adv. arch. [f. WHERE 15 + UNDER prep. Cf. Du. waaronder, Da. hvorunder, G. worunter.] Under which.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 1348. Him thoght it raght fra erth til hell, Quare vnder he sagh his broþer abell.

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1340.  Ayenb., 221. Þe mayde marie made of spoushod hire mentel hueronder wolde by godes zone y-conceyued and y-bore.

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1550.  Bale, Image Both Ch., II. D j b. Thus haue we heere what is done already, and what is it to come vnder this sixt trompet blowyng (where vnder we are now) which al belongeth to the second wo.

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1600.  Fairfax, Tasso, XV. lxii. Her amber tresses … Where vnder loue himselfe in ambush placed.

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1615.  Southampton Crt. Leet Rec. (1907), III. 493. He ought to shutt downe the Scluce where vnder the water Runeth.

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1627.  W. Sclater, Expos. 2 Thess. (1629), 162. The miserable bondage vnder sinne and Satan, whereunder who groanes not?

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1836.  Landor, Pericles & Aspasia, I. xxiv. 49. The flowery bank of youth, whereunder runs the stream that passes irreversibly!

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1888.  ‘H. S. Merriman,’ Yng. Mistley, x. Snowy froth whereunder lay the wise trout.

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