adv. Obs. [f. WHERE 15 + THOROUGH prep.] = next.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 210. Þeo þet dronc eni drunch, oðer ei þing dude hwarðuruh no childe ne schulde beon of hire istreoned.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 1393. Echman paide a peni,… War þoru he wuste hou moni men in al þe worlde were. Ibid., 2463. Tounes grete & heye Ware þoru him & is men in vair warison he broȝte. Ibid., 7493. He nadde no wounde war þoru he ssedde an drope blod.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 6446 (Cott.). Ietro gaue him consail Vnder baillis for to sett, Quar thoru in right þai suld be gett. Ibid. (c. 1375), 984 (Fairf.). Quen he con breke þe comandement Quar þorow his ospringe was shent.
c. 1440. Gesta Rom., liii. 234 (Harl. MS.). And thenne yaf him medesyne, wherthorowe he was hole.
a. 1450. Knt. de la Tour, 45. Hit happed on a day her chapelein was sike that he might not synge, wherthorugh she must go home withoute masse.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, X. xxxviii. 475. A posterne where thorou he shold flee.
1503–4. Act 19 Hen. VII., c. 34 § 10. Offices and inquisicions dailly be founde … wherethorough suche Maners … be seased into the Kinges handes.
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus., I. (1879), 80. The Authors of these new toyes, wherthorow they offended, shalbe giltie of their deathes.
1627. Speed, England, x. § 2. The ayre … is cleansed … by the Billowes that ever worke from off her environing Seas, where-thorow it becommeth pure and subtill.
