† wherethoroughadv.
Obsolete.
= wherethrough adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > [adverb] > through which
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wherethrough1297
the world > existence and causation > causation > cause or reason > [adverb] > on account of which or wherefore
wherethroughc1220
wherethorough?c1225
whereforec1230
forwhyc1275
whereofa1325
whereup1340
wherebyc1380
whereonc1420
whereuponc1485
on account1817
(on) account of1928
the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adverb] > in the direction of thickness > through thickness
throughoutOE
wherethorough?c1225
wherethrough1297
thorougha1387
thoroughlya1500
throughly1541
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [adverb] > by which means or by means of which
wheremidc1160
wherebyc1200
wherethorough?c1225
wherewithc1230
wherewith1297
witha1300
wherethrough13..
whereof1340
withal1389
how1390
wherewithal1578
wherewithal1618
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 156 Þe drong drunh oðer ei þing dude hwar þurch nan chil [read childe] ne schulde beon on hire istreoned.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1393 Echman paide a peni,..War þoru he wuste hou moni men in al þe worlde were.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2463 Tounes grete & heye Ware þoru him & is men in vair warison he broȝte.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7493 He nadde no wounde war þoru he ssedde an drope blod.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 984 Quen he con breke þe comandement quar þorow his ospringe was shent.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6446 Ietro gaue him consail Vnder baillis for to sett, Quar thoru in right þai suld be gett.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) liii. 234 And thenne yaf him medesyne, wherthorowe he was hole.
a1450 Knt. de la Tour 45 Hit happed on a day her chapelein was sike that he might not synge, wherthorugh she must go home withoute masse.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur x. xxxviii. 475 A posterne where thorou he shold flee.
1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 34 §10 Offices and inquisicions dailly be founde..wherethorough suche Maners..be seased into the Kinges handes.
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Giiv The Authors of these new toyes, wherthorow they offended, shalbe giltie of their deathes.
1627 J. Speed Eng. Abridged x. §2 The ayre..is cleansed..by the Billowes that ever worke from off her environing Seas, where-thorow it becommeth pure and subtill.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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