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thereby, adv.|ðɛəˈbaɪ, ˈðɛəbaɪ|
Forms: see there and by.
[OE. þǽrbí, f. þǽr, there 17 + bí, by prep., adv. (a., n.) Cf. G. dabei, Du. daarbij.]
1. By that; by means of, or because of, that; through that. Cf. by A. 30–33, 36.
c897K. ælfred Past. C. v. 42, ᵹif he ðonne bearn ðærbiᵹ [v.r. -bie, Hatt. -bíᵹ] ᵹestriene. a1225Ancr. R. 160 He..feste..one iðe wildernesse vorte scheawen þerbi þet [etc.]. a1300Cursor M. 107 Þar bi man mai hir helping kenn. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) iv. xxxviii. (1859) 63 Supposyng therby for to geten honoure and fame. 1551Cranmer in Strype Life (1694) App. 158 God shal therby be glorified. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. i vij, Ye sall haiff yairby ye hicht of ye æquinoctiall lyne. 1600Hamilton Facile Tr. in Cath. Tractates (S.T.S.) 220 Desyrous to ressaue thairbe, thair eternel felicitie in heauin. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 83 They cannot abide the savour of ointments, but fall mad thereby. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 126 Of the Ten-foot Rod, and thereby to measure and describe the Ground-plot. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 93 The rooms were so full as to render our stay unpleasant, and we thereby lost an anatomy lecture. 1896R. S. S. Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign vi, For fear of having my attention distracted..and of my thereby losing my bearings.
2. Beside, adjacent to, or near that. (In quot. c 1220, Up against that.) Now arch. and dial.
c1220Bestiary 634 A tre he sekeð..ðat is strong..and leneð him..ðer bi. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3361 It was a stede henden ðor bi, On a syde of munt synay. a1300Cursor M. 13765 Þar bi lai many [man] vn-fere. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. iii. 151 Ȝondir is the Holi Goost and therbi is Marie with Seint Peter. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 3915 He duelt in a place þare by. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vii. 32 A couetous Spright.. Who thereby did attend. 1641Heylin Hist. Episc. i. (1657) 23 The twelve fountaines of Elim, and the seventy Palmes that grew thereby. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1840) II. iv. 94 At the foot of a tree thereby. 1875Morris æneid Proem 2 Fields that are thereby. 1888Elworthy W. Somerset Wordbk. s.v., Nif I baint there, you'll vind me thereby.
b. With verbs of motion, in sense of by A. 16.
a1300Cursor M. 15634 Quer i sal þis calice drinc, Or i sal pass þar bi. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 3 Whan my glory shall passe therby, thou shalt se my hynder partes. 1606G. W[oodcocke] Hist. Ivstine iv. 21 The tales of Scylla and Charibdis, which made men beleeve in sailing thereby that they heard the continuall barking of doggs.
c. to come thereby = to ‘come by’ or get possession of that: see come v. 39 b and by A. 15.
c1386Chaucer Wife's T. 128 Whan that he saugh he myghte nat come therby This is to seye what wommen loue moost. c1430[see come v. 39 b]. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 27, I traist eternall glore to se; Christ grant that I may cum thairby.
†3. Besides, together with, or in addition to that.
13..Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xxxii. 524 Wȝuche ben þe seuen synnes dedly, And þe seuen vertuwes þerby. 14..Tundale's Vis. 803 All ȝif god be fulle of mercye, Ryghtwysnesse behoves go þer by. a1500Chester Pl. (E.E.T.S.) 388 That he would revive them sone in hye, With flesh and Sinew and Skynn therby, Which sone he can them geue.
4. In reference to a number or quantity: Very nearly so; somewhere about that; = thereabouts 2, 2 b. Sc.
[c1425Wyntoun Cron. ix. xiv. 1568 A thousande and thre hundyr ȝhere Nynti and v. or þar by nere.] 1557–75Diurn. Occur. (1833) 82 At xij houris at evin or thairby. 1563Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 245 To the nowmer of fourtie personis or thairby. 1582–8Hist. Jas. VI (1804) 172 Thair were takin prisoneris 9 scoire and ten gentillmen or thairby. 1726Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 271 The spurious paper..dully written, two years or thereby after Mr. Henderson's death. 1821Scott Kenilw. x, There was one maiden of fifteen or thereby. 1863A. B. Grosart Small Sins Pref. (ed. 2) 8 It is my intention..to print half-a-dozen or thereby of small books.
†5. With reference thereto; apropos of that; thereanent. Obs.
a1250Owl & Night. 244 Aday [= by day] þu art blynd oþer bisne, Þar by men seggeþ a vorbisne. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 3999 Seynt Gregory telleþ a tale þar by.
b. thereby hangs a tale: see tale n. 3.
†6. In accordance with that. Obs.
1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 19 Preamble, The seid Frensche kyng..the Decree of the enterdiccion dispysyng will not therby reforme himself.
7. quasi-adj. Consequent. nonce-use.
1661Feltham Resolves ii. xl. 262 The chiefest Knowledg that we get, is that of our thereby guilt and misery. |