† ˈthus-gate, adv. Obs. or Sc. arch.
[f. thus adv. + gate n.2]
In this way; thus.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 13192 (Cott.) Þus-gat was sant Iohan slan. c 1300 Havelok 2419 Sule ye þus-gate fro me fle? c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 14351 (Petyt MS.) And whan þe ton þus gate was ded On þat oþer bataille he bed. c 1475 Rauf Coilȝear 169 Ȝit was I neuer in my lyfe thus gait leird. a 1550 Freiris of Berwik 578 in Dunbar's Poems (S.T.S.) 304 He said, ‘Ȝone Freir hes maid me thus gait say’. 1819 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 148 But what befel him thus-gate daddit, In the neist sang ye'll find it addit. |