▪ I. † thes, adv. (conj.) Obs.
Forms: 1–3 þæs, 2–4 þes, þas, 3 (Orm.) þess.
[OE. þæs, gen. sing. masc. and neut. of se, séo, þæt: see the A. 4 a, that A. 1. Retained in certain adverbial and conjunctive uses, after its simple genitive use became obsolete.]
1. a. Because of or on account of that; because. b. From that time, after that; from the time that, after. c. In the way that, according as, as. d. To that extent, so: cf. that dem. adv.
| a. c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xlix. 379 Waa me ðæs [L. quia] ic swiᵹode. c 1205 Lay. 2743 Wa wes Lumbardisce folc þes [c 1275 þas]. Ibid. 5989 Wel wes Romanisce folc þæs [c 1275 þas]. a 1300 XI Pains of Hell 208 in O.E. Misc. 153 Þat weren her, wo is ham þes. |
| b. c 893 K. ælfred Oros. iv. vi. §12 Þæs ymb iii ᵹear..þa consulas foran..on Africe. a 900 O.E. Chron. an. 894, Þæt wæs ymb twelf monað þæs þe hie ær hider..comon. a 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. i. ix. [xii.] (1890) 44 Sona þæs ðe hi on þis ealond comon. c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 1387 Olyuer wax hol sone þas. |
| c. c 888 K. ælfred Boeth. xxiv. §3 Men secað anfealde eadiᵹnesse ðæs ðe him ðincð. a 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. i. xiv. [xxv.] (1890) 60 Þæs þe me ᵹeþuht is & ᵹesewen. c 1000 ælfric Gen. xliii. 7 We him andswaredon þæs þe he us axode. c 1000 St. Andrew & Veronica 26 Ðæs ðe bec secgaþ. |
| d. a 1000 Cædmon's Gen. 832 Nære flod þæs deop, nære stream þæs micel. |
2. thes the,
þes þe (
þess te), before a comparative: For that the (more, etc.); so much the more, etc.);
= OHG. desde,
MHG. deste,
Ger. desto (
mehr, etc.).
| c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xvii. 123 Sio wund bið ðæs ðe wierse. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xx. 31 Þa clypodon hiᵹ þæs ðe ma. c 1160 Hatton Gosp. ibid., Þa clepedon hyo þæs þe mare. [So Mark x. 48.] c 1200 Ormin 444–5 Þatt hise frend mihhtenn off himm All þess te mare blissenn, & tatt te follc all þess te bett Hiss lare shollde follȝhenn. a 1275 Prov. ælfred 436 in O.E. Misc. 129 Þanne sal þe child þas þe bet worþen. |
▪ II. thes obs. f. these;
gen. sing. of
that,
the.