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▪ I. † ˈforthward, n. Obs.
Also 5 Sc. forðward, forthwart.
[See forth adv.]
= foreward n.1
c1340Cursor M. 13959 (Fairf.) Þe Iewes wiþ þaire fals forþward..þai soȝt ihesu to þe dede. c1470Henry Wallace xi. 487 For thi manheid this forthwart to me fest. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. iii. 254 As plesit him his fordward to fulfill.
▪ II. ˈforthward with adv. gen. -s forthwards, adv. and a. Obs. exc. arch.
Forms: see forth and -ward.
[OE. forðweard (= OS. forðwerd, forðwardes), f. forth adv. + -ward.]
A. adv.
1. Of place: Towards a place or part in front or before, onward(s, forward. to be forthward: to be on one's way. to set forthward: to help on.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 51 And tech me hu ic scal swimmen forðward. c1205Lay. 5370 Feouwer daies fulle forð ward [c 1275 forþwardes] heo wenden. 1297R. Glouc. (1724) 245 Þo þys ost al ȝare was, vorþward vaste hii drowe. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 315 Drawe þe boon forþward. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. xciii. (1869) 51 Me thinketh riht longe þat I ne were forthward and set in þe wey. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 6097 He went forthward with þe wayne. 1530Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 301 Also to the peir, if it go furthwardes, xls. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus iv. 659 Fordward I fuir. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 39 Besyddis yat we set furthwart, be all meanis possible y⊇ proffeit of our nyghbour. Ibid. 205 b, Gif thou preiss forduart. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. v. iv. §35 That unity and concord in opinions..may encrease and goe forthward. 1768Ross Helenore 8 'Tweish twa hillocks the poor lambie lies, An' ay fell forthert, as it shoope to rise.
b. Prominently, in public.
1504W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione iii. lix, He wyll also apere forthwarde, and haue the syghte and experyens of many thynges by his outwarde senses.
2. Of time:
a. (OE. only.) Continually, prospectively.
b. For the future onwards. Also, ay, (from) hence, now, then forthward; from that or this day or time forthward.
c1000Ags. Ps. l[i]. 79 (Gr.) Þæt min ᵹehernes hehtful weorðe..forðweard to þe! c1000ælfric Gram. xxi. (Z.) 125 Ðis ᵹemet [the imperative mood] sprecð forþwerd. c1200Ormin 5226 Þatt itt [þatt twifalde gast] beo nu forrþwarrd inn me. c1340Cursor M. 14905 (Fairf.) Of his passion þat is sa harde þat ȝe sal here now forþwarde. c1380Sir Ferumb. 2605 If y þys day forþward spare Sarasyn ouþer torke, for euere mot y þan for-fare. c1440Gesta Rom. l. 225 (Harl. MS.) & þere for, fadir, dothe to me fro hennys forþeward as þe likithe. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 6930 Þare he ordayned þe bischop se Ay forthward forto be. c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. (1885) 147 Wich wages shall than forthwarde cesse. 1541Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 13 From that time furthward.
B. adj. = forward a.
c1470Henry Wallace iii. 46 Growand in curage; Forth⁓ward, rycht fayr. Ibid. x. 78 So weill beseyn, so forthwart, stern, and stult. 1881A. J. Duffield Don Quix. II. 560 Don Quixote went..on his forthward way.
Hence ˈforthwardly adv.
c1470Henry Wallace x. 653 So forthwartlye thai pressyt in the thrang. 1494Fabyan Chron. vi. clxxxvii. 189 Richarde..toke vpon hym the rule of his owne signory, and grewe & encreased forthwardly. |