An obsolete or dialectal preposition meaning 'from' or 'away from' a file or record; archaic usage in legal or administrative contexts.
From 'from' + 'file' (meaning a record or document). This appears to be a specialized legal or administrative term from Middle English period, though it is extremely rare in surviving texts.
This word is so obscure that it barely registers in English history—it represents the kind of hyper-specialized administrative jargon that clerks and officials used that rarely survived into modern English.
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