adv. Obs. (or rare arch.) Also with hyphen, or as two words, or as three. [f. WITHOUT adv. + FORTH adv.] Properly, Everywhere without or outside (see FORTH adv. 2 b); but in use a mere synonym of without. (Opp. to WITHINFORTH.) a. = WITHOUT adv. 1.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., II. 384. Woo worþe ȝou,… ypocritis, þat clensen wiþout-forþ of þe cuppe and of þe dishe. Ibid. (c. 1380), Wks. (1880), 46. Þei weren apeied wiþ o cote or kirtil with-ynne forþe & with-oute forþ.
c. 1450. Mirk’s Festial, 72. When þay wern alle in, God closud þe dore aftyr hom wythout-forth.
1474. in Litt. Cantuar. (Rolls), III. 272. Yowre powche and key-band with the keverynge; on the which are … set ij. porses with owteforth.
1511. Guylforde’s Pylgr. (Camden), 23. Withoute forthe byfore the entre into this Temple.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXXV. vi. II. 528. The peeces of this earth, if a man doe breake, shew the own naturall colour which is not mixt: without-forth they be spotted.
1894. F. S. Ellis, Reynard the Fox, 247. Withoutforth of the ring … A stone … of colours three.
b. = WITHOUT adv. 2, 2 b.
1382. Wyclif, Matt. xii. 46. His modir and his bretheren stoden with outeforth [1388 withouteforth]. Ibid. (1388), Acts v. 34. Gamaliel … comaundide the men to be put without forth.
1467. in Engl. Gilds (1870), 373. That euery citezein … wtoutforth paye alle maner chargs as citezens do that dwelle wtynforth.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, XX. xxii. 836. They … kepte the syege wyth lytel warre withoutforth.
1530. Tindale, Deut. xxxii. 25. Without forth, the swerde shall robbe them off theire childern.
1600. Holland, Livy, VII. xxi. All was quiet withoutforth. Ibid. (1609), Amm. Marcell. 132. The space … between the wall and the heape of earth cast up withoutforth.
c. = WITHOUT adv. 3.
1357. Lay Folks Catech. (L.), 758. Thou schalt not do leccherye noþer in consent in hert ne spekynge ne in countenaunce withowte-forþ.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., V. pr. iv. (1868), 164. Þe wit comprehendiþ fro wiþ outen furþe þe figure of þe body or þe man.
c. 1400. Love, Bonavent. Mirr. (1907), 123. The schame that sche hadde of hir synne was so grete withynneforth that sche forȝat al schame and reproue withouteforth.
1491. Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), I. i. 4 b/2. Faynynge wythoute fourthe by theyr couuert maners and symple habyllemens to be Innocentes.
1530. Palsgr., Introd. 34. The verbes actyves betokyng some acte to passe from the doer without forth.
d. quasi-sb. (preceded by of): That which is without; external region or action.
1474. Caxton, Chesse, III. iv. (1883), 114. Hyt befelle that a marchant of withoute forth herd the … fame of this man. Ibid. (1491), Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), II. 277 b/2. That the werkes or withoutforth be fyrst withinforth ruled after the Iugement of right & reason.
e. attrib. or as adj. Outside, external.
c. 1500. in Arnolde, Chron. (1811), 9. The wythoutforth landys and tenementis.
