Search the Dictionary

To this; hereunto. Hooker.

The leader or commander of an army; also, a marshal. Blackstone.

Up to this time; hitherto; before; in time past. Shak.

Besides; moreover. [Obs.] Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.

Up to that time; before then; -- correlative with heretofore.

To which; -- used relatively. "Whereto we have already attained." Phil. iii. 16. Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day. Shak.

The end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto, to be sung by the people, by way of a response.

A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.

me. Shak. To buckle to, to bend to; to engage with zeal. To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto. Barrow. Before buckling to my winter's work. J. D. Forbes.

The faith of the whole orthodox Christian church, or adherence thereto.

A district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory.

h, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude. Whereto shall we liken the kingdom of God Or with what comparison shall we compare it Mark iv. 30.

o yield consent; to agree; to acquiesce. [Obs.] Augment or alter . . . And we'll consign thereto. Shak.

sferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.

A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use. [Written also demain.] Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill. Ancient demesne. (Eng. Law) See under Ancient.

To work as a ditcher; to dig. [Obs.] He would thresh and thereto dike and delve. Chaucer.

. . . ere I will leave her. Shak. Ere long, before, shortly. Shak. -- Ere now, formerly, heretofore. Shak. -- Ere that, and Or are. Same as Ere. Shak.

Some time ago; a little while before; heretofore. [Archaic] I am as fair now as I was erewhile. Shak.

Previously; before; formerly; heretofore. Chaucer. Tityrus, with whose style he had erst disclaimed all ambition to match his pastoral pipe. A. W. Ward. At erst, at first; at the beginning. -- Now at erst, at this present time. Chaucer.

Till then or now; heretofore; formerly. [Archaic]