adv. arch. Forms: see THERE and THROUGH. [Early ME. þer þurh: see THERE 17, THROUGH prep.]

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  1.  Of place: Through that, it, or them.

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c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 83. Þet gles … þe sunne schineð þer purh.

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a. 1325.  MS. Rawl. B., 520, lf. 32 b. [They] sullen wite þe toune … ȝif ani vncouz passez þere þoru sal be aresteid for te amorue.

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13[?].  Cursor M., 12872 (Gött.). Þe fader steuen þar thoru it brast, Right als it war a thonir blast.

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1495.  Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., V. v. (W. de W.), g iv/1. The glasy humour [of the eye] is … bryghte as glasse, soo yt we maye se ther thorugh.

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1594.  Blundevil, Exerc., III. II. xxvii. (1636), 423. To make therethrough a navigable passage.

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1672.  Marvell, Reh. Transp., I. 55. Its Waters would not mix with this Lake … but ran theere thorow without ever touching it.

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1870.  Morris, Earthly Par., II. III. 232. He hurried on until he reached again The outer door, and, sighing, passed therethrough.

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1873.  M. Collins, Miranda, I. 73. The musical moan of the water as the ship cuts its way therethrough.

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  2.  By means, or by reason, of that; thereby.

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c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 189. Þat he haueð þer þurh forloren heuene wele.

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c. 1200.  Ormin, 2325. Þatt ȝho … shollde wurrþenn Wiþþ childe swa þatt ȝho þærþurrh Ne shollde nohht ben wemmedd.

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c. 1300.  Beket, 75. And therthur me taȝte hire the wei: so that heo thider com.

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c. 1412.  Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 2667. His lorde þe kyng withe venym wolde he fede, So þat ther-þurgh he steruen shulde nede.

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1535.  Coverdale, Ecclus., Prol. Therfore they that … reade it, shulde not only them selues be wyse there thorow, but serue other also with teachinge and wrytinge.

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1678.  R. Barclay, Apol. Quakers, V. xxi. 161. Every Man … may come therethrough to believe.

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1818.  Scott, Hrt. Midl., xliii. Ye maun be minded not to act altogether on your ain judgment, for therethrough comes sair mistakes.

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1894.  F. T. Ellis, Reynard Fox, 257. Winning renown and fame therethrough.

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