"as't" meaning in English

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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "as it"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1651, Samuel Clarke, A Generall Martyrologie, page 26",
          "text": "All Volumes of this Subject here are ſet\nAs’t were contracted in an Alphabet.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1669, Nathanael Culverwel, An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature, page 102",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Contraction of as it."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Contraction of as it."
      ],
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        "alt-of",
        "contraction",
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/æzt/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "as't"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "as it"
        }
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        "English 1-syllable words",
        "English contractions",
        "English non-lemma forms",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1651, Samuel Clarke, A Generall Martyrologie, page 26",
          "text": "All Volumes of this Subject here are ſet\nAs’t were contracted in an Alphabet.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1669, Nathanael Culverwel, An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature, page 102",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Contraction of as it."
      ],
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Contraction of as it."
      ],
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        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "contraction",
        "obsolete"
      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/æzt/"
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  "word": "as't"
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