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Webster 1913 Edition


Thereto

There-to′

,
adv.
1.
To that or this.
Chaucer.
2.
Besides; moreover.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Her mouth full small, and
thereto
soft and red.
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Thereto

THERETO'


Definition 2024


thereto

thereto

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Adverb

thereto (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, quaint) To that.
    I require the operating manual thereto.
    • c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:
      Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke [] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt []
  2. (archaic, quaint or poetic) To it.
    A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be. Jack Kerouac

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