thorough-
in combination. (See also thorough a. 2, and through- in comb.)
1. Combinations of thorough adv. with verbs, pples., or adjs.: † ˈthorough-ˈbear v. [bear v.1 35], trans. to ‘bear’ through, pierce, transfix, stab; ˈthorough-ˈbind v., trans. to bind or fasten (a wall, etc.) by a stone or iron, passing through from side to side (cf. thorough-band in 2); ˈthorough-ˈbore v. [OE. þurhborian], trans. to bore through, perforate; † ˈthorough-ˈcleansing a., cleansing throughout or thoroughly; † ˈthorough-ˈdevilled ppl. adj. Obs., nonce-wd., completely possessed by a devil; ˈthorough-ˈdress v., trans. to dress or manure (ground) thoroughly; ˈthorough-ˈdry v., trans. to dry thoroughly; ˈthorough-ˈfelt pa. pple., felt throughout; † ˈthorough-ˈfill (þuruh fullen) v., to fill up, complete; ˈthorough-ˈfought ppl. a., fought through or to the end; ˈthorough-go-ˈnimble (slang or dial.): see quots.; † ˈthorough-ˈhumble v., trans. to humble thoroughly or completely; † ˈthorough-ˈlined ppl. a., lined throughout; † ˈthorough-ˈmade ppl. a., thoroughly made, made with full determination; ˈthorough-ˈripe (ˈthrough-ripe) a., ripe throughout, thoroughly ripe; † ˈthorough-ˈrun, v. trans. to run through, pierce, penetrate; † ˈthorough-ˈseasoned ppl. a., seasoned throughout or thoroughly; † ˈthorough-ˈshot ppl. a., shot through, transfixed as with an arrow; † ˈthorough-ˈsiping ppl. a. [sipe v.], oozing or trickling through; ˈthorough-ˈsped ppl. a. (? obs. exc. dial.), thoroughly accomplished or developed; perfect, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced; † ˈthorough-ˈstain v., trans. to stain thoroughly. See also thoroughbred, etc.
(In early use the adv. was often written separately before a vb., as it still is when it follows the vb.)
| a 1300 Cursor M. 7624 Þe king smat til him wit a sper In breth he wald him *thoru ber. c 1400 Laud Troy Bk. 16431 Echon other al to-bet, Sclow, & wounded, & thorow-bare. |
| 1884 L. Oliphant Haifa (1887) 189 The crusaders used them [granite pillars] to *thorough-bind their walls. 1900 Union Mag. Oct. 457/2 Ancient columns are built into the walls of later castles, to thoroughbind the masonry. |
| c 1000 in Cockayne Narrat. (1861) 20 Het hie þa *þurhborian. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 16184 Handes, armes, þey dide þorow bore. 1703 T. N. City & C. Purchaser 4 They then thorough bore their Poles. |
| 1642 H. More Song Soul ii. i. i. xxi, *Thorough-cleansing virtue. |
| 1604 Parsons 3rd Pt. Three Convers. Eng. 279 They were indeuilled, superdeuilled, and *thorowdeuilled. |
| 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 31 Their vast Crops of Straws, and great Numbers of Cattle, make such Returns of Dung, as enables most of them to *thorough-dress their own Grounds. |
| 1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 184 Firing..must be long continued to *thorough-dry so many together. |
| 1817 Moore Lalla R., Fire-worsh. iv. 115 How deep, how *thorough-felt the glow Of rapture. |
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 404 Heo..*þuruh fulleð, onont hire, Godes pine o rode. |
| 1585–6 Earl of Leicester Corr. (Camden) 427 A gallant and a *thorow-fought assault. |
| 1822 Scott Pirate iv, The small beer of the college, commonly there termed ‘*thorough-go-nimble’. 1825 Brockett N.C. Words, Thorough-go-nimble, a diarrhœa. |
| 1617 Hieron Wks. II. 77 To bring Dauid to these two specialties: first, of *thorow-humbling himselfe; secondly, of making an acknowledgement. |
| 1605 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. iii. Law 1006 A cloak of clouds, all *thorough-lin'd with thunder. |
| 1649 Lovelace To Deare Bro. Col. F. L. v, One gallant *thorough-made Resolve Doth Starry Influence dissolve. |
| 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 153 They get more in the *through-ripe Hop by the weight, than they loose in the colour. 1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 347 Cyder pressed from pulpy, or thorough-ripe, or mellow Fruit. 1658 A. Fox Würtz' Surg. i. iv. 18 If..sharper things should be used, they would thorough-run the Wound. |
| 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. i. Eden 62 The *thorough-seasoned But Wherein the tears of death-prest Grapes are put. |
| 1649 Lovelace Poems 50 Thee and thy wounds I would bemoane Faire *thorough-shot Religion. |
| 1642 H. More Song Soul i. iii. xxiv, Here fifty Sisters in a sieve do draw *Thorough-siping water: Tantalus is here. |
| 1730 Swift Vind. Ld. Cartaret ¶28 Our *thoroughsped republic of Whigs. 1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 63 Never upon me Had she thrown look of love so thorough-sped. |
| 1593 Nashe Christ's T. Wks. (Grosart) IV. 216 Spotting and *thorow-stayning thy deere bought Spyrit. |
2. Combinations with
ns. or derived
adjs. (
cf. thorough a.):
ˈthorough-ˌband (
ˈthroughband), a stone, etc., extending through the breadth of a wall or dyke so as to bind the sides together (
cf. band-stone,
band n.1 15); also
attrib.;
thorough-blood a., of pure breed (said of a horse);
cf. fullblood;
ˈthorough-door, a door leading through; the door of a passage;
ˈthorough-draught (
ˈthrough-draught), a draught or current of air passing through a room, etc. (in
quot. 1866, a channel or passage for a draught of air);
ˈthorough-edged a., thoroughly or perfectly edged; keen-edged;
ˈthorough-foot, a disarrangement in a tackle caused by one or both of the blocks getting entangled in the fall (
cf. thorough-put);
ˈthorough-hearted a., whole-hearted, entirely devoted; hence
thorough-ˈheartedness;
ˈthorough-joint (
Anat.), a perfectly movable joint or articulation (
cf. diarthrosis);
ˈthorough-put, a knot or tangle upon a rope formed by putting one part of it through a loop in another (
cf. thorough-foot);
† ˈthorough-road = thoroughfare n. (in
quot. attrib.);
ˈthorough-shot, see
quot.;
thorough-souled a., to one's inmost soul, downright;
ˈthorough-stem, see
quot.;
† ˈthorough-touch (
† ˈthrough-touch), a touch that penetrates the soul, a deep spiritual impression;
ˈthorough-winded a. (of a horse), sound in ‘wind’ or breathing; not broken-winded. See also
thoroughbass to
thoroughwort.
| 1805 Dickson Pract. Agric. I. Pl. xxix, The *through band turf..being first lightly laid. 1810 S. Smith Agric. Surv. Galloway vi. 88 It is essential to the durability of a dyke..that the two sides be well bound together by long stones laid across, termed throughbands. 1844 Stephens Bk. Farm III. 1007 It tends much to the stability of a dyke to have what is called a thorough-band stone..placed across it. |
| 1829 Sporting Mag. XXIII. 271 Our nearly *thorough-blood hunter and carriage horses. |
| 1827 G. Darley Sylvia 32 But you may catch his sullen roar More loud when opes the *thorough-door. |
| 1853 C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe II. ix. 141 Three rooms..opening into each other..so that it was possible to produce a *thorough draught. 1866 Howells Venet. Life iii, The narrow streets are bitter thorough-drafts. 1868 Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 438 The windows are closed and matted, and no thorough-draught is allowed. 1905 Daily Chron. 22 July 8/5 The drawing-room is..spared the desecrating through-draught. |
| 1830 Tennyson Isabel ii, The intuitive decision of a bright And *thorough-edged intellect to part Error from crime. 1867 *Thorough-foot [see thorough-put]. |
| 1887 Athenæum 31 Dec. 883/3 The *thorough-heartedness with which Barnes threw himself into this. |
| 18.. Coues (Cent. Dict.), *Thorough-joint. |
| 1829 Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 112 Knots, of different degrees of complexity, from a simple *thorow-put, to a complication of loops and twists [etc.]. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Thorough-puts, or Thorough-foots, are kinks or tangles in a rope; or parts of a tackle not leading fair by reason of one of the blocks having been passed round part of the fall. |
| a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Lond. (1662) ii. 224 He built at Buntingford (a *thorow-road market..) a neat and strong Chappel. |
| 1891 Cent. Dict., *Thorough-shot, same as thorough-pin. |
| 1842 Poe Lett. (1948) I. 193, I cannot bring myself to like that man... He is too *thorough-souled a time-server. |
| 1891 Cent. Dict., *Thorough-stem, same as thorough-wort. |
| 1607 Hieron Wks. I. 459 Nothing which may argue a *through-touch, or a comfortable expectation of Gods fauour. 1617 Ibid. II. 72 Whether we haue receiued any such thorow-touch as is the..fruit of true repentance. |
| 1737 Bracken Farriery Impr. (1757) II. Pref. 11 You shall hear many a Horse praised for being a *thorow-winded one. |