such

Etymology

From Middle English such, swuch, swich, swilch, swulch, from Old English swelċ, from Proto-West Germanic *swalīk, from Proto-Germanic *swalīkaz (“so formed, so like”), equivalent to so + like. Cognate with Scots swilk, sic, sik (“such”), Saterland Frisian suk (“such”), West Frisian suk, sok (“such”), Dutch zulk (“such”), Low German sölk, sulk, sülk, suk (“such”), German solch (“such”), Danish slig (“like that, such”), Swedish slik (“such”), Icelandic slíkur (“such”). More at so, like.

det

1. (demonstrative) Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.
   I’ve never seen such clouds in the sky before.  Such is life
   She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher. 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 2, in The Mirror and the Lamp
   An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine. 2013-06-01, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly)
2. (particularly used in formal documents) Any.
   the above address or at such other address as may be provided
3. Used as an intensifier; roughly equivalent to very much of.
   The party was such a bore.  "Bottomless" is such a lie.
   Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour. 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax
4. (obsolete) A certain; representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.

pron

1. A person, a thing, people, or things like the one or ones already mentioned.
   These oraculous proficients are day and night employed in deep searches for the direction of such as run astray after their lost goods : but at present they are more particularly serviceable to their country in foretelling the fate of such as have chances in the public lottery. 1804, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Tatler, C. Whittingham, John Sharpe, page 315
   'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed. 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
   Some are just no-good locals—drunks and such—who’d just as soon beg or steal as work. 2000, Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen, page 238

noun

1. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is similar to something else.
   But granted that Plato does not accept the this-such distinction, why saddle him with the view that all things are thises, rather than all suches or perhaps even neither? 1991, Frank A. Lewis, Substance and Predication in Aristotle