Therein

adv. Now formal, arch., or dial. Forms: see THERE and IN; also 3 þrin. [OE. þǽrin, f. þǽr THERE 17 + IN prep.]

  1.  In that place or (material) thing.

a. 1000.  Boeth. Metr., xi. 4. Wealdend … heofones & eorðan … & ealra ðara þe ðærin wuniað.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 15895 (Cott.). A knaun freind he had þare in [v.rr. þar ine, þerin].

1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIII. xxvi. (Bodl. MS.). Þerin is a maner kinde of beestes Dolphyns wiþ rugge itoþed as a sawe.

c. 1450.  St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 789. Þai sailed þar in merualously.

1535.  Coverdale, Ps. xxiv. 2. The compasse of the worlde, and all y^t dwell therin.

1676.  Ray, Corr. (1848), 123. If you have observed any errors or mistakes therein.

1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 688. The universe, and the things that are and move therein.

1911.  Act 1 Geo. V., c. 1 Sched. (Paisley Corp. Order Confirm. Act). The late Robert Brodie … by his trust disposition … conveyed his entire property to trustees therein named.

  b.  In or during that time.

1539.  Bible (Great), Exod. xxxi. 14. Kepe my Sabbath … whosoeuer worketh therin, the same soule shalbe roted out from amonge hys people.

  2.  In that affair or matter; in that thing, circumstance, or particular.

c. 1230.  Hali Meid., 3. Maken þe to þenchen hwuch delit were þrin.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 13759 (Cott.). Lok þi will bi noght þar in.

1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 2. That ye neuer … be besy to attempte ony persone therin.

1555.  Harpsfield, Divorce Hen. VIII. (Camden), 83. Therein we do find no fault.

1588.  A. King, trans. Canisius’ Catech., 130. All perdition had the beginning thairin [in pride].

1631.  Heywood, 2nd Pt. Maid of West, IV. Wks. 1874, II. 391. Thou therein hadst much hyperboliz’d.

1882.  Spurgeon, Treas. Dav. Ps., cxix. 17. The more will he be driven towards God for help therein.

  3.  Inside, in the house, within doors. mod. Sc.

1822.  Hogg, Perils of Man, III. vii. 202. Bessy Chisholm—Heh! Are ye therein?

1828.  Buchan, Ballads, I. 113. If ye’ll work therein as we thoreout, Well borrow’d shou’d your body be.

  4.  Into that place or (material) thing.

a. 1240.  Sawles Warde, in Cott. Hom., 263. Þu most al gan þrin ant al beon bigotten þrin, for in þe ne mei hit nanesweis neomen in.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 8852. Þair in [Trin. þerynne] þan was þair relikes don.

1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., III. xviii. (W. de W., 1495), 65. Somtyme grauel and powder falleth therin.

1526.  R. Whytford, Martiloge, 135 b. Than made they a grete fyre … and cast therin pytche and rosyne.

1747.  Wesley, Prim. Physick (1762), 90. Smell to a Spunge dipt there-in.

  † 5.  = THEREON 2: cf. IN prep. 31 a. Obs.

1535.  Coverdale, 1 Sam. xxxi. 4. Then toke Saul y^e swerde, and fell therin. [Cf. Germ. (Luther) fiel darein; Vulg. super eum; next verse has vpon his swerde.]

  † 6.  As relative adv.: In which; into which; = WHEREIN. Obs.

971.  Blickl. Hom., 73. He wæs on Simones huse … þærin ʓeat þæt wif þa deorwyrþan smerenesse on his heafod.

13[?].  Cast. Love (Halliw.), 56. This castel Marie bodi wes, Therin he alyght and his in ches [chose his inn].

13[?].  Cursor M., 396 (Gött.). In þe heiest element of all, Þar in þe fire has his stall.

1422.  trans. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv., 167. The Seete therin as he was woned to sitte.

  7.  Therein a·fter, therein befo·re, therein u·nder, = after, before, below in that document, statute, etc. (Usually written as single words: cf. herein after, etc., s.v. HEREIN.)

1818.  Cruise, Digest (ed. 2), II. 276. Upon trust to preserve the contingent remainders thereinafter limited.

1827.  Jarman, Powell’s Devises (ed. 3), II. 105. A general residuary devise of real and personal estate not thereinbefore disposed of.

18[?].  A. Bain, in B. Stewart, Conserv. Force (1873), viii. 221. He gave ‘mental work’ as one heading, but declined to make an entry thereinunder.