▪ I. † ˈforthward, n. Obs.
Also 5 Sc. forðward, forthwart.
[See forth adv.]
= foreward n.1
| c 1340 Cursor M. 13959 (Fairf.) Þe Iewes wiþ þaire fals forþward..þai soȝt ihesu to þe dede. c 1470 Henry Wallace xi. 487 For thi manheid this forthwart to me fest. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. iii. 254 As plesit him his fordward to fulfill. |
▪ II. ˈforthward with adv. gen. -s forthwards, adv. and a. Obs. exc. arch.
Forms: see forth and -ward.
[OE. forðweard (= OS. forðwerd, forðwardes), f. forth adv. + -ward.]
A. adv.
1. Of place: Towards a place or part in front or before, onward(s, forward. to be forthward: to be on one's way. to set forthward: to help on.
| c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 51 And tech me hu ic scal swimmen forðward. c 1205 Lay. 5370 Feouwer daies fulle forð ward [c 1275 forþwardes] heo wenden. 1297 R. Glouc. (1724) 245 Þo þys ost al ȝare was, vorþward vaste hii drowe. c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 315 Drawe þe boon forþward. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. xciii. (1869) 51 Me thinketh riht longe þat I ne were forthward and set in þe wey. c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 6097 He went forthward with þe wayne. 1530 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 301 Also to the peir, if it go furthwardes, xls. 1560 Rolland Crt. Venus iv. 659 Fordward I fuir. 1588 A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 39 Besyddis yat we set furthwart, be all meanis possible y⊇ proffeit of our nyghbour. Ibid. 205 b, Gif thou preiss forduart. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. v. iv. §35 That unity and concord in opinions..may encrease and goe forthward. 1768 Ross Helenore 8 'Tweish twa hillocks the poor lambie lies, An' ay fell forthert, as it shoope to rise. |
b. Prominently, in public.
| 1504 W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione iii. lix, He wyll also apere forthwarde, and haue the syghte and experyens of many thynges by his outwarde senses. |
2. Of time: a. (OE. only.) Continually, prospectively. b. For the future onwards. Also, ay, (from) hence, now, then forthward; from that or this day or time forthward.
| c 1000 Ags. Ps. l[i]. 79 (Gr.) Þæt min ᵹehernes hehtful weorðe..forðweard to þe! c 1000 ælfric Gram. xxi. (Z.) 125 Ðis ᵹemet [the imperative mood] sprecð forþwerd. c 1200 Ormin 5226 Þatt itt [þatt twifalde gast] beo nu forrþwarrd inn me. c 1340 Cursor M. 14905 (Fairf.) Of his passion þat is sa harde þat ȝe sal here now forþwarde. c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 2605 If y þys day forþward spare Sarasyn ouþer torke, for euere mot y þan for-fare. c 1440 Gesta Rom. l. 225 (Harl. MS.) & þere for, fadir, dothe to me fro hennys forþeward as þe likithe. c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 6930 Þare he ordayned þe bischop se Ay forthward forto be. c 1460 Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. (1885) 147 Wich wages shall than forthwarde cesse. 1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 13 From that time furthward. |
B. adj. = forward a.
| c 1470 Henry Wallace iii. 46 Growand in curage; Forth⁓ward, rycht fayr. Ibid. x. 78 So weill beseyn, so forthwart, stern, and stult. 1881 A. J. Duffield Don Quix. II. 560 Don Quixote went..on his forthward way. |
Hence ˈforthwardly adv.
| c 1470 Henry Wallace x. 653 So forthwartlye thai pressyt in the thrang. 1494 Fabyan Chron. vi. clxxxvii. 189 Richarde..toke vpon hym the rule of his owne signory, and grewe & encreased forthwardly. |