anenst
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[edit]Preposition
[edit]anenst
- (UK, Scotland, obsolete) Over against.
- He lives anenst the church.
- c. 1610, Ben Jonson, “The Alchemist”, in William Gifford, editor, The Works of Ben Jonson, volume 4, published 1816, page 88:
- He shall have a bel, that's Abel; / And by it standing one whose name is Dee, / In a rug gown, there's D, and Rug, that's drug: / And right anenst him a dog snarling er, / There's Drugger, Abel Drugger. That's his sign. / And here's now mystery and hieroglyphic!
- (UK, Scotland, obsolete) About; concerning; anent.
- He said nothing anenst this particular.
References
[edit]- “anenst”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.