adv. [Orig. two words: THENCE and FORTH adv.]
1. From that time onward. Also with from († fro).
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., IV. Pr. iii. 86 (Camb. MS.). For no wiht as by Ryht fro thennes forth þat hym lakketh goodnesse ne shal ben clepyd good.
1526. Tindale, John xix. 12. From thence forthe sought Pilate meanes to loose hym.
1536. Wriothesley, Chron. (Camden), I. 55. To be observed and kept from thencefourth through all this realme.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. ii. 40. Thensforth I tooke Duessa for my Dame.
1812. Southey, Omniana, II. 231. He makes a law, that from thenceforth there shall be only two lawyers in England.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., I. I. 396. Thenceforth her back upon the world she turned.
2. From that place or point onward. rare.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., V. xi. 540. Rede there and frothens forth into the eende of the argument.
1887. Morris, Odyss., XII. 429. Night-long thenceforth was I carried.
