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thereon, adv. formal or arch.|ðɛərˈɒn, ˈðɛərɒn|
Forms: see there and on; also 3 þron, 4 þran.
[OE. þǽron, f. þǽr, there 17 + on prep.]
1. Of position, lit. or fig.: On or upon that or it.
971Blickl. Hom. 71 His þeᵹnas..læddon him to þone eosol, & ᵹedydon þæt he þær on ᵹesittan mihte. c1220Bestiary 83 Ðanne goð he to a ston, and he billeð ðer on. a1300Cursor M. 2472 (Cott.) Quar-for þar on [T. þeron] godd tok his wrac. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 181 If þe place be whijt & neische and miche moisture þeron. a1533Ld. Berners Huon lxxxiii. 259 He toke his cuppe and made theron .iii. crosses. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. v. ii. 133 If thereon you relye. I'll take my leaue. 1786Jefferson Wks. (1859) I. 570 To confer with him thereon. 1809–10Coleridge Friend i. iv. (1865) 125 All our notion of right and wrong is built thereon. 1896Law Times C. 358/2 After payment of all charges thereon.
†b. as rel. adv. On which: = whereon.
c1330Assump. Virg. (B.M. MS.) 600 Foure of þe apostles schal bere þe beere Ther on schal ligge me modre deere.
2. Of motion or direction: On or upon that or it; onto that.
a1300Cursor M. 10776 A duu..þare lighted dun, and þar on lend. c1315Shoreham iii. 158 Þenche þou most wel bysyly, And þy wyȝt þran by-stowe. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) ii. 7 Þe Iews..sett a coroun on his heued and thrast it þeron so fast þat þe blude ran doune. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 374 Thairun my lyfe dar I layd [= lay it]. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 1139 Who, if it winke, shall thereon fall and die. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Glass, By reason of the Sand strew'd thereon. 1887Morris Odyss. xi. 591 When up reached the elder his hands thereon to lay.
3. As soon as that happened, was done, or was said; immediately after that; = thereupon 2 b.
a1300Cursor M. 5871 (Cott.) And taron [v.rr. þar on, þer on] sett he men at ask Of ilk dai to yeild þair task. 1618Wither Motto, Nec Curo Wks. (1633) 545, I care not greatly what succeed thereon. 1783in Cruise Digest (1818) V. 319 Any non-claim which had ensued thereon. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 243 Slowly thereon he gat unto his feet.
†4. From some obsolete uses of on:
a. In that, therein.
b. Into that, thereinto.
c. About that, thereof.
d. At that, thereat. Obs.
a.c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. li. 399 Hio is an lytel [burᵹ], & ðeah ic mæᵹ ðæron libban. c1000ælfric Hom. II. 410 Aplanta þæron þa soðan lufe. c1205Lay. 7275 Þer Bruttus bi-com and to his liue he wunede þer an. c1290St. Michael 453 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 312 Men seoth þar on liȝt. 1513Douglas æneis i. iii. 82 Bid Eolus..clois the presoun of wyndis, and thairon ring. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xxvi. 71, I had brought with me a boke... And euery night after supper I reed theron to hym.
b.c1000ælfric Deut. xxxii. 52 Þu scealt ᵹeseon þæt land and þu ne cymst þær on. c1275Lay. 7274 Þar on Brutus bicom.
c.c1000ælfric Gen. xxxix. 23 He ne cuðe nan þing þar on.
d.c1400Brut lxviii. 64 He wondrede þeron gretly, what it myȝt bitoken.
Hence † thereˈonne (þerone, also 3 þronne) Obs. [after þærinne, etc.; in later use sometimes only a variant spelling of thereon] = thereon.
c1200Ormin 957 Þa twellfe namess ec þatt wærenn don þæronne. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 89 Ure helende rod þerone. Ibid. 217 Ich wille ew segge þat ich þronne under⁓stonde. c1400Rowland & O. 416 Ther-one was sett a Sercle of golde. c1420Anturs of Arth. 171 Þere one hertly take hede. a1425Cursor M. 1938 (Trin.) Noe..let reise an autere swiþe, Þeronne [C. þar-on] made he sacrifise.
Also thereˈonto adv., onto or upon that. rare.
1898Blackw. Mag. Mar. 406 Thereonto throw nine hairs from the head. |