† whereˈthorough, adv. Obs.
[f. where 15 + thorough prep.]
= next.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 210 Þeo þet dronc eni drunch, oðer el þing dude hwarðuruh no childe ne schulde beon of hire istreoned. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 1393 Echman paide a peni,..War þoru he wuste hou moni men in al þe worlde were. Ibid. 2463 Tounes grete & heye Ware þoru him & is men in vair warison he broȝte. Ibid. 7493 He nadde no wounde war þoru he ssedde an drope blod. a 1300 Cursor M. 6446 (Cott.) Ietro gaue him consail Vnder baillis for to sett, Quar thoru in right þai suld be gett. c 1375 Ibid. 984 (Fairf.) Quen he con breke þe comandement Quar þorow his ospringe was shent. c 1440 Gesta Rom. liii. 234 (Harl. MS.) And thenne yaf him medesyne, wherthorowe he was hole. a 1450 Knt. de la Tour 45 Hit happed on a day her chapelein was sike that he might not synge, wherthorugh she must go home withoute masse. 1470–85 Malory Arthur x. xxxviii. 475 A posterne where thorou he shold flee. 1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 34 §10 Offices and inquisicions dailly be founde..wherethorough suche Maners..be seased into the Kinges handes. 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1879) 80 The Authors of these new toyes, wherthorow they offended, shalbe giltie of their deathes. 1627 Speed England x. §2 The ayre..is cleansed..by the Billowes that ever worke from off her environing Seas, where-thorow it becommeth pure and subtill. |