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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,566 words match “WHERE”

WHERE adv. 5 definitions

tuation, position, or circumstances; -- used interrogatively. God called unto Adam, . . . Where art thou Gen. iii. 9.

Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form. Cowper.

WHEREABOUT; WHEREABOUTS adv. 3 definitions

About where; near what or which place; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, whereabouts did you meet him

WHEREAS adv. 3 definitions

At which place; where. [Obs.] Chaucer. At last they came whereas that lady bode. Spenser.

WHEREAT adv. 2 definitions

At which; upon which; whereupon; -- used relatively. They vote; whereat his speech he thus renews. Milton. Whereat he was no less angry and ashamed than desirous to obey Zelmane. Sir P. Sidney.

WHEREBY adv. 2 definitions

By which; -- used relatively. "You take my life when you take the means whereby I life." Shak.

WHEREFORE adv. 3 definitions

For which reason; so; -- used relatively. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Matt. vii. 20.

From which; from which or what place. Tennyson.

WHEREIN adv. 2 definitions

which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift.

WHEREINTO adv. 2 definitions

Into which; -- used relatively. Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Shak. The brook, whereinto he loved to look. Emerson.

having a place; ubiety; situation; position. [R.] A point hath no dimensions, but only a whereness, and is next to nothing. Grew.

WHEREOF adv. 2 definitions

f whom; formerly, also, with which; -- used relatively. I do not find the certain numbers whereof their armies did consist. Sir J. Davies. Let it work like Borgias' wine, Whereof his sire, the pope, was poisoned. Marlowe. Edward's seven sons, whereof thyself art one. Shak.

WHEREON adv. 2 definitions

On which; -- used relatively; as, the earth whereon we live. O fair foundation laid whereon to build. Milton.

Out of which. [R.] The cleft whereout the lightning breaketh. Holland.

Wheresoever. [Obs.]

WHERESOE'ER adv.

Wheresoever. [Poetic] "Wheresoe'er they rove." Milton.

WHERESOEVER adv.

In what place soever; in whatever place; wherever.

WHERETHROUGH adv.

Through which. [R.] "Wherethrough that I may know." Chaucer. Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee. Shak.

WHERETO adv. 2 definitions

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

Same as Whereto.