adv. arch. [f. THERE 17 + INTO.]

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  1.  Into that place, matter, condition, etc.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 23222 (Edinb.). Cald sa ken … þat þoh a firin fel war mad, And þoru a chance þar into slad [etc.].

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1611.  Bible, Luke xxi. 21. Let not them … enter thereinto.

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1652.  Kirkman, Clerio & Lozia, 178. No Victualls could be carried thereinto.

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1695.  Woodward, Nat. Hist. Earth, Pref. The Ways whereby I got Light thereinto.

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1867.  Kingsley, in Life (1877), II. 249. I have been drawn thereinto because I find every one talking about it [Darwinism].

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1887.  Morris, Odyss., XI. 36. And the black blood flowed thereinto.

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  † 2.  = THEREIN 2. Cf. INTO 22. Obs.

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1581–2.  Reg. Privy Council Scot., III. 452. The said compliner hes differrit the samin unto the tyme he knew his Hienes and Lordschippis myndis thairinto.

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1676.  Owen, Nat. & Causes Apost., Wks. 1851, VII. 4. On such principles of difference in judgment as have no considerable influence thereinto.

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