adv. Now formal or arch. [OE. þǽr wiþ, ðærwið, f. þǽr, THERE 17 + wið, WITH prep.]
† 1. Against that (or those); in opposition to that; in return for that. Obs.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gen. xlvii. 16. Drifað hider eowre orf,… and ic sylle eow þær wið mete.
a. 1200. Moral Ode, 300. Warnie [elc man] æc his frend þer wid so ic habbe mine.
c. 1220. Bestiary, 383. Mikel ned, ðat we ðar wið ne dillen.
c. 1300. Cursor M., 28109. I said not ans þar wit nai.
2. With that (or those) as accompaniment, adjunct, etc.; together or in company with that (and in allied senses of with).
c. 888. K. Ælfred, Boeth., xxxiii. § 5. Swaþeah hi sint ðærwið ʓemengde.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 7262. [Samson] slogh his faas, him-self þar with.
1340. Hampole, Pr. Consc., 1751. Þai sal fele þar many a ded brayde, Bot þai sal ay lyf þar with.
1599. Davies, Immort. Soul, I. xxiii. All things … We seeke to know, and how therewith to do.
1885. Law Rep., 14 Q. B. Div. 246. At right angles therewith.
1886. Spurgeon, Treas. David Ps. cxxxii. 10. Every person connected therewith.
1907. Illingworth, Doctr. Trin., iii. 44. The … historical accuracy of the Acts has been amply revindicated…, and therewith the value of its evidence.
1910. Act 10 Edw. VII., c. 38 Sched. B, For Old Age Pensions … and for certain Administration Expenses in connection therewith £500,000.
b. In addition to that; besides, withal.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 2204. Nembrot … O babilon king, stijf in stur, And þer wit [v.rr. þar-wid, -wiþ] was he gret werrur.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xii. 50. Þe water of þis see es full bitter and salt þarwith.
1886. Kipling, Departm. Ditties, etc. (1899), 41. Pagett, M.P., was a liar, and a fluent liar therewith.
c. With that (word, act, or occurrence); that being said or done; thereat, thereupon, forthwith.
c. 1369. Chaucer, Dethe Blaunche, 275. Y fil aslepe, and therewith evene Me mette so ynly swete a swevene.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XIX. 479. Þe vyker … toke his leue, And I awakned þere with.
a. 1425. Cursor M., 10462 (Trin.). Vtayne þer wiþ [G. wid þis word] gon to tene.
1512. R. Copland, Helyas (1827), 76. Therwith the king and the quene went and kyssed theyr sonne Helias.
1517. Torkington, Pilgr. (1884), 33. And ther with they com ner hym.
1868. Morris, Earthly Par., Man born to be King, 107. Therewith he rose And led the way unto a close.
3. With that as instrument; by means of that.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 379. Two pilches weren … to Adam and to Eue broȝt, Ðor wið he ben nu boðen srid, And here same sumdel is hid.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 3828. Is suerd he drou þere Vor to asaile him þerwiþ.
c. 1400. Brut, ccviii. 238. Þai toke stone, and made þerwiþ þe tour.
1526. Tindale, Jas. iii. 9. The tonge … Therwith blesse we God the father and therwith cursse we men which are made vnto the similitude off God.
1579. Langham, Gard. Health (1633), 437. Whether fish or birds be taken therewith.
1725. Bradley’s Fam. Dict., s.v. Mint, If you bathe the affected Part therewith.
b. With that as cause or occasion; on account of or because of that; in consequence of that.
c. 1440. Jacob’s Well, 300. Whan þe flesch sufferyth penauns or hardnesse, it grucchyth þer with.
c. 1500. Melusine, 360. Hys bretheren and the baronnye þere were abasshed therwith.
1526. Tindale, 1 Tim. vi. 9. When we have fode and rayment, let vs theirwith be content.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., March, 24. Therewith affrayd I ranne away.
1792. Cowper, Lett. to J Johnson, 5 Nov. I have finished the Sonnet … and sent it to Hayley, who is well pleased therewith.
