adv. See also FARTHERMORE. [f. FURTHER adv. + MORE adv.]

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  † 1.  To a more advanced point of progress, still further; = FURTHER adv. 1 a. Occas. with omission of go. Obs.

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c. 1200.  Ormin, 7338. Þe sterrne comm riht till þatt hus & flæh itt ta na forrþerr mar.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 6543. Þar-wit forþer-mar he yede.

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1375.  Barbour, Bruce, VII. 8. [Bruce] said he mycht no forthirmar.

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14[?].  Tundale’s Vis., 991.

        Com furder more and folow me
For more peyn byhouyth the to se.

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c. 1425.  Craft Nombrynge (E.E.T.S.), 8. Do away þe cifer & þat 1. & sette þere 8. þan go forthermore.

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1552.  Lyndesay, Monarche, 4401. Father, or we passe forther more, Quhen did begyn thare temporall glore?

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  † 2.  To a greater extent, more; = FURTHER adv. 2.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 27958. Forthermar o þis lecheri agh i þe noght to specifie.

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c. 1340.  Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 2892.

        Now wille I rede forthermare,
And shew yhow of sum paynes þat er þare.

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c. 1450.  Life of St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 7247. Ȝit forthir mare of þe same.

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  3.  Besides, also, moreover; = FURTHER adv. 3.

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c. 1275.  The XI Pains of Hell, 67, in O. E. Misc., 149. A hwel of stele is furþer mo.

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1411.  Rolls of Parlt., III. 650/2. Furthermore, the forsaid Lord the Roos, in presence of them that ther ben openly schal forgevyn the forsaid Robert.

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1483.  Caxton, Gold. Leg., 400 b/1. Yet he sayd furthermore who so compleyneth is no monke.

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1555.  Spurge, in Strype, Eccl. Mem., III. App. xl. 110. Furthermore … we humbly beseech thee.

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1614.  Raleigh, Hist. World, I. iv. § 3. Furthermore … the leaues, body, and boughes, of this Tree … exceede all other Plants.

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1730.  Holingbroke, in Swift’s Lett. (1766), II. 109. And furthermore, I think myself in honour bound to acknowledge, that [etc.].

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1820.  Keats, Isabella, lviii. And, furthermore her brethren wonder’d much Why she sat drooping.

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1871.  Smiles, Charac., ii. (1876), 55. Furthermore, to direct the power of the home aright, women, as the nurses, trainers, and educators of children, need all the help and strength that mental culture can give them.

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  † 4.  Of time: Henceforth, subsequently. Obs.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 28677. Þis man sais … þat him reuys his sinnes sare, and will for-bere þam forþire mare.

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c. 1430.  Two Cookery-bks., I. 29. Rede Rose—Take þe same, saue a-lye it with þe ȝolkys of eyroun & forþer-more as vyolet.

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