adv. arch. [f. THERE 17 + INTO.]
1. Into that place, matter, condition, etc.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 23222 (Edinb.). Cald sa ken þat þoh a firin fel war mad, And þoru a chance þar into slad [etc.].
1611. Bible, Luke xxi. 21. Let not them enter thereinto.
1652. Kirkman, Clerio & Lozia, 178. No Victualls could be carried thereinto.
1695. Woodward, Nat. Hist. Earth, Pref. The Ways whereby I got Light thereinto.
1867. Kingsley, in Life (1877), II. 249. I have been drawn thereinto because I find every one talking about it [Darwinism].
1887. Morris, Odyss., XI. 36. And the black blood flowed thereinto.
† 2. = THEREIN 2. Cf. INTO 22. Obs.
15812. Reg. Privy Council Scot., III. 452. The said compliner hes differrit the samin unto the tyme he knew his Hienes and Lordschippis myndis thairinto.
1676. Owen, Nat. & Causes Apost., Wks. 1851, VII. 4. On such principles of difference in judgment as have no considerable influence thereinto.