throve

verb

1. (form-of, past)simple past of thrive

   “So three years / She throve, but on the fourth she fell, / Like Herod, when the shout was in his hears, / Struck thro' with pangs of hell.”

   “The melons, pumpkins, and cucumbers throve well on a sandy patch in Doctor's Gully, which was the first site chosen for an experimental garden.”

2. (form-of, nonstandard, participle, past)past participle of thrive

   “But having now done with theſe Excreſcencies of Spain, from whence they pretend to have originally ſprung, let us ſee how thoſe which they lay claim to for their Anceſtors, have throve in their aversion to Induſtry.”

   “I have found my Po-poplars, even in this dry year, to have throve the better for a pretty free trimming.”

   “Areca-nuts and betel-vines in inconsiderable quantities seem to have throve.”