thereto, adv. Now formal or arch.
(ðɛəˈtuː, ˈðɛətʊ)
[OE. þǽr tó, þǽrtó: see there 17 and to prep.]
To that (or those things), to it (or them).
1. To that place, thing, affair, etc. in various senses of to prep.
| c 1000 ælfric Hom. II. 378 Þæt he us ᵹebringe to his ecan ᵹebeorscipe, seðe þurh his to-cyme us ðærto ᵹelaðode. c 1000 ― Saints' Lives xxv. 227 Mathathias..ofsloh..þæs cynincges ðeᵹn þe hine ðær to neadode. a 1225 Ancr. R. 6 Hwoa se nimeð þing on hond and bihat hit..to donne, heo bint hire þerto. a 1250 Owl & Night. 103 His nest..þar to þu stele in o day & leydest þar on þi fule ey. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 178 Moyses and meny mo mercy shullen synge; And I shal daunce þer to. c 1400 Apol. Loll. 34 Ne to put more þer to, ne to draw þer fro. c 1440 Pallad. on Husb. i. 40 Smell also therto in cas it stynke. 1445 tr. Claudian in Anglia XXVIII. 275 Where he þat is worthy is callid therto. a 1533 Ld. Berners Huon lxxxi. 247 Nere therto there was a lytell wode. 1538 Starkey England i. ii. 53 Such as haue byn long vsyd therto. 1611 Bible Isa. xliv. 15 He maketh it a grauen image, and falleth downe thereto. 1794 G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. IV. xxxviii. 59 The edge of the disk will be perpendicular thereto. 1875 F. Hall in Lippincott's Mag. XVI. 749/2 All circumstances of the provocation thereto being dispassionately considered. 1892 Law Times Rep. LXV. 582/1 The posts..are fixed thereto by iron dogs and dowels. |
2. With words denoting pertinence, suitability, etc., expressed or implied: (Belonging, pertinent, suitable, needful) to that matter or thing; (according) therewith; for that matter, purpose, etc.
| c 1000 ælfric Hom. II. 494 On oðre healfe stod ðæs monan cræt..and ða oxan ðærto. c 1000 ― Saints' Lives xxix. 129 Ures hælendes ᵹerip mæniᵹ-feald is..and feawa wyrhtan þæ r-to. c 1305 St. Andrew 33 in E.E.P. (1862) 99 Hou miȝte hit beo, þat his wille were þerto? c 1425 Eng. Conq. Irel. 6 His hert was mych there-to. 1454 E.E. Wills (1882) 133 My bed of grene sylke, wiþ the testour & Canape ther-to. c 1485 Digby Myst. i. 24 If our cunnyng be ther-too. 1539 Tonstall Serm. Palm Sund. (1823) 86 Hauynge tyme therto. 1556 Aberdeen Regr. (1848) I. 294 All materiallis neidfull therto. 1626 Gouge Serm. Dignity Chivalry §4 Preparation for Warre, Exercises thereto. 1748 G. White Serm. (MS.), Nothing more is needful thereto. 1871 Browning Pr. Hohenst. 643 Now for the means thereto. |
3. Added to that, in addition to that; besides, also, moreover. Now arch. and poet.
| a 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. iii. xiv. [xvii.] (1890) 202 Nowiht aᵹnes..butan his cyricean and þær to feower æceras. c 1000 ælfric De Vet. Test. (Gr.) 14 Ic ᵹesett hæbbe..wel feowertiᵹ larspella on Engliscum ᵹereorde and sumne eacan þær to. a 1121 O.E. Chron. an. 1102, Se eorl Rotbert..hæfde þone eorldom her on lande on Scrobbesbyriᵹ..& micel rice þær to. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 67 His apostles..and monie oðre þere to. c 1386 Chaucer Prol. 153 A Prioresse..Hir mouth ful smal, and ther to softe and reed. Ibid. 353. ― Sqr.'s T. 11. a 1450 Knt. de la Tour 103 To falle from richesse into lowe astate, and thereto pouerte. 1587 Golding De Mornay xi. (1592) 160 Man reasoneth and discourseth, because he is Man: and were he thereto vnchangeable, he were a God. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Isl. xi. xlvi, Thereto of substance strange, so thinne and slight. 1830 Tennyson Talking Oak 196, I would have paid her kiss for kiss, With usury thereto. 1887 Morris Odyss. xi. 287 As Cromius and Nestor,..And thereto the glorious Pero. |