† theretoˈyens, adv. Obs.
Forms: 1 þær toᵹeanes, þar toᵹenes, 3 þer to ȝenes, þertoȝeines, þerteyens.
[Orig. two words: OE. þǽr, there 17, toᵹenes, to-gains; if the compound had survived till 15th c. it would have become theretogainst.]
1. Against or in opposition to that.
| c 1000 ælfric Hom. I. 236 Swilce hi wislice sprecon! Ac we cweðað þær toᵹeanes, þæt God is ælmihtiᵹ. a 1225 Ancr. R. 80 Nu we schullen sumhwat speken..aȝein vuel speche þæt ȝe þertoȝeines tunen ower earen. 1340 Ayenb. 11 Huo þet deþ þerteyens be his wytinde zenȝeþ dyadliche. |
2. In return for that; in exchange therefor.
| 1066–9 in Thorpe Charters (1865) 436 We habbaþ heom ᵹeunnen..and hi us þar toᵹenes ᵹifeþ. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 203 Ech man þe for mine name..folȝeð me he shal fon þer to ȝenes hundredfeld mede. |