c1330 Arth. & Merl. (Kölbing) 8141 Stel & yren his ax *þurchcarf Wher þurch mani starf.
1875 Parker Gloss. Archit. ,Through Carved-work,..in which the spaces between the ornamental parts are pierced entirely through.
1611 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 112The whole passage to be *throughecast with lime and haire.
1884 F. Niecks Conc. Dict. Mus. Terms 122A durch-componiertes Lied, ‘a *through-composed song’, is a song of which each verse has a setting of its own.
1947 A. Einstein Music in Romantic Era x. 117In this prologue there is no longer any spoken dialogue; the scene is ‘through-composed’.
1962 Listener 11 Jan. 105/2 The opera opens with a Prologue of the spirits..which is the only ‘through-composed’ portion.
1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Feb. 203/2The first ‘Razumovsky’ ..abandoned the normal first-movement repeat, had the rarity of a through-composed scherzo (without trio or ‘da capo’), and only repeated the exposition of the finale. [ Quartet]
c1330 Arth. & Merl. 9286 Ich of hem on þer hitt, Oþer heued ofsmot or bodi *þurch kitt. [ o]
1594 Plat Jewell-ho. iii. 34How to graue any..deuise vpon an egge shel, & how to through-cut the same.
a1023 Wulfstan Hom. iii. (Napier) 22Him æᵹðer *þurhdraf mid isenum næᵹlum ᵹe fet ᵹe handa.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 1204Þurhdriuen upon þe rode.
Ibid. 1943,& let þurhdriuen..Þe spaken & te felien Mid irnene gadien.
c1340 Hampole Prose Tr. 2It has *thurghefychede my herte.
1664 H. More Myst. Iniq.Apol. 542Who are so *through-formed Christians as cordially to believe all the Essential Parts of our Religion.
1594 Kyd Cornelia v. 308Scipio that saw his ships *through-galled, And by the foe fulfild with fire and blood.
a1586 Sidney Arcadia (1622) 177(Skimming any thing that came before him) was disciplined to leaue the *through-handling of all to his gentle wife. [ He]
1594 Spenser Amoretti lvii,Seeing my hart *through-launced every where With thousand arrowes, which your eies have shot.
c1200 Ormin Ded. 68,& te bitæche icc off þiss boc,..All to þurrhsekenn illc an ferrs, & to *þurrhlokenn offte.
1446 Lydg. Two Nightingale P. ii. 240*Thurgh-nayled weren his holy handis tweyne.
c1205 Lay. 14711Catiger þer com & mid his spere hine *þurh-nom.
1390 Gower Conf. II. 249Into wepinge Sche fell, as sche that was thurgh nome With love.
1639 Fuller Holy War ii. xliv. (1647) 103Then must he be a *through-old man.
Ibid. v. xxix. 281What credit there is to be given to that through-old if not doting prophecie.
c1330 Arth. & Merl. 7936, & wiþ gode hert & main fin Þai *þurchperced þo Sarrazin.
1413 Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) i. xiv. (1859) 11 Grete drede and heuynesse had thorughpercyd my herte.
1590 Spenser F.Q. ii. i. 38Her tender hart was rent in twaine, Or thrild with point of thorough-piercing paine.
1609 Heywood Brit. Troy xiv. xxv,Quite through-piercst the Greeke dropt down a corse.
c1205 Lay. 18082He..smat hine i þere side Þat þat spere *þurh-rade . [ c 1275 þorh-rod]
c1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 14516Þat alle landes he wolde þorow ryde..Cristen men to struye & quelle.
c1400 Destr. Troy 5008 Thy..Rewme þurgh Riden, robbed þi goodis.
c1205 Lay. 23943smat i þere breoste þat þat spere *þurh raf [ He] . [ c 1275 þorh rof]
Ibid. 12129Þat lond heo *þurh arnden & herȝeden.
Ibid. 16657Þat lond heo gunne þurh-ærnen & þa tunes fur-bernen.
1382 Wyclif Esther xv. 8She forsothe *thurȝshed the chere with rose colour. [ Vulg. perfusa]
971 Blickl. Hom. 109Þonne he his byrnsweord ᵹetyhþ & þas world ealle þurhslyhþ, & þa lichoman *þurh sceoteð.
c1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 4373Þer schaftes þorgh schoten body & schelde.
c1330 Arth. & Merl. 7959 Þer was mani wombe *þurchschoue & mani heued cleued aboue.
c1420 26 Pol. Poems xvii. 189His herte was wiþ a spere þurgh-shoue.
1615 Chapman Odyss. vii. 384,I yet *through-swomme the waues, that your shore binds.
a1631 Donne Progr. Soule xxvii,The net through⁓swome, she kept the liquid Path.
1605 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. i. Vocation 375With our Swords and Lances..*Through-thrilléd (Villains) this shall be your last.
1608 Ibid. iv. iv. Decay 322My heart's through-thrilled with your miseries.
c1205 Lay. 18338Wes þe munt *þurh-wexen Mid ane wude feiren. [ c 1275 þorh-woxe]
1583 T. Watson Centurie of Loue xci,Then, hang your *throughwett garmentes on the wall.
c1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxiv. 13Witodlice seþe *þurhwunað oð ende, se byþ hal.
a1175 Cott. Hom. 227Þaða hire time com hi acennede and þurh⁓wunede meden.
c1205 Lay. 1384An lond he ferde sechinde Þer he mihte þurh-wunian Mid his wnfolke.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 662Þe wið godd hehfeder, & wið þen hali gast, Þurhwunest in alre worlde world.
c1200 Ormin 17443 Þa neddress..Þeȝȝ tacnenn alle sinness, Þatt stingenn & *þurrh⁓wundenn all Þatt bodiȝ, & tatt sawle.
a1878 Sir G. G. Scott Lect. Archit. I. vii. 283The two systems may be distinguished as rere-arch windows and *through-arch windows— i.e. , those in which the inner is distinct from the outer arch, and those in which the same arch runs through the wall, showing itself more or less similarly on its outer and inner faces. In thick walls and rich work there is often another order of through-arch within the tracery order, or rather the outer order re-appears within.
1969 Punch 12 Feb. 248/4, I wish I could recall the lingo—the *through-balls, high crosses, work-rates and searching diagonals.
1977 Times 28 Feb. 8/5 Another through ball and Souness was racing away to make a cross which Armstrong converted.
1908 Times 29 Dec. 4/5 No airing or ‘*through⁓blow’ is possible in a..flat where the openings are all on one side.
1837 Civil Eng. &Arch. Jrnl. I. 33/1The outer and inner rows of piling..are to be securely tied together, with two-inch wrought-iron *thorough bolts.
1864 Daily Tel. 19 Aug.,The use of large-area solid plates , in combination with through bolts. [ in ship-building]
1874 Knight Dict. Mech. s.v. Bolt,A through-bolt is one which goes through the pieces which are to be fastened together. Such are clinch-bolts, and bolts secured by nut and washer.
1601 Holland Pliny (1634) II. 289In drink, it dissolueth ventosities, riddeth away *through-colds, and namely the shiuerings..in cold agues.
1969 Times 30 Oct. 2/7 Such an aircraft..would be operated from a cruiser-type ship with a newly designed ‘*through-deck’.
1971 Guardian 22 Nov. 12/4 The Royal Navy is now considering the operation of Harriers from a new class of flat topped 19,000-ton ships euphemistically known as ‘*Through-deck cruisers’.
1980 A. Preston Warships of World 29/2The troubled political background accounts for the ludicrous nomenclature applied to the class. First of all Invincible was a ‘through-deck’ cruiser to disguise the flight deck, then a command cruiser, and only now..an aircraft carrier.
Ibid. 221/2Through-deck cruiser, cumbersome term concocted by the Royal Navy to obtain political and Treasury approval for a ship designed to operate helicopters and V/Stol aircraft. The ‘through-deck’ was a euphemism for a full-length flight deck.
1905 *Through-draught . [ see thorough-draughts.v. thorough- 2]
1976 B. Lecomber Dead Weight vi. 73,I..opened the pilots' side-windows in the pious hope of creating a through-draught of fresh air.
1851–4 Tomlinson Cycl. Arts (1866) I. 487/2A very good method is what is called *through-fang, that is, to drill a hole completely through the handle, and to insert a..prong projecting from the blade, riveting it at the opposite end.
1652 Fuller Comm. Christ's Tempt. ii. inSel. Rem. (1891) II. 26‘He had fasted forty days and forty nights.’ The words contain the *through-fast of Christ.
1937 Colvin & Stanley GrindingPract. v. 73There are two primary methods of grinding the work. One is the *through-feed method in which the work passes axially from one side of the machine to the other.
1963 Jones & Schubert Engin. Encycl. 215There are three general methods of centerless grinding which may be described as through-feed, in-feed, and end-feed methods.
1967 M. E. Hale Biol. Lichens vii. 96Stemflow on trees..has been shown to be enriched, relative to *throughflow, with potassium and calcium.
1974 Country Life 17 Jan. 103/1, 2 litre family saloon..throughflow heating and ventilation.
1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib. II. x. 53The *through-joints admit wet into the interior.
1548 Acc. Ld. HighTreas. Scot. IX. 167Thre gret *throuch lokes to the palice of Halyrudhous.
1962 Jackson & Marsden Educ. & Working Class v. 157The interview took place in the *through-lounge.
1976 Evening Post (Nottingham) 15 Dec. 15/5 ( Advt. ),Modern well situated detached house consisting of through lounge, fully fitted kitchen, . [ etc.]
1937 F. N. S. Creek Association Football iii. 58Short passing should always consist of ‘*through’ passes so that the ball is sent behind an opponent and never.. across his front.
1967 J. Potter Foul Play (1968) ii. 29If you're playing on the left wing I'll feed you with through-passes to the corner flag.
1976 Denbighshire Free Press 8 Dec. 24/7 Ian McCarter..got to a splendid through pass from Wildermuth.
1632–5 Corbet Sp. in aidSt. Paul's in Longman Three Cathedrals (1873) 60Are we not beholding to it..for a prayer or a *throwpath?
1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §96Some horses haue a *throughe serewe on bothe sydes of the legge.
Ibid. §106Some horses haue *throughe spauen, and appereth bothe within and without.
1565 Blundevil Horsemanship iv. cxxvii. (1580) 58Of the wet Spauen, or through Spauen. This is a soft swelling growing on both sides of the hough, and seemes to go cleane through the hough, and therefore may be called a through Spauen.
1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts 401A Splent is a sorance of the least moment, vnlesse it bee on the knee, or else a *through Splent, both which cannot bee cured.
1687 Miége Gt. Fr. Dict. i,Sur-os chevillé, serew or through-splent.
1833 J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 14Hafting table knives by the insertion of that portion of the blade which has been properly drawn out, quite through the handle..is called *through-tang.
1905 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. XVI. 233In discussing this paper at the Geological Society meeting in Philadelphia, Professor Davis applied the very descriptive name of ‘*through valleys’ to this condition of valleys connected across lowered divides.
1969 G. C. Dickinson Maps & Air Photographs xiii. 208A valley from one system may meet one from another system ‘back-to-back’ so that together they form a through valley with scarcely any feature separating the headwaters of the two systems.
1972 Gloss. Geol. (Amer. Geol. Inst. ) 739/1Through valley, a flat-floored depression or channel eroded across a divide by glacier ice or meltwater streams.
1686 Plot Staffordsh. 384He also cuts wreath'd pillars with the same Engine (that are not *through-work).
1973 J. A. Pendleton in Internat. Jrnl. Offender Therapy &Compar. Criminol. 17 15It had been said..that after-care should start at the moment when the offender is sentenced, or even earlier. At long last this notion has been put into practice. Many departments have already adopted a system of ‘*through-care’.
1994 Daily Tel. 12 Oct. 37/7In America ‘through-care’ is the buzz word. It means that the retirement home buyer can go through all the stages from ‘sprightly’ to ‘marvellous for his age’ and ‘getting a bit tottery’—and finally needing 24-hour nursing care—without having to move again.
2002 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed. ) 7 JulyA throughcare system which not only encourages prisoners to address their offending but also looks to their release with arrangements for housing tenancy and job interviews.
1949 E. L. Hamilton & P. B. Rowe Rainfall Interception by Chaparral in California 6*Throughfall is that portion of the rainfall which reaches the ground directly through the vegetative canopy, through intershrub spaces in the canopy, and as drip from the leaves, twigs, and stems.
1949 E. L. Hamilton & P. B. Rowe Rainfall Interception by Chaparral in California 17For the two years of high precipitation, throughfall was 80 percent, stemflow 15 percent, and interception loss 5 percent of the annual rainfall.
1985 Austral. Jrnl. ForestRes. 15 309Loss of organic matter after 2 years was strongly correlated with the amount of water reaching the forest floor as throughfall.
1998 Jrnl. Ecol. 86 602Increased gap soil moisture levels are probably due to both higher throughfall and lower evapotranspiration loads.
ORIGIN: Repr. through preposition & adverb . Cf. thorough- .