adv. arch. [f. THERE 17 + UNTO prep.]
1. Unto or to that place; unto that thing, matter, subject, etc.
13[?]. Cursor M., 3717 (Gött.). Hir moder consail was þar vnto [rhyme do; v.r. þar to].
1474. Rolls of Parlt., VI. 113/1. The said sommes … shuld be restored … to every persone … that had payed therunto.
1568. Grafton, Chron., II. 395. To make the offense the greater, he added much therevnto.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Surrey (1662), III. 87. I am affraied that our Infidel Age will not give credit thereunto.
1713. Warder, True Amazons (ed. 2), 105. Many cannot attain thereunto.
1875. Myers, Poems (ed. 4), 89. When God had brought me thereunto.
† 2. In addition to that; = THERETO 3. Obs.
1567. Drant, Horace, Epist., To Rdr. *v. A sillye translator rythmical and thervnto an harde wryter.
1678. Wanley, Wond. Lit. World, V. ii. § 79. 472/1. Of an exceeding courage and strength, of a sharp wit, and thereunto very fortunate.
