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† thorough-ˈsee, v. Obs.
[OE. þurh séon, f. þurh thorough, through adv. + séon to see: cf. OHG. durhsehen, Ger. durchsehen.]
trans. To see through (lit. and fig.: cf. see v. 24). Hence † thorough-ˈseeing vbl. n., the action of this vb.; ppl. a. that sees through; † thorough-ˈseeable a., capable of being seen through, transparent.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xli. §1 He ᵹeseohð & þurhseohð ealle his ᵹesceafta ændemest. a1200Moral Ode 90 (Lambeth) He þurþ-sicheþ uches monnes þonc [v.r. þurh-sihð elches mannes þanc]. a1225Ancr. R. 50 Þe blake cloð..is þiccure..& wurse to þurhseon. 1553N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices (1556) 7 Whoso thorowseeth moste what in everye case is truest. Ibid. 68 So desireful of thorow seing and learning the nature of things. 1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer iv. (1577) X viij b, The eyes of the minde..then beginne to be sharp and thorough seing, when the eyes of the body lose the floure of theyr sightlynesse. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 151 The rosin or turpentine [of Terebinthus]..is clere, & thorow seable, whyte, like a glasse & blewish gray. |