such

alternative sich · alternative sech · alternative soch · alternative soche

1. demonstrativeLike this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.

   Why would you do such a thing?

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   I’ve never seen such clouds in the sky before.

   Really? Unfortunately, my mind refuses to bring any such memory forward.

   After "reiterate" do not use "(yet) again" and other such expressions.

   I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.

   1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

   She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.

   1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

2. particularly used in formal documentsAny.

   the above address or at such other address as may be provided

3. degreeUsed as an intensifier roughly equivalent to very much (of), quite or rather.

   The party was such a bore.

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   Unfortunately, it wasn't such a good holiday as we thought it would be.

   I spent such a lot last night (that) now I can't even afford a burger.

   You're all such kind people!

   Why, I was absolutely spellbound. She sings with such passion!

   They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.[…].

   1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC

   1. degreeUsed with gradable noun phrases to form exclamations.

      Such hypocrisy!

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      Such beautiful eyes you have.

      Synonyms: what

4. dialectalobsoleteA certain; representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.

   In rushed one and tells him such a knight / Is new arrived.

   1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC

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   To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, James 4:13

alternative sich · alternative sech · alternative soch · alternative soche

1. A person, a thing, people, or things like the one or ones already mentioned.

   Such is life, such as it is.

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   When applied to women, 'handsome' is used mostly of such as are middle-aged or elderly.

   Such was her legal understanding that she navigated the negotiation with ease.

   Such was her stature that her stipulation was championed by other editors.

   These oraculous proficients are day and night employed in deep searches for the direction of such as run astray after their lost goods : but at present they are more particularly serviceable to their country in foretelling the fate of such as have chances in the public lottery.

   1804, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Tatler, C. Whittingham, John Sharpe, page 315

   'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.

   1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

plural suches · alternative sich · alternative sech · alternative soch · alternative soche

1. human sciencesSomething being indicated that is similar to something else.

   But granted that Plato does not accept the this-such distinction, why saddle him with the view that all things are thises, rather than all suches or perhaps even neither?

   1991, Frank A. Lewis, Substance and Predication in Aristotle

plural Suchs · plural Suches

1. A surname.