Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Without"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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 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 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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