thother

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Contraction of the other.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

contraction

alternative th'other

  1. abbreviationcontractionobsoleteContraction of the other.

    But th'other halfe did womans ſhape retaine, / Moſt lothſom, filthie, foule, and full of vile diſdaine.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 7
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    Another the like was among the Romanes of Patricij & plebes, thone [the one] ſtriuing with thother a long time, the patricij many yeares excluding the plebes from bearing rule, vntill at laſt all magiſtrates were made cõmon [common] betweene thẽ [them]:[…]

    1562–1565 (date written), Thomas Smyth [i.e., Thomas Smith], “The Diuision of the Parts and Persons of the Common Wealth”, in De Republica Anglorum. The Maner of Gouernement or Policie of the Realme of England, […], London: […] Henrie Midleton for Gregorie Seton, published 1583, →OCLC, pages 19–20

Origin

  1. Middle Englishthother
  2. Englishthother

Inherited from Middle English thother.

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