thereonadv.

/ðɛːrˈɒn/

/ˈðɛːrɒn/

Forms: see there adv. and ON n./2; also Middle English þron, Middle English þran.

Etymology: Old English þǽron, < þǽr, there adv. Compounds 1 + on prep.

formal or archaic.

a. Of position, literal or figurative: On or upon that or it.

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the world > space > relative position > high position > position upon > [adverb] > upon that

thereoverc897

thereon971

thereupc1000

thereuponc1175

there-ovenonc1275

971 Blickl. Hom. 71 His þegnas..læddon him to þone eosol, & gedydon þæt he þær on gesittan mihte.

c1220 Bestiary 83 Ðanne goð he to a ston, and he billeð ðer on.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2472 Quar-for þar-on [Trin. Cambr. þeron] godd tok his wrac.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 181 If þe place be whijt & neische and miche moisture þeron.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxiii. 259 He toke his cuppe and made theron .iii. crosses.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) v. ii. 129 If thereon you relye. Ile take my leaue.

1786 Jefferson Wks. (1859) I. 570 To confer with him thereon.

1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) i. iv. 125 All our notion of right and wrong is built thereon.

1896 Law Times 100 358/2 After payment of all charges thereon.

†b. as relative.adv. On which: = whereon adv.

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the world > space > relative position > high position > position upon > [adverb] > upon which

thereonc1330

whereupon1390

whereover1475

c1330 Assump. 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; on to that.

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the world > space > direction > [adverb] > to or towards some thing or place > to or towards that place or direction > onto that or which

whereona1300

thereonc1315

therein1535

thereto1892

c1315 Shoreham iii. 158 Þenche þou most wel bysyly, And þy wyȝt þran by-stowe.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10776 A duu..þare lighted dun, and þar-on lend.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ii. 7 Þe Iews..sett a coroun on his heued and thrast it þeron so fast þat þe blude ran doune.

1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 376 Thairun my lyfe dar I layd [= lay it].

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. H4 Who if it winke shall thereon fall and die.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Glass It slides with ease enough, by reason of the Sand strew'd thereon.

1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. xi. 211 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 adv. 2b.

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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adverb] > after, afterwards, or later > immediately afterwards

thereright971

rightc1175

anonc1225

at (the) nextc1275

hereuponc1385

nexta1387

thereona1400

thereupona1400

synea1425

sincec1450

nextly1572

whereon1600

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5871 And taron [Fairf. þer-on, Gött. þar-on] sett he men at ask Of ilk dai to yeild þair task.

1618 G. Wither Wither's Motto in Wks. (1633) 545 I care not greatly what succeed thereon.

1805 in W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Property V. 266 Any non-claim which had ensued thereon.

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 243 Slowly thereon he gat unto his feet.

†4. From some obsolete uses of on n.²:

a. In that, therein.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [adverb] > within > within there

thereinnec897

thereonc897

thereina1000

therewithinc1200

therebenc1500

thereintill1507

c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care li. 399 Hio is an lytel [burg], & ðeah ic mæg ðæron libban.

c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 410 Aplanta þæron þa soðan lufe.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3626 Þer Bruttus bi-com. and to his liue he wunede þer-an [c1300 Otho þar-on].

c1290 St. Michael 453 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 312 Men seoth þar on liȝt.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. iii. 82 Bid Eolus..clois the presoun of wyndis, and thairon ring.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxvi. 71 I had brought with me a boke... And euery night after supper I reed theron to hym.

b. Into that, thereinto.

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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [adverb]

therein971

thereonc1000

thereintoa1400

c1000 Ælfric Deut. xxxii. 52 Þu scealt geseon þæt land and þu ne cymst þær on.

c1275 Laȝamon Brut 7274 Þar on Brutus bicom.

c. About that, thereof.

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c1000 Ælfric Genesis xxxix. 23 He ne cuðe nan þing þar on.

d. At that, thereat. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > [adverb] > in relation or with reference to or concerning > concerning this or that

hereofc1050

herec1175

hereonc1175

heretoc1175

hereuponc1175

thereofa1200

hereanenta1225

hereabout?c1225

herein?c1225

herebyc1230

therebya1250

theretilla1300

thereabouta1375

thereto1377

hereforc1380

thereanenta1400

thereata1400

thereuntoa1400

thereanentsc1400

thereonc1400

thereupon1414

thereoffena1450

thereatour1457

herintil1489

hereunto1509

thereover1535

hithera1538

hereabouts1584

thereabouts1592

hitherunto1635

hitherto1637

c1400 Brut lxviii. 64 He wondrede þeron gretly, what it myȝt bitoken.

Derivatives

† thereˈonne adv. (also þerone, þronne) [after þærinne, etc.; in later use sometimes only a variant spelling of thereon] Obsolete = thereon adv.

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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [adverb] > on or in contact with a surface or position

thereonnec1175

hereonc1315

whereup1340

upon1382

whereona1400

thereonto1898

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 957 Þa twellfe namess ec. Þatt wærenn don þær onne.

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 89 Ure helende rod þerone.

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 217 Ich wille ew segge þat ich þronne under~stonde.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 1938 Noe..let reise an autere swiþe..þeronne [Vesp. þar-on] made he sacrifise.

c1400 Rowland & O. 416 Ther-one was sett a Sercle of golde.

c1420 Anturs of Arth. 171 Þere one hertly take hede.

thereˈonto adv. rare on to or upon that.

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