thus

nouns

an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation

frankincense, gum olibanum, olibanum, thus

is derived from

thurify

adverbs

(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result

"therefore X must be true"; "the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"; "we were young and thence optimistic"; "it is late and thus we must go"; "the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted"

hence, so, thence, therefore, thus

in the way indicated

"hold the brush so"; "set up the pieces thus"; (`thusly' is a nonstandard variant)

so, thus, thusly