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thereto, adv. Now formal or arch.|ðɛəˈtuː, ˈðɛətʊ|
[OE. þǽr tó, þǽrtó: see there 17 and to prep.]
To that (or those things), to it (or them).
1. To that place, thing, affair, etc. in various senses of to prep.
c1000ælfric Hom. II. 378 Þæt he us ᵹebringe to his ecan ᵹebeorscipe, seðe þurh his to-cyme us ðærto ᵹelaðode. c1000― Saints' Lives xxv. 227 Mathathias..ofsloh..þæs cynincges ðeᵹn þe hine ðær to neadode. a1225Ancr. R. 6 Hwoa se nimeð þing on hond and bihat hit..to donne, heo bint hire þerto. a1250Owl & Night. 103 His nest..þar to þu stele in o day & leydest þar on þi fule ey. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 178 Moyses and meny mo mercy shullen synge; And I shal daunce þer to. c1400Apol. Loll. 34 Ne to put more þer to, ne to draw þer fro. c1440Pallad. on Husb. i. 40 Smell also therto in cas it stynke. 1445tr. Claudian in Anglia XXVIII. 275 Where he þat is worthy is callid therto. a1533Ld. Berners Huon lxxxi. 247 Nere therto there was a lytell wode. 1538Starkey England i. ii. 53 Such as haue byn long vsyd therto. 1611Bible Isa. xliv. 15 He maketh it a grauen image, and falleth downe thereto. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. IV. xxxviii. 59 The edge of the disk will be perpendicular thereto. 1875F. Hall in Lippincott's Mag. XVI. 749/2 All circumstances of the provocation thereto being dispassionately considered. 1892Law Times Rep. LXV. 582/1 The posts..are fixed thereto by iron dogs and dowels.
2. With words denoting pertinence, suitability, etc., expressed or implied: (Belonging, pertinent, suitable, needful) to that matter or thing; (according) therewith; for that matter, purpose, etc.
c1000ælfric Hom. II. 494 On oðre healfe stod ðæs monan cræt..and ða oxan ðærto. c1000― Saints' Lives xxix. 129 Ures hælendes ᵹerip mæniᵹ-feald is..and feawa wyrhtan þæ r-to. c1305St. Andrew 33 in E.E.P. (1862) 99 Hou miȝte hit beo, þat his wille were þerto? c1425Eng. Conq. Irel. 6 His hert was mych there-to. 1454E.E. Wills (1882) 133 My bed of grene sylke, wiþ the testour & Canape ther-to. c1485Digby Myst. i. 24 If our cunnyng be ther-too. 1539Tonstall Serm. Palm Sund. (1823) 86 Hauynge tyme therto. 1556Aberdeen Regr. (1848) I. 294 All materiallis neidfull therto. 1626Gouge Serm. Dignity Chivalry §4 Preparation for Warre, Exercises thereto. 1748G. White Serm. (MS.), Nothing more is needful thereto. 1871Browning Pr. Hohenst. 643 Now for the means thereto.
3. Added to that, in addition to that; besides, also, moreover. Now arch. and poet.
a900tr. Bæda's Hist. iii. xiv. [xvii.] (1890) 202 Nowiht aᵹnes..butan his cyricean and þær to feower æceras. c1000ælfric De Vet. Test. (Gr.) 14 Ic ᵹesett hæbbe..wel feowertiᵹ larspella on Engliscum ᵹereorde and sumne eacan þær to. a1121O.E. Chron. an. 1102, Se eorl Rotbert..hæfde þone eorldom her on lande on Scrobbesbyriᵹ..& micel rice þær to. c1175Lamb. Hom. 67 His apostles..and monie oðre þere to. c1386Chaucer Prol. 153 A Prioresse..Hir mouth ful smal, and ther to softe and reed. Ibid. 353. ― Sqr.'s T. 11. a 1450 Knt. de la Tour 103 To falle from richesse into lowe astate, and thereto pouerte. 1587Golding De Mornay xi. (1592) 160 Man reasoneth and discourseth, because he is Man: and were he thereto vnchangeable, he were a God. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. xi. xlvi, Thereto of substance strange, so thinne and slight. 1830Tennyson Talking Oak 196, I would have paid her kiss for kiss, With usury thereto. 1887Morris Odyss. xi. 287 As Cromius and Nestor,..And thereto the glorious Pero. |