rel. adv. Now formal or arch. [WHERE 15.] After which.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxii. (Laurentius), 113. He tane had halely þe tresoure, Quhare-eftyre socht þe emperoure.
c. 1410. Master of Game (MS. Digby 182), Prol. 7. He hath ynogh at done … to loke wherafter he hunteth.
1577. T. Kendall, Flowers Epigr., 78. So loste he that he had, and that whereafter he did snatche.
1631. Weever, Anc. Funeral Mon., 819. The Parish and Lordship of Clipesby … gave name … to a familie of ancient note … whereof there hath beene diuers Knights; where after it had passed in the names of Algar, Elfled, and Odberd, all sirnamed de Clipesby.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon., viii. (1642), 489. The image and similitude of God, whereafter God made man at first.
1847. Hare, Vict. Faith, 68. Whereafter in another generation Consciousness was asserted to be the ground of all existence.
1885. Swinburne, Misc. (1886), 163. The judicious Dr. Nott has written in the margin ‘This is much too unqualified’: whereon—or at least, as I presume, whereafter—a pen was struck through the last fourteen words.
So † Whereafterward rel. adv. Obs. rare–1.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 354 b/1. Wherafterward … it was shewed … that by cause that place was ouer lytil … they shold do make … another chirche.
