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Thereafter definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

THERE`AFTER, adv. [there and after.]
1. According to that; accordingly.
When you can draw the head indifferently well, proportion the body thereafter.
2. After that.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adv
1: from that time on; "thereafter he never called again" [syn: thereafter, thenceforth]

Merriam Webster's

adverb Date: before 12th century 1. after that 2. archaic according to that ; accordingly

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adv. formal after that.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Thereafter There*af"ter, adv. [AS. [eth][=ae]r[ae]fter after that. See There, and After.] 1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. --Milton. 3. Of that sort. [Obs.] ``My audience is not thereafter.'' --Latimer.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Thereafter means after the event or date mentioned. (FORMAL) It was the only time she had ever discouraged him from dangerous activities and she regretted it thereafter. = subsequently ADV: ADV with cl

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

ad. 1. Afterward, subsequently, after that. 2. Accordingly, according to that.

Moby Thesaurus

after, after all, after that, afterwards, ex post facto, from here in, from now on, from then on, from this point, henceforth, henceforward, henceforwards, hereafter, hereinafter, in the aftermath, in the sequel, later, next, since, subsequently, then, thence, thenceforth, thenceforward, thenceforwards, thereon, thereupon, therewith