Not be seen to wink of all the day.
Shak.
My custom always of the afternoon.
Shak.
Of may be used in a subjective or an objective sense. "The love of God"
may mean, our love for God, or God's love for us.
From is the primary sense of this preposition; a sense retained in off,
the same word differently written for distinction. But this radical
sense disappears in most of its application; as, a man of genius; a man
of rare endowments; a fossil of a red color, or of an hexagonal figure;
he lost all hope of relief; an affair of the cabinet; he is a man of
decayed fortune; what is the price of corn? In these and similar
phrases, of denotes property or possession, or a relation of some sort
involving connection. These applications, however all proceeded from
the same primary sense. That which proceeds from, or is produced by, a
person or thing, either has had, or still has, a close connection with
the same; and hence the word was applied to cases of mere connection,
not involving at all the idea of separation.
Of consequence, of importance, value, or influence. -- Of late,
recently; in time not long past. -- Of old, formerly; in time long
past. -- Of one's self, by one's self; without help or prompting;
spontaneously.
Why, knows not Montague, that of itself England is safe, if true
within itself?
Shak.
Off (?), adv. [OE. of, orig. the same word as R. of, prep., AS. of,
adv. & prep. √194. See Of.] In a general sense, denoting from or
away from; as: