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单词 yet
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† yetadj.1

Forms: Middle English ȝette, 1500s ȝet (Scottish), 1500s ȝett (Scottish).
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: English ȝet , yet v.
Etymology: < ȝet, variant of the strong past participle of yet v. (see Forms 3aδ. at that entry). Compare earlier yoten adj.
Obsolete. rare.
Of a metal object: molten, cast (cf. yoten adj.). Also: poured.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [adjective] > cast
yotenOE
welledc1300
yetc1429
casten1493
cast1535
molten1535
well-metalled1644
sand-cast1934
pressure-cast1973
c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 119 The mawmetiers vnto þe ȝette calf of gold prefigured thes thinges.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. xi. 12 Als violent as euyr the ȝet doun rane Furth of the west dois smyte apon the wald.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

yetv.

Brit. /jɛt/, U.S. /jɛt/
Forms: 1. Present stem. a. Infinitive.

α. Old English geatan (in prefixed forms, rare), Old English geotan, Old English giotan (rare), Old English gyotan (in prefixed forms, rare), Old English iotan (in prefixed forms, rare), early Middle English geote, early Middle English ȝeat (in prefixed forms), early Middle English yeote, Middle English ȝeote, Middle English ȝote, Middle English ȝute, Middle English yiotte (northern), Middle English–1500s (2000s– historical) yote, 1500s yewlt, 1500s yewt, 1500s yout, 1500s–1600s yeot, 1500s–1600s yowt, 1600s yeott; English regional (south-western and western) 1700s–1800s ewte, 1800s yaught, 1800s yaut, 1800s yawt, 1800s yeot, 1800s yoat, 1800s yote; N.E.D (1921) also records a form late Middle English ȝut.

β. early Middle English ȝetenn ( Ormulum), Middle English gete, Middle English ȝeete, Middle English ȝete, Middle English ȝett, Middle English ȝette, Middle English ȝit, Middle English yete, Middle English yhet (northern), Middle English yiet (northern, in prefixed forms), Middle English–1500s yette, Middle English–1600s yet, 1600s yeat; Scottish pre-1700 ȝet, pre-1700 ȝett, pre-1700 ȝette, pre-1700 yeit, pre-1700 yeitt, pre-1700 yet, pre-1700 yhet, pre-1700 1800s yett, 1800s– yat (Shetland), 1900s– yatt (Shetland); N.E.D (1921) also records forms Middle English ȝet, Middle English ȝhet.

b. also 3rd singular indicative early Old English geotet, early Old English giett, early Old English giot (Kentish, in prefixed forms), Old English geoteð, Old English get (in prefixed forms), Old English giet, Old English git, Old English gyt, Old English gyteð (in prefixed forms), Old English gytt, late Old English geot, early Middle English geoted, early Middle English ȝeotteð. 2. Past tense. a. Strong. (i). Originally 1st and 3rd singular indicative.

α. Old English gaett (Northumbrian, in prefixed forms), Old English gaett (Northumbrian, in prefixed forms), Old English gæt (Northumbrian, in prefixed forms), Old English geaett (Northumbrian, in prefixed forms), Old English geatt (Northumbrian, in prefixed forms), Old English geott (Northumbrian, in prefixed forms), Old English get, Old English–early Middle English (in prefixed forms) geat, early Middle English gette, early Middle English ȝeat, early Middle English yeyt, Middle English ȝeet, Middle English ȝet, Middle English yeett (northern), Middle English yette, Middle English yit, 1500s yet; Scottish pre-1700 ȝet, pre-1700 ȝete, pre-1700 yet, pre-1700 yett; N.E.D (1921) also records a form early Middle English yhet.

β. Middle English yot; N.E.D (1921) also records a form Middle English ȝot.

(ii). Plural indicative Old English gotun (transmission error), Old English gutan, Old English guton, late Old English guten, early Middle English ȝeoten, early Middle English ȝote, early Middle English ȝoten, Middle English gote, Middle English yhotten, Middle English yhutte, Middle English yhutten, Middle English yole (transmission error), Middle English yote, Middle English yotte. b. Weak Middle English ȝeetide, Middle English ȝetede, Middle English ȝetide, Middle English ȝetted, Middle English ȝettede, Middle English ȝettid, 1600s yetted. 3.Past participle. a. Strong.

α. Old English gegoten, Old English gotan (in prefixed forms), Old English goten, Old English goton (in prefixed forms), Old English gotten (in prefixed forms), Old English gotyn (in prefixed forms), late Old English iegoten, early Middle English goten, early Middle English ȝotenn ( Ormulum), early Middle English igoten, early Middle English iȝotten, Middle English ȝhutten (northern), Middle English ȝooten, Middle English ȝoten, Middle English ȝotone, Middle English ȝotten, Middle English ȝotun, Middle English ȝotyn, Middle English ȝotyne, Middle English iȝotun, Middle English yhoten (northern), Middle English yhotin (northern), Middle English yhotten (northern), Middle English yotten (northern), Middle English yutten (northern), Middle English–1500s yoten.

β. early Old English geten (Mercian, in prefixed forms), Middle English ȝeten, Middle English yeten; Scottish pre-1700 ȝetine, 1800s yatten (Shetland).

γ. early Middle English igote, Middle English ȝote, Middle English ȝut, Middle English iȝote, Middle English yat, Middle English yȝote, Middle English yȝutte.

δ. Middle English gette, Middle English ȝet, Middle English ȝett (in prefixed forms), Middle English ȝette, Middle English ȝit, Middle English ȝitte, Middle English yete (in prefixed forms), Middle English yette; Scottish pre-1700 ȝeit, pre-1700 ȝet, pre-1700 ȝett, pre-1700 yett; N.E.D (1921) also records forms Scottish pre-1700 ȝit, pre-1700 ȝyt.

b. Weak.

α. Middle English ȝetid, Middle English ȝetted, Middle English ȝettede (in prefixed forms), Middle English ȝettyd, Middle English yhetted (in prefixed forms), 1500s ȝettit (Scottish).

β. Middle English ȝotted, 1600s yoated, 1600s–1700s yoted.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian -gēte , -jāta (in e.g. ūtgēte , ūtjāta to pour out: see outyet v.; West Frisian jitte , East Frisian jōte , North Frisian jit ), Old Saxon giotan (Middle Low German gēten ), Old Dutch gietan (Middle Dutch, Dutch gieten ), Old High German giozan (Middle High German giezen , German gießen ), Old Icelandic gjóta (only in the senses ‘to drop one's young, twinkle with the eyes’), Old Swedish giuta (Swedish gjuta ), Old Danish giutae (Danish gyde ), Gothic giutan , apparently < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin fud- , fūd- (in fundere to pour, 1st singular perfect fūdī ), extended form (with dental extension) of the base of ancient Greek χέϝω I pour (compare χεῦμα pouring), Sanskrit hu- to pour in sacrifice (3rd singular present juhoti ). Compare also gut n. and later gote n. and perhaps gush v.In Old English a strong verb of Class II. In sense 1a(b) often translating classical Latin fundere and its compounds. In Old English the verb shows palatalization of the initial velar before a front vowel only in the present stem and past tense 1st and 3rd singular indicative (although the palatalization is not reflected in spelling), but unpalatalized consonants are rare in Middle English, presumably as a result of analogical levelling. The later α. forms of the present tense probably reflect a phonological development of the Old English diphthong, but compare also the inherited forms of the past participle. In Old English the prefixed form gegēotan to pour, to found, cast from molten metal (compare y- prefix) is also occasionally attested; compare also agēotan ayet v., begēotan beyet v., forþgēotan forthyete v., geondgēotan to pour out or forth, to cover or fill by pouring, to suffuse (compare yond prep.), ingeōtan inyet v., ofgeōtan to moisten, to soak, to quench, to pour out (compare of- prefix), ofergeōtan to pour upon, to suffuse, to flood, to overwhelm (compare over- prefix), ongeōtan to infuse (compare on- prefix), tōgeōtan to pour away, to spill, to spread, to exhaust (compare to- prefix2), and þurhgeōtan to fill entirely, to imbue, to saturate (compare through- prefix). Compare also outyet v. Some past tense forms in -tte (as gette at α. forms) here classified as strong could instead show weak forms with assimilatory loss of the ending.
Now rare (British regional in later use).
I. Senses relating to pouring.
1.
a. To pour (something). Chiefly with adverb or preposition, as out, in, into, upon, etc.
(a) transitive. With water or some other liquid as object. Also intransitive. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. (at Yat) records this sense as still in use in Shetland in 1974.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excrete [verb (transitive)]
yetOE
to put outa1350
void1398
expelc1405
avoid1562
ejaculate1578
excern1578
regurgitate1578
egest1607
evacuate1607
vent1607
expurgate1621
excrete1669
pass1698
to put off1740
re-ejaculate1826
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or fact of pouring or being poured > pour [verb (transitive)]
ayetOE
yetOE
hieldc1200
shed?c1225
pourc1330
peera1522
brew1581
swill1605
sile1787
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > copiously > in or as in a stream
runeOE
ayetOE
yetOE
hieldc1200
pourc1330
bleed1377
spouta1398
wella1398
outyeta1400
wellc1400
effundc1420
streama1425
shed1430
diffude?a1475
skail1513
peera1522
effuse1526
diffuse1541
flow1550
gusha1555
outpoura1560
brew1581
outwell1590
spend1602
spin1610
exfuse1612
guttera1618
effude1634
disembogue1641
profund1657
efflux1669
decant1742
profuse1771
sluice1859
OE Ælfric De Temporibus Anni (Cambr. Gg.3.28) (2009) iv. 82 Aquarius, þæt is wætergyte, oþþe se ðe wæter gyt.
OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Lev. (Claud.) viii. 24 He geat ðæt blod uppan ðæt weofod, þe ðær to lafe wæs.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 160 Ȝef þe keache cuppe wellinde bres to drinken, ȝeot [a1300 Caius geot] in his wide þrote þet he swelte inwið.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9865 Six amppullen fulle heo ȝeoten i þan welle.
a1325 St. Juliana (Corpus Cambr.) l. 55 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 64 A chitel uol of iwalled bras biuore þis maide was ibroȝt Hy ȝote adoun aboute hure ssuldren as he[o] upriȝt stod.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3805 And oyel he yeett apon þat stan And made to godd a voo onan.
c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 35 Be þer ȝette in of a ȝolk of an ey.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) vi. l. 192 Now yote on that scyment..To alto flappe hit with.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 2789 With þis haly water he yode To þe seke man for his gode. In his mouthe he ȝettid thryse.
c1480 (a1400) St. Matthias 251 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 229 [She] brocht a preciuse vnyment, til ennownte hyme in entent, & apone cristis hed it ȝete.
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 426 To Ȝett be twene, jnterfundere.
c1503 Crafte of Grffyng & Plantinge of Trees in R. Arnold Chron. f. lxiiij/1 Than thou most moyst them twyes or thries in the day not yeting [v.r. ȝitteng] but dewyng or springling.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. iv. 37 The fat olie did he ȝet and peir Apoun the entraillis, to mak thaim birn cleir.
1579 S. Novimola Despauterii Grammaticæ Institutionis Lib. VII (new ed.) v. 134 Fundo, to ȝet or powre furth.
1579 S. Novimola Despauterii Grammaticæ Institutionis Lib. VII (new ed.) vi. 162 Fundo, to ȝet furth.
1602 in H. Paton Dundonald Parish Rec. (1936) 14 The said Kaithrein hett ane pan full of watter and yett the scalding watter into ane tub.
1746 ‘Devoniensis’ Let. in Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 406/1 Ewte, to pour in.
1866 T. Edmondston Etymol. Gloss. Shetland & Orkney Dial. 146 Yat, to pour in large quantity, S.
1881 Notes & Queries 6 Aug. 107/1 An old friend, a native of Wiltshire, has kindly sent me a note of the following provincialisms, now almost obsolete:... Yaut, to pour.
1914 J. S. Angus Gloss. Shetland Dial. 160 Yat, to dash liquid out of a vessel; to pour out copiously.
†(b) transitive. figurative. With an abstract quality or immaterial thing as object. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > copiously
yeteOE
effuse1398
hella1400
pourc1451
pump1580
shower1611
beteem?1630
repump1753
pail1807
volume1815
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xxxix. 283 Sio slæwð giett [L. immittit] slæp on ðone monnan.
OE Guthlac B 1233 Þu me..fusne frignest, þæs þe ic..ængum ne wolde monna ofer moldan melda weorðan..þy læs þæt wundredan weras ond idesa, ond on geað gutan, gieddum mænden bi me lifgendum.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 207 Inhire he heldeð naut ane dropemel. Ach flowinde ȝeotteð [a1300 Caius geoted] wellen of his graces As seið þe spalmustre..Iþe dalen he seið þu makest wallen to springen.
a1250 Lofsong Louerde in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 209 Þe holi goste þet þu..sendest þine deorewurðe deciples and ȝettedest to þeo þet rith luuieð þe.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Jer. xlii. 18 Ȝoten out [L. conflatus] is my wodnesse & myn indignacioun vp on alle þe dwelleris of ierusalem.
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) xliv. 3 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 176 Yhotin es hap in þi lippes twai [L. diffusa est gratia in labiis tuis].
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. ii. l. 151 (MED) Heuene holde hit [sc. love] ne myȝte so heuy hit semede, Til hit hadde on erthe ȝoten [a1425 London Univ. I-ȝotun, ?c1425 Calig. ȝeten] hym-selue.
c1425 Prose Versions New Test.: Deeds (Cambr.) (1904) x. 45 For in nacyons þo grace was ȝotted oute [L. effusa est] of þo Holygoste.
c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 574 For in hir moders wombe whils this virgine was shette, On hire the Haly Gast his speciell blissing yette.
?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) iii. xxx. sig. Kvi For all carnall loue yet into my soule the loue of thyne holy name.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccxix Some with a fals herte,..Into his lordes erys yetyth secretly Lyes venemous.
1563 N. Winȝet tr. St. Vincent of Lérins For Antiq. Catholik Fayth sig. Bv A certane mist wes ȝet vpon the myndis of al ye Bischopes of ye Latin toung.
a1658 J. Durham Christ Crucified (1683) lxiii. 503/2 He yetted, or poured out His Soul to death.
†b. transitive. To shed (tears or blood). Also with out, forth. Obsolete.In quot. c1450 intransitive with infinitive as complement.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > draw or drain of blood
yeteOE
spilla1125
shed?c1225
outbleedc1475
dispill1522
sow1535
broach1573
exsanguinate1849
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) ii. vi. 114 Þa ærest longe nihtes [Laurentius] in halgum gebedum wæs, & his tearas geat, & his bene to Gode sende for þære cirican stealle [L. post multas preces ac lacrimas ad Deum pro statu ecclesiae fusas].
OE Cynewulf Juliana 6 Arleas cyning..geat on græswong godhergend[r]a, hæþen hildfruma, haligra blod, ryhtfremmendra.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1773 Þatt blod tacnede cristess blod. ðatt ȝotenn wass o rode.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 39 Þu scalt..ȝeoten þine teres swiðe sariliche.
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) l. 13370 Þar was mochel blod igote.
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) lxxviii. 3 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 213 Þai yhotten blode, als watre strem, In vmgange of Ierusalem.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 5042 So did his princes..With ȝedire ȝoskingis & ȝerre ȝett out to grete.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. v. 121 And with lang sobbis furth ȝettand teris in vane.
a1560 Fifteen Ois 344 in J. A. W. Bennett Devotional Pieces (1955) 181 Thy blude thou ȝet out full largely.
†c. transitive. Chiefly Scottish. To cause (a body of water) to pour forth. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > flood or overflow [verb (transitive)] > cause to flow in flood
yeteOE
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) v. xi. 418 Is ðæt ec sæd þætte in ðere stowe..weolle an welle, sio in þere illcan stowe oð ðisne deg genihtsumu weter forð flowæð & geotet monnum to ðegnunge [L. copiosa fluenti sui dona profundat].
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. xii. 36 Thar wes na strenth of valeant men to waill, Nor large fludis on ȝet that mycht avail.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. ii. 17 This Ryver be divyne purviance was ȝett furth with large flude abone þe brayis.
c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Ciiij The see be contrarius stremes makis collision, sum tymes ȝettand out the tyd, and sum tymes swelleand and soukand it in agane.
†d. transitive. To cause (light) to pour forth or adown. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > shine [verb (transitive)]
shedc1200
showa1400
yet?c1400
throw1565
reflex1590
emit1626
fling1637
projectc1645
strike1697
slip1873
shine1889
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) i. met. vii. 29 Þe sterres couered wiþ blak[e] cloudes ne mowen geten a doun no lyȝt.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) Prol. l. 47 in Shorter Poems (1967) 10 Phebus, furth ȝet depured bemes cleir.
†2. intransitive. Of a liquid, as water, tears, or blood: to gush forth or flow in a stream. Frequently with down, from, out of, etc. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of emitting copiously > be emitted [verb (intransitive)]
yetOE
outstreama1275
waltc1400
outwellc1443
sluice1859
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > copiously > in (a) stream(s)
yetOE
strikea1225
streama1250
lavec1425
welterc1480
souse1591
spew1670
OE Guthlac B 1056 He hate let torn þoliende tearas geotan, weallan wægdropan.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) l. 158 Me nom hire & dude swa þet hit [sc. blood] ȝeat adun of þe ȝerden.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 582 Reyn gette dun on euerilk stede.
c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 12941 For so faste doun the water ȝet, That thei were alle thorow wet.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 7811 Teris oute of þaire eyen gote.
a1500 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Trin. Dublin) l. 3233 (MED) Att Iche blast of hys breth þe blode fro hym ȝettes.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. v. iii. 152 The teris for blyithnes..ȝet fra þe ene of faderis.
†3. transitive. To pour liquid on (grain); to soak; to steep. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of soaking or steeping > soak or steep [verb (transitive)] > in water or liquor, esp. in order to soften
woke1393
watera1398
yet1511
weak1559
macerate1563
1511 [implied in: 1511 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1903) 151 A yoting wessaile of lede.].
1594–5 in E. R. Brinkworth & J. S. W. Gibson Banbury Wills & Inventories (1976) I. 135 In the kilne howse: One stone cestron to yewt malt in.
1598 in E. R. Brinkworth & J. S. W. Gibson Banbury Wills & Inventories (1976) I. 152 One stone cestrene to yewlt malt in.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (at cited word) The brewer's grains must be well yoted, or whesed for the pigs.
4. transitive. To fill (a person, the mouth, etc.) by pouring in a liquid. rare.In quot. 1993 reflexive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or fact of pouring or being poured > pour [verb (transitive)] > in > into a cavity
yeta1525
a1525 Bk. Sevyne Sagis l. 1826 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 58 Thow thristit gold and gold sall drink Than quyk yai erdit him but let And full of moltin gold him ȝet.
1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 157 Thay ȝet his mouth full of het meltit gold.
1993 J. J. Graham Shetland Dict. (ed. 3) 105/1 Boy, dunna yatt desel foo a cowld watter on a empty stammick.
II. Senses relating to founding or casting.
†5.
a. transitive. To form (an object) by running molten metal into a mould; to found; = cast v. 51. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > found or cast (object)
blowc1000
yetOE
cast1496
found1562
run1690
pour1873
OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Deut. (Claud.) ix. 12 Hi guton him hæðenne god.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 17418 Drihhtinn..badd he shollde melltenn brass & ȝetenn himm an neddre.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Royal) l. 282 Ich makede nabugodonosor..makien þe mawmez igoten of golde.
?c1300 Inscription on Bell in T. North Eng. Bells (1888) 8 Ioh me yeyt.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xliv. 10 Who foormede God, and a grauen thing ȝetede [L. conflavit], to no thing profitable?
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 77 Þis Gerebertus..dede ȝote [a1425 Harl. ȝeote; L. fuderit] an hede þat spak nouȝt but whanne me axede of hym.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 185 (MED) Þis picher het ȝit [a1425 Harl. 1900 ȝute] Dunstan.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 163 Ymagis graued, coruun, or ȝut.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 6021 He made it [sc. a bell] to be ȝett.
1533 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 104 To Peris and the laif of the werkmen ȝettand the gunnis in the castell.
1591 Edinb. Dean of Guild Accts. 461 in Dict. Older. Sc. Tongue at Ȝet(t, Yet(t Four pund off leyd to ȝet the samin [sc. well].
b. transitive. To form (metal) into a shape, by pouring it when melted into a mould; = cast v. 50. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > found or cast (object) > found or cast (metal)
yeta1387
cast1512
found1562
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 235 And wonderliche by craft of ȝetynge [1482 Caxton milting; L. ars fusilis] þat bas is i-ȝote.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. xxxvi. 844 Bras þat is wrought wiþ hamour is cleped regulare, and bras þat is oonliche yȝote hatte fusile.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 538 Ȝetyn or ȝete metel [1499 Pynson ȝetyn, a1500 BL Add. 37789 ȝetyn metall].
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Adv. 19.2.3) i. l. 252 To wirk metall, Yrne and steill, leid and tyn, To ȝet [v.r. ȝett] or bet or graif þar in.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Prol. 94 Sum goukis quhill the glas pyg grow full of gold ȝit.
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. viii. sig. Diij A commune painter or keruer,..stained or embrued with sondry colours,..or perfumed with tedious sauours of the metalles by him yoten.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Yet, or caste mettall, fundo.
†6. transitive. To melt down (metal). Also figurative. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > heat > melt
yeteOE
wella1250
melt1535
temper1535
to melt downa1586
conflate1664
lump1797
sweat1883
to melt up1888
eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) (2009) I. xxi. 478 Ic ðe tæhte þa þæt[te ðæ]r wære ðæt hehstæ god þær þær þa good gegadrade bioð, swe[l]ce hi sien to anum wegge gegoten.
c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 656 (MED) Te oþre in an heate of an honthwile beoð imelt mare & iȝotten i godd þen þe oþre in a wlecheunge al hare lif siðen.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. ix. 7 Lo! I shall ȝeete [L. conflabo] and preue them.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1882) VIII. 129 Vessel, croyses, and chalys were y-take, and golde i-schave of seyntes schrynes and i-ȝote [a1425 Harl. 1900 y-molt; L. conflata].
c1450 J. Capgrave Solace of Pilgrims (Bodl. 423) (1911) 16 (MED) In tokne þat þere wer so many brasen ȝatis, a man may ȝet se in cherchis many yerof all hole, for a grete part of hem are ȝotyn in to othir uses.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Giiiv/2 To Yette metal, fundere, liquefacere.
1619 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1931) VI. 187 Charlis Hog hes ressavit bak againe from [the] deyne of gild sax stane ane pund and fyve unce of the bell mettle yett be him quhilk was insufficient.
7. transitive. To set or fasten (as iron in stone) by means of molten lead; to fix firmly. Now historical.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > set or fasten with specific material
yeta1387
run1657
sulphur1867
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 185 Þe stakes were grete, i-schape as a manis þigh, and i-ȝote [1482 Caxton sette] aboute wiþ leed [L. plumbo circumfusa].
1535 MS Rawl. D. 777 lf. 85 Youtyng the hookes of the Kechyn Dores in to the stone Walles.
1554–5 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 302 Item for vj greit cruks fra Johne Alhanny,..Item for ane stane of leid to yet thame with,..viijs.
1572 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 287 White for his labore for the yoting of them 6d.
1616 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1931) VI. 380 Twa stane lead to yett the unicorne upone the heid of the croce.
1668 C. Wren in Designs by Wren Westm. Abbey (1934) 26 Ye hooks are yeoted into ye Walls with lead, but the force of ye Vault hath broken ye Stones... It seems the hookes were too short and they have been yoated into hardstone not freestone.
1692 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 111 [Selden's] grave was nine foot deep at least, the bottom pav'd with bricks and walled about two foot high, with grey marble coarsly polished, each piece being yoated (that is fastned with lead molted in) with iron champs.
1792 W. Dodsworth Guide Cathedral Church Salisbury 22 You climb up the remaining part of the spire on the outside, by iron handles, yoted into the wall and covered with lead to prevent their rusting.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. To yett, v.a., to fasten in the firmest manner, to rivet, Loth.
1850 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 2 89/2 Yote or Yeot, a term used in Gloucestershire and Somersetshire for ‘leading in’ iron work to stone.
2001 I. Scott in M. Biddle et al. Henry VIII's Coastal Artillery Fort Camber Castle iv. 175/2 There is also a reference to a ladle for the masons ‘to mylt leade’ presumably to yote iron fittings and to secure clamps.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

yetadv.adj.2

Brit. /jɛt/, U.S. /jɛt/
Forms:

α. early Old English gitt, Old English gieta, Old English gita, Old English gyta, Old English gytt (rare), Old English iet (rare), Old English–early Middle English gyt, Old English–Middle English giet, Old English–Middle English git, late Old English–early Middle English gyet, early Middle English gjiet (Essex), early Middle English ȝiete, early Middle English þiet, Middle English giete, Middle English ȝhit (chiefly northern), Middle English ȝhytt (northern), Middle English ȝid (south-west midlands), Middle English ȝiehett (East Anglian), Middle English ȝiet, Middle English ȝiett (Essex), Middle English ȝit, Middle English ȝite, Middle English ȝith (East Anglian), Middle English ȝitt, Middle English ȝitte, Middle English ȝyd (south-west midlands), Middle English ȝyȝt (west midlands), Middle English ȝyht (East Anglian), Middle English ȝyte, Middle English ȝyth (East Anglian), Middle English ȝytte, Middle English it, Middle English yȝt (Oxfordshire), Middle English yhit (chiefly northern), Middle English yhite (northern), Middle English yhitt (northern), Middle English yhitte (northern), Middle English yhyt (northern and East Anglian), Middle English yite (northern), Middle English yte, Middle English yth (south-western), Middle English ythe (south-western), Middle English ytht (south-western), Middle English ytte, Middle English yyt, Middle English yytt, Middle English zit (northern), Middle English zyt (northern), Middle English–1500s ȝyt, Middle English–1500s ȝytt, Middle English (south-western)–1500s hyt, Middle English–1500s yitte, Middle English–1500s yt, Middle English–1600s yitt, Middle English–1600s ytt, Middle English– yit (now U.S. regional and Irish English); English regional 1800s 'it (Devon), 1800s it (southern and midlands), 1800s itt (Devon), 1800s yit (chiefly northern, north midlands, and East Anglian), 1800s–1900s yut; Scottish pre-1700 ȝhit, pre-1700 ȝit, pre-1700 ȝite, pre-1700 ȝitt, pre-1700 yhit, pre-1700 yitt, pre-1700 zit, pre-1700 1700s– yit; N.E.D (1921) also records forms Middle English ȝhyt, late Middle English ihit.

β. Old English geet (Northumbrian), Old English geta, Old English gett (chiefly Northumbrian), Old English–early Middle English get, late Old English iett, late Old English–early Middle English gæt, late Old English–early Middle English geat, early Middle English gete, early Middle English geth, early Middle English gette, early Middle English ghe (transmission error), early Middle English ȝæt (south-west midlands), early Middle English ȝæte (south-west midlands), early Middle English ȝeat (south-west midlands), early Middle English ȝeht, early Middle English ȝeiet, early Middle English ȝhete (northern), early Middle English ȝyet (south-west midlands), early Middle English iget, early Middle English þeit, early Middle English þet, early Middle English þete, early Middle English yȝet (northern), early Middle English 1600s iet, Middle English giate (northern), Middle English ȝat (west midlands), Middle English ȝed (south-west midlands), Middle English ȝeet, Middle English ȝeett, Middle English ȝeit, Middle English ȝeite, Middle English ȝeitt, Middle English ȝet, Middle English ȝete, Middle English ȝeth (East Anglian and east midlands), Middle English ȝett, Middle English ȝette, Middle English ȝhet, Middle English ȝhett, Middle English hyet, Middle English ihet, Middle English yeette, Middle English yeȝt, Middle English yeitt (northern), Middle English yete, Middle English yhet (northern), Middle English yhete (northern), Middle English yhett (northern), Middle English yhette (northern), Middle English yiet (northern), Middle English zet (northern), Middle English (northern)–1500s yeit, Middle English–1500s yette, Middle English–1500s (1800s U.S. regional (North Carolina)) yat, Middle English–1600s yett, Middle English– yet, late Middle English yech (transmission error), late Middle English–1500s yeet, 1500s et, 1500s 1700s yate, 1500s–1600s yeat, 1500s–1600s yeate, 1600s iat; English regional (chiefly south-western) 1700s–1800s yeet, 1800s 'et, 1800s eet; Scottish pre-1700 ȝeat, pre-1700 ȝeit, pre-1700 ȝeitt, pre-1700 ȝet, pre-1700 ȝete, pre-1700 ȝett, pre-1700 ȝeyt, pre-1700 ȝhet, pre-1700 yeat, pre-1700 yheit, pre-1700 yhet, pre-1700 yhete, pre-1700 yhett, pre-1700 yheyt, pre-1700 yheyte, pre-1700 1700s yett, pre-1700 1700s– yet, pre-1700 1800s yeit; N.E.D (1921) also records a form Middle English ȝate.

γ. late Old English–early Middle English geot, early Middle English eot, early Middle English gyot, early Middle English ȝeot, early Middle English ȝot (south-west midlands).

δ. chiefly south-western and south-west midlands early Middle English gut, early Middle English ȝuet, early Middle English ȝuyte, early Middle English ȝvyt, Middle English ȝuȝt, Middle English ȝuit, Middle English ȝuite, Middle English ȝut, Middle English ȝute, Middle English ȝutt, Middle English ȝutte, Middle English ȝuyt, Middle English huit, Middle English huyt, Middle English iȝut, Middle English yhut, Middle English yut, Middle English yutt, Middle English yutte; N.E.D (1921) also records a form Middle English yute.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian jēta , jetta , ēta , etta , īta , itta , jīta , jitta (West Frisian jit , North Frisian jit ), further etymology uncertain, perhaps < the Germanic base of Gothic ju already (see note) + a dental suffix (perhaps the one also seen in that pron.1).The Germanic base of the first element may also be reflected in Middle High German iezuo , ieze now (German jetzt ), although this is first attested relatively late (the second element of this compound is apparently zuo to adv.). Compare also Middle Low German iotō , also occasionally jettō (which may show influence from German). The Germanic base of yet adv. (including the dental suffix) perhaps also forms the second element of the base of the compound underlying Middle Dutch ooit always (Dutch ooit ); the origin of the first element of this formation is uncertain, but may be the base also seen in Old English ā always (see o adv.). A summary of attempts to explain the further etymology is given by A. Liberman Analyt. Dict. Eng. Etymol. (2008) at cited word. Early forms in English. The Old English forms (early West Saxon gīet , late West Saxon gȳt , Anglian gēt ) suggest West Saxon diphthongization of inherited long ē after a palatal. Early shortening of the vowel (with occasional raising of e to i between a palatal and a dental in Middle English) might be sufficient to explain the later range of English forms, but, given the uncertainties surrounding the etymology of the word, more complex developments may underlie this. With the formal variation between gīet and gīeta in Old English compare gēn and gēna in the same senses, the latter pair of forms being attested in non-West Saxon sources, sources influenced by Anglian usage, and in verse. Comparison with Old Frisian (and the other cited West Germanic forms) suggests that gīet arises by shortening from gīeta , even though the restricted distribution of gīeta in Old English might support the theory that gīeta and gēna are originally compounds with ā o adv., as has alternatively been suggested. Forms with apparently geminated -tt- are rare in Old English, although attested early. Middle English forms with -tt- (such as ȝette at β. forms) probably partly reflect compounds with tho adv. or the adv., with assimilation and phonological reduction of the second element, especially in the south-west midlands; compare early Middle English ȝetten moreover, nonetheless, still, just now, which is probably < yet adv. + either thon adv. or then adv. However, early Middle English disyllabic forms may also reflect Old English gīeta . Semantic note. Except in English and Frisian, the principal senses of yet (in branches A. I. and A. II.) are expressed in the West Germanic languages by cognates of e.g. Middle Dutch noch (see nogal adv.). In sense A. 4 probably directly after a specific use of noch in Yiddish. Compare also (with a similar semantic range) Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French encore (see encore int.).
A. adv.
I. Senses expressing addition, repetition, continuation, or emphasis.
1.
a. In addition, in a continuing or repeating sequence; further, furthermore, moreover. Now only as an intensifier preceding adverbs and adjectives indicating continuance or repetition, especially again, another (a third, a fourth), further, a new, once more, etc.
ΚΠ
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Hatton) (1900) i. iv. 42 Eac þa þing, þe ic her to gita geþeode [OE Corpus Cambr. her gyt secgcan wille; L. ea etiam quae subiungo], ic oncneow, swa swa me rehte se forecwedena arwurða wer Furtunatus.
OE Ælfric Homily (Cambr. Ii.4.6) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 358 On þam dæge ge biddað on minum naman geornlice, and ic ne sæde eow git þæt ic sylf wylle biddan þone ylcan Fæder, for eow þingiende.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 41 Ȝette he him sceawede ane welle of fure.
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 141 Auh wostu hwat me deð ȝet [?c1225 Cleo. ȝeddeð, a1250 Titus ȝeddes].
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 186 Þe herde & his hende wif..þat bold barn wiþ his bowe..fedde. & ȝit hadde fele felawes in þe forest.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 1402 (MED) Alpheta..is the twelfthe sterre yit.
c1400 ( Canticum Creatione l. 505 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 130 Ȝut after he gat þretty sones mo, And þretty douȝtres and two.
a1450 Rule St. Benet (Vesp.) (1902) l. 299 Þe fortt degre ȝit es þair als Of sum þat er in order fals.
1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 219 Wages of maryners..ixli vijs. Vitayle..vijli xxd. Yet Wages of maryners..iiijli xs xd.
1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. i. xiii. f. liiiiv They that call it brede declare yet that in dede it is not brede but the body of Chryste.
1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love i. iii. sig. B4v Stay let me obserue this portent yet . View more context for this quotation
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 20 in Justa Edouardo King Yet once more, O ye laurels..I come to pluck your berries.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 4 Notwithstanding yet these expences at home, he brought up his Children well.
1660 A. Marvell Let. 17 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 1 There is yet brought in an Act in which of all others your corporation is the least concerned.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy Ded. sig. Av 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.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. x. 140 There is yet another offence against public justice.
1835 W. Wordsworth Yarrow Revisited 9 While Tweed, best pleased in chanting a blithe strain, Saddens his voice again, and yet again.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 273 Yet once more, fair friend.
1895 W. M. F. Petrie Egypt. Tales 1st Ser. 73 The Sekhti came yet, and yet again, even unto the ninth time.
1936 El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post 17 Mar. 4/2 A second figure bearing a crucifix staggered along and yet a third.
1971 I. Murdoch Accidental Man 83 She feared him and he knew it, and this was yet another barrier for love to surmount.
2014 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Oct. 51/3 Each arranged for yet a new foreign loan.
2015 Wall St. Jrnl. 19 Dec. c5/1 ‘The War on Alcohol’..revises the story yet again by putting the politics back in Prohibition.
†b. Preceding one or the indefinite article: another, one more. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) vii. 64 We willað gyt ænne cwyde þære godspellican gereccednysse eow gereccan, on þisum ylcum andgite.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xviii. 16 Gyf he þe ne gehyrð, nim þonne gyt ænne oððe twegen to þe þæt ælc word stande on twegra oððe þreora gewittnesse.
a1400 (a1325) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Trin. Cambr.) (1887) l. 287 [c1325 Calig. Man þou art iwis To winne] ȝuyt o [Calig. continues ȝvt a kinedom wel betere þan min is].
a1564 Q. Kennedy Compend. Ressonyng in 2 Eucharistic Tracts (1964) 171 I will speir ȝit ane questioun at ȝou.
1600 in Bannatyne Misc. (1827) I. 146 Now yeit ane miracle.
†c. Expressing repetition of an action: again. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > anew or again
moeOE
of newOE
yetOE
againOE
newlyOE
once morelOE
anewc1305
newa1325
i-gainc1325
againwardc1380
upon new1399
freshlya1413
newlings1440
of the newc1449
afreshc1450
of (also on) fresh1490
for the newc1535
backwardly1552
over againa1568
over1598
de novo1627
all over1811
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > fact of being second > [adverb] > for a second time, again
eftc825
eftersoonsc950
eftsoonc1000
yetOE
againOE
once morelOE
eft-sitha1300
againwardc1380
second1382
secondly1382
once againc1475
secondarilyc1475
secondarly1543
backwardly1552
OE Genesis A (1931) 1476 Þa gyt se eadega wer ymb wucan þriddan wilde culufran ane sende.
OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) iii. i. 134 Þas þing we geswutelodon on þam oðrum dæle þisses weorces, and gyt we hig willað hrepian.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 17 (MED) Gif he nulle, nim tweien of þine freond and ga ȝet bi-sec hine.
c1300 St. Michael (Laud) l. 79 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 302 Ȝeot cam seint Miȝhel eft-sone to þe bischope þere.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings iii. 8 Þe lord leide to & ȝit clepede Samuel þe þridde tyme.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1197 Bad him [sc. Adam] thoru an angel steuen, þat he suld wit his wijf yete mete.
1431 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 15 Unum flatt pece cum scriptura in cooperculo Drynk and fyll ȝytt.
a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (1998) I. l. 827 Whanne þe deuels weren..out of oure goddis cropen, Whanne þei weren brent..Ȝit he and his fel felawes lepen efte In some ymage þat weren lefte.
1564–5 J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 316 To charge the said Gilbert..yit as of befoir, to bring the saidis Urchid Makdowell and Patrik Makdowell.
1609 R. Armin Ital. Taylor v. sig. D2v I am a Queene..: Tis treason if thou touch me yit.
1636 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae (new ed.) sig. D4v Like as before we did submit, So wee repeate the samine yet.
d. Used as an intensifier after nor (or formerly †ne, †neither, †or, †either).In quot. lOE with preceding tho; cf. Phrases 1c.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > insistence or persistence > [adverb] > used for emphasis after nor
yetlOE
lOE tr. Honorius Augustodunensis Elucidarium in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 141 Se mann ne cann nan god, bute God þurh his geofe him tæce. Ne þa get [L. nec] ne mæig he hit geforðigen, bute God him fylste þærto.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12811 Neþer am i crist ne yeitt heli.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1084 Nat was foryeten, the porter ydelnesse Ne Narcisus..Ne yet the folie of kyng Salomon.
c1480 (a1400) St. Andrew 3 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 63 In word, in thocht, or yhet in dede.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. vi. 98 All thai quhilk haitis the cruel tirrantis dedis, Or ȝit his felloun violence sair dredis.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke xxiii. f. cxvv I..founde noo faute in this man... No nor yett Herode.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 152 Neither he, ne yet his parentes, can forsake their prince.
1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. sig. Nvv Quhatsoeuer do proceid ather from the hail body thairof, ather yeit ony particular membre of the same.
a1592 P. Adamson Recantation (1598) sig. A4v Zit the samine can noth be conciled... Nether zit can the men of God..dissemble the samine.
1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines 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.
c1639 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Earl of Eglinton (1885) 35 in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4575) XLIV. 1 He does not rekon the samen nether yett his owne charges.
a1718 W. Penn Tracts in Wks. (1726) I. 471 His words of the Trinity are modest, neither highly Athanasian, nor yet Socinian.
1787 ‘J. M—d’ Revelation St. John iv. 38 John saw no similitude of, nor has spoken of, the Ark of the Covenant; neither yet of the Altar of Burnt-Sacrifice.
1835 Dublin Penny Jrnl. 7 Mar. 288/2 Besides thy bloom's most beauteous glow, Or yet thy fragrant spell, I've reason why I love thee so, Sweet rose, that I'll not tell.
1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 88 I never handled rope, Nor held a tiller, nor yet mean to do.
1906 B. Wendell Liberty Union & Democracy iv. 301 For our people of America are not the rich, nor yet the poor; they are not the learned, nor yet the ignorant; they are not the wise, nor yet the foolish; not the good, nor yet the erring.
1944 Church Hist. 13 280 Gregory is neither a strict traducianist, nor yet a strict creationist.
2013 N. Ridout Passionate Amateurs iv. 90 It does not make Godard in any way prescient. Nor yet does it make the film an anticipation of ‘political horrors’.
2. Emphasizing a comparative: even, still. Also formerly emphasizing a superlative: †very (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > insistence or persistence > [adverb] > strengthening or emphasizing comparative
yetOE
even1533
still1730
again1735
OE Judith 182 Holofernus..us monna mæst morðra gefremede, sarra sorga, ond þæt swyðor gyt ycan wolde.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1087 Roger het an of heom, se..dyde git eallra wærst ofer eall þet land.
lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. v. 249 Ac wit sculon þeah git deoplicor ymbe þæt beon [L. uerum altius perscrutemur].
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 780 & godess enngell seȝȝde þær Off sannt iohan ȝet mare.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 123 Luuian we ure drihten, for þon þe he luuede us er we hine..Git we sculen mare, we sculan luuian ure nehstan.
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) l. 14241 Sixti þousend manne and mo þousendes ȝite.
a1425 (c1333–52) L. Minot Poems (1914) 3 (MED) Ma manasinges ȝit haue þai maked.
?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. A.ii But shepeherde Faustus was yet more fortunate.
1567 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 55 Thairfoir ye fand thame prickis vnto your ene, And, gif ye spair thame, yit sall find thame moir.
1626 W. Gouge Dignitie Chivalrie §5 I purpose to dive yet more deeply into the depth of my Text.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 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.
1724 A. Ramsay Ever Green I. 217 Thats zit warse.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia IV. viii. ix. 304 Which can only awaken painful recollections, or give rise to yet more painful new anxieties.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. x. 176 The thought..gave a yet deeper colour of carnation to her complexion.
1847 H. Melville Omoo lxvii. 255 A sharp splinter had thrust itself into the flesh, through a hole in his boot. My sandals were worse yet.
1889 ‘J. S. Winter’ Mrs. Bob (1891) x. 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.
1925 Classical Rev. 39 101/1 In another half-hour there is another spring which is yet colder and purer.
2010 J. Powell Breaking of Eggs (2011) xv. 276 I could see that yet more changes would be required of me.
†3. Used to emphasize the extreme or surprising nature of the case mentioned in comparison with a weaker or more general one implied or expressed: even. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [adverb] > emphasizing an extreme case
forthe971
yetOE
selfly1503
self-like1556
OE (Mercian) Rushw. Gospels: Matt. xxiv. 24 Seodochristi..dabunt signa magna et prodigia ita ut in errorem inducant multos si fieri potest etiam electos : lyge crist..sellaþ tacen micel & forebecun swa þæt in gedwolan sien gelædde monigra þær þæt beon mæge ge þa gecorenan geta.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 168 He beþ full off haliȝ gast Ȝet inn hiss moderr wambe.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xiv. 26 If ony..hatith not his..britheren, and douȝtris, ȝit forsoth and his lyf [a1425 L.V. and ȝit his owne lijf; L. adhuc autem et animam suam].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 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.
a1500 (?a1400) Morte Arthur (1903) l. 2248 All landys northe and southe Off thys werre the word spronge, And yit at Rome it was full couthe.
4. colloquial (originally U.S.). Used as an ironic intensifier at the end of a sentence, clause, etc.: what is more, moreover.
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1936 Sat. Evening 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.
1957 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 17 Mar. 8 The counter-claim was dismissed (with costs yet).
1975 Times 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!).
1980 Oxf. Times 22 Aug. 13/3 The tracks include..‘To Know Him is to Love Him’ (with David Bowie on saxophone, yet!).
2007 New Yorker 26 Nov. 54/1 (advt.) You'd be kvetchy too, if you were cooped up in a bottle without any heat or hot water in the middle of winter, yet!
II. Senses relating to time.
5. With reference to the present time: still.
a. Implying continuance from a previous time up to and including the present time (or some other stated time): as formerly, still. Now chiefly regional except in as yet at Phrases 2b.
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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adverb] > as formerly, still, or to this day
yeteOE
tho yeteOE
as yet1484
still1535
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) Pref. 5 Her mon mæg giet gesion hiora swæð.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 16 Ða andswarode he him, & synt ge gyt [c1200 Hatton geot] butan andgyte?
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) (Interpolation) anno 449 Of Iotum comon Cantware..& ðæt cynn on Westsexum þe man gyt hæt Iutna cyn.
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 83 Al to fele swiche men bien get þe ne wilen noht here sinnes forleten.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14290 Bruttes ileueð ȝete þat he bon on liue.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 1574 Seint Iones de lateran..Þat stont ȝute & heued churche of al cristendom is.
c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 334 Þat I tolde þe þo I telle þe ȝitte.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 796 For of þat ilk appel bitt þair suns tethe ar eggeid yitt.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 306 Þat he had sene before in spirit, he held it all pryue ȝyt.
1534 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 309 Robert hunte baylyf..did take and kepe and yeat kepeth a cowe of your said oratours.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 27v Somur qwenes and qwaintans & oþer qwaint gamnes There foundyn was first, & yet ben forthe haunted.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward V f. xj It wer as great commoditee to theim bothe, as for yet a while too bee in the custody of their mother.
1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. sig. Nvv Euerie moneth was reconed to begin on ye day of ye change, as is obserued ȝeit in ye Hebrew kallendar.
1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xv. 9 Her sunne is gone down while it was yet day. View more context for this quotation
1655 Theophania v. 144 A timely assistance was sent to those Ladies that yet hung strugling about the skiff.
1701 Acct. Life in T. Stanley Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) sig. a While he continued yet in the University.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 164. ¶3 While her Beauty was yet in all its Height and Bloom.
1756 Mrs. Calderwood's Journey in Coltness Coll. (1842) 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.
1807 W. Wordsworth To Cuckoo iv, in Poems II. 58 Even yet thou art to me No Bird, but an invisible Thing.
1839 A. Bywater Sheffield Dial. (new ed.) ii. 22 Dusta work at flat backs yit, as thahs been used to do?
1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social 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 Children v. 35 You know you look ill yet, very ill.
1919 J. Conrad Arrow of Gold iv. v. 239 He has been and is yet in love with you.
1937 Z. N. Hurston Their Eyes were watching God xix. 261 Ah figgers de water is yet bad. It's bound tuh be.
1974 in Sc. National Dict. (1976) X. (at cited word) [Perthshire] Are ye at the schule yet? Are you still at school?
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. (at cited word) Is that wee hose-pipe in the back of the van yet?
2011 A. P. Wiese in New Eng. Rev. 32 154 I can feel them yet—the ones on the front of my mother's Slattery gas stove circa 1949.
b. With negative participles and adjectives formed with in-, un-, etc., implying that the action or state implied by the corresponding positive term has still to happen (e.g. yet unpaid is equivalent to not yet paid (see not yet at sense A. 8a)).
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OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 170 He [sc. Christ] is git uncuð, forþan þe he cucu wunað mid Gode on heofonum.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 17327 Nicodem wass ȝet Vnnborenn i þatt time Off haliȝ gast.
1434 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1835) IV. 245 (MED) Hit lyked my lord..notwithstondyng..greete lones of good made by hym unto þe King..of þe whiche he is yet unpaied..to lene þe King þe some of iij mille marc.
1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 306 The shyrf sayd playnly that he..derst not serue it [sc. a writ],..and so it ys yet vnservyd.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxvii[i]. 6 The children which were yet vnborne.
1590 T. Digges Let. 2 May in Dict. National Biogr. (1888) XV. 72/1 I, that never increased her charge one penny,..am yet unsatisfied by 1,000l.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 73 His valour rests yet untried.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 146 Four fair Heifars yet in Yoke untry'd. View more context for this quotation
1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 282 The ravishing Discovery of that which is yet unattainable.
1706 A. Pope Let. 10 Apr. in Corr. (1956) I. 16 'Till you have finish'd these that are yet unprinted.
1757 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 437 There are many Masters of Servants yet unpaid, who are very anxious to receive their valuation.
1831 J. F. Cooper Bravo (1833) I. xvi. 225 As often did he gaze ahead, betraying an anxious desire to reach some object that was yet invisible.
1843 Kemble Poetry Codex Vercellensis Pref. vi A series of publications which..will give to the world of scholars every yet inedited remain of Anglosaxon.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 544 The children in their yet undeveloped strength, the very old in their yet sustained weakness.
1906 Treasury Decisions Customs & other Laws (U.S. Dept. Treasury) 10 731 When the ume fruit is yet unripe, it is gathered, washed in water, and exposed for a short time to the sun to soften.
1948 A. Lane Greek Pottery iii. 19 The ‘black figure’ technique, wherein black-painted silhouette figures were enriched with detail incised in the yet unfired clay.
2013 M. K. Harmes Bishops & Power in Early Mod. Eng. iv. 61 Laud's opponents beheld the Reformation not as a fixed point in time, but as a yet incomplete process.
c. With following infinitive referring to something which has so far not happened but might be expected to happen in the future (e.g. yet to be done implies ‘not done so far’, ‘not yet done’ and police have (or are) yet to arrest any suspects implies ‘police have not yet arrested any suspects’). Frequently preceded by has or have (later also is or are). Cf. sense A. 9.
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OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) ii. xvi. 139 Ac ic þe bidde, gif hwylce syn nu gyt [L. adhuc] to secganne be þam mægne þyses halgan weres Benedictes, þæt þu [þa] gecyðe.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cxxjv/2 Haue pyte on thy self..that þu mayst..wynne to spare the tormentes, that ben yet to come.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 181 No meruayle thoughe god had more delyte in the, thow lesse worlde, that were yet to be made, then of thys more worlde.
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. xx. f. 117v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Sundry exemplificats of ye graunts whereof are yet to be seene in wryting.
1659 in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS Comm. App. Pt. V: MSS Duke of Rutland (1889) II. 6 in Parl. Papers (C. 5889-II) XLIV. 393 Wishing that all your yeares yet to come may passe over with mirth and jollityes.
1695 J. Addison Sir J. Somers in Wks. (1721) I. 7 The doom Of Towns Unstorm'd, and Battels yet to come.
1756 Mrs. Calderwood's Journey in Coltness Coll. (1842) 188 He has three years of study yet to come.
1796 F. Burney Camilla I. ii. iv. 214 An opening always remains for something yet to be tried.
1848 Law Times 1 Apr. 3/2 I have yet to learn that..those on board the steam-tug had a right to..overrule the order of the pilot.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 564 The earl..had prepared himself for what was yet to be endured.
1885 Law Times Rep. 52 569/2 None of them had been completely finished, the painting and papering being yet to be done.
1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 14/1 To this day I have yet to learn who tipped my employers off.
1958 Times 18 Jan. 7/3 The problem of how to reach Iraq and the Persian Gulf area with an adequate signal has yet to be solved.
1996 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 7 May 2/1 Police are yet to arrest any suspects after the incident.
2015 Baltimore Sun 29 Mar. 19/2 Take a running count..and divide it by the number of decks yet to be played.
†d. not yet: no longer. Cf., by contrast, not yet at sense A. 8a. Obsolete.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] > before the present
no moreOE
not yetc1485
B.P.1946
the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adverb] > yet, still, or hitherto > not yet
not yetc1485
c1485 ( J. Fortescue Articles of Advice (BL Add. 48031) in Governance of Eng. (1885) App. B. 352 The king..may not yit susteyne thexpences of so grete an housolde as he kepte somtyme.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 506/2 I darrayne (Lydgat)... This worde is nat yet admytted in our comen spetche.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 598/2 I kydde (Lydgate), I knowe..This terme is nat yet in use.
†6. With reference to the immediate present: now; just now. Obsolete.In quot. OE with preceding now.
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OE Blickling Homilies 225 Forhwon forlætest þu, fæder, us nu git [L. cur nos, pater, deseris]?
c1175 ( Homily: Hist. Holy Rood-tree (Bodl. 343) (1894) 26 (MED) Ne sæcge ic eow ȝyt na mare þonne ic ær sæde.
a1325 (?c1300) Northern Passion (Cambr. Gg.1.1) l. 298 Take assample of me yȝet [a1425 Cambr. Gg.5.31 ȝhete], Kneled doun on and oþir.
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 489 (MED) Ȝet oure lorde to þe lede laused a speche: ‘Is þis ryȝt-wys, þou renk, alle þy ronk noyse?’
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Gloucester) (1971) 757 (MED) Þe ijde tyme He takes fro þe..þi broþer or þi syster, Þat þu schuldest ȝit be-war' & a-mende þe.
7. With reference to events occurring in the period preceding the present time (or some other stated time).
a. Referring to the period preceding the present time (or some other stated time), with the implication that subsequent change is expected or a recognized possibility: up to this (or that) time, until now (or until then); hitherto; so far. Frequently with a superlative (e.g. in quots. 1857 and 2014). Cf. as yet at Phrases 2a.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adverb] > yet, still, or hitherto
yetOE
hithertoa1225
hitherward1297
hithera1400
hithertilla1400
hithertowarda1400
hitherwardsc1400
as yetc1405
as yet1484
hitherunto1505
hereto1559
until the (also this) present1600
heretobefore1667
up to the present1826
OE Ælfric's Colloquy (1991) 43 Adhuc tamen profundius nobiscum disputas, quam etas nostra capere possit : gyt þeahhwæþere deoplicor mid us þu smeagst, þonne yld ure onfon mæge.
OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz Regula Canonicorum (Corpus Cambr. 191) lxxix. 325 Hwylc ungehyrsum man hæfde æfre gyt godne ende?
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 139 Þis dei is..þe fo[r]meste dei þet eauer ȝiete was iseȝen buuen eorðe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9321 ‘Ful littel se we yeitt,’ coth þai, ‘Of al þat euer we her þai sai.’
c1460 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Laud) l. 10078 Now blessid be that byrd of grace The worthiest that euyr yet was.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 80 Na, thank me not ouir airlie, for dreid that we threip, For I haue seruit the ȝit of lytill thing to ruse.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. ii. sig. Aa3 A slender slip, that scarse did see Yet seuenteene yeares. View more context for this quotation
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxvi. 155 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.
1761 Bp. W. Warburton Lett. (1809) 335 I have yet printed off but 72 pages.
1811 M. R. Mitford Let. 18 Aug. in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. v. 147 ‘Blanch’ is to consist of five thousand lines, and only eleven hundred are yet written.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. ix. 179 This is the queerest thing yet!
1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. viii. 471 The most important event that had yet occurred in the history of French civilization.
1907 M. S. Emery Norway through Stereoscope 210 We are to call there and get a glimpse of a side of Norwegian life quite different from any we have yet seen.
1915 J. Turner Let. July in C. Warren Somewhere in France (2019) 16 The Plainsong was pure joy to me—by far the best music yet.
1974 O. Manning Rain Forest i. i. 13 This is the only encouraging sight I've seen here yet.
1995 J. Collins Booing Bishop 80 The cowboy picture in Miller's Picture House on Saturday had been the best yet.
2014 Guardian 29 Nov. (Family section) 8/2 I know what a selfie stick is—perhaps the saddest invention yet of the human ego.
b. As things stand at this point in time (or as they stood at the time in question); by this (or that) time. Chiefly in questions, direct or indirect, to which the negative answer would be not yet (see sense A. 8a), and usually occurring at the end of a clause or sentence.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adverb] > in advance or beforehand
yeteOE
forea1225
beforehand?c1225
alreadyc1300
forrow1489
aforehanda1500
sincea1556
tofore1597
forwarda1604
preventively1646
anticipatelya1677
ahead1835
anticipatively1864
anticipatorily1878
eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) (2009) I. xxi. 480 Hwæþer þu giet [lOE Bodl. geot] ongite þæt ða uncweðendan gesceafta wilnodon to bionne on ecnesse swa ilce swa men, gif hi meahten?
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 541 Hu þincþ þe artu ȝut inume, Artu mid riȝte ouercume.
c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 518 (MED) Knowestu oȝt ȝete þis flur? A litel er þu noldest hit se.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 1876 How sal we of þes waters wete. queþer þai be fully fallyn ȝete?
a1450 York Plays (1885) 51 Noe. O! barnes, it waxes clere aboute... 1 filius. I, leffe fadir ye loke þare owte, Yf þat þe water wane ought ȝitt.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 617/2 Is your boke made yet?
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. iii. 52 Haue you enquird yet who pickt my pocket? View more context for this quotation
a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman iii. v. 145 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) I am glad you have found your tongue yet.
1697 J. Vanbrugh Æsop iii. 37 Has thy Eternal Tongue run down its Laram yet?
1762 S. Foote Orators i. 7 And have you speechify'd yet?
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. x. 258 ‘Have you yet done?’ said the Duke to the herald. ‘One word more,’ answered Rouge Sanglier.
1892 Leisure Hour Apr. 387/1 Are my razors set yet?
1916 D. Hankey Student in Arms iii. 51 Potentate... Has a counter-attack been launched yet? General. Not yet, Sire.
1982 P. Redmond Brookside (Mersey TV transmission script) (O.E.D. Archive) Episode 2. 16 Go and see if that lazy madam's up yet.
1990 E. Van Lustbader White Ninja iii. 468 Tomi asked if they'd ID'd the victims yet.
2014 Daily Mail 26 Aug. 24/1 Have you done the ice bucket challenge yet?
†c. At some time in the past; once; previously, before. Obsolete.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] > once or at some former time
yetOE
oncec1175
somewhilec1200
sometime1297
once upon a timec1380
one while1470
sometimes1563
sometimes1577
OE Beowulf (2008) 1824 Gif ic þonne on eorþan owihte mæg þinre modlufan maran tilian.., ðonne ic gyt dyde, guðgeweorca, ic beo gearo sona.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 367 Þe werld i call wit min entens þe mater of þe four elements, þat yeit was tan o forme mischapen.
a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 138 Þan take youre loof of light payne, as y haue said ȝett.
d. With ere, before, etc., indicating the ultimate occurrence of something after an interval of time. In later use only in ere yet: before. Now archaic and rare.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [adverb] > whensoever or eventually
yetc1400
as and when1565
successively1600
in the successa1676
ultimately1818
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 648 (MED) I schal efte here away..Ȝet er þy lyvez lyȝt leþe upon erþe.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1122 To bed ȝet er þay ȝede, Recorded couenaunteȝ ofte.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 196 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 101 Ȝit or ewyn enterit come yat bur office Obeyand yir bischoppis and bydand yam by.
1592 Arden of Feversham i. i. 92 Meanewhile prepare our breakfast,..For yet ere noone wele take horse and away.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 41 Before I departed yet I left her with Childe of a Sonne.
1674 T. B. Animadversions F. Loss 56 I have heard a Patient presently upon bleeding, before yet his Arm was tyed up, tell with rejoycing how he plainly felt his pain go off.
1739 M. Browne Poems 116 Ere yet the gath'ring Covy came to feed, The listless Swains the fav'ring Leisure chuse, Responsively to tune the rural Muse.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc viii. 70 Ere yet from Orleans to the war we went.
1828 W. Scott Death Laird's Jock in Keepsake for 1829 191 Ere yet the fight began, the old men gazed on their chief.
1866 C. H. Spurgeon Our Own Hymn-bk. 974 Ere yet the sun the day renews; O Lord, Thy Spirit send.
1903 J. Miller As it was in Beginning ix. xxxvi. 73 Child-wife that dies Ere yet the soul has waked to see The weaklings that may linger.
a1973 J. R. R. Tolkien Silmarillion (1977) i. 35 The First War began..ere yet there was anything that grew or walked upon earth.
8. With a negative, referring to something which has so far not happened but with the implication that subsequent change is expected or a recognized possibility: not as things stand at this point in time (or as they stood at the time in question), still not, not so far, not hitherto.
a. With preceding negative, esp. in not yet.Now the usual construction (cf. sense A. 8b).
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OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xx. 195 Ne bið seo geendung þyssere worulde na gyt, ðeah ðe heo gehende sy.
OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) vii. 8 Ic ne fare to þison freolsdæge forþam min tid nis gyt gefylled.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14371 Abid abid wifmann abid. Ne comm nohht ȝet min time.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 56 Nas ȝet Rome bi-wonnen.
a1300 Passion our Lord l. 583 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 53 Ich ne astey nouht yete vp to myne vadere.
c1330 Sir Orfeo (Auch.) (1966) l. 147 (MED) Y no seiȝe neuer ȝete bifore So fair creatours y-core.
c1410 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Harl. 7334) (1885) l. 291 He hadde nouȝt geten hym ȝit a benefice [c1405 Hengwrt hadde geten hym yet no benefice].
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 381 Never yett was I proved with good knyght.
1539 Bible (Great) Mark xi. 13 The tyme of fygges was not yet.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccviiv Because Quene Margaret and her sonne, were not fully yet furnished for suche a iorney.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iii. 44 Macd. Is the King stirring, worthy Thane? Macb. Not yet . View more context for this quotation
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 24 Such a manner of Prelacie, I say, I never durst, nor yet dare condemn.
1708 J. Addison Present State War 3 This Kingdom was never yet engag'd in a War of so great consequence.
1793 E. Gibbon Let. 18 Jan. (1956) II. 96 Quebec is not yet taken.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. 447 As to Halifax, Ormond, and Guildford, he determined not yet to dismiss them.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 414 In the reign of James I,..when the world of fashion had not yet migrated wholly to the west-end.
1880 News & Press (Cimarron, New Mexico) 8 Apr. 1/5 Nobby, you've..never yit shot off yer mouth on the marryin' biz.
1908 R. Kipling Lett. to Family iii. 26 There's them that can't see yit.
1918 W. Faulkner Let. 9 Apr. in Thinking of Home (1992) 49 My trunk hasn't come yet. I hope I shant have to buy any more clothes.
1933 R. Fisher in S. A. Brown et al. Negro Caravan (1941) 59 You ain't seen nothing yet.
1977 Transatlantic Rev. No. 60. 147 ‘Naw’, he says. ‘Least, no yit.’
1992 I. Rankin Strip Jack (1993) iii. 71 ‘Ian not back yet?’ ‘Not yet. Catching up on his sleep, I expect.’
2015 N.Y. Mag. 15 June 33/2 A superior political model that..real-world humans had not yet achieved.
b. With following negative, as yet not. Now somewhat rare (in later use usually archaic, except in as yet (see Phrases 2a) or even yet).
ΚΠ
OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) vii. 6 Gyt ne com min tid, eower tid is symble gearu.
OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Vitell.) ii. 238 Cyme to þam treowe þe man hateþ morbeam, & of ðam nim..hwitne æppel þe þonne gyt [?a1200 Harl. 6258B ȝyt; L. necdum] ne readige.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3558 ‘LOruerd, merci!’ quad moyses, ‘Get ne let hem nogt helpe-les.’
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 65 (MED) In full possession of love Yit was I nevere hier tofore.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5904 Þe king hert wex herd as bras, ‘þe folk,’ he said, ‘yeitt sal noght pas.’
a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 237 And ȝet was not þe erl of Arundel and his retenew com hom.
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Gloucester) (1971) 762 (MED) The bestes þat bowed her hedes to hym are moche oþer folke þe wyche dyd it non homage to yowr son.
1567 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 32 Ȝit neuer did sho se his maik in France.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. iv. 201 My Conscience, which I then did feele full sicke, and yet not well. View more context for this quotation
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 423 Such confession was yet never extorted from some of you.
1709 R. Gould Wks. I. 49 Y'are yet not happy, yet she's unenjoy'd.
1827 W. Scott Highland Widow in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. xi. 202 I leave you to comfort and certainty, which you have yet never known.
1830 T. Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 127 Even yet not quite finished.
1938 Musical Times 79 94/1 Walton was yet not even a name to the musical world.
1988 J. A. Michener Alaska i. 4 The surrounding seas, which had even yet not separated themselves into the oceans we know.
2012 W. B. Rowe Hydrostatic, Aerostatic, & Hybrid Bearing Design xiv. 289 The designer has no choice since the machine has yet not been built.
9. With reference to future time. See also senses A. 5c, A. 7d.
a. At some time in the future (usually implying ‘though not hitherto’); in the remaining time available; before all is over; even now (or then); as late as now (or then).
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > different time > [adverb] > at some future time or one day
yeteOE
hereafter1154
hereafterwardc1386
sometimec1386
oncea1393
whiloma1400
rather or latera1450
one of these daysa1470
one day1477
umquhile1489
in timea1500
with time?1531
sooner or later1577
odd shortly1681
some summer's day1697
first or last1700
some of these (‥) days1831
someday1898
down the road (also track)1924
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xxxv. 245 Giet cymð se micla & se mæra & se egeslica Godes dæg.
OE Vercelli Homilies (1992) xv. 257 Swa us oft sægdon ða ðe ure lareowas..wæron, þæt ðas tacno sceoldon cuman þe we nu geseoð & gyt sceolon.
OE Genesis B 618 Gif [Adam] giet..læst mina lara, þonne gife ic him þæs leohtes genog... Ne wite ic him þa womcwidas.
c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 172 God heom unwreah..alle þa ðing þe us haliȝe bec nu ȝyt towearde secgæð, bi domes dæȝ & bi Drihtines cyme æft hyder.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 17696 Godess witt..all cnaweþþ, Ȝa þatt tatt wass, ȝa þatt tatt iss, Ȝa þatt tatt ȝet shall wurrþenn.
?a1300 Iacob & Iosep (Bodl.) (1916) l. 56 (MED) Ȝut we hit ssulen ise Þat ich..& þine breþren ek Moten for fine nede comen to þine fet.
a1350 Holy Cross (Ashm.) l. 167 in R. Morris Legends Holy Rood (1871) 32 Vor þer scholde ȝut a mon deie on þulke tre.
c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 90 Þe Britons supposen þat he [sc. Arthure] Leueþ in a-noþere lande, and þat he shal come ȝit and conquere al Britaigne.
a1450 York Plays (1885) 4 Abowne ȝhit sall I be beeldand, On heghte in þe hyeste of hewuen.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 3367 Ȝon gose I bad ȝow is noȝy etyn... I bid ȝow þat ȝe take it ȝit.
a1500 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 90 To hevyns blys yhit may he ryse, Thurghe helpe of Marie.
a1529 J. Skelton Woffully Araid 43 in Wks. (1843) I. 142 Cum ȝytt, and thou schalt fynde Myne endlys mercy and grace.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xvii. iv. 23 [I] pray that still you guide my way, Least yet I slipp, or goe astray.
1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 104 Perhaps..you will tell me yet that there is another way whereby I may more safely ascend to the Throne.
1689 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) M1689/3/35 That if he will yett delyver up the Bass and prisoners therin he should have his bygone arears to himself and garrisone.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 189 He sees that he may yet be happy, and wishes the hour was come.
1799 tr. A. von Kotzebue Writing-desk iii. xv. 90 Eckstad. You never signed your name to your husband's bonds. Mrs. Erlen. Then will I do it yet.
1845 Ladies' National Mag. (Philadelphia) Sept. 85/2 She was filled with exultation that she could yet be Mrs. Houston.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 524 Their chief employment is to talk of what they once were, and of what they may yet be.
1879 B. Webber Pigskin & Willow xiv. 197 Time enough yet? No, there isn't time enough yet.
1902 V. Jacob Sheep-stealers viii. 72 ‘You couldn't be safer, not if you was in Hereford jail itself.’.. ‘That's where I may be yet,’ he said.
1953 E. M. Forster Hill of Devi 40 Could one but short-circuit, all might yet be well.
1989 Guardian 23 Nov. 10/1 Changes in the Warsaw Pact countries which could yet be reversed.
2014 Daily Tel. 4 Apr. (Sport section) 20/3 Tiger..may yet scrape another major.
b. From this (or some stated or implied) time onwards, esp. for a specified length of time; henceforth (or thenceforth).In quot. OE with preceding tho; cf. Phrases 1a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adverb] > from now or henceforth
fortha700
heneOE
henforthOE
forwardOE
anovenOE
yetOE
downwardc1175
forthwardc1175
furthermorea1300
henforthwardc1300
forne14..
henceforwardc1330
henforwardc1330
hencefortha1375
henceforthwardc1384
hencec1390
furtherwarda1400
forwardsc1400
hyneforwardc1400
henceforwardsa1425
even-forthc1425
forth on1474
henceforthon1490
hynea1500
froforth1536
hyneforth1570
downwards1584
towards1587
here-hence1592
whenceforth1658
whenceforwarda1661
onward1667
onwards1732
from here on out1867
as of now1902
OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) viii. 10 He abad ða gyt [L. ultra] oðre seofan dagas & asende ut eft culfran.
c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) l. 661 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 238 Þou schalt ȝeot in þe se fourti dawes fare.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John vii. 33 Ȝit [L. adhuc] a litel tyme I am with ȝou, and I go to the fadir, that sente me.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12920 Bot ar he wild him fulli scau, For yeitt a quille he wild a-bide.
a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 3367 He leyȝe in þe vrthe ȝet þrettene ȝere & more.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jonah iii. 4 There are yet xl. dayes, and then shal Niniue be ouerthrowen.
a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 56 It was so hott that all men said in a moneth yet meate could not take salt.
1707 J. Boyse Serm. to Young Persons 16 in Serm. Var. Subj. (1708) I. They are..apt to imagine that they have many Years yet before 'em.
1849 M. Arnold Strayed Reveller, & Other Poems 35 O merchants, tarry yet a day Here in Bokhara.
1897 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 24 Apr. 1051/2 As soon as I get the report of our wounded I will send it, but it will be some time yet.
1940 Astounding Sci.-Fiction Nov. 78/1 They won't let you out for a while yet.
1949 D. Smith I capture Castle (U.K. ed.) i. iv. 41 My school gym-dress has a lot of life in it yet.
a1969 V. Ackland For Sylvia (1985) vi. 107 I refused to go back to London yet awhile.
1994 Rep. to Shareholders (Brit. Telecom) Sept. 17 CREST is still being developed and will not be operational for some time yet.
2014 T. McCulloch Stillman 6 They'll be emptying them into the collecting vat for hours yet.
†c. Not later than a specified time. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adverb] > at the latest
by the lasta1225
yeta1325
at (the) latestc1400
at (the) utterestc1425
at (the) farthest1600
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 313 For gef he don ðad god for-bead, Ðat sal hem bringen to ðo dead; And sal get ðis ilke dai.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15567 Þou sal þam se yeitt to night do me ful gret spite.
a1450 (?c1350) Pride of Life l. 452 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 104 Hit schal be sene..ȝit to-daye, Qwher Deth me durst tene And mete in þe waye.
d. Scottish. — yet! (usually following a name): used to affirm enduring support for the specified person or thing; long live — !; — forever! Also in yet for — ! Now rare.
ΚΠ
1764 in W. Fraser Chiefs of Grant (1883) II. 435 He had taken a fancy to call a little place nigh him by the name of New Aboyn; the old name was Buntie... One old woman..stood at the door of the Court house, still continueing to cry, and Buntie yet! and Buntie yet!
1817 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 56/1 Jean..[was] a staunch Jacobite... She..continued to exclaim..‘Charlie yet! Charlie yet!’
1867 ‘A Royalist’ Loyalist's Daughter III. xlii. 249 As my father..cried, in spite of persecution, ‘Charlie yet! Charlie yet!’ so say I, Jamie yet! Jamie yet! Jamie shall have his own again.
1883 J. Martine Reminisc. Royal Burgh Haddington 44 A party of Haddingtonians had gone there [sc. Irvine] to see the pageant... While walking along, they were astonished to hear a man cry—‘Haddington yet! Haddington yet!’
1935 Border Mag. Sept. 137/2 ‘Yeit for Boswells!’ used to be a common expression among boys when I was young.
III. Senses expressing contrast.
10. In spite of that, for all that, (but) nevertheless. Sometimes strengthened by nevertheless, notwithstanding, and often correlative to though. Cf. Phrases 1d.Yet, in this sense, is similar in meaning to but conj. 11b; however it is more emphatic and freer in construction, and may be preceded by and or but. This sense of yet is nearly equivalent to still adv. 6b; but still indicates mainly that the fact or condition remains unaltered by the adverse one, whereas yet usually indicates that it is in some degree surprising or unexpected.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adverb] > however, nevertheless, notwithstanding
though-whetherc897
nathelesseOE
though971
whetherOE
yetOE
neverlOE
what for-thyc1175
nethelessa1200
never the latterc1225
algatec1230
in spite of (despite, maugre, etc.) one's teethc1230
nought for thatc1275
(all) for noughtc1325
(in) spite of one's nosec1325
alway1340
thoughless1340
ne'er the later (also latter)a1382
ne'er the lessa1382
neverlatera1382
neverthelessa1382
ne for-thia1400
neverlessa1400
not-againstandinga1400
nauthelessc1400
nouthelessc1400
algatesc1405
noughtwithstanding1422
netherless?a1425
notwithstanding1425
nethertheless1440
not gainstandingc1440
not the lessa1450
alwaysa1470
howbeit1470
never þe quedera1475
nought the lessc1480
what reck?a1513
nonetheless1533
howsomever1562
after all1590
in spite of spite1592
meantime1594
notwithstand1596
withal1596
in the meanwhile1597
meanwhile1597
howsoever1601
in (one's) spite?1615
however1623
in the meantime1631
non obstante1641
at the same time1679
with a non-obstante to1679
stilla1699
the same1782
all the same1803
quand même1825
still and all1829
anyhow1867
anyway1876
still and ona1894
all the samey1897
just the same1901
but1939
OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Corpus Oxf.) iii. xiv. 204 Hit þa eft gelamp æfter fæce þurh gymelyste þæt se ylca tun forbarn & seo cyrice; & gyt [eOE Tanner ac hwæðre; L. sed] se leg þære stuðe gehrinan ne mihte.
c1175 ( in A. O. Belfour 12th Cent. Homilies in MS Bodl. 343 (1909) 42 Þe..ne biþ clæne þe ðe biwepð þa ðurhtoȝene synne, & þonne ȝit [OE Vercelli hie þeah þonne gyt] ne forlæteþ.
a1275 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 39 (MED) Þau pilatus him come wid ten hundred cnistes, yet ic wolde, louerd, for þi loue fiste.
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 995 So bo hit euer in unker siþe Þat þu bo sori & ich bliþe Ȝut þu aisheist wi ich ne fare In to oþer londe & singe þare.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 3344 Þe castel was ynome & þat folc to sprad þere. Ȝute þo hii adde al ydo hii ne founde noȝt þe king þere.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 393 He hath ynowh and yit him nedeth.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. Prol. l. 185 Thouȝ we culled þe catte, ȝut sholde þe come another To cracchy vs.
c1450 Lay Folks Mass Bk. (Newnh.) (1879) l. 149 I haw done, aȝen thi wille, Synnes diuers,..And ȝut art thu redi..To graunt me ay forȝefnesse.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) III. 1175 Oftyntymys we do many thynges that we wene for the beste be, and yet peradventure hit turnyth to the warste.
a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) Prol. l. 21 Al-be-hit I..can noght peynt my boke as other be, Vnder youre supporte yut aunter wyl me.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. aii* Suppose thi birny be bright as bachiler suld ben Yhit ar thi latis vnlufsum.
1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. D.viiv Plenty of flesshe..knittyng together ye muskles: not so yet, but that neuerthelesse they haue theyr fre motion.
1596 E. Spenser Prothalamion vii. sig. B As he would speake, but that he lackt a tong Yeat did by signes his glad affection show.
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 26 Though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds, becomes his heresie.
1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation i. 66 Though these Places are very commodious for the breeding..of Grey-hounds, yet, in my opinion, the middle..grounds are the best.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 543 Auspicious Prince, in Arms a mighty Name, But yet whose Actions far transcend your Fame.
1716 Boston News-let. No. 656. 1/1 Notwithstanding there was an Act..for the preservation of White and other Pine Trees..; yet nevertheless His Majesty hath been inform'd, that great spoils are daily committed in His Woods.
a1743 J. Cannon Chrons. (2010) I. 64 The collector told him that persons bred to farming oftentimes made the brightest officers & that he saw nothing in me to dislike me. Yet notwithstanding, this punchgutt..refused it.
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 3 Some fleeting good, that..Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. iv. 53 The splendid yet useless imagery. View more context for this quotation
1831 W. Scott Count Robert xiii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. II. 312 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.
1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 74 The style of Bede, if not elegant Latin, is yet correct, sufficiently classical.
1857 H. 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.
1921 Univ. Oklahoma Mag. Mar. 3/2 About two thirds of the students in the University are men and yet there are many lonesome freshmen co-eds and Eds too.
1966 W. Percy Last Gentleman ii. ii. 41 Kitty and Mrs. Vaught were different as could be, yet they had between them the funded look of large families.
1969 Listener 5 June 806/1 And yet, and yet. One can't help feeling something is missing.
1982 C. Rose Astrol. Counselling vi. 78 Our Arien energies are those which enable us to be assertive, enthusiastic, undirected yet nevertheless bounding onward.
1991 H. Barty-King Worst Poverty 89 Though the law prohibited the forcible opening of a door, yet the bailiffs found means to evade that prohibition.
2015 New Yorker 23 Mar. 26/1 The kind of unflinching yet tender New York sidewalk story that risks becoming a cliché of downbeat naturalism.
†11. Introducing a clause: even though, although. Obsolete.In this use virtually equivalent to a conjunction.
ΚΠ
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6142 Te birrþ lufenn wel þin preost..Ȝet forrþenn þohh he nohht ne beo Swa god mann summ himm birrde.
c1390 Castle of Love (Vernon) (1967) l. 1424 (MED) In whonhope and doute heo weoren vchon, ȝit heo seȝen him alyue a lyues mon.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 12119 And ȝit þou wenest makeles to be Þat noon in lore shulde teche þe I con þe teche þat þou not can.
c1475 Brome Abraham & Isaac in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 45 Wollecom to me be my Lordys sond, And hys hest I wyll not wythstond; Ȝyt Ysaac, my ȝowng sonne in lond, A full dere chyld to me haue byn.
1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. M7 Contente you than, for yette that me strenghste be litell, the desiere is grete.
B. adj.2
That is still the specified person or thing; still continuing or subsisting. Cf. now adj. 1, then adv. 9b. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring > still continuing or enduring
yet1608
long-time1912
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adjective] > remaining in specified condition
unbrokena1300
unbrokea1325
unperisheda1400
upstandingc1450
unviolate1548
uncancelled1557
yet1608
voidless1642
indissolved1659
standing1673
unruinablea1684
unworn1748
decayless1828
1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 51 Let, with her Staffe, my yet-Youth [Fr. encore enfant] gouern wel..the Flock of Izrael.
1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. 83 That the yet aliens in euery quarter of the world, may bee wonne by the example of dispersed Saints.
1632 Earl of Strafford Let. 19 Aug. (1739) I. 73 The Certainty of your Lordship's yet Abode at West-Chester.
1653 Cloria & Narcissus 181 Her yet safety.
1817 M. Keating Trav. II. 269 He was one of the numerous party of yet walkers in the world.
1874 T. H. Key Lang. i. 7 We cannot easily imagine a man possessed of sufficient authority to dictate such arbitrary laws, or indeed, in the yet non-existence of language, to make his wishes known.
1974 Iowa Rev. 5 58 She..wondered idly but with a twinge of anxiety for her yet-husband, where in hell he was.

Phrases

†P1. tho yet (in Middle English also the yet). [With the yet compare the conj. 3b and see discussion at that entry.]
a. Still, as yet; (also) while still, when as yet. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 20 He..com to his fæder, & þa gyt þa he wæs feorr his fæder he hyne geseah.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1106 Wiðuton Rotbert de Bælesme..& feawa oðre of þam heafodmannan þe mid þam eorle of Normandige þe gyt heoldan.
a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily In Die Sancto Pentecosten (Lamb. 487) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 99 Þa ȝet wuniende on þissere weorlde, þe helende ableu his gast on his apostlas.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3529 Þe ȝeht þe [c1300 Otho þe ȝet þat] Lud king ahte þis lond hehte Lundene Trinouant.
c1300 St. Dunstan (Laud) l. 2 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 19 Miracle ore louerd dude for him þe ȝuyt he was un-bore.
b. With negative: still not, not until now (or not until then), not yet. Cf. sense A. 8. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adverb] > as formerly, still, or to this day
yeteOE
tho yeteOE
as yet1484
still1535
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. vi. 172 Forðon in þa tid þa get ne wæron monig mynster getimbred in Ongolþeode.
OE Genesis A (1931) 103 Ne wæs her þa giet nymþe heolstersceado wiht geworden.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10264 Ah he heo [sc. Lincolne] þa ȝæte [c1300 Otho ȝet] nefde noht biwunnen.
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 1433 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 147 Ake he ne scholde nouȝt þe ȝeot to engelonde wend[e].
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 750 Of herte was he hol & sound & pleynede him þe ȝute no þyng.
c. In addition; further, furthermore, moreover. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
OE Beowulf (2008) 47 Þa gyt hie him asetton segen gy[l]denne.
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) i. ix. 62 Þa get he togeecte þas word [L. subiunxit tamen] & cwæð þus: ‘gangað ge nu!’
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 31 (MED) Þe preost him wile haten þet he nime þa ilke ehte..and dele hit wrecche monne.., and þaȝet nime bote to criste.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13098 Þa cleopede he eorles tweie, aðele men and wise... Þe ȝet þe king cleopede Walwæin.
d. Nevertheless. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Corpus Cambr.) v. x. 412 Þa þæt þa se Godes wer Ecgbriht geseah þæt he ne wæs forlæten þeodum godcunde lare to bodigenne,..ne þætte Wihtbryht owiht fremede.., þa ongann he þa gyta [eOE Tanner þa gena, OE Cambr. Univ. ða gyt; L. adhuc] in þæt weorc godcundre lare sendan halige weras & geornfulle twelfe.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 31 Þes preost wile..ne don me nan oðer bote buten a ic scal festen, and þa ȝet hit were wel god moste ic alunges festen, swa þet ic mine oðre goð [read god] al ne fors-spende.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 35 Ic walde fein pinian and sitten on forste and on snawe up et mine chinne, and þa ȝet hit walð me þunchen þet softeste beð and þet wunsemeste þet ic efre ibad.
P2. as yet.
a. Referring to the period preceding the present time (or some other stated time), with the implication that subsequent change is expected or a recognized possibility: up to this (or that) time, until now (or until then); hitherto; so far. Cf. senses A. 7a, A. 8.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adverb] > yet, still, or hitherto
yetOE
hithertoa1225
hitherward1297
hithera1400
hithertilla1400
hithertowarda1400
hitherwardsc1400
as yetc1405
as yet1484
hitherunto1505
hereto1559
until the (also this) present1600
heretobefore1667
up to the present1826
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 861 I fayled neuere of my trouthe as yit For sikerly my dette shal be quyt.
c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 599 Thow demest of thy selfe amys For Ioues ys not ther aboute..To make of the as yet a sterre.
1484 W. Cely Let. 14 Apr. in Cely Lett. (1975) 211 Here ys noo goode wyne to gett for noo mony as yett, but I vnderstond ther schall come from Brugys som.
1528 S. Gardiner in N. Pocock Rec. Reformation I. li. 133 As yet the pope's holiness hath not required the king's pollicitation.
1592 Queen Elizabeth I in Archaeologia 19 12 If your long expected and never had as yet answer had not lingard.
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. i. sig. Aa1 The Sun had as yet but approach'd the East, and my Body as yet lay moveless in the Bed.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 68 Thou hast heard what the Captains have said, but as yet thou shuttest thy Gates. View more context for this quotation
1708 J. Addison Present State War 19 That War continued Nine Years, and this hath as yet lasted but Six.
1777 T. Swift Gamblers 22 The caster..rappeth the cornet or box with vehemence on the table, the dice not as yet appearing from under the box.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. vi. 155 ‘No,’ answered the Astrologer, ‘the End is not as yet.’
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxiii. 568 She had never..met a professional lady's man as yet.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 171 As yet the Duke professed himself a member of the Anglican Church.
1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece vii. 226 But there were..extensions of this practice as yet but little noticed.
1928 J. K. Folsom Culture & Social Progress xvii. 480 A fourth great issue in the distribution of power, as yet dimly recognized, is that of producer control versus consumer control.
1954 R. Wailes Eng. Windmill 189 There are probably many others of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as yet not collated.
1973 Guardian 26 Feb. 10/2 The grass is poor, as yet, so some of the fell-sheep go foraging in and out of the woods.
1992 W. Steger & J. Bowermaster Crossing Antarctica i. 21 The clear skies and physical workouts will ease an as yet undiagnosed problem with my eyes.
2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) xiii. 269 There is the risk of the leaching of information to other interested parties for uses that we ourselves do not as yet understand.
†b. Implying continuance from a previous time up to and including the present time (or some other stated time), without the implication that subsequent change is expected: as formerly, still. Cf. sense A. 5. Obsolete.
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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adverb] > as formerly, still, or to this day
yeteOE
tho yeteOE
as yet1484
still1535
the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adverb] > yet, still, or hitherto
yetOE
hithertoa1225
hitherward1297
hithera1400
hithertilla1400
hithertowarda1400
hitherwardsc1400
as yetc1405
as yet1484
hitherunto1505
hereto1559
until the (also this) present1600
heretobefore1667
up to the present1826
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxiiii. 94 As yet [Fr. encore] they kepe and hold that custome.
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. iii. vi. 38 The meate as yet rawe, was snatched from the coales.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. iii. 33 The foundations..are there as yet apparant.
1611 Bible (King James) Exod. ix. 17 As yet exaltest thou thy selfe against my people, that thou wilt not let them goe? View more context for this quotation
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 321 Ægypt was made a Prouince of the Turkish Empire, and so continueth as yet.
a1639 H. Wotton View Life & Death Duke of Buckingham in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 77 Who was then as yet in possession of the king's heart.

Compounds

With participles and adjectives, forming adjectives (and derived nouns), in the sense ‘still’, ‘as yet’, as yet-living, yet-unknown, yet-warm, etc. [Compare similar uses at still adv. Compounds c.]
ΚΠ
1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 47 She deemd it no decorum to blemish her yet-during pleasures with not auailing sorrow.
1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis i. 4 The yet-free Earth..(Vntorne with ploughs).
1648 N. Ward Mercurius Anti-mechanicus Ep. Ded. sig. A4v A graine of yet-unknown and Scripture-proof truth may turne my judgement.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 382 Then shook the Heroe,..And question'd thus his yet-unconquer'd mind.
1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. vii. 115 Earnest as the father was in watching the yet-living, he had eyes and ears for all that concerned the dead.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 167 The yet-unblazon'd shield.
1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 7 A yet-warm corpse, and yet unburiable.
1894 A. S. Way tr. Euripides Ion in tr. Euripides Tragedies I. 303 Her dreams of a yet-coming glory.
1969 V. Nabokov Ada i. xxxi. 188 Ada also half-turned, and her yet-ungemmed neck showed white as she ran up the porch steps.
2013 K. E. Drexler Radical Abundance vii. 92 Regions that hold potential machines and devices of yet-unknown designs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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