adv. Obs. Also Sc. þar-fra. [Orig. two words, THERE 17 and FRO prep.] = next.
13[?]. Cursor M., 1316 (Gött.). Þar fra [C. þat oute of, F. þerout] renis four grete stremis.
1340. Hampole, Pr. Consc., 5214. Lo! here þe sepulcre a lytil þar fra.
a. 1366[?]. Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 1660. Whan I was not fer therfro.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 364. With-owten addynge þer to or abregynge þer fro.
1413. Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483), IV. x. 62. The juse that yssueth ther froo.
1565. in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 1575. 656/1. Passand thairfra up ane dyke betuix Kippelaw and Bowdane.
1588. A. King, trans. Canisius’ Catech., g viij b. Bot in this our age throwch ye anticipation of ye æquinoxe is distant yairfra almaist 4 dayes.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., II. 59. I would … desist there-fro.
1678. Sir G. Mackenzie, Crim. Laws Scot., II. xxiii. § 4 (1699), 248. They are not excluded therefrae by the foresaid act of Parliament.
