adv. [Orig. two words, THERE 17 and ABOVE adv.] † a. Above or on the top of that (obs.). † b. Above or more than that (obs.). c. Up above there; up yonder (in heaven). rare.
1382. Wyclif, 1 Kings vii. 35. In the cop … was a maner roundnes,… so forgid, that the watir vessel myȝte be sette there aboue.
1439. in Fenland N. & Q., July (1905), 221. To the somme of xl. ml. marc or yer above.
1891. C. E. Norton, Dante’s Hell, i. 5. That Emperor who reigneth thereabove [I. 124 quello Imperador, che lassù regna]. Ibid. (1892), Paradise, i. 4. Beatrice was standing with her eyes wholly fixed on the eternal wheels, and on her I fixed my eyes from thereabove removed [I. 66 Le luci fisse di lassù rimote].
