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Of that or this. In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Gen. ii. 17.

duction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.

necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. Fuller.

Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.

ich has the appearance of being so. The anatomy of a little child, representing all parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller. They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. Shak.

uence. The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof. Isa. iii. 14.

Report; rumor; fame. The bruit thereof will bring you many friends. Shak.

ptismal ceremonies. According to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof shall ye keep it [the Passover]. Numb. ix. 3 Bring her up the high altar, that she may The sacred ceremonies there partake. Spenser. [The heralds] with awful ceremony And trumpet's sound, throughout the host proclaim A sol…

be doubted or denied; established as a fact. The dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. Dan. ii. 45.

Positive enjoyment, of a quiet, permanent nature, together with the sources thereof; as, the comfort of love; surrounded with comforts; but it is with the former only that the word consolation is brought into comparison. As thus compared, consolation points to some specific source of relief for the afflicted mind; as,…

Entrance; entrance way; manner of entering; beginning. "The goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof." Ezek. xliii. 11

counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for. The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day. Bacon. The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries. Prior.

The entry of such adjuornment and the grounds thereof on the record.

trive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize them thereof. Holland.

To place at a distance or remotely. I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles distanced thence. Fuller.

r practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications. The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah iii. 11.

including that previously granted by itself, which authorizes it to appropriate any part thereof to a necessary public use, reasonable compensation being made.

hen used of anything having a first part. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Eccl. vii. 8.

Public report or rumor. The fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house. Gen. xlv. 16.

e is a new word, coined within few months, called fanatics, which, by the close stickling thereof, seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signify what is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age. Fuller (1660). Fanatics are governed rather by imagination than by judgment. Stowe.