adv. Now formal or arch. [OE. þǽr æt, two words: see THERE 17 and AT.]
1. At the place, meeting, etc., mentioned; there.
a. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., IV. vii. § 2. Moniʓe untrume … þær æt hælo onfengon.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 9526. Hii hulde a parlement … & þe king him sulf was þerate.
13[?]. Seuyn Sag. (W.), 2358. Whan he com to Rome yate, And wolde wenden out therate.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xvi. 74. Sum saise þai hafe bene þare att.
1526. Tindale, Matt. vii. 13. Many there be which goo yn there att.
1611. Shaks., Wint. T., IV. iv. 500. Not for Bohemia, nor the pompe that may Be thereat gleaned.
1885. Act 48 & 49 Vict., c. 78 § 30. He shall … hold a sitting … and shall thereat take and receive any evidence … offered.
b. With a verb of motion or aim: cf. AT 13.
1517. Torkington, Pilgr. (1884), 27. He cast a stonne ther att.
c. Expressing attachment to a thing: cf. AT 7.
1566. trans. Sc. Acts Jas. III., c. 87. Our Souerane Lord … annexis till his Crowne the Erldome of Ros with the pertinentis, to remane thairat for euer.
1567. in 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., 643/2. Ane tabled hyngand with ane grytt rubye and ane grytt hingand perle thairatt.
1650. Bulwer, Anthropomet., xi. 109. A broad plate … and the Jewel they hang thereat.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 161/2. A Leather Girdle … with a strong Rope … hanging thereat.
2. On the occasion or occurrence of that, thereupon, because of: cf. AT 34, 35.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 2722. Sarra … Herd þis word and logh þar at.
a. 1450. Knt. de la Tour, 98. His wyff … dysdeyned thereatte, and had scorne therof.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, xviii. 68. For to take theratte som comforte.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., II. vii. 34. Thereat the feend his gnashing teeth did grate.
1605. Shaks., Lear, IV. ii. 75. Bending his Sword To his great Master, who, thereat enrag’d Flew on him.
1869. Tennyson, Pass. Arthur, 462. Thereat once more he moved about.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., II. III. 253. Thereat the silver trumpet’s tuneful blare Made music strange.
3. At or in connection with the thing or process on which action is brought to bear: cf. AT 17.
13[?]. Cursor M., 11674 (Fairf.). My hande þer at may naþing do.
c. 1440. Alphabet of Tales, 198. When he fand gude wyne on a tyme, he seld his slavyn & drank it þer-att.
c. 1556. R. Cockes, in Archæologia, XXXV. 20. I trust this weke that cometh we shall do a good chare therat [at the hay-making].
1581. Exch. Rolls Scot., XXI. 551. The saidis parties oblissis thame to … abyid thairat bot any reclaming.
