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▪ 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.c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xlix. 379 Waa me ðæs [L. quia] ic swiᵹode. c1205Lay. 2743 Wa wes Lumbardisce folc þes [c 1275 þas]. Ibid. 5989 Wel wes Romanisce folc þæs [c 1275 þas]. a1300XI Pains of Hell 208 in O.E. Misc. 153 Þat weren her, wo is ham þes.
b.c893K. ælfred Oros. iv. vi. §12 Þæs ymb iii ᵹear..þa consulas foran..on Africe. a900O.E. Chron. an. 894, Þæt wæs ymb twelf monað þæs þe hie ær hider..comon. a900tr. Bæda's Hist. i. ix. [xii.] (1890) 44 Sona þæs ðe hi on þis ealond comon. c1380Sir Ferumb. 1387 Olyuer wax hol sone þas.
c.c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxiv. §3 Men secað anfealde eadiᵹnesse ðæs ðe him ðincð. a900tr. Bæda's Hist. i. xiv. [xxv.] (1890) 60 Þæs þe me ᵹeþuht is & ᵹesewen. c1000ælfric Gen. xliii. 7 We him andswaredon þæs þe he us axode. c1000St. Andrew & Veronica 26 Ðæs ðe bec secgaþ.
d.a1000Cædmon'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.).
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xvii. 123 Sio wund bið ðæs ðe wierse. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xx. 31 Þa clypodon hiᵹ þæs ðe ma. c1160Hatton Gosp. ibid., Þa clepedon hyo þæs þe mare. [So Mark x. 48.] c1200Ormin 444–5 Þatt hise frend mihhtenn off himm All þess te mare blissenn, & tatt te follc all þess te bett Hiss lare shollde follȝhenn. a1275Prov. 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. |