in the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.-indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.-indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done.-indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against.-indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.-indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.-indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.-indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.-indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.-indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.-because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in old english, the reason of anything.-since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. it is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.-one who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.