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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Such \Such\, a. [OE. such sich, sech, sik, swich, swilch, swulch swilc, swulc AS swelc, swilc, swylc akin to OFries selik, D. zulk, OS sulic, OHG. sulih solih, G. solch, Icel. sl[=i]kr, OSw. salik, Sw slik, Dan. slig, Goth. swaleiks originally meaning, so shaped. [root]192. See {So}, {Like}, a., and cf {Which}.] 1. Of that kind of the like kind like resembling; similar; as we never saw such a day -- followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison; as the books are not such that I can recommend them or not such as I can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better. And in his time such a conqueror That greater was there none under the sun. --Chaucer. His misery was such that none of the bystanders could refrain from weeping. --Macaulay. Note: The indefinite article a or an never precedes such but is placed between it and the noun to which it refers; as such a man; such an honor. The indefinite adjective some several, one few many all etc., precede such as one such book is enough; all such people ought to be avoided; few such ideas were then held. 2. Having the particular quality or character specified. That thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such owe to thyself. --Milton. 3. The same that -- with as as this was the state of the kingdom at such time as the enemy landed. ``[It] hath such senses as we have.'' --Shak. 4. Certain; -- representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned. In rushed one and tells him such a knight Is new arrived. --Daniel. To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year. --James iv 13. Note: Such is used pronominally. ``He was the father of such as dwell in tents.'' --Gen. iv 20. ``Such as I are free in spirit when our limbs are chained.'' --Sir W. Scott. Such is also used before adjectives joined to substantives; as the fleet encountered such a terrible storm that it put back ``Everything was managed with so much care and such excellent order was observed.'' --De Foe. Temple sprung from a family which . . . long after his death produced so many eminent men, and formed such distinguished alliances, that etc --Macaulay. Such is used emphatically, without the correlative. Now will he be mocking: I shall have such a life. --Shak. Such was formerly used with numerals in the sense of times as much or as many as such ten or ten times as many {Such and such}, or {Such or such}, certain; some -- used to represent the object indefinitely, as already particularized in one way or another, or as being of one kind or another. ``In such and such a place shall be my camp.'' --2 Kings vi 8. ``Sovereign authority may enact a law commanding such and such an action.'' --South. {Such like} or {character}, of the like kind And many other such like things ye do --Mark vii. 8. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: such adj 1: of a kind specified or understood; "it's difficult to please such people"; "on such a night as this"; "animals such as lions and tigers" [syn: {such(a)}, {such as}] 2: of a degree or quality specified (by the `that' clause); "their anxiety was such that they could not sleep" [syn: {such(p)}, {such that}] 3: of so extreme a degree or extent; "such weeping"; "so much weeping"; "such a help"; "such grief"; "never dreamed of such beauty" [syn: {such(a)}, {so much}] adv : (intensifier) to so extreme a degree; "he is such a baby"; "Such rich people!"
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