whereinto, adv. arch.
(hwɛərɪnˈtuː, hwɛərˈɪntuː)
[f. where 15 + into.]
1. Into which.
| 1539 Bible (Great) John vi. 22 None other shyp..saue that one wher into his disciples were entred. 1569 Golding tr. Heminge's Postill Ded. a vij b, The death whereintoo all mankynde was falne. 1641 J. Jackson True Evang. T. iii. 211 Proverbs, and Apophthegmes, whereinto a great deale of wisedome is abridged. a 1676 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. (1677) 9 They find..some things which they call by these Names, to be that whereinto Bodies are dissolved. 1768 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 519 Voluntary agents..can..change the course whereinto bodies had been thrown by impulse. 1865 C. Rossetti Memory ii. i, I have a room whereinto no one enters Save I myself alone. |
† 2. In which (cf. into 22). Sc. Obs.
| 1560 Diurn. Occurr. (Bannatyne Cl.) 63 Ane buik, quhairinto was contenit, that thair sould be in this realme tuelf superattendentis. |