adv. Now formal. [OE. ðærunder: see THERE 17 and UNDER prep.]
1. Under that or it; below or beneath that.
c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xviii. 130. Ealle ða þe ofer oðre beoð, beoð heafdu ðara þe ðærunder beoð.
c. 1220. Bestiary, 314. He draȝeð ðe neddre of ðe ston … for it wile ðerunder gon.
13[?]. Cursor M., 28731. Þe berer … behouis it [the burden] cast him fra, Quen he mai noght þar vnder ga.
c. 1440. Sir Gowther, 313. There under he made his sete.
1579. W. Wilkinson, Confut. Family of Love, Heret. Affirm., b b. Not that they should alwayes remaine as subject thereunder.
1630. Sanderson, Serm. (1681), II. 311. There is no way but to submit, and to humble our selves thereunder.
1862. Smiles, Engineers, III. 358. A contract with owners of land … for the working of the coal thereunder.
2. Under that title, heading, etc.; under the provisions, or by the authority, of that.
1617. Minsheu, Ductor, Title-p. The Nature, Propertie, Condition … of things there-vnder contayned.
1640. Bp. Hall, Episc., I. v. 21. The cause of those, who there-under have reformed France.
1706. in Parish Accts. St. Julian’s, Shrewsbury, II. 43 (MS.). The Assessors thereunder named or the major part of them.
1885. H. Reed, in Law Rep., 15 Q. B. Div. 160. The intention is that s. 125 … and the rules made thereunder shall constitute a complete and separate code.
1908. Times, 6 May, 17/3. Royalties paid thereunder were to be paid to the publishers.
3. Under or less than that (number, age, etc.).
1535. Coverdale, 1 Chron. xxvii. 23. Them that were twentye yeare olde and there vnder.
