adv. Obs. exc. dial. [OE. þǽr rihte (two words): see THERE 17 and RIGHT adv. 7 b. Cf. HERERIGHT.] Straightway, forthwith; there on the spot.
971. Blickl. Hom., 221. Þa eode he ðær rihte biʓ on sume stowe.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gram., xxxviii. (Z.), 233. Statim, þar rihte.
c. 1205. Lay., 25676. Nu fulle feowertene niht þe feond heo hafueð ihaldet þer riht [c. 1275 forþ riht].
1628. Hobbes, Thucyd. (1822), 92. Because their virtue was thought extraordinary [they] were therefore buried thereright.
a. 1656. Ussher, Ann., vi. (1658), 392. And they with their naked swords threatened to kill then there-right, unlesse they returned to the fight.
1675. Hobbes, Odyss., 112. On me … Bestow’d a ram, which on the sand there-right I made a sacrifice to mighty Jove.
1896. Cheltenham Exam., 12 Feb., 8 (E.D.D.). Er picked un up thurrite un went.
1898. T. Hardy, Wessex Poems, 204. Till he comes to the orchet, when crooping thereright … His lonesome young Bartree appears.
So † Thererights adv., OE. pǽr rihtes [with advb. genitive], in same sense.
a. 1100. Ags. Hymns (Surtees), 92. Pacemque dones protinus [gloss] & sibbe þu selle þær rihtes. Ibid., 113. Ascendant … protinus Ad thronum … [gloss] Astiʓan … þær rihtes to þrymsetle.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 33. Þerihtes he ne bið.
