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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Thus, This, adv. Also: thys, thes, thws. [ME and e.m.E. ðus (c1200), thus (Chaucer), þis (c1420), OE þus, appar. f. as This pron.]

1. In this way, like this. a. In the way just indicated.(a) 1375 Barb. ii 511.
Thws in the hyllis levyt he 1375 Barb. xi 610.
The erle and his thus fechtand war At gret myscheiff ?1438 Alex. ii 1495.
‘Ȝa,' said Clarus..Thvs as that ald was sermonand … Sa saw thay … The standart a1500 Seven S. 43.
Than rais the secound sage … Said lord gif me the child [etc.] … Quhen Amipullus had said thus Than rais the thrid sage(b) a1400 Leg. S. i 729.
And this he ȝalde The spyrit ?1438 Alex. ii 1901.
This was the Bauderane sesit and tane c1568 Lauder Minor P. i 205.
Contynewand this in to thair odius sin c1600 Montg. Suppl. xx 9.
This for ȝour saik and luif I am molest

b. In this (present) manner. a1400 Leg. S. iv 108.
Quhy come ȝe this one me to cry? a1400 Leg. S. xxvi 447.
Quhat art thu thus Is cumyne here to mannauce ws? a1500 Henr. Fab. 83.
It wer pietie thow suld … Be buryit thus amang this muke and mold a1570-86 Maitl. F. 362/75.
This man I bow and arrowis beir Becaus I am ane baneist weycht

c. In the following manner, as follows. c1400 Troy-bk. i 40.
Hys message, thus pronowncyt he, ‘Leamedone [etc.]’ c1420 Wynt. viii 1625 (W).
Thus he said in Franche leid a1500 Henr. Fab. 27.
Thus Esope said, I wis, Dulcius [etc.] a1500 Colk. Sow i 8.
Verrely as I hard Thus the money he ward The first penny [etc.] a1500 Seven S. 229.
Than said scho thus my swet hart deire 14… Edinb. Univ. MS La.ii.318.
The secund case … is thus to say

d. In the emphatic phrases all thus, this and so (thus and sua), just like this, in this precise manner.(1) c1450-2 Howlat 157 (A).
All thus in May, as I ment in a mornyng, Come four fasandis 1460 Hay Alex. 4261.
All this of Tyre distroȝeit was the toun a1500 Henr. Orph. 607.
Fra ill to war ale thus to hell gois doun(2) 1549 Compl. 41/21.
Steir clene vp the helme, this and so 1641 Baillie I 349.
They packed it up betwixt themselves thus and sua

2. (And) so; consequently, accordingly; therefore (as a consequence of what has been said before).(a) 1456 Hay I 67/2.
And thus lordschip and jurisdiccioun cummys first of God and of resoun naturale a1561 Q. Kennedy Breif Tract. (ed.) 117/6.
This ma thow cleirly persaif that [etc.] a1561 Q. Kennedy Breif Tract. (ed.) 137/3.
Thys may the reader cleirlye perceaue that [etc.] c1590 Fowler II 10/32.
This leauing to trouble ȝour lordschip any longer, I commit ȝow to God(b) c1600 Montg. Suppl. xxix 45.
Thes do I sore complene of sine

3. Qualifying an adj., adv. or p.p.: To this extent, as … as this. c1420 Bute MS 141a.
For the qwhilkys I tax apon the half of this said A his scathis thus mony penyis 1447 (1451) Reg. Great S. 106/2.
Thusmekil the said Alex. … payande for the said landis a1450 Fifteen Ois 343.
My God, now in hy Hes thou left me thus alanerly a1500 Henr. Fab. 2893.
This selie mous, this plungit in grit pane a1500 K. Hart 612.
Ȝe did greit mis … That sleuthfullie suld lat ȝour tyme our sleif And cum this lait a1500 Prestis of Peblis 955.
It that I haue hecht thus sone sal be c1500 Crying of Play 100.
I am all crynd in for eld, This litill as ȝe may se c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 99/46.
This far furth I dar him prais a1570-86 Arbuthnot in Maitl. F. 49/6.
Quhat alis ȝow at me That all dois wirk this contrair my intent c1590 Fowler II 49/2.
This far faithfully of Cyprians letter 1596 Dalr. I 120/1.
This far to the lawis of the realme we ar astricted 1638 Henderson Serm. 437.
Happy were me, if we could come but this far on 1641 Baillie I 353.
Gravesend … I am this farr in my way homeward