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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Without \With*out"\, conj. Unless; except; -- introducing a clause. You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness. --Sir P. Sidney. Note: Now rarely used by good writers or speakers. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Without \With*out"\, prep. [OE. withoute, withouten, AS wi[eth]?tan; wi[eth] with against, toward + ?tan outside, fr ?t out See {With}, prep., {Out}.] 1. On or at the outside of out of not within; as without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. --Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of out of reach of beyond. Eternity, before the world and after is without our reach. --T. Burnet. 3. Not with otherwise than with in absence of separation from or destitution of not with use or employment of independently of exclusively of with omission; as without labor; without damage. I wolde it do withouten negligence. --Chaucer. Wise men will do it without a law. --Bacon. Without the separation of the two monarchies, the most advantageous terms . . . must end in our destruction. --Addison. There is no living with thee nor without thee. --Tatler. {To do without}. See under {Do}. {Without day} [a translation of L. sine die], without the appointment of a day to appear or assemble again finally; as the Fortieth Congress then adjourned without day {Without recourse}. See under {Recourse}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Without \With*out"\, adv 1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. --2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without --Chaucer.
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