adv. Sc. and north. dial. Obs. Forms: 4 þien, þein, þine, 4–6 thine, 4–7 thyne, 5 þeine, þeyn, 5–6 thyn, 6 thin. [App. reduced from THETHEN; cf. hyne, syne, whyne.] = THENCE. (Also prec. by fra, from.)
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 190. Þe templers ilk a dele failed & þien fled.
13[?]. Cursor M., 6676 (Gött.). If he to min auter fly, Men sal him þein [Cott. þeþen] draw to die.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, ii. (Paulus), 419. Fra þine þire banis men has tane.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), iv. 12. Fra þeine men wendes to þe ile of Cophos.
c. 1440. Alphabet of Tales, 179. He … had hur thyne owr a grete watir in-to a noder contreth.
c. 1450. St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 4271. As a pilgryme pure … Forth fra þeyn he fore.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, III. x. 83. And fra thyne The fertile grownd of Helory passit syne.
1589. Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 573/1. Beginnand … at the fute of the Skitterane burne … and fra thin streikand and ascendand up the said burne.
a. 1600. Montgomerie, Misc. Poems, xlviii. 237. We weyd from thyn, and wald no langer byde.
1609. Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1816), IV. 443. Fra thyne doun Irving burne to ask.
Hence † Thyne-forth (-furth) adv. = THENCEFORTH; † Thyne-forward adv. = THENCE-FORWARD. Usually preceded by from (fra).
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxxviii. (Adrian), 272. Fra *þine furth sal þu nocht me se.
c. 1440. Alphabet of Tales, 51. And fro thyne furth, evur after … he had more devocion vnto Saynt Andrew þan he had befor.
c. 1440. Reg. Aberd. (Maitland), I. 248. Þe burn of Nessoke, swa þat theyn furth is þe meris betwix þe bischape and þe Lord of Marr.
a. 1572. Knox, Hist. Ref., Wks. 1846, I. 378. The said Congregatioun … shall in no wayis from thynefurth use ony force or violence, in casting down of kirkis.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xxiv. 110. Þai schuld fra *þeine forward hald þam payd of þat he wald giffe þam.
