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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb To that, this, or it; thereto.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Thereto.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Unto that or this; thereto; besides.

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  • adverb archaic thereto

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Examples

  • And as this discharge of the duty is in a peculiar manner incumbent on ministers of the gospel, as also on masters of families and others, as they are occasionally called thereunto, so they are to attend unto a fourfold direction therein: --

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Ghost is said to make men overseers of the flocks who are thus called thereunto; because both the communication of power in the constitution of the law, and of spiritual gifts by internal effectual operation, are from him alone, Acts xx.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Vnlesse some man will say that Thule King of 苂ypt (who, as it is thought, gaue this name thereunto) passed so farre vnto an

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Vnlesse some man will say that Thule King of Ægypt (who, as it is thought, gaue this name thereunto) passed so farre vnto an

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • In the same valley stands the famous Towne of Bristow,88 with an Hauen belonging thereunto, which is a commodious and safe receptacle for all ships directing their course for the same, from Ireland, Norway, and other outlandish and foren countreys: namely that a region so fortunate and blessed with the riches that nature hath vouchsafed thereupon should not bee destitute of the wealth and commodities of other lands.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • I do not divest of a share in government, those who have no share in Christ, if lawfully called thereunto; but I say, when God gives governors whom he intends to make

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • It was, I say, the will of God that the church should ordinarily be always under the conduct of such a ministry; and his will it is that those who are called thereunto should be furnished with peculiar spiritual gifts, for the finding out and declaration of the truths that are treasured up in the Scripture, unto all the ends of divine revelation.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • That they were the same persons continued in their first office, as the apostles were, is uncertain and improbable, (though it be not [improbable] that some of them might be called thereunto); as Philip, and Timothy, and Titus, were evangelists that were not of that first number.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Scripture, but subservient unto it; and the great end of it is, that those who are called thereunto, and are furnished with gifts for the discharge of it, might diligently "search the Scriptures," and teach others the mind of God revealed therein.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Now, these being things wherein every believer, even the weakest in the world, hath an equal share and interest with Paul, David, or any of the saints in their generations, what should lie in their way but that they also may grow up to this assurance, being called thereunto?

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

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