THE

See Thee. [Obs.] Chaucer. Milton.

A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning.

By that; by how much; by so much; on that account; -- used before comparatives; as, the longer we continue in sin, the more difficult it is to reform. "Yet not the more cease I." Milton. So much the rather thou, Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate. Milton.