We since become the slaves to one man's lust. --B.
Jonson.
2. In the time past, counting backward from the present;
before this or now; ago.
How many ages since has Virgil writ? --Roscommon.
About two years since, it so fell out, that he was
brought to a great lady's house. --Sir P.
Sidney.
Do you remember since we lay all night in the
windmill in St. George's field? --Shak.
The Lord hath blessed thee, since my coming. --Gen.
xxx. 30.
I have a model by which he build a nobler poem than any
extant since the ancients. --Dryden.
Since that my penitence comes after all, Imploring
pardon. --Shak.
Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love,
nor sense of pain, Nor force of reason, can persuade,
Then let example be obeyed. --Granville.
Syn: Because; for; as; inasmuch as; considering. See
{Because}.