whereafter, rel. adv. Now formal or arch.
(hwɛəˈrɑːftə(r), -æ-)
[where 15.]
After which.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxii. (Laurentius) 113 He tane had halely þe tresoure, Quhare-eftyre socht þe emperoure. c 1410 Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) Prol. 7 He hath ynogh at done..to loke wherafter he hunteth. 1577 T. Kendall Flowers Epigr. 78 So loste he that he had, and that where⁓after he did snatche. 1631 Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 819 The Parish and Lordship of Clipesby..gave name..to a familie of ancient note..whereof there hath beene diuers Knights; where after it had passed in the names of Algar, Elfled, and Odberd, all sirnamed de Clipesby. a 1641 Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. viii. (1642) 489 The image and similitude of God, whereafter God made man at first. 1847 Hare Vict. Faith 68 Whereafter in another generation Consciousness was asserted to be the ground of all existence. 1885 Swinburne Misc. (1886) 163 The judicious Dr. Nott has written in the margin ‘This is much too unqualified’: whereon—or at least, as I presume, whereafter—a pen was struck through the last fourteen words. |
So † whereˈafterward rel. adv. Obs. rare—1.
| 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 354 b/1 Wherafterward..it was shewed..that by cause that place was ouer lytil..they shold do make..another chirche. |