adv. Obs. or Sc. arch. [f. THUS adv. + GATE sb.2] In this way; thus.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 13192 (Cott.). Þus-gat was sant Iohan slan.
c. 1300. Havelok, 2419. Sule ye þus-gate fro me fle?
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 14351 Petyt MS.). And whan þe ton þus gate was ded On þat oþer bataille he bed.
c. 1475. Rauf Coilȝear, 169. Ȝit was I neuer in my lyfe thus gait leird.
a. 1550. Freiris of Berwik, 1578, in Dunbar’s Poems (S.T.S.), 304. He said, ‘Ȝone Freir hes maid me thus gait say.’
1819. W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d (1827), 148. But what befel him thus-gate daddit, In the neist sang ye’ll find it addit.
