fludis on ȝet that mycht avail. 1533Bellenden Livy i. ii. (S.T.S.) I. 17 This Ryver be divyne purviance was ȝett furth with large flude abone þe brayis. 1536― Cron. Scot. (1821) I. p. xlviii, The see, be contrarius stremes, makis collision; sum times yettand out the tid, and sum times swelleand and soukand it in agane.
d. fig. To pour, shed, infuse. Often rendering L. fundere and its compounds in mere literalisms.
c897ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xxxix. 282 Sio slæwð ᵹiett slæp on ðone monnan. a1000Guthlac 1206 Þy læs þæt wundredan weras & idesa & on ᵹeað ᵹutan. a1240Lofsong in O.E. Hom. I. 209 Þe holi goste þet þu..sendest þine deorewurðe deciples and ȝettedest to þeo þet rith luuieð þe. a1300E.E. Psalter xliv. 3 [xlv. 2] Yhotin es hap in þi lippes twai [Vulg. diffusa est gratia in labiis tuis]. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. ii. 151 Heuene holde hit [sc. love] ne myȝte so heuy hit semede, Til hit hadde on erthe ȝoten [v.r. I-ȝotun, ȝeten] hym-selue. c1450Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 20 For in hir moders wombe whils this virgine was shette On hire the haly Gast his speciell blissing yette. 1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione iii. xxx. (1893) 221 For all carnall loue yet into my soule the loue of thyne holy name. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys 219 Some with a fals herte,..Into his lordes erys yetyth secretly Lyes venomous. 1563Winȝet tr. Vincent. Lirin. v. Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 21 A certane mist wes ȝet vpon the myndis of al the Bischopes of the Latin toung.
e. transf. To pour fluid into (a cavity).
1560Rolland Seven Sages (Bann. Cl.) 157 Thay ȝet his mouth full of het meltit gold.
2. intr. To gush forth or flow in a stream, as water, tears, blood.
a900Cynewulf Elene 1132 Hat heafodwylm ofer hleor ᵹoten. a1000Guthlac 1029 He hate let torn þoliende tearas ᵹeotan. a1225Juliana 17 Me nom hire & dude swa þat hit [sc. blood] ȝeat adun of þe ȝerden. c1250Gen. & Ex. 582 Reyn ȝette dun on euerilk stede. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 12941 For so faste doun the water ȝet, That thei were alle thorow wet. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 7811 Teris oute of þaire eyen ȝote. 1533Bellenden Livy v. iii. (S.T.S.) II. 152 The teris for blyithnes..ȝet fra þe ene of faderis.
3. trans. To form (an object) by running molten metal into a mould; to found; = cast v. 51.
c1000Ags. Ps. (Th.) cxxxiv. [cxxxv.] 15 Gold and seolfur, þe her ᵹeotað menn, and mid heora folmum fæᵹere wyrceað. c1000ælfric Deut. ix. 12 Hiᵹ ᵹuton him hæðenne god. c1200Ormin 17418 Drihhtinn..badd he shollde melltenn brass & ȝetenn himm a neddre. a1225Juliana 38 Ich makede nabugodonosor..makien þe mawmez igoten of golde. c1300in T. North's Engl. Bells (1888) 8 [Inscription on bell] IOH:ME:YEYT. 1382Wylcif Isa. xliv. 10 Who foormede God, and a grauen thing ȝetede, to no thing profitable? 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 185 Þis picher het ȝit [v.r. ȝute] Dunstan. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. v. 163 Ymagis graued, coruun, or ȝut. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 6021 He made it [sc. a bell] to be ȝett. 1533Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. VI. 104 To Peris and the laif of the werkmen ȝettand the gunnis in the castell.
b. To form (metal) into a shape, by pouring it when melted into a mould; = cast v. 50.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 235 And wonderliche by craft of ȝetynge þat bas is i-ȝote. c1425Wyntoun Cron. i. v. 252 (Edin. MS.) To wirk metall, Yrne and steill, leid and tyn, To ȝet [v.r. ȝett] or bet or graif þar in. c1475Promp. Parv. 538/1 (MS. K.) Ȝetyn metall. 1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 94 Sum goukis quhill the glas pyg grow full of gold ȝit. 1531Elyot Gov. i. viii. (1883) I. 48 A commune painter or keruer,..stained or embrued with sondry colours,..or perfumed with tedious sauours of the metalles by him yoten. 1552Huloet, Yet, or caste mettall, fundo.
4. To melt down (metal). Also fig.
1382Wyclif Jer. ix. 7 Lo! I shall ȝ eete and preue them. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VIII. 129 Vessel, croyses, and chalys were y-take, and golde i-schave of seyntes schrynes and i-ȝote. 1570Levins Manip. 86/16 To Yette metal, fundere, liquefacere.
5. To set or fasten (as iron in stone) by means of molten lead. Hence, to fix firmly.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 185 Þe stakes were grete, i-schape as a manis þigh, and i-ȝote aboute wiþ leed. 1554–5Burgh Rec. Edin. (1871) II. 302 Item for vj greit cruks fra Johne Alhanny,..Item for ane stane of leid to yet thame with,..viijs. 1808Jamieson, To yett, v. a., to fasten in the firmest manner, to rivet, Loth.
Hence yet, ˈyetted ppl. a., poured; molten, cast; ˈyetting vbl. n., casting, founding.
1387Ȝetynge [see 3 b]. c1450Mirour Sauacioun (Roxb.) 5 The mawmetiers vnto y⊇ ȝette [printed ȝerte] calf of gold prefigured thes thinges. 1483Cath. Angl. 426/2 Ȝettyd, fusilis. 1504–5Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 294 Item, for lede to ȝet the pulleis and the pais, and for ȝetting of thaim,..ij s. viij d. 1513Douglas æneis ix. xi. 12 Als violent as euyr the ȝet doun rane Furth of the west dois smyte apon the wald.
▪ II. yet, adv. (a.) and conj.|jɛt|
Forms: α. 1 ᵹiet, ᵹit, ᵹieta, 2–4 ȝiete, 2–5 (6–7 Sc.) ȝit, 3–4 ȝiet, ȝite, 3–5 ȝyt, ȝitte, 3–6 yitte, 4 yiet, (ytt, ȝhyt, yhitte, 4–5 ȝhit, yhit), 4–6 ȝitt, (ȝhitt), 4–7 yitt, (5 ihit, yt), 5–6 ȝytt, 4–6, 7–8 Sc., 9– dial. yit. β. 1 ᵹet, ᵹeta, 2 ȝeat, ȝæt, iett, 2–5 ȝet, ȝette, (2 ȝeiet, 3 ȝæte, ȝeht, hyet), 3–4 yete, 3–5 ȝete, 4 ȝeitt, yeitt, ȝeite, (ȝate, ihet, Sc. ȝeyt, yhet(e, yheit, yheyt(e), 4, 5–6 Sc. ȝeit, 4–6 yeit, 4–7 yett, 5 ȝeet, ȝett, 5–6 yette, 6 yeat, (yate, 9 dial. yeet), 3– yet. γ. 1 Northumb. ᵹeot, 3 ȝeot, ȝot. δ. 1–2 ᵹyt, 2–5 ȝut, 3 ȝuet, ȝuyt, (ȝuȝt), 3–4 ȝ uit, ȝute, 4 yute, ȝutte, 5 ȝutt, ȝuite, yut.
[OE. ᵹíet and ᵹíeta, corresp. to OFris. ieta, eta, ita (WFris. yette, NFris. jit); of obscure origin. (The synonymous OE. (Anglian) ᵹén, ᵹéna show the same parallelism of formation.)
The meanings of yet are generally expressed in the Teut. langs. outside the Anglo-Frisian group by *noh (OS., OHG. noh; but in Goth. naūh is an interrog. particle):—Indo-eur. *nu-qe and now.]
I.
1. a. In addition, or in continuation; besides, also; further, furthermore, moreover; with a numeral or the like = ‘more’, as yet a, yet one = ‘another’, ‘one more’ (= F. encore un, G. noch ein). Obs. or arch. (now chiefly with again or once more: cf. d below).
For the use with words denoting time see 5 c.
Beowulf 47 Þa ᵹyt hie him asetton seᵹen gyldenne. c900Wærferth tr. Gregory's Dial. iv. (1900) 42 Þa þing, þe ic her to ᵹita ᵹeþeode [L. ea quae subjungo]. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xviii. 16 Ᵹyf he þe ne ᵹehyrð, nim þonne ᵹyt ænne oððe tweᵹen to þe. c1175Lamb. Hom. 13 Ȝet cweð ure lauerd to moyses. Ȝif ȝe cherrat from me ower heortan [etc.]. Ibid. 41 Ȝette he him sceawede ane welle of fure. a1225Leg. Kath. 70 A meiden..feier & freolich o wlite & o westum ah ȝet, þet is mare wurð, steðelfest wiðinnen. a1225Ancr. R. 312 Auh wostu hwat me deð ȝet [MS. T. ȝeddes; MS. C. ȝeddeð]? a1250Owl & Night. 309 Ȝet þu me seist of oþer þinge. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 287 Man þou art iwis To winne ȝvt [v.r. ȝuyt] a kinedom wel betere þan min is. c1350Will. Palerne 186 Þe herde & his hende wif Þat bold barn wiþ his bowe..fedde, & ȝit hadde fele felawes in þe forest. 1375in Horstmann Altengl. Leg. (1878) 130/2 Ȝut after he gat þretty sones mo, And þretty douȝtres and two. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 87 Alssua ane othir ȝit resoun is [etc.]. c1460Towneley Myst. ii. 30 Yit, shrew, yit, pull on a thraw! 1497Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 219 Wages of maryners..ixli vijs. Vitayle..vijli xxd. Yet Wages of maryners..iiijli xs xd. 1534More Answ. Poys. Bk. i. xiii. 54 b, They that call it brede declare yet that in dede it is not brede but the body of Chryste. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. i. iii, Stay let me obserue this portent yet. 1637Milton Lycidas 1 Yet once more, O ye Laurels..I com to pluck your Berries. c1643Ld. Herbert Autobiog. (1824) 7 Notwithstanding yet these expences at home, he brought up his children well. 1660Marvell Corr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 17 There is yet brought in an Act in which of all others your corporation is the least concerned. 1705Addison Italy Ded., I had a very early Ambition to recommend my self to Your Lordship's Patronage, which yet encreas'd in me as I Travell'd through the Countries. 1831Wordsw. On Dep. Sir W. Scott 7 While Tweed, best pleased in chanting a blithe strain, Saddens his voice again, and yet again. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 273 Yet once more, fair friend. 1895Petrie Egypt. Tales Ser. i. 73 The Sekhti came yet, and yet again, even unto the ninth time.
b. Used to strengthen a comparative: now more commonly expressed by even (adv. 9 e) or still (adv. 5 a). † Also formerly with a superlative (= very adv. 3 a) or an ordinal numeral.
c888ælfred Boeth. v. §3 Ac wit sculon þeah ᵹiet dioplicor ymb ðæt bion. a1000Judith 182 Þe us monna mæst morðra ᵹefremede,..& þæt swyðor ᵹyt ycan wolde. a1122O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1087 He..dyde ᵹit eallra wærst. c1175Lamb. Hom. 123 Luuian we ure drihten, for þon þe he luuede us er we hine..Ȝit we sculen mare, we sculan luuian ure nehstan. c1200Ormin Ded. 6 Broþerr min i Godess hus, Ȝet o þe þride wise. Ibid. 780, & Godess enngell seȝȝde þær Off Sannt Johan ȝet mare. c1275Lay. 28538 Sixti þousend manne And mo þousendes ȝite. a1352Minot Poems (ed. Hall) i. 49 Ma manasinges ȝit haue þai maked. 1390Gower Conf. III. 132 Alpheta..is the twelfthe sterre yit. c1400Rule St. Benet (verse) 299 Þe fortt degre ȝit es þair als Of sum þat er in order fals. c1425Wyntoun Cron. iii. ix. 1044 Þis kynge mony sonnys hade, Off ane of þa ȝhit mast he made. 1567Satir. Poems Reform. vi. 112 Thairfoir ye fand thame prickis vnto your ene, And, ȝif ye spair thame, yit sall find thame moir. 1626Gouge Dign. Chiv. §5, I purpose to dive yet more deeply into the depth of my Text. 1665Hooke Microgr. 2 Being able to include as great a variety of parts..in the yet smallest Discernable Point, as in those vaster bodies such as the Earth, Sun, or Planets. 1724Ramsay Vision x, That's yit worse. 1782F. Burney Cecilia viii. v, Which can only awaken painful recollections, or give rise to yet more painful new anxieties. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xxiv, The thought..gave a yet deeper colour of carnation to her complexion. 1847H. Melville Omoo lxvii, My sandals were worse yet. 1889‘J. S. Winter’ Mrs. Bob x. (1891) 121 ‘And you're quite sure..that you really like me.’ ‘Yes, I'm quite sure,’ said he, holding her yet more closely to him.
c. Used for emphasis after nor († na, ne, neither): nor yet = and also not. † Also formerly after or: or yet = or else, or even (cf. e below).
a1300Cursor M. 12811 Neþer am i crist ne yeitt heli. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints iii. (Andreas) 3 In word, in thocht, or yhet in dede. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1084 Nat was foryeten, the porter ydelnesse Ne Narcisus..Ne yet the folie of kyng Salomon. 1513Douglas æneis i. vi. 98 All thai quhilk haitis the cruel tirrantis dedis, Or ȝit his felloun violence sair dredis. 1526Tindale Luke xxiii. 15, I..founde noo faute in this man.. No nor yett Herode. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. (1888) 152 Neither he, ne yet his parentes, can forsake their prince. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. g vij, Quhatsoeuer do proceid ather from the hail body thairof, ather yeit ony particular membre of the same. 1625Hart Anat. Ur. ii. iv. 68 Such an excretion of bloud, which cometh thus to passe by reason of the loosenesse..of the mouthes of the small veines, or yet of the thinnesse of bloud. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 121 Yit the samine can noth be conceiled..Neither zit can the men of God..dissemble the samine. c1639in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. i. 35 He does not rekon the samen nether yett his owne charges. 1884W. C. Smith Kildrostan 88, I never handled rope, Nor held a tiller, nor yet mean to do.
†d. Denoting repetition of an act: Again. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 1197 Bad him [sc. Adam] thoru an angel steuen, Þat he suld wit his wijf yete mete. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 2687 Hypermnestra, She rist ȝit vp, & stakerith her & ther. a1400–50Wars Alex. 3163 First warte I to ȝour worthines, ȝit write I þe same. 1431Test. Ebor. (Surtees) II. 15 Unum flatt pece cum scriptura in cooperculo Drynk and fyll ȝytt. 1564–5Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 316 To charge the said Gilbert..yit as of befoir, to bring the saidis Urchid Makdowell and Patrik Makdowell.
†e. Emphasizing an extreme case: = even adv. 9. Obs. rare.
a1300Cursor M. 11575 Ar he self wald..To ded it moght naman him bring, And not yeitt þan þat he ne suld rise, Al at his aun deuise. 1382Wyclif Luke xiv. 26 If ony..hatith not his..britheren, and douȝtris, ȝit forsoth and his lyf [2nd vers. and ȝit his owne lijf]. a1450Le Morte Arth. 2248 All landys northe and southe Off thys werre the word spronge, And yit at Rome it was full couthe.
f. Used as an ironic intensive at the end of a sentence, clause, etc. (imitating the use of Yiddish noch). colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1936Sat. Even. Post 19 Dec. 11/3 ‘The only kinda men I want are ones who wouldn't be afraid to try out for Whiteman.’ ‘Whiteman yet!’ scoffed one. 1943M. Shulman Barefoot Boy with Cheek vii. 68 ‘Not just a little story, but a big story, and on the front page and with pictures.’ There were admiring whistles and cries of ‘Pictures, yet!’ from the audience. 1957N.Y. Times Times Book Rev. 17 Mar. 8 The counter-claim was dismissed (with costs yet). 1962T. Meehan in Sunday Times 5 Aug. 20/3 And that spooky organ music they got piped in all over the place—E. Power Biggs instead of Muzak, yet. 1972D. S. Viscott Making of a Psychiatrist ii. 32 You can bet your Phi Beta Kappa pin, junior year yet, that D. J. Marley knows exactly what to put down. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Mar. 250/2 If you own a Beaumont and Fletcher folio, don't lend it. At least not to someone who will return it with extensive annotations (in ink yet!). 1980Oxford Times 22 Aug. 13/3 The tracks include..‘To Know Him is to Love Him’ (with David Bowie on saxophone, yet!).
II. Senses relating to time.
2. a. (a) Implying continuance from a previous time up to and at the present (or some stated) time: Now as until now (or then as until then): = still adv. 4 a. Often also implying contrast to a future or subsequent state more emphatically expressed by as yet (7 a): cf. c below, and still adv. 4 b. arch. or dial. exc. in negative context: see esp. (b).
c897ælfred Gregory's Past. C. Pref. 5 Her mon mæᵹ ᵹiet ᵹesion hiora swæð. 971Blickl. Hom. 231 Nu ᵹit þry daᵹas to lafe syndon. a1000Harrow. Hell 73 (Gr.) A ic þæt heold nu ᵹiet. a1122O.E. Chron. (Laud. MS.) an. 449 Þæt cyn on West Sexum þe man ᵹit hæt Iutna cyn. c1160Hatton Gosp. Matt. xv. 16 And synd ᵹe ᵹeot buton andᵹytte? c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 83 Al to fele swiche men bien ȝet þe ne wilen noht here sinnes forleten. c1205Lay. 28636 Bruttes ileueð ȝete þat he bon on liue. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 1574 Seint Iones de lateran..Þat stont ȝute & heued churche of al cristendom is. a1300Cursor M. 796 For of þat ilk appel bitt Þair suns tethe ar eggeid yitt. a1375Joseph Arim. 334 Þat I tolde þe þo I telle þe ȝitte. c1400Destr. Troy 1628 Somur qwenes, and qwaintans, & oþer qwaint gaumes, Ther foundyn was first, & yet ben forthe haunted. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 306 Þat he had sene before in spirit, he held it all pryue ȝyt. 1534Star Chamber Cases (Selden Soc.) II. 309 Robert hunte baylyf..did take and kepe and yeat kepeth a cowe of your said oratours. a1548Hall Chron., Edw. V 11 It wer as great commoditee to theim bothe, as for yet a while too bee in the custody of their mother. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. N v b, Euerie moneth was reconed to begin on ye day of ye change, as is obserued ȝeit in ye Hebrew kallendar. 1611Bible Jer. xv. 9 Her sunne is gone down while it was yet day. 1700Stanley's Hist. Philos., Life a j, While he continued yet in the University. 1711Addison Spect. No. 164. ⁋3 While her Beauty was yet in all its Height and Bloom. 1756M. Calderwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitland Club) 187 This man was from Nidsdale, and had been out of the country since he was ten years old, but he spoke the language pretty well yet. 1802Wordsw. To the Cuckoo iv, Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing. 1839Bywater Sheff. Dial. ii. 22 Dusta work at flat backs yit, as thahs been used to do? 1848Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton vii, Earnest as the father was in watching the yet-living, he had eyes and ears for all that concerned the dead. 1872Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 79 A yet-warm corpse, and yet unburiable. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece iv. 81 No students of history can fail to observe that even yet very few nations in the world are fit for diffused political privileges. 1888‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Childr. v, You know you look ill yet, very ill.
(b) With negative pples. and adjs.: cf. not yet (4).
1535Coverdale Ps. lxxvii[i]. 6 The children which were yet vnborne. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 782 Four fair Heifars yet in Yoke untry'd. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. I. 282 The ravishing Discovery of that which is yet unattainable. 1706Pope Let. to Wycherley 10 Apr., Till you have finish'd these that are yet unprinted. 1725― Odyss. v. 382 Then shook the Heroe,..And question'd thus his yet-unconquer'd mind. 1839Kemble Resid. Georgia (1863) 19 The swampy patches of yet unreclaimed forest. 1859Tennyson Elaine 378 The yet-unblazon'd shield. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 544 The children in their yet undeveloped strength, the very old in their yet sustained weakness.
†b. Qualified by a negative, implying discontinuance before the present time: not yet = no longer. Obs. rare.
a1000Cædmon's Gen. 1038 Ne þearft ðu þe ondrædan..nu ᵹiet. 1530Palsgr. 506/2, I darrayne (Lydgat)... This worde is nat yet admytted in our comen spetche. Ibid. 598/2, I kydde (Lydgate), I knowe..This terme is nat yet in use.
c. Followed by an infinitive referring to the future, and thus implying incompleteness (e.g. yet to be done, implying ‘not hitherto done’; I have yet to learn, implying ‘I have not hitherto learnt’). Cf. also 5.
1659Plumptre in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 6 Wishing that all your yeares yet to come may passe over with mirth and jollityes. 1756M. Calderwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitland Club) 188 He has three years of study yet to come. 1848Lushington in Notes of Cases VI. 11, I have yet to learn that..those on board the steam-tug had a right to..overrule the order of the pilot. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 564 The earl..had prepared himself for what was yet to be endured. 1885Sir J. Bacon in Law Times Rep. (N.S.) LII. 569/2 None of them had been completely finished, the painting and papering being yet to be done.
3. a. Referring to the period preceding the present or some stated time, without necessarily implying continuance: Up to this (or that) time, till now (or till then), hitherto, thus far; with a superlative, or only, etc. = at any time up to the present. Usually implying expectation of possible change, more fully expressed (as in 2) by as yet (7 a).
a1000Colloq. ælfric in Wr.-Wülcker 101 Ᵹyt [adhuc] þeah⁓hwæþere deoplicor mid us þu smeaᵹst þonne yld ure onfon mæᵹe. c1175Lamb. Hom. 139 Þis dei is..þe formeste dei þet eauer ȝiete was iseȝen buuen eorðe. a1300Cursor M. 9321 ‘Ful littel se we yeitt’, coth þai, ‘Of al þat euer we her þai sai.’ c1375Ibid. 10078 (Laud) Now blessid be that byrd of grace The worthiest that euyr yet was. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 80 Na, thank me not ouir airlie, for dreid that we threip, For I haue seruit the ȝit of lytill thing to ruse. 1539Cranmer Let. to Cromwell in Misc. Writ. (Parker Soc.) 388 The state of things standing as they do at this present, so far as yet I do know. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. ii. 5 A slender slip, that scarse did see Yet seuenteene yeares. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xxvi. §4 When we say a Man is Young, we mean, that his Age is yet but a small part of that which usually Men attain to. 1761Warburton in W. & Hurd's Lett. (1809) 335, I have yet printed off but 72 pages. 1815Scott Guy M. xlviii, This is the queerest thing yet! 1857Buckle Civiliz. I. viii. 471 The most important event that had yet occurred in the history of French civilization. 1870L'Estrange Life of Miss Mitford I. x. 147 ‘Blanch’ is to consist of five thousand lines, and only eleven hundred are yet written.
b. By this (or that) time, so soon as this: chiefly in questions, direct or indirect, to which the negative answer would be not yet (4): nearly = ‘already’, but not expressing surprise as that word would in a question.
a1250Owl & Night. 541 Hu þincþ þe, artu ȝut inume, Artu mid riȝte ouercume? c1375Cursor M. 1876 (Fairf.) How sal we of þes waters wete, Queþer þai be fully fallyn ȝete? c1440York Myst. ix. 186 It waxes clere aboute..Loke þar owte, Yf þat þe water wane ought ȝitt. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. iii. 61 Haue you enquir'd yet who pick'd my Pocket? 1634Massinger Very Woman iii. v, I am glad you have found your tongue yet. 1823Scott Quentin D. xxxiii, ‘Have you yet done?’ said the Duke to the herald. ‘One word more,’ answered Rouge Sanglier. 1916D. Hankey Student in Arms (1917) 51 Potentate... Has a counter-attack been launched yet? General. Not yet, Sire.
c. With ere, before, etc. indicating the ultimate occurrence of something after an interval of time: before ere, etc., nearly = ‘already’; after ere, etc., nearly = ‘at length’ (cf. 5 a). Now only in ere yet (arch.).
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1122 To bed ȝet er þay ȝede, Recorded couenauntez ofte. c1450Holland Howlat 196 Ȝit or ewyn enterit come that bur office, Obeyand thir bischoppis, and bydand tham by. 1592Arden of Feversham i. i. 92 Meanewhile prepare our breakfast,..For yet ere noone wele take horse and away. c1643Ld. Herbert Autobiog. (1824) 80 Before I departed yet I left her with child of a son. 1795Southey Joan of Arc viii. 70 Ere yet from Orleans to the war we went. 1828Scott Death Laird's Jock ⁋13 Ere yet the fight began, the old men gazed on their chief. 1866Spurgeon Hymn, ‘Sweetly the holy hymn’ ii, Ere yet the sun the day renews, O Lord, Thy spirit send.
†d. At some time in the past; ‘once’; previously, before, already. Obs.
Beowulf 956 Alwalda þec gode forᵹylde, swa he nu ᵹyt dyde! a1300Cursor M. 367 Þe werld i call wit min entens Þe mater of þe four elements, Þat yeit was tan o forme mis⁓chapen. Ibid. 1198 Ur lord had aghteld yete A child to rais of his oxspring. c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 389 Þan take youre loof of light payne as y haue said ȝett.
4. With a negative, in sense 2 or 3 (yet qualifying the whole sentence or clause including the negative): not yet, † yet not, still not, thus far not, not hitherto, not by this (or that) time, not till now (or then) and not now (or then): implying expectation or recognized possibility of subsequent change (cf. 7 a).
a. With negative preceding. (The more usual, now the only regular, construction.)
Beowulf 583 Breca næfre ᵹit æt heaðolace..swa deorlice dæd ᵹefremede faᵹum sweordum. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxiv. 6 Ðas þing sceolon ᵹewurþan, ac nys þonne ᵹyt se ende. Ibid. John vii. 8 Min tid nis ᵹyt ᵹefylled. c1200Vices & Virtues 17 Ðar næure ȝiete liht ne cam. c1200Ormin 14371 Abid, abid, wifman, abid, Ne comm nohht ȝet min time. c1205Lay. 109 Nas ȝet Rome bi-wonnen. c1275Passion of our Lord 583 in O.E. Misc. 53 Ich ne astey nouht yete vp to myne vadere. c1386Chaucer Prol. 293 (Harl. 7334), He hadde nouȝt geten hym ȝit a benefice. 1470–85Malory Arthur viii. vii. 282 Neuer yet was I preued with good knyghte. 1539Bible (Great) Mark xi. 13 The tyme of fygges was not yet. a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV 207 b, Because Quene Margaret and her sonne were not fully yet furnished for suche a iorney. 1605Shakes. Macb. ii. iii. 50 Macd. Is the King stirring, worthy Thane? Macb. Not yet. 1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 24 Such a manner of Prelacie, I say, I never durst, nor yet dare condemn. 1708Addison Pres. St. War 3 This Kingdom was never yet engag'd in a War of so great consequence. 1776Gibbon Let. to Holroyd 18 Jan., Quebec is not yet taken. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 175 A body of representatives was returned, such as England had never yet seen. Ibid. iv. 447 As to Halifax, Ormond, and Guildford, he determined not yet to dismiss them. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 46 In the reign of James I,..when the world of fashion had not yet migrated wholly to the west-end. 1880[see shoot v. 23 g]. 1908Kipling Lett. of Travel (1920) 146 There's them that can't see yit. 1977Transatlantic Rev. lx. 147 ‘Naw’, he says. ‘Least, no yit.’
b. With negative following. (Cf. G. noch nicht.) Obs. or arch. exc. when preceded by even, or as (7 a).
c1000Ags. Gosp. John vii. 6 Ᵹyt ne com min tid. c1205Lay. 20571 Ah he heo þa ȝæte [c 1275 ȝet] Nefde noht bi⁓wunnen. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3558 ‘Louerd, merci!’ quad moyses, ‘ȝet ne let hem noȝt helpe-les.’ a1300Cursor M. 5904 Þe king hert wex herd as bras, ‘Þe folk’, he said, ‘yeitt sal noght pas.’ 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. viii. 108 Ac ȝete sauoureth me nouȝt þi seggyng. 1460J. Capgrave Chron. (Rolls) 302 And ȝet was not the erl of Arundel and his retenew com hom. 1567Satir. Poems Reform. iii. 37 Ȝit neuer did sho se his maik in France. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, ii. iv. 204 My Conscience, which I then did feele full sicke, and yet not well. 1642D. Rogers Naaman 423 Such confession was yet never extorted from some of you. 1827Scott Highl. Widow iv, I leave you to comfort and certainty, which you have yet never known. 1830Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 127 Even yet not quite finished.
5. In reference to future time (see also 2 c, 3 c).
a. At some time in the future (usually implying ‘though not hitherto’); hereafter; at length, ultimately, before all is over; often with mixture of sense 9 (‘after all’).
c897ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xxxv. 245 Ᵹiet [v.r. ᵹit] cymð se micla..Godes dæᵹ. 971Blickl. Hom. iv. 47 On ealra eorþlicra ᵹebedrædenne þe Cristene wæron, oþþe ᵹyt syn. a1300Leg. Rood (1871) 32 Vor þer scholde ȝut a mon deie on þulke tre. c1400Brut i. 90 Þe Britons supposen þat he [sc. Arthur] Leueþ in a-noþere lande, and þat he shal come ȝit and conquere al Britaigne. c1440York Myst. i. 87 Abowne ȝhit sall I be beeldand, On heghte in þe hyeste of heuwen. 1535Coverdale Ps. xlii. 7 [5] Put thy trust in God, for I wil yet geue him thankes for y⊇ helpe of his countenaunce. a1586Sidney Ps. xvii. iv, [I] pray that still you guide my way, Least yet I slipp, or goe astray. 1760–2Goldsm. Cit. W. xliv, He sees that he may yet be happy, and wishes the hour was come. 1841Browning Pippa Passes iii. ad fin. (Song), You'll love me yet!—and I can tarry Your love's protracted growing. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 524 Their chief employment is to talk of what they once were, and of what they may yet be. 1902V. Jacob Sheep-stealers viii, ‘You couldn't be safer, not if you was in Hereford jail itself.’.. ‘That's where I may be yet,’ he said.
b. With reference to the immediate future: (a) Even now (though not till now): often with mixture of sense 9 (‘after all’); sometimes implying ‘while there is still time’ (cf. sense 2).
a1000Cædmon's Gen. 618 Ᵹif ᵹiet..læst mina lara, þonne ᵹife ic him þæs leohtes ᵹenoᵹ. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints v. (Johannes) 251 And of paynis hard and fell, He tald þam, þat he schaw in hell, And sad: ‘wrechis, mend ȝow ȝeit!’ Ibid. l. (Katerine) 921 Lewe þine errour,..& ask forgiffnes of þi syne, Yheit mycht þu sauchtyng with hym wine. c1430Hymns Virgin (1867) 128 To hevyns blys yhit may he ryse, Thurghe helpe of Marie. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 3367 Ȝon gose I bad ȝow is noȝy etyn... I bid ȝow þat ȝe take it ȝit. a1529Skelton Woffully araid 43 Wks. 1843 I. 142 Cum ȝytt, and thou schalt fynde Myne endlys mercy and grace. 1689Act. Parlt. Scot. (1875) XII. 77/1 Þat if he will yett delyver up the Bass & prisoners þerin he should have his bygone arears to himself & garrisone. 1867Morris Jason ii. 850 Bethink ye yet of death, And misery, And dull despair, before ye arm to go. 1879Webber Pigskin & Willow xiv. 197 Time enough yet? No, there isn't time enough yet.
† (b) Not later than (a specified time). (Cf. 3 b, c.) Obs.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 313 For ȝef he don ð ad god for-bead, Ðat sal hem bringen to ðo dead, And sal ȝet ðis ilke dai. a1300Cursor M. 15567 Þou sal þam se yeitt to night Do me ful gret spite. a1352Minot Poems (ed. Hall) vii. 129 Inglis men sall ȝit to ȝere Knok þi palet or þou pas.
c. From this (or some stated or implied) time onwards; henceforth (or thenceforth). Chiefly, now only, contextually with words denoting time, the sense being then strictly 1 (‘further, more’); with a negative, nearly coinciding with 4; often replaceable by ‘to come’.
c1000ælfric Gen. viii. 10 He abad þa ᵹit oðre seofon daᵹas and asende ut eft culfran. a1300Cursor M. 12920 Bot ar he wild him fulli scau, For yeitt a quille he wild abide. 1382Wyclif Luke i. 15 He schal be fulfillid of the Hooly Gost ȝit of his modir wombe. ― John vii. 33 Ȝit a litel tyme I am with ȝou, and I go to the fadir, that sente me. c1420Chron. Vilod. 3367 He leyȝe in þe vrthe ȝet þrettene ȝere & more. 1535Coverdale Jonah iii. 4 There are yet xl. dayes, and then shal Niniue be ouerthrowen. 1628Digby Voy. Mediterr. (Camden) 56 It was so hott that all men said in a moneth yet meate could not take salt. 1849M. Arnold Sick King in Bokhara 5 O merchants, tarry yet a day Here in Bokhara.
†6. ME. þe ȝet [OE. þá ᵹíet then yet, when yet: see tho adv. 1, 2]:
a. Still (= 2); also, while still, when as yet. Obs.
a930O.E. Chron. (Parker MS.) an. 921 Þa æfter þam þa ᵹiet þæs ilcan hærfestes ᵹegadorode micel here hine of East Englum. c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke xv. 20 Þa ᵹyt [Lindisf. ᵹet] þa he wæs feorr, his fæder he hyne ᵹeseah. a1122O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1106 Feawa oðre of þam heafodmannan þe mid þam eorle of Normandiᵹe þe ᵹyt heoldan. c1175Lamb. Hom. 99 Þa ȝet wuniende on þissere weorlde, þe helende ableu his gast on his apostlas. c1205Lay. 7079 Þe ȝeht þe [c 1275 þe ȝet þat] Lud king ahte þis lond hehte Lundene Trinouant. c1290St. Dunstan 2 in S. Eng. Leg. 19 Miracle ore louerd dude for him þe ȝuyt he was un-bore.
†b. with negative: = 4. Obs.
a1000Cædmon's Gen. 103 Ne wæ s her þa ᵹiet nymþe heolstersceado wiht ᵹeworden. a1100Aldhelm Gloss. i. 1296 (Napier 35/2) Nondum, na þa ᵹyt næs. c1290Beket 1433 in S. Eng. Leg. 147 Ake he ne scholde nouȝt þe ȝeot to engelonde wende. c1380Sir Ferumb. 750 Of herte was he hol & sound, & pleynede him þe ȝute no þyng.
7. as yet [as B. 34 a]:
a. Hitherto, up to this time, = 3; with a negative = 4; implying expectation or recognized possibility of coming change.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame ii. 91 Thow demest of thy selfe amys, For Ioues ys not ther aboute..To make of the as yet a sterre. c1386― Frankl. T. 849, I failled neuere of my trouthe as yit, For sikerly my dette shal be quyt. 1484Cely Papers (Camden) 153 Here ys noo goode wyne to gett for noo mony as yett, but I understond ther schall come from Bruges som. 1592Queen Elizabeth in Archaeologia XIX. 12 If your long expected and never had as yet answer had not lingard. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. i. 1 The Sun had as yet but approach'd the East, and my Body as yet lay moveless in the Bed. 1682Bunyan Holy War 68 Thou hast heard what the Captains have said, but as yet thou shuttest thy Gates. 1708Addison Pres. St. War 19 That War continued Nine Years, and this hath as yet lasted but Six. 1823Scott Quentin D. xxix, ‘No,’ answered the Astrologer, ‘the End is not as yet.’ 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lxiii, She had never..met a professional ladies' man as yet. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 171 As yet the Duke professed himself a member of the Anglican Church. 1850Tennyson In Mem. cxiv, Half-grown as yet, a child, and vain. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece vii. 226 But there were..extensions of this practice as yet but little noticed.
†b. Without implied expectation of change: Still, even now or then, to this day, = 2. Obs.
1483Caxton G. de la Tour f iv b, As yet they kepe and hold that custome. 1530Palsgr. 509/2 As for polu, defyled, thoughe he be used of Johan le Mayre, there is no verbe used in this sence in the frenche tonge as yet. 1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. iii. vi. 38 The meate as yet rawe, was snatched from the coales. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. iii. 33 The foundations..are there as yet apparant. 1611Bible Exod. ix. 17 As yet exaltest thou thy selfe against my people, that thou wilt not let them goe? 1632Lithgow Trav. vii. 321 ægypt was made a Prouince of the Turkish Empire, and so continueth as yet. 1651[see as B. 34 a].
8. as adj. in sense 2 or 3: That is still or as yet such; still continuing or subsisting. (Cf. now 16, still adv. 4 a ¶ , then 9 b.)
1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. ii. Magnificence 356 Let, with her staffe, my yet-Youth govern well..the Flock of Israel. 1629W. Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. 83 That the yet aliens in euery quarter of the World may bee wonne by the example of dispersed Saints. c1634Stafford in Browning Life (1892) 117 The certainty of your lordship's yet abode at West-Chester. 1653Cloria & Narcissus 181 Her yet safety. 1817Keatinge Trav. II. 269 He was one of the numerous party of yet walkers in the world. 1874Key Lang. i. 7 In the yet non-existence of language.
III. 9. a. as conjunctive adv. or conj. (developed from 1), introducing an additional fact or circumstance which is adverse to, or the contrary of what would naturally be expected from, that just mentioned: In spite of that, for all that, nevertheless, notwithstanding. Sometimes strengthened by nevertheless, etc. Often correlative to though, etc.
More emphatically adversative than but conj. 24, and freer in construction; formerly sometimes placed after, and still sometimes in the midst of, its clause; and or but may precede yet. Nearly equivalent to still adv. 6 b; but still indicates mainly that the fact or condition remains unaltered by the adverse one; yet usually expresses some degree of surprise at it as something unexpected.
[c1205Lay. 28112 Ȝif hit weore ilimpe..þat Modred..hafde þine quene inume... Þe ȝet þu mihtest þe awreken Wurðliche mid wepnen.] a1250Owl & Night. 995 So bo hit euer in unker siþe Þat þu bo sori & ich bliþe; Ȝut þu aisheist wi ich ne fare Into oþer londe & singe þare. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 3344 Þe castel was ynome & þat folc to sprad þere. Ȝute þo hii adde al ydo hii ne founde noȝt þe king þere. Ibid. 8804 In prison was roberd al is lif & ȝut ich vnder⁓stonde, Him adde betere abbe ibe king of þe holi londe. 13..Cursor M. 786 (Gött.) Þis heting was..ful mekil, Bot ȝeit it was bath fals and fikil. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. Prol. 185 Thouȝ we culled þe catte, ȝut sholde þe come another To cracchy vs. 1390Gower Conf. II. 140 He hath ynowh and yit him nedeth. c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 5 And make þo flesshe to seme, iwys, As hit were raw, and ȝyt hit nys. c1450Lay Folks Mass Bk. (MS. F.) 149, I haw done..Synnes diuers,..And ȝut art thu redi..To graunt me ay forȝefnesse. c1470Gol. & Gaw. 95 Suppose thi birny be bright, as bachiler suld ben, Yhit ar thi latis vnlufsum. 1470–85Malory Arthur xx. vii. 809 Oftymes we doo many thynges that we wene it be for the best & yet peraduenture hit torneth to the werst. c1475Partenay 21 Al-be-hit I..can noght peynt my boke as other be, Vnder youre supporte yut aunter wyl me. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde i. iii. (1552) 5 Plenty of flesh..knitting to geather the muskles: not so yet, but that neuerthelesse they haue theyr free motion. 1596Spenser Prothalamion 117 As he would speake, but that he lackt a tong Yeat did by signes his glad affection show. 1644Milton Areop. 26 Though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds, becomes his heresie. 1697Dryden æneis xi. 188 Auspicious Prince, in Arms a mighty Name, But yet whose Actions far transcend your Fame. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 28 Some fleeting good, that..Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies. 1814Scott Wav. iv, The splendid yet useless imagery. 1831― Ct. Rob. xxiv, Although they did not all agree on the precise cause of danger, it was yet generally allowed that something of a dreadful kind was impending. 1845M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 13 The style of Bede, if not elegant Latin, is yet correct, sufficiently classical. 1857H. S. Riddell Book of Psalms in Lowland Scotch lxviii. 61 Thouch ye hae læyne amang the pats, yit sall ye be as the wings o' ane dow. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 138 An yit he wanna git all his flesch nuemaid.
†b. yet (that), notwithstanding that, although.
c1320Cast. Love 1422 In whonhope and doute heo weoren vchon, Ȝit heo seȝen him alyue a lyues-mon. c1425Cursor M. 12119 (Trin.) And ȝit þou wenest makeles to be Þat noon in lore shulde teche þe, I con þe teche þat þou not can. 1556Aurelio & Isab. (1608) M ij, Contente you than, for yette that me strenghste be litell, the desiere is grete.
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