(9) Motive, cause, reason, incitement to action.
The twilight being...hardly more wholesome for its glittering mists of midge companies.—Ruskin.
An Arab woman, but a few sunsets since, ate her child, for famine.—Id.
Here Satouriona forgot his dignity, and leaped for joy.—Parkman.
(10) For with its object preceding the infinitive, and having the same meaning as a noun clause, as shown by this sentence:—
It is by no means necessary that he should devote his whole school existence to physical science; nay, more, it is not necessary for him to give up more than a moderate share of his time to such studies.—Huxley.
Exercise.—Find sentences with five meanings of for.
From.
322. The general idea in from is separation or source. It may be with regard to—
(1) Place.