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wherewith, adv. (n.) Now formal or arch.|hwɛəˈwɪð|
[f. where 15 + with prep.]
I.
1. interrog. With what?
c1200Ormin 1718 & tiss me birrþ nu shæwenn ȝuw Whatt itt ȝuw maȝȝ bitacnenn, & whærwiþþ itt maȝȝ fesstnenn ȝuw Inn ȝure rihhte læfe. c1386Chaucer Wife's T. Prol. 131 Wher with sholde he make his paiement If he ne vsed his sely Instrument? 1539Bible (Great) Judges vi. 15 Oh Lord, wher with shall I saue Israel? 1577N.T. (Genev.) Matt. v. 13 But if the salte haue lost his sauour wher with shal one salt? 1588Shakes. L.L.L. i. i. 264 Which with, O with, but with this I passion to say wherewith.
II. rel. With which.
2. In instrumental and allied senses: By means of which; whereby.
Sometimes followed by to and inf. (see to prep. B. 16, and cf. b c below).
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 585 Min handax..Ȝware wiþ ich abbe geans & maniman aslawe. a1300Cursor M. 5399 Now haue we noght ware-wit we mai Lenght our liue wit fra þis dai. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 3835 Þe pape þe kays bers, Whar-with he bathe opens and spers. 1390Gower Conf. II. 214 Sche..hath ynow wherwith to plese Of worldes good whom that hire liste. 1484Caxton Fables of æsop v. vii, He brake the cord wherwith he was bounden. 1526Tindale Eph. ii. 4 The greate love wherwith he loved vs. 1605Shakes. Macb. i. vi. 17 Those honors..Wherewith your Maiestie loades our House. c1730Ramsay Wyfe of Auchtermuchty x, He gat water in a pan, Quherwith he slokend out the fyre. 1880Swinburne Stud. Shaks. 29 That royal robe of heroic verse wherewith he had clothed the ungrown limbs of limping..tragedy. 1904J. T. Fowler Durh. Univ. 5 Without even a shirt of his own wherewith to cover his body.
b. With ellipsis of antecedent, or as compound relative involving antecedent (cf. what C. I.*): That, or something, with which; the means by which. (a) with following clause, usu. with to and inf.; (b) with ellipsis of following clause.
(a)c1230Hali Meid. 11 As gentille wimmen mest alle nu o worlde þat nabbeð hwerwið buggen ham brudgume. c1290S. Eng. Leg. 419/46 Me þinchez..þe feste feble were Bote Men hadden ȝware-with þe wombe Ioye a-rere. c1386Chaucer Prol. 302 And bisily gan for the soules preye Of hem þat yaf hym wher with to scoleye. c1400Rom. Rose 6710, I wole..Telle how a man may begge at nede That hath not wherwith hym to fede. a1533Ld. Berners Huon liv. 181 He had not wherwith to arme him. 1611Bible Ps. cxix. 42 So shall I haue wherewith to answere him that reprocheth me. 1788Priestley Lect. Hist. v. lviii. 460 They will have wherewith to purchase the produce of other countries. 1856C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. iv, Here is wherewith to build the school. a1891R. W. Barbour Thoughts (1900) 80 Where is one to get wherewith to help another if not from the healed scars in himself?
(b)1393Langl. P. Pl. C. vii. 317 Roberd þe ryfeler on reddite lokede, And for þer was nat wher-with he wepte ful sore. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccv. 99 They..taryed..to refresshe theym..for they founde in that abbey well wher⁓with. 1550Crowley Way to Wealth 21 Holde the candle to them that haue wherewyth, and wyll sette lustily to it.
c. = wherewithal 2 c, which is more usual.
(a)1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 99 A least bitling is made as much for cleaving, if it had but a wherewith to be cloven. 1876Spencer Princ. Sociol. §15. I. 19 Heavily taxed in providing the wherewith to meet excessive loss by radiation.
(b)1825Jennings Obs. Dial. W. Eng., Wherewi', property, estate; money.
3. With which as cause or occasion; in consequence of which; on account of or by reason of which, whereat; by the agency or effect of which, whereby.
c1440Generydes 3577 Where with the Sowdon was full wele apayde. 1561Winȝet Bk. Questions Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 67 In ony controuersie affirmit be zou, quharewith thai be offendit. 1651in Fuller Abel Rediv., Melancthon 239 He fell into an Ague, wherewith in few dayes he dyed. 1663Patrick Parab. Pilgr. (1687) 346 The World will need such a good example, to reform the evil wherewith it abounds. 1814Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) III. x. 313 Every body that I see talks highly of your steady interest with the public, wherewith..I am pleased but not surprised. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn xxiii, I have far too much wherewith to reproach myself.
4. Along with or together with which; against which; in addition to or besides which.
14..Ephyphanye in Tundale's Vis. (1843) 123 Saf among we knele among the racke Wherewith the son was somtyme thi plesaunce. 1611Bible 2 Chron. xxxv. 21, I come not against thee this day, but against the house, wherewith I haue warre. 1658Earl of Monmouth tr. Paruta's Wars Cyprus 81 To boot wherewith, he had secret instructions given him.
b. With which occurrence, act, etc.: whereat, whereupon, ‘and with that’. arch.
a1533Ld. Berners Huon lvii. 193 As sone as the lady saw Gerames she knew him, wherwith she began to chaunge coloure. 1575Bp. T. Cooper's Reg. (Linc. Episc. Rec. 1912) 123 He gott her neck under his arme & with his leyshe woulde have bound her wherwith she cried out. 1581A. Hall Iliad iv. 61 Yet after this he wils hir hast, wherewith such speed she makes. 1648Gage West Ind. 187 We saw the monster stir and move,..wherewith we made hast from him. 1871Rossetti Poems, Last Confess. 133 Then all the blessed maidens..laughed up at once..Wherewith I woke. |