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thereupon, adv.|ðɛərəˈpɒn, ˈðɛərəpɒn|
Forms: see there and upon.
[In ME. two (or three) words.]
1. Upon that or it (of position or motion, lit. or fig.). arch. or formal.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 53 Þes riche men..liggeð þer uppon alse þe tadde deð in þere eorðe. a1225St. Marher. 21 Cume þe sunfule mon ant legge his muð þer up on. a1300Cursor M. 18565 Þar apon þai did þair sele. c1400Brut 103 Þat euery man miȝt..þereoppon loke. c1400Destr. Troy 8447, Yche lede, þat leuys þerapon. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. h ij b, Ye sonday..callit ye day of our Lord, because of his resurrection yairvpon. 1716Lond. Gaz. No. 5480/1 The Goods and Merchandizes laden thereupon. a1774Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 679 If any man thinks he has..formed his own speculative plan thereupon.
†b. Alongside of that. Obs.
c1275Lay. 12423 Hii bi-gonne..anne swiþe deope dich, and þar vp on oueral one stonene wal. 1652Needham Selden's Mare Cl. To Rdr., Divers Potent Princes..who have..large territories lying thereupon [on the sea].
†c. = thereabouts 2 b. Sc. Obs.
1649Bp. Guthrie Mem. (1702) 72 Standing in the Close, with 60 Gentlemen or thereupon about him.
2. Upon that (in time or order); on that being done or said; (directly) after that.
13..Cursor M. 4945 (Gött.) Mete and drinck i gaf þaim bath,..And þar apon [C. þar on] stale [C. þai] þus mi thing. c1400[see thereup 2, quot. 1297]. 1499Bp. R. Fox in Lett. Rich. III & Hen. VII (Rolls) II. 85 [He] wilbe with you at Michaelmas or soone thereupon. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 1 b, Thervpon I begon after my poore maner to wryte in latyn. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvii. 159 If thereupon he accept Duell. 1891Law Times XCII. 104/2 For the purposes of the argument and the decision following thereupon.
b. On that ground; in consequence of that. arch.
1534Starkey Let. to Cromwell in England (1878) p. x, So therapon wyth your beneuolent mynd you may set forward somewhat better my purpos. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 388, I was tane for him, and he for me, And thereupon these errors are arose. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. xviii. 281 In some particular countries, by local custom, where other trees [than oak, ash, and elm] are generally used for building, they are thereupon considered as timber. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. Pref. 5 It had been fitted up for somebody's reception, and been thereupon fresh painted.
3. On that subject or matter; with reference to that (it, them); thereanent. arch. or formal.
1414Rolls of Parlt. IV. 22/2 That ther never be no Lawe made ther uppon. 1439in Archæologia XXI. 35 After þ⊇..Kynges lettres patentz ther upon made. a1557Diurn. Occur. (1833) 34 The erle Bothwell..tuke thame to Abirlady, and disponit thairvpone at his pleasour. 1695Enq. Anc. Const. Eng. 39 Upon a legal process issued out there⁓upon. 1781H. Gates in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. III. 420, I should have been happy to know your sentiments thereupon. 1905Sat. Rev. 23 Dec. 814/2 As the..reports..interest..teachers I venture to address you thereupon. |