v. Obs. [OE. þurhgán, pa. t. þurhéode, f. þurh adv. THROUGH + gán to GO (cf. OHG. durhgân).] trans. To go through, pass through, traverse.
c. 1000. Pop. Treat. Sci. (1841), 9. Seo eorðe byð mid þam winterlicum cyle þurh-gan.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., II. 502. Ic wille ðurhgan orsorh ðone here.
c. 1200. Ormin, 12860. Þurrh þatt teȝȝ sholldenn all þurrh gan Þiss middellærd to spellenn Off himm.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter civ. [cv.] 18. Irne thurghyhode his saule ful grim.
a. 1400. Isumbras, 522. That alle a syde of a cunntre he hase thurgh gane.
So Throughgoing vbl. sb., passing through; going through accounts, a taking to task; Throughgoing (Sc. throwgaun) ppl. a., that goes or passes through; that goes through any amount of work, pushing, active, strenuous: cf. THOROUGHGOING.
1818. Scott, Rob Roy, xiv. The folk … gae him sic an awfu’ throughgaun about his rinnin’ awa.
1820. Blackw. Mag., Dec., 265/1. A plump and jocose little woman; gleg, blithe, and throwgaun for her years.
1822. Galt, Provost, xxxiii. Those mighty masses of foreign commodities, the throughgoing of which left … ‘goud in goupins.’
1841. Penny Cycl., XIX. 254/2. In the Dublin and Kingstown railway an attempt was made to ensure increased solidity by introducing throughgoing stone blocks … of granite, six feet long … stretched across the track.
1910. N. Munro, in Blackw. Mag., Oct., 529/2. Maurice met her … in a through-going close.
