adv. Obs. Forms (in many cases either as one word or two, or with hyphen: cf. TOGETHER): α. 3–4 togaderes, 5 to gadders; 6 togathers. β. 2–5 togederes, 4–6 togeders, 5 togederis (-ys), to gedrys, togedres, 6 togedirs; 5–6 togethers, 6 togetheres, togethirs. γ. 4–5 togidres, -eres, -ers, (4 -irs, -iris, togyderes), 5 to guyders, togyders, 5–6 to gidders, 6 to gydders, togydres; 5–6 togithers, 6 -gythers. [f. prec. with -s of advb. genitive: cf. besides, betimes, eftsoons, towards, etc.] = TOGETHER (in its various senses).
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 139. Sunne dei blisseð to gederes houeneware and horðeware.
c. 1275. Lay., 1834. Hii drowen alle to gaderes.
1300. Cursor M., 21749 (Edin.). Þu do togidiris ten and tua.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. Prol. 46. Pilgrimes and Palmers Plinten hem to-gederes For to seche seint Ieme.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), I. 177. Þe clergie and the chiualrie hilde so to giders.
c. 1430. Two Cookery-bks., 45. Stere it wel in þe panne tyl it come to-gederys wel.
1440. in Wars Eng. in France (1864), II. 590. Whiche of his saide retinue he shalle holde togithers.
c. 1450. Brut, 427. There they foughten to-gederis.
1491. Act 7 Hen. VII., c. 22. To take to your remembraunce the wordes we spake to guyders in Seynt Petir Chirch.
1537. Cromwell, in Merriman, Life & Lett. (1902), II. 87. Loyaltie and treason dwell seldome togethers.
1538. in Lett. Suppress. Monast. (Camden), 250. Everich of us severally and also alle togethers.
a. 1540. Barnes, Wks. (1573), 224/1. So tooke they their counsell togithers.
1581. Marbeck, Bk. of Notes, 900 How releasement and payment cannot stand togethers.
1591. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. ii. 330. All the Links of th’ holy Chain, which tethers The many members of the World togethers.
1594. T. Bedingfield, trans. Machiavelli’s Florentine Hist. (1595), 192. Being togithers … they alwaies talked thereof.
