单词 | thenceforth |
释义 | thenceforthadv. 1. From that time onward. Also with from (†fro). ΘΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adverb] > thereafter or after that thoc700 thenforthc875 thereafterc897 fro ðan ðatc1175 thethenforthc1175 thenforthwardc1200 thereup?c1225 from?a1366 thencec1374 thenceforthc1374 fromwardc1400 thyne-forwardc1400 sin1405 thyne-forthc1440 thenceforward1457 sinsyne1470 thenafter1470 then afterwarda1485 upon?1523 sineth1542 thence-after1593 thenceforwards1684 thereafterward1867 c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iv. pr. iii. 86 For no wiht as by Ryht fro thennes forth þat hym lakketh goodnesse ne shal ben clepyd good. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) John xix. f. cxlix From thence forthe sought Pilate meanes to loose hym. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B8v Then [Faults ‘Escaped: ‘Thens’]’ forth I tooke Duessa for my Dame. c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 55 To be observed and kept from thencefourth through all this realme. 1812 R. Southey Omniana II. ccxxv. 231 He makes a law, that from thenceforth there shall be only two lawyers in England. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 396 Thenceforth her back upon the world she turned. 2. From that place or point onward. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > [adverb] > away from some thing or place > from that place thethenc1175 thencec1290 therehencec1300 therefro1340 thenceforthc1449 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [adverb] > from that place thennec725 thethenc1175 thethenwardc1175 thenward?c1225 therefroma1250 thencec1290 thereforth1297 therehencec1300 thynec1330 therefro1340 thencewardc1440 thenceforthc1449 thence-froma1618 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 540 Rede there and frothens forth into the eende of the argument. 1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. xii. 229 Night-long thenceforth was I carried. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adv.c1374 |
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