adv. arch. [f. WHERE 15 + INTO.]
1. Into which.
1539. Bible (Great), John vi. 22. None other shyp … saue that one wher into his disciples were entred.
1569. Golding, trans. Heminge’s Postill, Ded. a vij b. The death whereintoo all mankynde was falne.
1641. J. Jackson, True Evang. T., III. 211. Proverbs, and Apophthegmes, whereinto a great deale of wisedome is abridged.
a. 1676. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man. (1677), 9. They find … some things which they call by these Names, to be that whereinto Bodies are dissolved.
1768. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), I. 519. Voluntary agents … can … change the course whereinto bodies had been thrown by impulse.
1865. Chr. Rossetti, Memory, II. i. I have a room whereinto no one enters Save I myself alone.
12. In which (cf. INTO 22). Sc. Obs.
1560. Diurn. Occurr. (Bannatyne Cl.), 63. Ane buik, quhairinto was contenit, that thair sould be in this realme tuelf superattendentis.
