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† whereˈfro, adv. Chiefly Sc. Obs.
(quhairfra).
[f. where 15 + fro prep.]
1. rel. = next.
In quot. 1585 ellipt. = to the place whence.
c1449Pecock Repr. iv. viii. 467 The occasioun wherbi and wherfro the goostli harme and synne comen. 1508Dunbar Gold. Targe 57 Amang the grene rispis and the redis, Arrivit sche, quhar fro anonn thare landis Ane hundreth ladyes. 1541Copland Galyen's Terap. B j b, The thyng wherfro nothyng can be taken, nor put to it. 1585Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 48 He tolde me then, how she flew bak againe, Where fra she came. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. h iv, It behoueth ye cowrse of ye dominicall lettre to be Interrupted, euerie hundereth ȝere quhairfra is subduced ane day. 1643Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. ii. VIII. 66 Thomas Irwing..being verie seik in Quondale, quherfra he was flitting.
2. ind. interrog. = whence 1 b.
1513Douglas æneis ix. vii. 106 To se quhayrfra the grundyn dart dyd glyde. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 25 This guse ȝeirlie in the spring tyme returnes to ws: quhairfra can na man tell. |