English

Contraction

as't

1. (obsolete) Contraction of as it.
   • 1651, Samuel Clarke, A Generall Martyrologie, page #26:

     All Volumes of this Subject here are ſet

     As’t were contracted in an Alphabet.

   • 1669, Nathanael Culverwel, An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature, page #102:

     Paradiſe, it had ſo much of the Lily, as’t had nothing of the Roſe ; yet there were iſtius modi paſſiones, quæ ordinatur ad bonum.