adv. Obs. Also with hyphen, or as two words (variously divided), or as three. [f. WITHIN adv. + FORTH adv. Cf. withoutforth.] Properly, Everywhere within, internally throughout (see FORTH adv. 2 b); but in use a mere synonym of within: WITHIN adv. 1, 2, 3.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., V. pr. v. (1868), 168. Þe passioun of þe body … moeueþ … þe formes þat resten wiþ in forþe.
1382. Wyclif, Ezek. i. 9. A boke … writen withinforth and withoutforth.
c. 1425. St. Mary of Oignies, II. i. in Anglia, VIII. 151/3. Wiþ how mykel dyuerste of vertues she was arayed … wiþ-inforþe.
1467. in Engl. Gilds (1870), 373. That no citezen sewe another in a foreyn courte into the tyme he take his accyon wtynforth.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, XX. xxii. 836. They withinforth kepte theyr walles, & deffended them whan nede was.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 78 b. Wene you … that it is with me withinforth, as it appereth outwardly?
1545. Raynalde, Byrth Mankynde, 135. It is so harde to cause a chylde to take any thyng within furth.
1548. Udall, Erasm. Par. Luke, xi. 43. Ye outwardely beare a shewe of holynesse, yet withinfoorth swell in ambicion.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXI. xiv. II. 95. The … lid … ought to … have libertie to play up and downe behind, that it may bee let downe farre within-forth. Ibid. (1610), Camden’s Brit., 102. The Romanes … when they were about to found … cities … yoked on the right hand a Bull, and within forth a Cow.
