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ard in time, place, or order; in advance from a given point; on to end; as, from that day forth; one, two, three, and so forth. Lucas was Paul's companion, at the leastway from the sixteenth of the Acts forth. Tyndale. From this time forth, I never will speak word. Shak. I repeated the Ave Maria; the inquisitor bad me…

See Forby.

Ready or about to appear; making appearance.

A going forth; an utterance. A. Chalmers.

To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. [Obs.] "Let it forthink you." Tyndale. That me forthinketh, quod this January. Chaucer.

Bold; forward; aggressive.

Direct; straightforward; as, a forthright man. [Archaic] Lowell. They were Night and Day, and Day and Night, Piligrims wight with steps forthright. Emerson.

Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. [Archaic] Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne.

Forward. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.

rectly. Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith. Acts ix. 18.

Therefore. [Obs.] Spenser.

According to; conformably to. [Obs.] Chaucer. Emforth my might, so far as lies in my power. [Obs.]

Far forth. [Obs.] As ferforth as, as far as. -- So ferforth, to such a degree.

Ferforth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

From this time forward; henceforward. I never from thy side henceforth to stray. Milton.

One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.

Straightway. [Obs.]

me; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13.

From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. [Obs.] Spenser.

Within; inside; inwardly. [Obs.] Wyclif. [It is much greater] labor for to withinforth call into mind, without sight of the eye withoutforth upon images, what he before knew and thought upon. Bp. Peacock.