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Webster 1913 Edition


Whereto

Where-to′

,
adv.
1.
To which; – used relatively.
Whereto we have already attained.”
Phil. iii. 16.
Whereto
all bonds do tie me day by day.
Shakespeare
2.
To what; to what end; – used interrogatively.

Webster 1828 Edition


Whereto

WHERETO

,
adv.
[where and to.]
1.
To which.
Whereto we have already attained-- Philippians 3.
2.
To what; to what end. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


whereto

whereto

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Adverb

whereto (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, interrogative) To what; to which place, whither?
  2. (obsolete, interrogative) To what end; why?
  3. (archaic, relative) To which.
    • 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
      According whereto Xenophon describeth his gallant plantation at Sardis, thus rendred by Strebæus.

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