(prep.) Out of the
neighborhood of;
lessening or losing proximity to; leaving
behind; by
reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever
departure, setting out,
commencement of
action, being, state,
occurrence,
etc. or
procedure,
emanation,
absence,
separation,
etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and
indicates, the
point of
space or time at which the
action, state,
etc., are regarded as setting out or
beginning; also, less frequently, the
source, the
cause, the
occasion, out of which anything
proceeds; -- the
aritithesis and
correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from
Boston to
Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun;
separate the coarse wool from the
fine; men have all sprung from
Adam, and often go from
good to bad, and from bad to
worse; the
merit of an action depends on the
principle from which it proceeds; men judge of
facts from personal knowledge or from
testimony.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary