i'th'

See also: ith, iþ, ið, -ið, and íð

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪð/

Contraction

i’th’

1. (poetic, archaic) Contraction of in the.
   • c. 1632, John Ford, “Act I, scene i”, in Perkin Warbeck:

     Murdered long since i'th' Tower, − he lives again,
     And vows to be your King.

   • 1675, Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury, transl., Homer's Odysses, London: W. Crook, Lib. XI, page 128:

     Then said Elpenor, Iſſue of Jove, Divine
     Ulyſſes, I had come along with th'Bark,
     But that the Devil and exceſs of Wine
     Made me to fall, and break my Neck i'th' dark.