further

present singular third person furthers · participle present furthering · participle past furthered · past furthered · alternative farther

1. transitiveTo help forward; to assist.

   In happie houre we haue ſet the Crowne Upon your Kingly head, that ſeeks our honor, In ioyning with the man, ordain’d by heauen To further euerie action to the beſt.

   c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i

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   Upon this he brought me a cotton bag and giving it to me, said, "Take this bag and fill it with pebbles from the beach and go forth with a company of the townsfolk to whom I will give a charge respecting thee. Do as they do and belike thou shalt gain what may further thy return voyage to thy native land."

   1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 558

   Antonyms: hinder

2. transitiveTo encourage growth; to support progress or growth of something; to promote.

   Further the economy.

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   to further the peace process

alternative farther

1. not comparablecomparative form of farMore distant; relatively distant.

   See those two lampposts? Run to the further one.

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   He was standing at the further end of the corridor.

2. not comparableMore, additional.

   I have one further comment to make.

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   This time Cudicini was left helpless when Natcho stepped up to expertly curl the ball into the top corner. That was the cue for further pressure from the Russian side and it took further Cudicini saves to keep the score down.

   2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport

alternative farther

1. not comparablecomparative form of farTo, at or over a greater distance in space, time or other extent.

   I can run further than you.

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   I live a little further out of town.

   How was your company doing ten years further back?

   “A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]”

   1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

2. not comparablecomparative form of farTo a greater extent or degree.

   Of the two civilisations, this one was further advanced.

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   I do not propose to discuss it any further. - Please, let me explain just a little further.

3. not comparableBeyond what is already stated or is already the case.

   Don't confuse things further.

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   Chapter 10 further explains the ideas introduced in Chapter 9.

   Further, affiant sayeth naught. (A formal statement ending a deposition or affidavit, immediately preceding the affiant's signature.)

   The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.

   2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26

4. conjunctivenot comparableAlso; in addition; furthermore; moreover.

   It is overlong, and further, it makes no sense.

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   I claim further that he did not own the company but only worked there.

   Further, besides sensible things and Forms he says there are the objects of mathematics, which occupy an intermediate position,[…].

   1924, Aristotle, translated by W. D. Ross, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 6

5. not comparableFollowing on (from).

   This example is further to the one on page 17.

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   Further to our recent telephone call, I am writing to clarify certain points raised.

   The Court notes that the applicant’s registration by the StB as their “agent” lies at the heart of the application. Although the Court has no jurisdiction ratione temporis to examine the registration as such, it observes that, further to his registration, the applicant was issued with a negative security clearance and his name and reputation were called into question.

   2006 February 14, European Court of Human Rights, Turek v. Slovakia, number 57986/00, marginal 110