There

adv. (a., sb.) Forms: see below. [OE. þǽr, þár, þér, cognate with OS. thâr, OFris. thêr, dêr, MLG. dār, MDu. daer, Du. daar, OHG. dâr (MHG. dâr, dâ, Ger. da); cf. also Goth. þar, ON. þar (Sw., Da. der); all derivatives of the demonstrative stem þa-, pre-Teut. to- (THAT, THE) The adverbial suffix -r appears also in OE. hwǽr, hwér, hwar, WHERE.

  Besides þǽr, etc., OE. had also a rare form þāra, prob. an emphatic deriv., like OHG. dāra, dāre, and not cognate with OHG. dara, MHG. dare, dar, ‘thither.’ In ME. all the variants þār, þǣr, þêr, þôr appear also with final -e, perh. taken from the advb. -e in inne, uppe, ūte, fore, etc. The later forms thare and there may represent ME. þāre, þēre, or the final e may merely indicate the long vowel.]

  A.  Illustration of Forms.

  α.  1 þára.

c. 888.  K. Ælfred, Boeth., xxxiii. § 5. Ac hit is þeah þara.

c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Mark xiv. 15. ʓe ʓe-earwiað us þara [Hatton þare, Lindisf. & Rushw. ðer].

  β.  1–3 þǽr, 2 þǽre.

c. 888.  K. Ælfred, Boeth., xxxiii. § 5. Swa is eac þær fyr on ðam stanum and on ðam wætere.

a. 900.  trans. Bæda’s Hist., I. i. (1890), 28. Swa þæt ðær seldon snau leng liʓeð þonne ðry daʓas.

c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Matt. xiv. 23. He wæs ana þær.

a. 1131.  O. E. Chron., an. 1123. Ða … ferde se king to Winceastre and wæs ealle Eastren tyde þære.

c. 1200.  Ormin, 2789. Þe laffdiȝ Marȝe comm Till Zacariȝess bottle, And spacc þær wiþþ Elysabæþ.

  γ.  1–2 þár, 2–5 þar, þare, 3–5 north. þaire, 4–6 thar, thare (4–5 tare), 6 Sc. thair, yare, yair.

c. 893.  K. Ælfred, Oros., I. i. § 22. ʓyf þar man an ban findeð unforbærned.

c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Matt. xxi. 17. He … lærde hi þar [A. þær, Hatt. þar, Lind. ðer, Rushw. þær] be godes rice.

c. 1275.  Lay., 27474. Cnihtes þar aswalten; blodes vt hurnen. Ibid., 25651. Þare.

13[?].  Cursor M., 5420 (Cott.). Iacob þaire [Gött. þar] liued seuenten yeir. Ibid., 21655 (Edin.). Thare dide him driȝtin to resune.

a. 1400[?].  Morte Arth., 3603. Thare the false men fletyde, and one flode lengede.

c. 1400.  Rule St. Benet, 21. Þai sal be broht by-fore þe cuuent and tare amende hir faute.

1483.  Cath. Angl., 381/2. Thare, ibi, ibidem, illic.

1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), I. 33. Greit slauchter oftymes wes maid yair.

1562.  Reg. Privy Council Scot., I. 226. Williame Gordoun in Wigtoun, Johne Martine thair, Robert Johnestoun thair.

  δ.  1–2 þér, 3–5 þer, þere (4 tere), 5 þeer, theer, 4–6 ther, 4– there.

c. 950.  Lindisf. Gosp., Matt. v. 24. Forlet ðer [Rushw., Ags. G., Hatt. þær] ðing ðin to wiʓbed. Ibid., Mark iv. 15. Seðe ymb woeʓ ðer [Ags. Gosp. þar, Hatt. þær] bið ʓesauen.

c. 1205.  Lay., 10. Þer he bock radde [c. 1275 þer heo bokes radde]. Ibid., 25651. Nes he þere [c. 1275 þare] buten ane niht. Ibid., 29876. Alle … þa þer icumen weoren. Ibid. (c. 1275), 8. Merie þer [c. 1205 þar] him þohte. Ibid., 582. Þere [c. 1205 þer] Brutus nam Antigo[num].

1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 1796. An vrninde water þat ȝut is þer, ich wene. Ibid., 3519. Þere he huld is parlement.

13[?].  Cursor M., 21104 (Cott.). His bodi is birid tere [rhyme sper; other MSS. þere].

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 3719. Ermonia þe myld maynly was ther.

1412–20.  Lydg., Chron. Troy, II. 4189. I was not þere.

c. 1420.  There [see B. 12].

a. 1425.  Cursor M., 22980 (Trin.). Men wene þe doom shal be þeer.

1430–40.  Lydg., Bochas, IX. xxxi. (1558), 32 b. Clement theer concludyng if he may.

1432–50.  trans. Higden (Rolls), VII. 401. The sedes … whiche hade bene sawen þer of olde tyme.

c. 1440.  There [see B. 9].

  ε.  (variants of δ þer, there) 2 þeor, 3 þear, þiar, 5–7 their, 6 thear, 6– dial. theare.

a. 1200.  Moral Ode, 273 (Lamb. MS.). Þeor beð naddren and snaken. Ibid. (c. 1200), 165 (Trin. Coll. MS.). Ne sal þeih no man samie þiar.

c. 1205.  Lay., 607. Brutus hefde þa men … idon into þan castle & þear heom quic heolde.

a. 1225.  Leg. Kath., 8. Constantin … wunede summe hwile þear.

c. 1425.  Cursor M., 10042 (Laud). Their buxumnes holt her state.

1535.  Coverdale, Josh. xxi. 45. Their myssed nothinge of all the good that the Lorde had promysed.

1563.  B. Googe, Cupido, Eglogs, etc. (Arb.), 117. And … thear, for succour thus doth call. Ibid. (1570), Pop. Kingd., II. (1880), 13. Togither stande they theare [rhyme weare].

1616.  Purchas, Pilgrimage, India (1864), 49. Three of the Gallions driuen on ground,… and had beene their left but for the Frigates.

1655.  Stanley, Hist. Philos., I. 53/2. For their’s no order in Equality.

  ζ.  3–4 pôr, 3–5 þôre, 4–5 thôre.

c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 1844. He droȝ ðider and wunede ðor. Ibid., 2270. Ðat riche louerd ðore.

c. 1300.  Havelok, 922. Go þu yunder and sit þore [rhyme more]. Ibid., 1044. For neuere yete ne saw he or Putten the stone, or þanne þor.

c. 1300.  Harrow. Hell (Harl. MS.), 30. Ihesu crist … seide he wolde vacche hem thore [rhyme sore].

c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 1021. He … wende haue founde Brutus þore.

c. 1380.  Sir Ferumb., 544. Þe Sarsyn þat was þor.

c. 1420.  Chron. Vilod., 2040. To make alle thyngus redy þore [rhyme byfore].

a. 1425.  Cursor M., 409 (Trin.). He vs ȝaf ensaumple þore [rhyme more; earlier MSS. þare … mare].

c. 1470.  Harding, Chron., III. iv. Seleucus than was the first kynge þore [rhyme afore].

  B.  Signification.

  I.  As a demonstrative adverb.

  *  Expressing locality or position.

  1.  In or at that place; in the place (country, region, etc.) pointed to, indicated, or referred to, and away from the speaker; the opposite of here.

c. 888.  [see A. α, β].

a. 900.  [see A. β].

c. 950.  [see A. δ].

c. 1050.  Byrhtferth’s Handboc, in Anglia (1885), VIII. 303. Þonno beoð þær swa fela concurrentes.

c. 1205.  Lay., 716. Þær þu findest seouen houndred.

c. 1400.  Three Kings Cologne, 118. Þei ȝede to þe cite of Sewill … and þere þei leuyd .ij. ȝere.

1523.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. cv. 126. The erle of Derby went to Pelagrue, and ther was sixe dayes.

1673.  Ray, Journ. Low C., 23. At our being there it was held with a strong Garrison.

1786.  Cowper, Lett. to Lady Hesketh, May. I have walked there, but have never walked thither.

1827.  Scott, Highl. Widow, iii. The cloudberry … which is only found on very high hills, and there only in very small quantities.

1874.  Bosw. Smith, Mohammed, etc. (1876), 322. There if anywhere, will be the Armageddon of Islam.

  b.  There (in emphatic use) may be defined by a relative clause, following or preceding, introduced by where († there) or an equivalent.

c. 950.  Lindisf. Gosp., Matt. vi. 21. Ðer vel huer forðon is strion ðin ðer is and hearta ðin.

c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., ibid. Þær ðin gold is þær is ðin heorte.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 20258. Þar i sal be, quar mi sun is.

c. 1500.  Melusine, xxxvi. 294. There where he passed by he enquyred after guedon.

1591.  Harington, Orl. Fur., Pref. ¶ ij b. Where the hedge is lowest, there doth euery man go ouer.

1810.  Crabbe, Borough, iii. 195. Where Time has plough’d, there Misery loves to sow.

1850.  McCosh, Div. Govt., II. i. (1874), 138. Wherever we find law, there we see the certain traces of a lawgiver.

1850.  Tennyson, In Mem., cxxiii. There rolls the deep where grew the tree.

  2.  Appended, unstressed, to the name of a person thing to whose presence attention is called: = Who or that is there, whom or which you see there.

1590.  Shaks., Com. Err., V. i. 275. He din’de with her there, at the Porpentine. Ibid. (1606), Tr. & Cr., II. i. 91. I would haue peace…, but the foole will not: he there. Ibid. (1611), Wint. T., II. iii. 160. You that haue beene so tenderly officious With Lady Margerie, your Mid-wife there.

1794.  Mrs. Radcliffe, Myst. Udolpho, xlii. There she lay,… her face was upon the pillow there!

Mod.  Hand me that book there, please.

  b.  As a brusque mode of address (often in commands) to a person or persons in the place or direction indicated; = you (that are) there.

a. 1596.  Sir T. More, I. ii. 97. Silence there, hoe!

1605.  Shaks., Lear, IV. vii. 25. Louder the music there!

a. 1619.  Fletcher, Mad Lover, III. ii. Put to the doors a while there.

1676.  Dryden, Aurengzebe, II. i. 24. Your fury hardens me:… A Guard there; seize her.

1859.  Habits Gd. Soc., v. 200. He will … use some such phrase as: ‘May I trouble you for that ball, sir?’ not ‘Ball, you there,’ as one sometimes hears it.

Mod.  Hurry up there! Do you hear there? Pass along there, please!

  c.  Emphatically appended to the demonstrative vthat. dial. and vulgar. (Cf. HERE adv. 1 d.)

  Also that ’ere, that ’air.

1742.  Richardson, Pamela, III. 404. On leaving yours and Mr. B.’s hospitable House, because of that there Affair.

1778.  Miss Burney, Evelina (1791), II. xxxvii. 244. Did you ever get a ducking in that there place? Ibid., 245. ‘For the matter of that there,’ said the Captain, ‘you must make him a soldier.’

1818.  Scott, Hrt. Midl., xli. That trunk is mine, and that there band-box, and that pillion mail.

1825.  J. Neal, Bro. Jonathan, I. 244. Is that ’air fellow gone yet?

1840.  Thackeray, Catherine, vi. How came you by that there horse?

1863.  Literary Times, 20 June. The ‘this here’ and ‘that there’ (euphonically contracted into ‘that ’ere’) of the Cockney.

  3.  Pointing to something as present to the sight or perception, chiefly in there is, there are; also, calling attention to something offered (often absol.; cf. 7).

1535.  Lyndesay, Satyre, 1355. Tak, thair, ane vther [i.e., blow] vpon thy peild harne-pan.

1597.  Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., V. ii. 117. There is my hand, You shall be as a Father, to my Youth. Ibid. (1601), Twel. N., IV. i. 27. And. Now sir, haue I met you again: ther’s for you. Seb. Why there’s for thee, and there, and there.

1728.  Ramsay, There’s my Thumb, ii. There’s my thumb I’ll ne’er beguile thee.

1742.  Richardson, Pamela, IV. 375. There’s for you, dear Sir! See what a Mother can do, if she pleases!

1890.  ‘L. Falconer,’ Mlle. Ixe, v. There was that lazy Mr. Lethbridge lounging in the doorway.

Mod.  There is the dinner-bell; make haste. See, there comes the train, Hark! there goes the bugle.

  b.  Pointing out a person or object with approval or commendation, or the contrary. Also in anticipatory commendation of the person addressed; cf. THAT dem. pron. B. I. 1 b.

1595.  Shaks., John, II. i. 163. It grandame will Giue yt a plum, a cherry, and a figge: There’s a good grandame. Ibid. (1596), Tam. Shr., V. ii. 180. Why there’s a wench: Come on, and kisse mee Kate.

1741.  Richardson, Pamela, II. 224. There’s a Word for a Lady’s Mouth!

1780.  Mirror, No. 97, ¶ 26. ‘Quantity of syllables,’ exclaimed the Captain, ‘there is modern education for you!’

1825.  T. Hook, Sayings, Ser. II. Man of Many Fr., I. 191. Tom,… go and fetch the wine for your sister, there’s a dear love.

1870.  Dickens, E. Drood, ii. Don’t moddley-coddley, there’s a good fellow.

1872.  ‘L. Carroll,’ Through Looking-Glass, vi. 123. There’s glory for you!

Mod.  There’s a fine horse! all skin and bones.

  4.  Used unemphatically to introduce a sentence or clause in which, for the sake of emphasis or preparing the hearer, the verb comes before its subject, as there comes a time when, etc., there was heard a rumbling noise. In interrogative sentences there comes between the verb and subject, as Breathes there the man, etc.?, or follows the first word of a compound verb, as Does there breathe a man?, Shall there be any notice taken of it? The same order was formerly observed after an introductory adv. or clause, as Then came there a voice, Soon shall there arise a prophet.

  Grammatically, there is no difference between There comes the train! and There comes a time when, etc.; but, while in the former there is demonstrative and stressed, in the latter it has been reduced to a mere anticipative element occupying the place of the subject which comes later. Preceding or following a main verb, or following any verb, there, thus used, is stressless (proclitic or enclitic: e.g., there-ca′me, brea′thes-there, i′s-there, wi′ll-there), but preceding be or an auxiliary, there has a slight stress, and the verb is enclitic (e.g., the′re-is, the′re-was, the′re-will.).

  a.  with intransitive verbs.

c. 888.  K. Ælfred, Boeth., iii. § 1. Þa com þær gan in to me heofencund Wisdom.

c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Matt. vii. 25. Þa com þær ren and mycele flod and þær bleowun windas.

c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 3863. And ðer ros wreððe and strif a-non Aȝen moysen and aaron.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 19867. Als petre þan bigan til hon [Fairf., Gött. hone] Þar com anoþer voice alson.

c. 1320.  Cast. Love, 736. In þulke derworþe feire tour Þer stont a trone wiþ muche honour.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Melib., ¶ 537. Ne neuere cam ther a vileynous word out of his mouþ.

1470–85.  Malory, Arthur, I. xxiii. 70. Ther maye no knyght ryde this wey but yf he Iuste with the.

c. 1477.  Caxton, Jason, 22. For to sle a man … ther behoueth but one stroke wel sette.

c. 1566.  J. Alday, trans. Boaystuau’s Theat. World, K viij b. There died an infinite number of people.

1590.  Spenser, F. Q., II. ix. 59. There chaunced to the Princes hand to rize An auncient booke.

1609.  Holland, Amm. Marcell., 47. In these Cottian Alpes … there peaketh up a mightie high mount.

1611.  Bible, Numb. xxiv. 17. There shall come a starre out of Iacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel.

1761–2.  Hume, Hist. Eng. (1806), V. lxx. 247. There want not sufficient materials on which to form a true judgment.

1805.  Scott, Last Minstr., VI. i. Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never [etc.]?

1812.  Byron, Ch. Har., II. lxxxii. Lurk there no hearts that throb with secret pain?

1857.  Buckle, Civiliz., I. vii. 399. From all these things there resulted consequences of vast importance.

  † b.  with transitive verbs: usually before an auxiliary of tense or mood. Obs.

13[?].  Cast. Love (Halliw.), 306. Withoute these … Ther may no kyng lede gret lordship.

1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), I. 223. Whan it was ones i-tend … þere couþe no man it aquenche wiþ no craft.

14[?].  Hoccleve, Compl. Virgin, 54. Ther may no martirdom me make smerte.

1548.  Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Acts, 43 b. Peter, knowing … that there woulde some Iewes reproue this his doing.

  c.  with a verb in the passive voice.

a. 1533.  Ld. Berners, Huon, cxi. 385. There coude not be founde a more goodlyer man.

1584.  R. Scot, Discov. Witchcr., X. vii. (1886), 147. Whilest the treasure is a digging, there must be read the psalmes [etc.].

1691.  T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., 99. There’s nothing said herein.

1877.  Ruskin, St. Mary’s Rest, i. § 4. There were no plenipotentiaries sent to the East, and back again.

Mod.  Here, there were found various relics of Franklin’s expedition.

  d.  especially with the verb to be: cf. BE B. 1, 1 b, 5 b. There is, there are, are equivalent to F. il est, il y a, Ger. es ist, es sind, es giebt, Sp. hay. (For such phrases as there is no saying = ‘it is impossible to say,’ see NO a. 4.)

c. 893.  K. Ælfred, Oros., I. i. § 22. Þær is mid Estum an mæʓð.

1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 7551. Þer nas prince in al þe world of so noble fame.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 17787. Vp risen [he] es, dut es þar nan. Ibid., 20123. Ne was tar noiþer seke ne fere.

13[?].  Cast. Love (Halliw.), 275. Ther wes a kyng of myche myȝht.

c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 5467. Waster [was there] non þat wolde hym feyne.

c. 1380.  Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 147. As þouȝ þer were no lif but only in his wrecchid world.

a. 1415.  Lydg., Temple of Glass, 179. And some þer were … That pleined sore.

1456.  Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 1. Into the quhilk buke thare salbe foure partis.

1485.  Caxton, Malory’s Arthur, Pref. Dyuers men holde oppynyon that there was no suche Arthur.

1531.  in J. Bulloch, Pynours (1887), 59. Considering thair has bene and is dalie besynes and ado with the pynouris.

1605.  Shaks., Lear, II. iv. 305. For many Miles about There’s scarce a Bush.

1657–83.  Evelyn, Hist. Relig. (1850), I. 79. Epicurus and his scholars of old … make this an argument of there being no God.

1782.  Cowper, Alex. Selkirk, 2. My right there is none to dispute.

1823.  F. Clissold, Ascent Mt. Blanc, 22. There being no moon.

1842.  Tennyson, Lady Clare, xi. I will know If there be any faith in man.

  e.  When a relative clause follows, the relative pron. (that, who, or which) is often omitted. Now chiefly colloquial or archaic, as in ballad style.

  Cf. THAT rel. pron. 10, of which this is a case.

a. 1366[?].  Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 1239. Ther is no cloth sitteth bet On damiselle, than doth roket.

1470–85.  Malory, Arthur, XIII. iii. 616. There was no knyȝt knewe from whens he came.

1596.  Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., II. iv. 568. There are two Gentlemen Haue in this Robberie lost three hundred Markes.

1806.  Wordsw., Address to Child, 8. But how he will come, and whither he goes, There’s never a scholar in England knows.

Mod. colloq.  There’s a man at the door wants to see you.

  f.  The antecedent, when a simple pronominal word (usu. pl., e.g., they, those, some, rarely sing., e.g., he, she, that), is sometimes omitted. (App. a Latinism, after sunt qui dicunt, and the like.) Cf. THAT rel. pron. 3.

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 12860. There come out of castels & of cloise townes … þat hom bale wroght.

14[?].  Why I can’t be a Nun, 244, in E. E. P. (1862), 144. There weren that dyd not so.

a. 1533.  Ld. Berners, Gold. Bk. M. Aurel., K k iv. There were that saied, that this ambassadour should be chastised.

1560.  Bible (Genev.), Prov. xi. 24. There is that scatereth, and is more increased.

1569.  J. Sanford, trans. Agrippa’s Van. Artes, 101 b. There are of them whiche accompte it a greate offence to touche monie.

1628.  Feltham, Resolves, II. [I.] xiii. 35. There are, to whom Death doth seeme no more then a blood-letting.

1657–83.  Evelyn, Hist. Relig. (1850), I. 9. There have been … who pretend [etc.].

1736.  Welsted, Wks. (1787), 455. There are, I know, who have strong prejudices to opinions of this sort.

a. 1849.  H. Coleridge, Ess. (1851), I. 236. Waller called Milton the old blind schoolmaster, and there are who have spoken of Wordsworth as the stampmaster.

1864.  Browning, Adt Vogler, v. There wanted not who walked in the glare and glow.

  5.  At that point or stage in action, proceeding, speech, or thought; formerly sometimes referring to what immediately precedes or follows: at that juncture; on that; on that occasion; then.

a. 1400.  Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS., 77. At myn endynge … I pray þe lady helpe me þare.

a. 1450.  Le Morte Arth., 2388. The kynge Arthur Answerys thore Wordys that were kene and throo. Ibid., 3480. ‘A! false traytor’ he sayd thore.

1596.  Shaks., Merch. V., II. viii. 46. And euen there his eye being big with teares, Turning his face, he put his hand behinde him. Ibid. (1602), Ham., II. i. 19. And there put on him What forgeries you please.

1647.  May, Hist. Parl., I. vii. 76. There we are at this instant.

1706.  Farquhar, Recruit. Officer, I. i. Brother! hold there, friend; I am no kindred to you that I know of yet.

  b.  And there(’s) an end: and that is the end of the matter or the last word on the subject; ‘and that’s all.’ Obs. or arch.

1591, 1615.  [see END sb. 23].

1596.  Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., V. iii. 64. If not, honour comes vnlook’d for, and ther’s an end.

1650.  Trapp, Comm. Exod. vii. 25. As the dog, who getting out of the water, shakes his ears, and there’s an end.

1872.  Ruskin, Fors Clav., xvi. § 5. Confirmed by the signature of any person whom the Queen might appoint…, and there an end.

  6.  † a. In that case; then. Obs.

c. 888.  K. Ælfred, Boeth., xvi. § 2. Hu ne is se anweald þon þær nauht?

1362.  Langl., P. Pl., A. IX. 32. Þer [B. VIII. 37 þanne] weore þe Monnes lyf I-lost þorw lachesse of himselue.

  b.  In that thing, matter, or business; in that fact or circumstance; in that respect, as to that.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Prol., 259. In loue dayes ther koude he muchel helpe, For there he was nat lyk a Cloystrer.

1585.  T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy., II. xx. 57 b. If the moneye ordayned for the poore is not there bestowed.

1592.  Shaks., Rom. & Jul., III. iii. 137. Thy Iuliet is aliue,… There art thou happy. Ibid. (1602), Ham., III. i. 65. I, there’s the rub. Ibid. (1605), Lear, IV. vi. 148. Oh ho, are you there with me? Ibid. (1613), Hen. VIII., III. ii. 408. There was the waight that pull’d me downe.

1855.  Browning, Bp. Blougram’s Apol., 85. You would be all, I would be merely much; you beat me there.

1884.  H. James, in Eng. Illustr. Mag., Dec., 248/2. It was beastly awkward certainly; there I could quite agree with him.

1896.  Daily News, 17 June, 5/4. There is where the Japanese differ from us.

  c.  Referring to something said or done: In those words, in that act.

a. 1596.  Sir T. More, I. i. 176. Wil. My maisters … lets … sweare true secrecie vppon our liues. Geo. There spake an angell. Come, let vs along, then.

1603.  Shaks., Meas. for M., III. i. 86. There spake my brother: there my fathers graue Did ytter forth a voice.

1829.  Blackw. Mag., XXV. 558. There you have hit the nail on the head, James.

Mod. colloq.  You have me there! I cannot tell you.

  7.  Used interjectionally, usually to point (in a tone of vexation, dismay, derision, satisfaction, encouragement, etc.) to some fact, condition, or consummation, presented to the sight or mind.

1535.  Coverdale, Ps. xxxiv. [xxxv.] 21. They gape vpon me with their mouthes, sayenge: there, there [1611 Aha, aha!]: we se it with oure eyes.

1596.  Shaks., Merch. V., III. i. 87. Why there, there, there, there, a diamond gone cost me two thousand ducats. Ibid. (1606), Tr. & Cr., V. v. 43. Ajax. Troylus, thou coward Troylus. Diom. I, there, there.

1788.  J. O’Keeffe, Prisoner at large, I. vi. There, sir, the bed’s ready.

1824.  Scott, St. Ronan’s, xxx. ‘There now,’ said Touchwood, ‘there was a rencontre between them—the very thing I wanted to know.’

1856.  Mrs. Carlyle, Lett. (1883), II. 295. There! I have put my foot in it!

1872.  Routledge’s Ev. Boy’s Ann., 514/1. ‘There, there,’ my poor father answered, ‘it is not that.’

1876.  Stevenson, Lett. (1901), I. iii. 115. There, that’s your prophecy did that!

1878.  Browning, La Saisiaz, 49. There, the dread descent is over.

1888.  ‘J. S. Winter,’ Bootle’s Childr., ix. And, indeed—— but there, what’s the good of talking about it.

1893.  Burrell & Cuthell, Indian Mem., 210. But there! I was not going to tell you how you felt.

1894.  ‘J. S. Winter,’ Red-Coats, 55. My life’s my own to do what I like with, and I’m going to ’em now, so there!

1903.  Daily Chron., 28 Oct., 7/1. She showered blows upon the lad’s head and shoulders, with the words,… ‘There now, how do you like it?’

  **  Expressing motion to a place.

  8.  To that place: now taking in ordinary use the place of THITHER.

  There and back, to that place and back again. To get there (colloq. or slang): see GET v. 31 c.

a. 900.  O. E. Chron., an. 894. Wæs Hæsten þa þær cumen mid his herʓe.

c. 1205.  Lay., 29876. Alle ut wenden þa þer [c. 1275 þider] icumen weoren.

13[?].  Cursor M., 1780 (Gött.). Quen þai cam þar [v.rr. þare, þere] was þar na bote. Ibid. (a. 1425), 9929 (Trin.). Waried wiȝt comeþ þere neuer.

c. 1440.  Alphabet of Tales, 122. Þis clerk denyed hym & sayd he come nott þer.

1592.  Shaks., Ven. & Ad., 780. And will not let a false sound enter there. Ibid. (1610), Temp., II. i. 99. And the rarest that ere came there.

1663.  Gerbier, Counsel, 41. Strangers that come there.

1858.  J. H. Newman, Mission Bened. Ord., Sel. Ess., 211. When St. Hubert was brought there.

1871.  Mrs. H. Wood, Dene Hollow, xxviii. We shall go only there and back, grandpapa.

1907.  Westm. Gaz., 7 June, 12/1. The ‘there-and-back’ distance between ‘Auld Reekie’ and Inverness is but eight miles less.

1937.  J. R. R. Tolkien (title), The Hobbit, or There and Back Again.

Mod.  Going to the meeting?—I am on my way there.

  II.  As a relative or conjunctive adverb.

  † 9.  In, on, at, or into which place; = WHERE.

  a.  with a sb. as antecedent.

a. 800.  O. E. Chron., an. 755. On þære byriʓ … þær se cyning ofslæʓen læʉ.

c. 950.  Lindisf. Gosp., Matt. vi. 20. Strionas … iuh striona in heofnum, ðer [Rushw. þær] ne hrust ne ec mohðe ʓespilles.

c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., John xviii. 20. Ic lærde … on temple þar [Hatt. þær ealle iudeas togædere comon.

c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 91. Bi þere stret þere petrus forð-eoðe.

a. 1272.  Luue Ron, 122, in O. E. Misc., 97. Hit stont vppon a treowe mote Þar hit neuer truke ne schal.

1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 7683. In þe tresorie at westmunstre þere it ȝut is.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 2904 (Cott.). Þai sink in þat wele Þar neuer man sank Þat was o sele.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Frankl. T., 347. In to hir owene dirke Regioun Vnder the ground ther Pluto dwelleth Inne.

c. 1440.  Pallad. on Husb., I. 21. In places there thow wilt have the culture.

15[?].  Merch. & Son, 92, in Hazl., E. P. P., I. 139. The erthe tremelyd there Wyllyam stode.

  b.  with there also as antecedent: there there = there where, in that place where.

c. 1000.  Ælfric, Gen. ii. 21. God … ʓefilde mid flæsce, þær þær þæt ribb wæs.

c. 1000.  Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xiii. 67. Man mot … hine ʓebiddan, bco þærþær he beo.

c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 85. He … scal þer þer hit is ful, makien hit clene.

a. 1250.  Owl & Night., 295. Loke þat þu ne beo þare þar changling beoþ.

a. 1400.  Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS., 24. Lecherye … mase manes herte to melte, and to playe thare þare his herte lykes.

  c.  with there serving as both antecedent and relative: (In) the place in which; = mod. where, as in ‘I found it where I left it.’

c. 888.  K. Ælfred, Boeth., xxxii. § 1. He nænne ne mæʓ ʓebringan þær he him ʓehet.

c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 35. Ga to þine feder burinesse oðer þer eni of þine cunne lið in.

c. 1220.  Bestiary, 10. Ðe leun … Draȝeð dust wið his stert ðer he steppeð.

1303.  R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 851. And þere men haunted þat custome lest, Falleþ oft tyme grete tempest.

c. 1340.  Hampole, Prose Tr., 5. For þare he es he sekes hym noghte.

13[?].  Cursor M., 2768 (Gött.). Again þaim he ras fra þar [Trin. þere] he sate.

c. 1400.  Laud Troy Bk., 2926. Thei sayled alle on a rawe, Til thei were come ther thei were knawe.

c. 1440.  Capgrave, St. Kath., I. 506. Wyth a G set there C shuld stond.

c. 1500.  God Speed the Plough, 22. Than cometh the clerk … To haue A shef or corne there it groweth.

a. 1533.  Ld. Berners, Huon, lxiv. 221. It had been better for hym to haue taryed there he was.

1594.  T. Bedingfield, trans. Machiavelli’s Florentine Hist. (1595), 182. Your laughing there you are, is the occasion I weep not where I am.

  † 10.  In the very case or circumstances in which; where on the other hand, or on the contrary; whereas, while. (Cf. 6.) Obs.

c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 219. For nu is euerihc man ifo þare he solde fren[d] be.

c. 1380.  Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 32. Þei han … welfare of mete and drynk, þere þei myȝtten unneþe before have bene-bred and watir or feble ale.

c. 1380.  Antecrist, in Todd, 3, Treat. Wyclif, 134. Þei putten grete penaunce unto men þere Cristis charge is liȝt.

1393.  Langl., P. Pl., C. XVII. 88. For pouerte haþ bote pokes to putten yn hus goodes, Ther auarice haþ almaries and yre-bounden cofres.

  III.  11. as sb. That place; the (or a) place yonder.

1588.  R. Parke, trans. Mendoza’s Hist. China, 202. They … kneeled downe right ouer against there whereas the Viceroye sate in a chaire.

1857–8.  Sears, Athan., 19. [Motion] requires a here and a there.

1888.  J. Martineau, Stud. Relig., I. I. i. 68. In the Space-field lie innumerable other theres that never have been here.

1907.  Outlook, 16 March, 339/2. We … draw, laboriously, a small circle in the dark and say, ‘We are here,’ forgetful that there is no ‘here’ nor ‘there.’

Mod.  We shall stay in Birmingham overnight, and go on from there next day. He left there last night,.

  IV.  Phrases. (from I.)

  12.  a. To be there: to be at or in the place in question; to be present or at hand.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 1248. Þou wat þat i was neuer þare.

c. 1400.  Brut, ccxxv. 295. He wolde be þer him-self in al þe haste þat he myȝt.

c. 1420.  Avow. Arth., xxiii. Kay callut on Gauan, ȝorne Asshes ‘Quo is there?’

1600.  St. Papers Eliz., Domestic, CLXXVIII. No. 78 (P.R.O.). Whether S^r John davyes were ther or not thys examinate can not tell.

1602.  Shaks., Ham., I. i. 1. Who’s there?

1722.  Ramsay, Three Bonnets, II. 43. Ha, ha! ye Judas, are ye there?

1818.  Lady Morgan, Autobiog. (1859), 49. The Duke of Sussex was there, with Lady Arran,… and the whole family of Gore.

1881.  Lady Herbert, Edith, 17. The ‘little rift within the lute’ was still there.

  b.  To be all there (colloq.): to have all one’s faculties or wits about one; to be smart or on the alert; hence, not all there = not quite right in the head.

1864.  Mrs. Gatty, Parab. fr. Nat., Ser. IV. 3. Hans Jansen was what is commonly called not all there.

1883.  Payn, Thicker than Water, xx. It was his excusable boast … that when anything was wanted he was ‘all there.’

1889.  Lucy B. Walford, Stiff-necked Generation, 325. ‘Was he there after dinner last night?’ ‘Very much there.’

1900.  Daily News, 23 April, 8/1. But they were of the real Lancashire type, and were, as the phrase goes, ‘all there.’

1913.  Alice Brown, Robin Hood’s Barn, ii. 68. At that he did look at her a moment, his brows drawn together in a puzzled stare of arrested interest, and Stayson thought of the succinct phrase that really covered what she dared imply. He was not ‘all there.’

  13.  a. There and then († there then), at that precise place and time; on the spot, forthwith. Also attrib. (Also then and there: see THEN adv.¹ 1 d.)

1428.  in Surtees Misc. (1888), 8. And þar þan he was asked.

1496.  Coventry Leet Bk., 580. Wheruppon þe seid Laurence was there & then commyt vnto þe Flete.

1600.  Abp. Abbot, Exp. Jonah, 564. Although God do not say before, that there and then he will strike.

1848.  Mrs. Gaskell, M. Barton, xxxviii. Going on the search there and then.

1908.  Daily Chron., 16 July, 3/5. Happily … a there-and-then agreement was come to on their behalf.

  b.  Here and there, here … there, here, there and everywhere, neither here nor there: see HERE adv. 9–12.

  14.  There or († and) thereabouts: primarily in the literal local sense; hence also = that or very nearly that (amount); something like that; approximately. See also THEREABOUTS.

a. 1696.  Aubrey, Lives (1898), II. 226 (Shakspere) He left 2 or 300li. per annum there and thereabout to a sister.

1819.  Scott, Leg. Montrose, xiii. ‘Speak plainly, will there be five thousand men?’ ‘There and thereabouts,’ answered Dalgetty.

1825.  T. Hook, Sayings, Ser. II. Passion & Princ., i. II. 248. A close, or field, containing eight acres, there or thereabouts.

1890.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 431. You’ll mostly find him there or thereabouts, as long as he’s alive.

1890.  Bp. Lightfoot, in Expositor, Feb., 91. Forty-six years there or thereabouts had actually elapsed.

  15.  There he (or she) goes, there you, they, go, is primarily literal, the person going being pointed to (as in 3); but it also calls attention to the way in which a person goes on, acts, talks, etc., usually expressing surprise or disapproval. There it goes! is a common exclamation when a thing falls, disappears, goes off, breaks, bursts, or the like.

1780.  Mirror, No. 97, ¶ 32. ‘There she goes, the travelled lady,’ cried the Captain; ‘she must always have a fling at her catechism.’

1837.  Dickens, Pickw., ii. ‘They’re beginning up-stairs … fiddles tuning—now the harp—there they go.’ The various sounds … announced the commencement of the first quadrille.

  16.  There you are! (colloq.) (a) = there you go! in 15; (b) expressing or drawing attention to the simplicity or ready consummation of a process or action; = There it is for you, there you have it, the thing is done.

1907.  Westm. Gaz., 22 May, 3/1. Tables, setting out in a there-you-are! fashion the declining percentage to the total of British imports into certain countries for two contrasted decades.

Mod.  Can’t find the waiter? That’s quite easy; just press that button and there you are! Accidents are common in Alpine ascents; one false step, and there you are!

  V.  17. There (in branch I) in combination with adverbs and prepositions.

  For the history of these, see note s.v. HERE adv. 16. ‘The compounds of there meaning that, and of here meaning this, have been for some time passing out of use, and are no longer found in elegant writings, or in any other than formulary pieces’ (Todd’s Johnson, 1818, s.v. Therewithall). But see the Main words THEREABOUT, THEREAFTER, etc.

  a.  With adverbs, as there all-about, there east, there-without; † there-gates, in that manner; † there-thence, thence; † there-whyne (-quhyne), from whence. Also THEREAWAY, etc. b. With prepositions: = that, that place, matter, etc., as there-among († -imong), there-below, there-between; thereamid († -emid), amid that; † therebout (-buten) = THEREABOUT; † therebove (-buve(n) = THEREABOVE; † therenext, next to that; † thereoffen = THEREOFFE; † thereouten, out of that; † there-ovenon (-ufenen), above that; † theretoforn, before that (time). Originally mostly written as two words. See also the main words from THEREABOUT to THEREWITHIN.

1422.  trans. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv., 198. Noone god of al that weryn *ther al aboute in al regions.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 11988. Mani childer was *þar emid.

c. 1220.  Bestiary, 601. He ðe swiken *ðer imong.

1899.  Westm. Gaz., 18 April, 2/1. It is a real joy to know that the pilot-fish does hide itself within the capacious throat, or some snug harbourage *therebelow, when danger threatens.

1876.  Morris, Sigurd, III. 194. And lingering flecks of the cloud-host are tangled *there-between.

1885–94.  R. Bridges, Eros & Psyche, October, 9. She … sweeping therebetween a passage wide, Made clear of corn and chaff the temple space.

c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 3625. .vii. moneð *ðor buten he ben.

1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 11614. Bruggen hii breke oueral hii ne beleuede ssip non … þer boute [C. aboute].

c. 897.  K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., viii. 52. *Ðærbufan is ʓeteald hwelc he beon sceol.

a. 1300.  Floriz & Bl., 294. Aboue þe walle stant a treo … lef and blosme beoþ þer buue.

1639.  Baillie, Lett., 28 Sept. (Bann. Club), I. 201. The Tables *there East thought meet they should not conjoyne, bot divided them in foure.

c. 1440.  York Myst., xii. 48. Þus may *þer-gatis be mente.

13[?].  Cursor M., 141 (Cott.). *Þar neist [F. þar next] sal be sythen tald How þat ioseph was boght and sald.

1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 71. Under a treen brugge þat was þere next.

c. 1450.  Lovelich, Merlin, 6294. The wheche child to hire schal ben browht; but *there-offen the peple may weten nowht.

c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 3364. And he smot wið his wond ðor on, And water gan *ðor vten gon.

c. 1205.  Lay., 12423. Heo bigunnen … ane swiðe deope dich & *þer ouen on ouer al ænne strongne stanene wal. Ibid., 17696. Þer ufenen he hæfde Ane ladliche here.

c. 1475.  Partenay, 3125. *Ther thens to uavuent [Vauvent] A man sent in message, Which full courtois was, inly wise also.

a. 1425.  Cursor M., 12479 (Trin.). [He] wende þe maistir were of lyue As oþere *þer to forn were.

1456.  Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 77. And *thairquhyne cumis this?

a. 1500.  Flower & Leaf, 71. Al tho that yeden *there without.