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thriven, ppl. a.|ˈθrɪv(ə)n|
Forms: see thrive v. A. 3.
[pa. pple. of thrive v. Cf. ON. þrifinn.]
1. Advanced in growth, grown; grown up. Now only in comb., as ill-thriven (Sc. ill-three'n).
13..Cursor M. 14806 (Cott.) And said, ‘Fast es he throd and thriuen [Fairf. Þis man is wele þriuen], And mikel grace ai es him giuen’. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 298 Hym watz þe nome Noe,..He had þre þryuen sunez. c1400Destr. Troy 13760 The child..Wex & wele threvan in winturs a few. a1400–50Alexander 2709 A heuy As..A thing threuyn is & thike. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 743 The thriven Calves in Meads their Food forsake. 1806,1843Ill-thriven [see ill- B.]. 1907Daily Chron. 8 May 5/7 The pretensions of a neurotic, ill-thriven youth.
†2. As an epithet of commendation, esp. in the alliterative phrase thriven and thro (see thro a.2): ? Eminent, excellent, worthy, honourable, noble. Cf. thrifty a. 2. Obs.
13..in Wright Lyric P. 23 Ȝef he beth thryven ant thowen in theode. 13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 1191 Þe perle me prayed þat watz so þryuen. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1740 Hir þryuen face & hir þrote þrowen al naked, Hir brest bare bifore, & bihinde eke. a1400–50Alexander 1326 (Ashmole MS.) He laschis out a lange swerde.., Threschis doun in a thrawe many threuyn dukis. Ibid. 3307 Twa hundreth thousand..all of threuen kniȝtis.
3. That has thriven; successful, prosperous.
1863Hawthorne Our Old Home (1879) 114 The careful, thrify, thriven man of property. |