Definition of "throve"
throve
verb
(now nonstandard) past participle of thrive
Quotations
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.
1706, A Collection of State Tracts, Publiſh'd during the Reign of King William III, volume 2, page 134