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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Thrust \Thrust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thrust}; p. pr & vb n. {Thrusting}.] [OE. ?rusten, ?risten, ?resten, Icel. ?r?st? to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.] 1. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. --Milton. 2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through {To thrust away} or {from}, to push away to reject. {To thrust in}, to push or drive in {To thrust off}, to push away {To thrust on}, to impel; to urge. {To thrust one's self in} or {into}, to obtrude upon to intrude, as into a room to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome. {To thrust out}, to drive out or away to expel. {To thrust through}, to pierce; to stab. ``I am eight times thrust through the doublet.'' --Shak. {To thrust together}, to compress. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: From \From\, prep. [AS. fram, from akin to OS fram out OHG. & Icel. fram forward, Sw fram, Dan. frem, Goth. fram from prob. akin to E. forth. ?202. Cf {Fro}, {Foremost}.] Out of the neighborhood of lessening or losing proximity to leaving behind; by reason of out of by aid of -- used whenever departure, setting out commencement of action being state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also less frequently, the source, the cause the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the aritithesis and correlative of to as it is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony. Experience from the time past to the time present. --Bacon. The song began from Jove. --Drpden. From high M[ae]onia's rocky shores I came --Addison. If the wind blow any way from shore. --Shak. Note: From sometimes denotes away from remote from inconsistent with ``Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing.'' --Shak. From when joined with another preposition or an adverb, gives an opportunity for abbreviating the sentence. ``There followed him great multitudes of people . . . from [the land] beyond Jordan.'' --Math. iv 25. In certain constructions, as from forth, from out etc., the ordinary and more obvious arrangment is inverted, the sense being more distinctly forth from out from -- from being virtually the governing preposition, and the word the adverb. See {From off}, under {Off}, adv., and {From afar}, under {Afar}, adv Sudden partings such as press The life from out young hearts. --Byron. From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: FROM Factory Read Only Memory (ROM)
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