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In time to come; in some future time or state. Hereafter he from war shall come. Dryden.

Hereafter. [Obs.] Thou shalt hereafterward . . . come. Chaucer.

and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. Milton.

His bridling neck." Wordsworth. By her bridling up I perceived she expected to be treated hereafter not as Jenny Distaff, but Mrs. Tranquillus. Tatler.

o deliberate in respect to their common interests. They first met in 1774, and from time thereafter until near the close of the Revolution. -- The Federal Congress, the assembly of representatives of the original States of the American Union, who met under the Articles of Confederation from 1781 till 1789. -- Congres…

To assert under oath; to depose. [A Scotticism] Sprot deponeth that he entered himself thereafter in conference. State Trials(1606).

of which he reserves the knowledge to himself, with a condition that no will he may make thereafter shall be valid, unless this clause is inserted word for word; -- a precaution to guard against later wills extorted by violence, or obtained by suggestion.

Mood; humor. As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on. Shak.

That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present. Future tense (Gram.), the tense or modification of a verb which expresses a future act or event.

uller. Our present tears here, not our present laughter, Are but the handsels of our joys hereafter. Herrick.

In the present life or state. Happy here, and more happy hereafter. Bacon.

mparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly. Happy here, and more happy hereafter. Bacon.

Never again; at no time hereafter. Testament of Love. Tyndale. Where springtime of the Hesperides Begins, but endeth nevermore. Longfellow.

In a pat manner. I foresaw then 't would come in pat hereafter. Sterne.

penitential tears. "Penitential stripes." Cowper. Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse. Sir W. Scott.

To mention. [Obs.] "As in many cases hereafter to be remembered." Ayliffe.

s distributed at the general judgment. It is a strong argument for a state of retribution hereafter, that in this world virtuous persons are very often unfortunate, and vicious persons prosperous. Addison.

r body or territory; local. All sectional interests, or party feelings, it is hoped, will hereafter yield to schemes of ambition. Story.

rate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man. That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of Thy holy name. Bk. of Com. Prayer.

At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime. "Sometime he reckon shall." Chaucer.