because : Idioms & Phrases
Because of
- by reason of, on account of. Prep. phrase.
Webster 1913
Common because of vicinage ∨ neighborhood
- the right of the inhabitants of each of two townships, lying contiguous to each other, which have usually intercommoned with one another, to let their beasts stray into the other's fields.
Webster 1913
For because
- because. Obs. "Nor for because they set less store by their own citizens." Robynson (More's Utopia).