thereout, adv.
(ðɛərˈaʊt)
Forms: 1 þǽr {uacu}t(e, ME. þar, þer out(e: also 4–5 (9 Sc.) throut(e.
[OE. þær{uacu}t(e: see there 17 and out, oute.]
1. Outside of that place, etc.; without. Now rare.
| c 893 K. ælfred Oros. ii. viii. §4 Nahton hie naþer ne þærinne mete ne þærute freond. c 897 [see thereinne]. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Mark iii. 31 His modor and his ᵹebroðra..þar ute stodon. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 33 Þe mon þe leie .xii. moneð in ane prisune nalde he ȝefen al þet he efre mahte biȝeten wið þet he moste .xii. beo ðer ut of. c 1205 Lay. 1179 Brutus ferde in to þere temple..& lette al his folc bilæuen þer vte. a 1300 Cursor M. 1333 (Cott.) He..stod þer oute [v.rr. þar oute, þar vte], And sagh þe thing. Ibid. 15934 He..Fain wald ha ben þer vte. c 1470 Henry Wallace iv. 488 The ȝett he wor..; he held na man tharout. 1881 J. T. Bent Genoa vi. 127 A..story current in Roman Catholic circles, but not much accredited thereout. |
2. Out of doors; in the open. Now Sc.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 3928 Iacob..On þe feild þar oute he lai. c 1325 Body & Soul 114 in Map's Poems 349 For alle owre toures heye, ligge we shule throute In forstes ant in snowes. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) xxvii. 125 Þe comouns..er all hird men and lyez þeroute in logez. c 1440 Pallad. on Husb. i. 896, x crabbes yf thou kest With watir in an erthen potte ywrie, Ten dayis throut [L. subdivo], vntil the vapur die. 1483 Cath. Angl. 382/1 Tharovte, subdiuo .i. sub nudo Aere. 1572 Satir. Poems Reform. xxxiii. 300 Lang time thay lay thairout. 1808–18 Jamieson s.v., To lie thairout, to lie in the open air during night. |
b. Abroad; in existence; = out 26 c. Sc.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 1977 Quils þou may se mi rainbou þar oute, Of suilk a flod haue man na doute. c 1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxxiv. 25 The wysest woman þairout W{supt} wird may be wyllit To do þe deid. 1725 Ramsay Gentle Sheph. iii. ii, Greater liars never ran thereout. |
3. Of motion: Out of that; out from that place, etc.; forth from thence. Now Sc.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 4542 Þe boteler to þe prisun lep, And suith þar-out he broght ioseph. 13.. Ibid. 2567 (Fairf.) Come now þer-oute, Be-halde þou þe lift a-boute. c 1489 Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xvi. 371 He went to the couffres, and toke there-out all the treysour. 1533 Gau Richt Vay (S.T.S.) 4 Blissit be god quhilk hes helpit me thair owt. c 1750 J. Nelson Jrnl. (1836) 58 They had better never have known the way of salvation than, after knowing it, be turned thereout. |
4. From or out of that (it, them), as source or origin; thence. arch.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints i. (Petrus) 391 Þe fals fend in his liknese Vith þe pupill wald spek þarowte [out of the figure]. 1535 Coverdale Ps. lxxii[i]. 10 And there out sucke they no small auauntage. 1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. Senault's Man bec. Guilty 36 They teare up the bowels of the earth to learn secrets thereout. 1788 Jefferson Wks. (1859) II. 353 On condition that he may retain thereout one hundred and eighty thousand guilders. 1865 Kingsley Herew. ix, With the divine instinct of freedom, and all the self-help and energy which spring thereout. 1871 B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. viii. 120 As oft as he drank thereout. |