thereafter, adv.
(ðɛəˈrɑːftə(r), -æ-)
[OE. þǽr æfter, two words, viz. þǽr, there 17 and æfter, after; ME. þer after. Cf. OS. thar after (Du. daarachter); ON. þar epter (Sw., Da., Norw. derefter).]
1. After that in time, order, or sequence; subsequently; afterwards. (Now somewhat formal.)
| c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xix. 144 Hie..ne ondrædað ðone dom þe ðær æfter fylᵹeð. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 244 Þonne byð se sunnan dæᵹ þær æfter easter dæᵹ. 1154 O.E. Chron. an. 1132 (Laud MS.) Was it noht suithe lang þer efter þatte king sende efter him. c 1205 Lay. 1220 He gon slomnen & þer æfter to slepen. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 8277 Ȝut sone þer after an oþer com al so. 1375 Barbour Bruce i. 591 And the King A parlyament Gert set thareftir hastely. 1445 in Wars Eng. in France (1861) I. 465 At Witsontide next thereaftere. 1535 Coverdale Luke xv. 13 Not longe therafter, gathered the yonger sonne all together. 1632 Lithgow Trav. iii. 84 A little thereafter the Generall of the Galleys came to the Monastery. 1760–72 H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 50 This prerogative..was thereafter..discontinued. 1898 Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 513 A year thereafter she must be re-examined. |
† b. After that in place or position. Obs.
| c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxi. 9 Ðæt folc þæt þar beforan ferde, and þæt þar æfter ferde. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 3644 Ðat briȝte skie bi-foren hem fleȝt, And ðis folc ðor after teȝ. |
† 2. Conformably thereto, accordingly; thereafter as, according as; to be thereafter, to be conformable or agreeable thereto. Obs.
| c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 133 Euric mon þe lusteð luueliche godes wordes and ledeð his lif rihtliche þer efter. c 1200 Vices & Virt. 65 Þis is godes ȝiue, ȝif ðu ðus ðe beþencst and ðar after wercst. c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 360 Ȝif oþer men wolden be preestis, lyve þei þerafter. 1470–85 Malory Arthur iv. xii. 134 Ye shalle be a knyghte of myne, and yf your dedes be there after I shall so proferre yow [etc.]. a 1533 Ld. Berners Huon xlii. 140 He was .xvii. fote of length, & of bygnes he was therafter. 1535 Coverdale Ps. cx. 10 A good vnderstondinge haue all they that do thereafter. 1551 T. Wilson Logike (1580) Epist., The presente of a true faithfull subiecte, whiche would haue brought better if his power had been thereafter. 1584 Cogan Haven Health (1636) 198 The Physitian, in dyeting, should regard chiefly two things..and thereafter to prescribe lesse or more to be received. 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 56. 1618 Bp. Hall Righteous Mammon Wks. (1628) 723 Because these are but flowers,..wee regard them thereafter. 1671 Milton P.R. ii. 321. 1727 Gay Begg. Op. ii, That, Madam, is thereafter as they be. |
† 3. With verbs const. with after, as cry, gaze, look, wish, yearn: cf. after B. 5 e. Obs.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 5 Alle bileffulle men þe waren þo and ðar biforen wissede swiðe ðar after. a 1300 Cursor M. 486 For godd aght not gif þam mercy, Þat þar efter wil not cri. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. viii. 225 Leue hem in þy lift hand and loke nouht þer-after. |
4. quasi-adj. (with n. of action). Subsequent.
| 1830 Galt Lawrie T. iv. xii, Supposing no thereafter increase. |