thoro
Americanadjective
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She had long been living with the Duke, but in 1769 she obtained a divorce a mensa et thoro, which she believed erroneously annulled the marriage.
From Lady Mary Wortley Montague Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) by Lewis Melville
The projects are such as have proven of exceptional service where woodworking and mechanical drawing are taught in a thoro, systematic manner in the seventh and eighth grades.
From Wood and Forest by William Noyes
I have not time to go into a thoro investigation of the mistakes into which grammarians have fallen in their attempts to explain this "part of speech."
From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by William Stevens Balch
You will allow me to bespeak your favorable attention, and to insist most strenuously on the propriety of a free and thoro examination into the nature and use of these words.
From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by William Stevens Balch
This petty spite work by the moon-struck tool of the lumber trust was in thoro keeping with the cowardly characteristics he displayed on the dock on November 5th.
From The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry by Walker C. Smith
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