Thereout

adv. Forms: 1 þǽr út(e, ME. þar, þer out(e: also 4–5 (9 Sc.) throut(e. [OE. þærút(e: see THERE 17 and OUT, OUTE.]

  1.  Outside of that place, etc.; without. Now rare.

c. 893.  K. Ælfred, Oros., II. viii. § 4. Nahton hie naþer ne þærinne mete ne þærute freond.

c. 897.  [see THEREINNE].

c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Mark iii. 31. His modor and his ʓebroðra … þar ute stodon.

c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 33. Þe mon þe leie .xii. moneð in ane prisune nalde he ȝefen al þet he efre mahte biȝeten wið þet he moste .xii. beo ðer ut of.

c. 1205.  Lay., 1179. Brutus ferde in to þere temple … & lette al his folc bilæuen þer vte.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 1333 (Cott.). He … stod þer oute [v.rr. þar oute, þar yte], And sagh þe thing. Ibid., 15934. He … Fain wald ha ben þer vte.

c. 1470.  Henry, Wallace, IV. 488. The ȝett he wor…; he held na man tharout.

1881.  J. T. Bent, Genoa, vi. 127. A … story current in Roman Catholic circles, but not much accredited thereout.

  2.  Out of doors; in the open. Now Sc.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 3928. Iacob … On þe feild þar oute he lai.

c. 1325.  Body & Soul, 114, in Map’s Poems, 349. For alle owre toures heye, ligge we shule throute In forstes ant in snowes.

c. 1400.  Maundev. (Roxb.), xxvii. 125. Þe comouns … er all hird men and lyez þeroute in logez.

c. 1440.  Pallad. on Husb., I. 896. x crabbes yf thou kest With watir in an erthen potte ywrie, Ten dayis throut [L. subdivo], vntil the vapur die.

1483.  Cath. Angl., 382/1. Tharovte, subdiuo .i. sub nudo Aere.

1572.  Satir. Poems Reform., xxxiii. 300. Lang time thay lay thairout.

1808–18.  Jamieson, s.v., To lie thairout, to lie in the open air during night.

  b.  Abroad; in existence; = OUT 26 c. Sc.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 1977. Quils þou may se mi rainbou þar oute, Of suilk a flod haue man na doute.

c. 1560.  A. Scott, Poems (S.T.S.), xxxiv. 25. The wysest woman þairout W^t wird may be wyllit To do þe deid.

1725.  Ramsay, Gentle Sheph., III. ii. Greater liars never ran thereout.

  3.  Of motion: Out of that; out from that place, etc.; forth from thence. Now Sc.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 4542. Þe boteler to þe prisun lep, And suith þar-out he broght ioseph. Ibid. (13[?]), 2567 (Fairf.). Come now þer-oute, Be-halde þou þe lift a-boute.

c. 1489.  Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, xvi. 371. He went to the couffres, and toke there-out all the treysour.

1533.  Gau, Richt Vay (S.T.S.), 4. Blissit be god quhilk hes helpit me thair owt.

c. 1750.  J. Nelson, Jrnl. (1836), 58. They had better never have known the way of salvation than, after knowing it, be turned thereout.

  4.  From or out of that (it, them), as source or origin; thence. arch.

c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, i. (Petrus), 391. Þe fals fend in his liknese Vith þe pupill wald spek þarowte [out of the figure].

1535.  Coverdale, Ps. lxxii[i]. 10. And there out sucke they no small auauntage.

1650.  Earl Monm., trans. Senault’s Man bec. Guilty, 36. They teare up the bowels of the earth to learn secrets thereout.

1788.  Jefferson, Wks. (1859), II. 353. On condition that he may retain thereout one hundred and eighty thousand guilders.

1865.  Kingsley, Herew., ix. With the divine instinct of freedom, and all the self-help and energy which spring thereout.

1871.  B. Taylor, Faust (1875), I. viii. 120. As oft as he drank thereout.