Indicating aim, purpose, intention, or design: For; for the purpose of; with the view or end of; in order to. (Now often replaced by for.)

Indicating the aim or object of many verbs, adjectives, and nouns of action. Cf. to be after at… With verbs, adjectives, and nouns of desire, as long…

In conjunctional phrase, fort that: until.

In senses of to derived from the local. To or for the purpose of, in order to be; to become, as. Obsolete.