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† through-ˈgo, v. Obs. [OE. þurhgán, pa. tense þurhéode, f. þurh adv. through + gán to go (cf. OHG. durhgân).] trans. To go through, pass through, traverse.
c1000Pop. Treat. Sci. (1841) 9 Seo eorðe byð mid þam winterlicum cyle þurh-gan. c1000ælfric Hom. II. 502 Ic wille ðurhgan orsorh ðone here. c1200Ormin 12860 Þurrh þatt teȝȝ sholldenn all þurrh gan Þiss middellærd to spellenn Off himm. a1300E.E. Psalter civ. [cv.] 18 Irne thurghyhode his saule ful grim. a1400Isumbras 522 That alle a syde of a cunntre he hase thurgh gane. So ˈthroughgoing vbl. n., passing through; a going through accounts, a taking to task; ˈthroughgoing (Sc. throwgaun) ppl. a., that goes or passes through; that goes through any amount of work, pushing, active, strenuous: cf. thoroughgoing.
1818Scott Rob Roy xiv, The folk..gae him sic an awfu' throughgaun about his rinnin' awa. 1820Blackw. Mag. Dec. 265/1 A plump and jocose little woman; gleg, blithe, and throwgaun for her years. 1822Galt Provost xxxiii, Those mighty masses of foreign commodities, the through⁓going of which left..‘goud in goupins’. 1841Penny Cycl. XIX. 254/2 In the Dublin and Kingstown railway an attempt was made to ensure increased solidity by introducing throughgoing stone blocks..of granite, six feet long,..stretched across the track. 1910N. Munro in Blackw. Mag. Oct. 529/2 Maurice met her..in a through-going close. |