adv. Obs. After then, after that time: = THEREAFTER.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, X. i. 494. And thenne after he gaf hym a drynke.
1485. Rolls of Parlt., VI. 285/2. Unabled fro thenceforth for ever, to claime, have or enjoy, any of the premisses, by him thenne after.
1605. T. Sparke, Brotherly Persuasion (1607), 6. Homilies then published and authorised, or to be then after published and authorised.
1791. Selby Bridge Act, 14. At all times for ever thenafter.
So † Then afterward(s adv. phr. in same sense.
a. 1485. Fortescue, Wks. (1869), 486. Thanne afterward he … destroied the Reame of Assury.
1597. Beard, Theatre God’s Judgem. (1612), 99. He … was condemned for an Heretike by the Nicene Councell, and his books burned: and then afterwards making shew before Constantine the Emperour, with a solemne oath to recant his old errours.
1671. H. M., Erasm. Colloq., 226. What didst thou then afterward?
