adv. rare. [ME. þertoward, f. THERE 17 + TOWARD prep.] Toward that (place, thing, matter, etc.).
a. 1225. Leg. Kath., 1484. Þat alle þat ter bi gað … buhe þer toward.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 52. Eue … turnde hire lust þer toward, & nom & et þerof, & ȝef hire louerd.
1828. [C. H. Phipps], The English in France, III. 263. They [the French] yet have a hankering hope of the perfectibility of human nature, and labour theretoward in all seriousness and good faith.
1875. Tennyson, Queen Mary, II. ii.
| As to this marriage, ye shall understand | |
| We made thereto no treaty of ourselves, | |
| And set no foot theretoward unadvised | |
| Of all our Privy Council. |
1908. Daily News, 29 Feb., 4. The matter of Signor Nasi’s conduct, with the popular attitude theretoward.
