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thereunder

[th air-uhn-der]
adverb
  1. under or beneath that.
  2. under the authority of or in accordance with that.
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Origin of thereunder

before 900; Middle English therunder, Old English thǣrunder. See there, under
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Examples from the Web for thereunder

Historical Examples

  • For by them, we can at least get hold of him, and all points in his prior antics can be thereunder disposed of.

    The Arena

    Various

  • Thereunder crept Ulysses, and found great store of leaves, shelter enough for two or three, even in a great storm.

    Stories of the Old world

    Alfred John Church

  • They wore turbans too, and thereunder peered out their elfin faces at me,—faces with protruding lower-jaws and bright eyes.

British Dictionary definitions for thereunder

thereunder

adverb formal
  1. (in documents, etc) below that or it; subsequently in that; thereafter
  2. under the terms or authority of that
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Word Origin and History for thereunder

adv.

Old English þærunder; see there + under.

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