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thereafter, adv.|ðɛəˈrɑːftə(r), -æ-|
[OE. þǽr æfter, two words, viz. þǽr, there 17 and æfter, after; ME. þer after. Cf. OS. thar after (Du. daarachter); ON. þar epter (Sw., Da., Norw. derefter).]
1. After that in time, order, or sequence; subsequently; afterwards. (Now somewhat formal.)
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xix. 144 Hie..ne ondrædað ðone dom þe ðær æfter fylᵹeð. c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 244 Þonne byð se sunnan dæᵹ þær æfter easter dæᵹ. 1154O.E. Chron. an. 1132 (Laud MS.) Was it noht suithe lang þer efter þatte king sende efter him. c1205Lay. 1220 He gon slomnen & þer æfter to slepen. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 8277 Ȝut sone þer after an oþer com al so. 1375Barbour Bruce i. 591 And the King A parlyament Gert set thareftir hastely. 1445in Wars Eng. in France (1861) I. 465 At Witsontide next thereaftere. 1535Coverdale Luke xv. 13 Not longe therafter, gathered the yonger sonne all together. 1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 84 A little thereafter the Generall of the Galleys came to the Monastery. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 50 This prerogative..was thereafter..discontinued. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 513 A year thereafter she must be re-examined.
†b. After that in place or position. Obs.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxi. 9 Ðæt folc þæt þar beforan ferde, and þæt þar æfter ferde. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3644 Ðat briȝte skie bi-foren hem fleȝt, And ðis folc ðor after teȝ.
†2. Conformably thereto, accordingly; thereafter as, according as; to be thereafter, to be conformable or agreeable thereto. Obs.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 133 Euric mon þe lusteð luueliche godes wordes and ledeð his lif rihtliche þer efter. c1200Vices & Virt. 65 Þis is godes ȝiue, ȝif ðu ðus ðe beþencst and ðar after wercst. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 360 Ȝif oþer men wolden be preestis, lyve þei þerafter. 1470–85Malory Arthur iv. xii. 134 Ye shalle be a knyghte of myne, and yf your dedes be there after I shall so proferre yow [etc.]. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xlii. 140 He was .xvii. fote of length, & of bygnes he was therafter. 1535Coverdale Ps. cx. 10 A good vnderstondinge haue all they that do thereafter. 1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) Epist., The presente of a true faithfull subiecte, whiche would haue brought better if his power had been thereafter. 1584Cogan Haven Health (1636) 198 The Physitian, in dyeting, should regard chiefly two things..and thereafter to prescribe lesse or more to be received. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 56. 1618 Bp. Hall Righteous Mammon Wks. (1628) 723 Because these are but flowers,..wee regard them thereafter. 1671Milton P.R. ii. 321. 1727 Gay Begg. Op. ii, That, Madam, is thereafter as they be.
†3. With verbs const. with after, as cry, gaze, look, wish, yearn: cf. after B. 5 e. Obs.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 5 Alle bileffulle men þe waren þo and ðar biforen wissede swiðe ðar after. a1300Cursor M. 486 For godd aght not gif þam mercy, Þat þar efter wil not cri. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. viii. 225 Leue hem in þy lift hand and loke nouht þer-after.
4. quasi-adj. (with n. of action). Subsequent.
1830Galt Lawrie T. iv. xii, Supposing no thereafter increase. |