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ˈthorough-light Now rare or Obs.
Also ˈthrough-light.
a. pl. Windows on opposite sides of a room, so that the light passes right through.
1625Bacon Ess., Building (Arb.) 551 And let all three Sides, be a double House, without Thorow Lights, on the Sides, that you may haue Roomes from the Sunne, both for Fore-noone, and Afternoone. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. vii. 167 Thorow-lights are best for rooms of entertainment, and windows on one side for dormitories. 1697Dryden æneid viii. 349 The doors, unbarr'd, receive the rushing day; And thorough lights disclose the ravish'd prey. 1745P. Thomas Jrnl. Anson's Voy. 230 The Houses have thorough Lights.
b. fig. (sing. and pl.) in reference to the ‘light’ of knowledge or discovery.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. ii. §13 This great Building of the world had neuer through lights made in it till the age of vs and our fathers. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. xxi. 137 [Drake] returned safe into England, and landed at Plimouth, (being almost the first of those that made a thorow-light through the world). 1646Trapp Comm. John i. 5 The former [light of nature] is but a dim half-light... The latter [light of Scripture] is a clear thorough-light. 1698Norris Pract. Disc. IV. 44 All shall be then open,..every Man's Heart a thorough-light to every Man. 1841Emerson Lect. ‘Times’ Wks. (Bohn) II. 256 Paving the earth with eyes, destroying privacy, and making thorough-lights.
So ˈthorough-lighted (ˈthrough-) a., having thorough-lights; having the light passing through.
1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1651) 286 Rooms windowed on both ends, which we call through-lighted. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 260 Rooms are said to be Through-lighted when they have Windows on both ends. 1842–76Gwilt Archit. Gloss., Thorough lighted Rooms, such as have windows on opposite sides. |