Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of thorough, through, through.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- preposition obsolete Through.
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- preposition Obsolete form of
through .
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Examples
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This Palamoun, that thoughte that thurgh his herte
The Canterbury Tales 2006
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Thou thurgh thy knyghthod hast hem take and slawe,
The Canterbury Tales 2006
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He thurgh the thikkeste of the throng gan threste;
The Canterbury Tales 2006
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And whan the holy grayle had be borne thurgh the halle thenne the holy vessel departed sodenly, that they wyste not where hit becam: thenne had they alle brethe to speke. '
The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan
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Right with hir look thurgh-shoten and thurgh-darted, 325
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer
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Than he dide erst, thurgh hope, and dide his might 1340
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer
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And in meny another stede, yat thurgh Christene men come,
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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And when the Holy Grayle had be borne thurgh the halle, thenne the holy vessel departed sodenly, that they wyste not where hit becam ....
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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Wher-thurgh {e} it is open, that eu {er} y nombre quadrat or cubik {e} have the same rote, as it is seid {e} before.
The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902
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And we hoaten alle ure treowe, in the treowthe thæt heo us ogen, thæt heo stedefæstliche healden, and swerien to healden and to werien, tho isetnesses thæt beon imakede and beon to makien, thurgh than to-foren iseide rædesmen, other thurgh the moare dæl of hem, alswo also hit is biforen iseid; And thæt æhc other helpe thæt for to done bi than ilche othe, ayenes alle men, right for to done and to foangen.
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day 1873
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