adv. Obs. Forms: α. 1 þæronʓen, 3 þer aȝen, (Orm.) þær onnȝæn, 4 þer aȝeyn(e, þer oȝein. β. 3–4 þar again, -egain, -agayn(e, 4 þer agayn(e, again, 5 therageyn. [OE. þǽr onʓé(a)n, two words, viz. þǽr, THERE 17 and onʓéan, ME. onȝen, aȝen, subseq. ogain, AGAIN.]
1. = THEREAGAINST 1.
α. [a. 1023: see 2.]
c. 1200. Ormin, 5304. Þa birrþ þe stanndenn þær onnȝæn.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 8881. Þis mayde was þer aȝen, & wiþ sede it longe.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 3094 (Cott.). We sal neuer do þer again [F. þar a-gayne, G. þar egain, T. þer aȝayn].
13[?]. Guy Warw. (A.), 977. & who so þer oȝain sey ouȝt.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 157. It is byholdinge to hym … þat he goo þere agayne wiþ tonge and hond.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. XXI. 312. And neuere was þer aȝeyn.
a. 1425. Cursor M., 17034 (Trin.). Þer is no mon … may say þer aȝeyne.
1430–40. Lydg., Bochas, IX. xviii. (MS. Bodl. 263), 422/1. Yet ther was sume that gruchched therageyn.
2. = THEREAGAINST 2.
a. 1023. Wulfstan, Hom., xlviii. (Napier), 248. Englas … cyðað þine dæda … and deofol awrit þæronʓen ealle þine misdæda.
13[?]. Cursor M., 20789 (Fairf.). Bot þar againe [C. þar egain] sais Ieronim He wille take na charge on him.
a. 1350. St. Stephen, 109, in Horstm., Altengl. Leg. (1881), 29. Bot þarogayn to þam he kend On thre maners þaire mys to mend.
3. = THEREAGAINST 3.
c. 1330. Arth. & Merl., 5152. Wawain it seiȝe sone on hast, His scheld þer oȝein gan cast.
