† through-ˈgo, v. Obs.
[OE. þurhgán, pa. tense þurhéode, f. þurh adv. through + gán to go (cf. OHG. durhgân).]
trans. To go through, pass through, traverse.
| c 1000 Pop. Treat. Sci. (1841) 9 Seo eorðe byð mid þam winterlicum cyle þurh-gan. c 1000 ælfric Hom. II. 502 Ic wille ðurhgan orsorh ðone here. c 1200 Ormin 12860 Þurrh þatt teȝȝ sholldenn all þurrh gan Þiss middellærd to spellenn Off himm. a 1300 E.E. Psalter civ. [cv.] 18 Irne thurghyhode his saule ful grim. a 1400 Isumbras 522 That alle a syde of a cunntre he hase thurgh gane. |
So ˈthroughgoing vbl. n., passing through; a going through accounts, a taking to task; ˈthroughgoing (Sc. throwgaun) ppl. a., that goes or passes through; that goes through any amount of work, pushing, active, strenuous: cf. thoroughgoing.
| 1818 Scott Rob Roy xiv, The folk..gae him sic an awfu' throughgaun about his rinnin' awa. 1820 Blackw. Mag. Dec. 265/1 A plump and jocose little woman; gleg, blithe, and throwgaun for her years. 1822 Galt Provost xxxiii, Those mighty masses of foreign commodities, the through⁓going of which left..‘goud in goupins’. 1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 254/2 In the Dublin and Kingstown railway an attempt was made to ensure increased solidity by introducing throughgoing stone blocks..of granite, six feet long,..stretched across the track. 1910 N. Munro in Blackw. Mag. Oct. 529/2 Maurice met her..in a through-going close. |