† toˈgethers, adv. Obs.
Forms (in many cases either as one word or two, or with hyphen: cf. together): α. 3–4 togaderes, 5 to gadders; 6 togathers. β. 2–5 togederes, 4–6 togeders, 5 togederis (-ys), to gedrys, togedres, 6 togedirs; 5–6 togethers, 6 togetheres, togethirs. γ. 4–5 togidres, -eres, -ers, (4 -irs, -iris, togyderes), 5 to guyders, togyders, 5–6 to gidders, 6 to gydders, togydres; 5–6 togithers, 6 -gythers.
[f. together adv. with -s of advb. genitive: cf. besides, betimes, eftsoons, towards, etc.]
= together (in its various senses).
| c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 139 Sunne dei blisseð to gederes houeneware and horðeware. c 1275 Lay. 1834 Hii drowen alle to gaderes. c 1300 Cursor M. 21749 (Edin.) Þu do togidiris ten and tua. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. Prol. 46 Pilgrimes and Palmers Plihten hem to-gederes For to seche seint Ieme. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 177 Þe clergie and the chiualrie hilde so to giders. c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 45 Stere it wel in þe panne tyl it come to-gederys wel. 1440 in Wars Eng. in France (1864) II. 590 Whiche of his saide retinue he shalle holde togithers. c 1450 Brut 427 There they foughten to-gederis. 1491 Act 7 Hen. VII, c. 22 To take to your remembraunce the wordes we spake to guyders in Seynt Petir Chirch. 1537 Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) II. 87 Loyaltie and treason dwell seldome togethers. 1538 in Lett. Suppress. Monast. (Camden) 250 Everich of us severally and also alle togethers. a 1540 Barnes Wks. (1573) 224/1 So tooke they their counsell togithers. 1581 Marbeck Bk. of Notes 900 How releasement and payment cannot stand togethers. 1591 Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 330 All the Links of th' holy Chain, which tethers The many members of the World togethers. 1594 T. Bedingfield tr. Machiavelli's Florentine Hist. (1595) 192 Being togithers..they alwaies talked thereof. |