adv. arch. [f. WHERE 15 + OUT adv. Cf. Du. waaruit, G. woraus.] Out of which, out from which (in various senses: see OUT adv. and OUT OF).
1340. Ayenb., 242. Lottes wyf lokede behinde hire þe cite þet bernde, huerout hi wes iguo.
1375. in Horstmann, Altengl. Leg. (1878), 132/1. Þe tre of mercy … Where out renneþ oyle of lyf.
c. 1489. Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, xix. 428. He hath betrapped me wythin his gynnes wheroute I can not scape.
1535. Coverdale, Micah ii. 3. I deuysed a plage, wherout ye shal not plucke youre neckes.
1578. in Feuillerat, Revels Q. Eliz. (1908), 300. In the whole — lxviijsijd. whereout abate vjs. viijd.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., IV. v. 245. The very breach, where-out Hectors great spirit flaw.
1641. Earl Monm., trans. Biondi’s Civil Wars, VII. 75. I have not whereout to frame a History.
1768. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), I. 615. The general good becomes the root whereout all our schemes and contrivances … are to branch.
1885. Tennyson, Anc. Sage, 13. The heavens Whereby the cloud was moulded, and whereout The cloud descended.
† b. From which, whence (as an inference). Obs.
1569. J. Rogers, Glasse Godly Love (New Shaks. Soc.), 179. The wife must bee obediente vnto her husband, as vnto Christ himselfe; whereout it foloweth, that the saide obedience extendeth not vnto any wickednesse or euill.
a. 1626. W. Sclater, Exp. 4th Ch. Rom. (1650), 92. The end was, that he might be Father of Believers in both people: whereout amounts the conclusion intended.
† c. Also whereout of (cf. WHEREINTO). Obs.
1574. trans. Marlorat’s Apoc., 21. Yet did hee sauour of the earth, wherout of his bodie was taken, and wherin hee was placed to liue.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. xxiv. 142. Being humbled in our selues by beholding the miseries wherout of we be waded.
c. 1632. in G. Barry, Orkney (1805), 474. The Baillie of the paroch whereout of he has fled, shall cause him be jogged at the church.
