adv. arch. [Early ME. two words, þer wiðinnen, wiþinne, = THERE 17 and OE. wiðinnan, WITHIN: cf. THEREINNE, THEREIN.] Within or into that place; within there.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 115. Þe engles þe þer wiðinnen weren.
c. 1320. Cast. Love, 771. Neuer synne þer wiþ Inne com.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, III. 446. Þai na mete þar within had.
1447. Shillingford Lett. (Camden), 104. Eny persone dwelling there withynne.
1885. Tennyson, Prol. to Gen. Hamley, 15. Therewithin a guest may make True cheer.
1892. C. E. Norton, Dante’s Paradise, v. 27. Open thy mind to that which I reveal to thee, and enclose it therewithin; for to have heard without retaining doth not make knowledge.
