cases

nouncontainer; items in container
nouncircumstance, conditions
nounexample
nounmatter brought before a court
verbcheck something in detail

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Word Origin & History

early 13c., "what befalls one; state of affairs," from Old French cas "an event, happening, situation, quarrel, trial," from Latin casus "a chance, occasion, opportunity; accident, mishap," literally "a falling," from cas-, past participle stem of cadere "to fall, sink, settle down, decline, perish" (used widely: of the setting of heavenly bodies, the fall of Troy, suicides), from PIE root *kad- "to lay out, fall or make fall, yield, break up" (cf. Sanskrit sad- "to fall down," Armenian chacnum "to fall, become low," perhaps also Middle Irish casar "hail, lightning"). The notion being "that which falls" as "that which happens" (cf. befall).

Meaning "instance, example" is from c.1300. Meaning "actual state of affairs" is from c.1400. Given widespread extended and transferred senses in English in law (16c.), medicine (18c.), etc.; the grammatical sense (late 14c.) was in Latin. U.S. slang meaning "person" is from 1848. In case "in the event" is recorded from mid-14c. Case history is from 1879, originally medical; case study "study of a particular case" is from 1879, originally legal.

Example Sentences forcases

He now and then indulges in sarcasm, which is, in most cases, very felicitous.

How this rule is going to be applied in cases of aeroplanes, remains to be seen.

The greatness of a country does not in all cases turn on its great rogues.

Fortunately for me, there were two cases of fever and ague in the ship.

In some cases, this must be imputed to themselves, as their own fault.

This, in cases of friendship, would admit of very strict discussion.

And, of course, there must be cures out of so large a number of cases.

In this as in most cases, the shortest and safest way to seem is to be.

Her relation to her husband, in the immense majority of cases, is made for her, and not by her.

In some cases this maxim may be just, but not in the present instance.

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