wherewith

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"I go seek the sword wherewith the head of S. John Baptist was cut off."

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  1. pronoun The thing or things with which.
  2. conjunction By means of which.
  3. adverb Obsolete With what or which.

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  • “Oil of gladness” is, in truth, an apt phrase wherewith to describe elation. —  A Mind That Found Itself
  • He was first bred in a private School in St. Martin's -Church, then in Westminster -School, under the learned Mr. Cambden , as he himself intimates in one of his Epigrams Cambden , most reverend head, to whom I owe   All that I am in Arts, all that I know How nothings that, to whom my Country owes The great renown and name wherewith she goes. —  The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets
  • He showed them afore what trouble might fall unto him wherewith, and the like virtuous talk he had so long before his trouble encouraged them, that when he after fell in the trouble indeed, his trouble to him was a great deal the less, quia spicula praevisa minus laedunt. —  The Life of Sir Thomas More
  • A few green tin-boxes, such as solicitors keep title-deeds in, were piled over each other on one side of the window; and on the top of these lay a fox's tail, mounted on an antique silver handle, wherewith, as often as he had occasion to take down a book, he gently brushed the dust off the upper leaves before opening it. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
  • Verily, in this matter, the Papists do more meetly than you More meetly'--wherewith, Mistress Blanche? —  Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada
 

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  1. from Middle English wher with, wharwith, hwer with; from where + with.
 

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/hwɛrˈwɪð/
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