The English Oracle

Origin of "of course"?

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00:00 Origin Of &Quot;Of Course&Quot;?
00:14 Accepted Answer Score 14
00:33 Answer 2 Score 4
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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 14


Seems you are right

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=course

Phrase of course is attested from 1540s; lit. "of the ordinary course;" earlier in same sense was bi cours (c.1300).




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The NOAD reports that the origin of course is Middle English: from Old French cours, from Latin cursus, from curs- (run), from the verb currere.

(See also the definition of course given by Oxford Living Dictionaries.)