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beside adverb & preposition.
[Old English be sidan, formed as BY preposition etc. + SIDE noun. First found as one word in Middle English.]
A. adverb. (arch.: largely superseded by BESIDES.)
By the side, by one's side; close by, near. OE.
Southey Mervyn beside, Hangs over his dear mistress. J. P. Donleavy Massive horses galloping beside.
= BESIDES adverb 2. ME.
Carlyle It was by stealth if he read or wrote any thing beside. Browning Beside, when he found speech, you guess the speech.
= ASIDE adverb 1. LME-E17.
By the side so as to miss, past. LME-L16.
Shakespeare Venus & Adonis Yet sometimes falls an orient drop beside Which her cheek melts.
= BESIDES adverb 3. L16.
J. Wilson We talk'd Of thee and none beside.
b. preposition.
By the side of, close by, next to. ME.
Bible (AV): Song of Solomon 1:8 Feede thy kiddes beside the shepheards tent. Day Lewis I stood beside her, manipulating the stops of the harmonium.
b. Compared with; on a level with. E16.
J. Ruskin Gainsborough's power of colour..is capable of taking rank beside that of Rubens.
= BESIDES preposition 3. ME.
G. H. Lewes Other men beside ourselves.
Outside of, out of, wide of, away from. Now only fig. LME.
beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, etc. beside oneself distraught (with or for an emotion). beside the saddle: see SADDLE noun.
S. Butler Vagabonds..are ne'er beside their way. M. W. Montagu This question almost put him beside his gravity. S. Johnson At Durham, beside all expectation, I met an old friend. J. A. Froude The point on which the battle was being fought lay beside the real issue.
= BESIDES preposition 2. LME.
R. Dahl The only one beside myself who had come alone.