thereupon, adv.
(ðɛərəˈpɒn, ˈðɛərəpɒn)
Forms: see there and upon.
[In ME. two (or three) words.]
1. Upon that or it (of position or motion, lit. or fig.). arch. or formal.
| c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 53 Þes riche men..liggeð þer uppon alse þe tadde deð in þere eorðe. a 1225 St. Marher. 21 Cume þe sunfule mon ant legge his muð þer up on. a 1300 Cursor M. 18565 Þar apon þai did þair sele. c 1400 Brut 103 Þat euery man miȝt..þereoppon loke. c 1400 Destr. Troy 8447, Yche lede, þat leuys þerapon. 1588 A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. h ij b, Ye sonday..callit ye day of our Lord, because of his resurrection yairvpon. 1716 Lond. Gaz. No. 5480/1 The Goods and Merchandizes laden thereupon. a 1774 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 679 If any man thinks he has..formed his own speculative plan thereupon. |
† b. Alongside of that. Obs.
| c 1275 Lay. 12423 Hii bi-gonne..anne swiþe deope dich, and þar vp on oueral one stonene wal. 1652 Needham Selden's Mare Cl. To Rdr., Divers Potent Princes..who have..large territories lying thereupon [on the sea]. |
† c. = thereabouts 2 b. Sc. Obs.
| 1649 Bp. Guthrie Mem. (1702) 72 Standing in the Close, with 60 Gentlemen or thereupon about him. |
2. Upon that (in time or order); on that being done or said; (directly) after that.
| 13.. Cursor M. 4945 (Gött.) Mete and drinck i gaf þaim bath,..And þar apon [C. þar on] stale [C. þai] þus mi thing. c 1400 [see thereup 2, quot. 1297]. 1499 Bp. R. Fox in Lett. Rich. III & Hen. VII (Rolls) II. 85 [He] wilbe with you at Michaelmas or soone thereupon. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 1 b, Thervpon I begon after my poore maner to wryte in latyn. 1651 Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvii. 159 If thereupon he accept Duell. 1891 Law Times XCII. 104/2 For the purposes of the argument and the decision following thereupon. |
b. On that ground; in consequence of that. arch.
| 1534 Starkey Let. to Cromwell in England (1878) p. x, So therapon wyth your beneuolent mynd you may set forward somewhat better my purpos. 1590 Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 388, I was tane for him, and he for me, And thereupon these errors are arose. 1766 Blackstone Comm. II. xviii. 281 In some particular countries, by local custom, where other trees [than oak, ash, and elm] are generally used for building, they are thereupon considered as timber. 1851 Ruskin Stones Ven. I. Pref. 5 It had been fitted up for somebody's reception, and been thereupon fresh painted. |
3. On that subject or matter; with reference to that (it, them); thereanent. arch. or formal.
| 1414 Rolls of Parlt. IV. 22/2 That ther never be no Lawe made ther uppon. 1439 in Archæologia XXI. 35 After þ⊇..Kynges lettres patentz ther upon made. a 1557 Diurn. Occur. (1833) 34 The erle Bothwell..tuke thame to Abirlady, and disponit thairvpone at his pleasour. 1695 Enq. Anc. Const. Eng. 39 Upon a legal process issued out there⁓upon. 1781 H. Gates in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. III. 420, I should have been happy to know your sentiments thereupon. 1905 Sat. Rev. 23 Dec. 814/2 As the..reports..interest..teachers I venture to address you thereupon. |