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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thereto
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Every party whose signature appears on a bill is primafacie deemed to have become a party thereto for value.
▪ How significant is the development of fairness, whether it be seen as synonymous with natural justice or in juxtaposition thereto?
▪ I was doing a senior thesis in college on cable television economic law and all the regulations related thereto.
▪ Our experience is thereto draw on whenever you wish.
▪ Smarter tyrants followed, and the reaction thereto.
▪ Such notes may be included in the accounts or in separate documents annexed thereto.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thereto

Thereto \There*to"\, adv.

  1. To that or this.
    --Chaucer.

  2. Besides; moreover. [Obs.]
    --Spenser.

    Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red.
    --Chaucer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thereto

Old English þærto "to it, in that place, for that purpose, belonging to;" see there + to. Similar formation in Old Saxon tharto, Old High German darazuo, German dazu.

Wiktionary
thereto

adv. 1 (context archaic quaint English) To that. 2 (context archaic quaint or poetic English) To it.

WordNet
thereto

adv. to that; "with all the appurtenances fitting thereto" [syn: to it, to that]

Usage examples of "thereto".

Let us draw up a set of resolutions to stand together, for the defence of our homes, to death, if needs be, and each man present affix his signature thereto.

GENTLEMEN:--On the 15th day of this month, as I remember, a printed paper manuscript, with a few manuscript interlineations, called a protest, with your names appended thereto, and accompanied by another printed paper, purporting to be a proclamation by Andrew Johnson, Military Governor of Tennessee, and also a manuscript paper, purporting to be extracts from the Code of Tennessee, were laid before me.

Boschock III, known as Paradise, and entitled to all the rights and privileges appertaining thereto, and subject to all the laws, regulations, and customs thereof, so help you God, Amen.

For the first, the technical directorate of an entire Atlantic Sub-Sea Petroleum Corporation district, and all wells, fields, pipelines, stills, storage fields, transport, fabrication and maintenance appertaining thereto.

The leaves are astringent, and useful for healing sores when applied thereto, and for dressing wounds.

Loudun, to the convent of the nuns of Sainte-Ursule, to be present at the exorcisms which will be undertaken by Sieur Barre upon some nuns of the said convent who are tormented by evil spirits, we having thereto authorised the said Barre.

But the punishments and rewards of the future life are not publicly manifested to all, but to those specially who are preordained thereto by God.

If it were so, that the father or the goodman of the house had a matrass or flock-bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town, so well were they contented.

Workthat is may be disfigured or misformed, by taking out some pieces, or adding mishapen parts thereto, or blind Ignorance may not perceive that Uniformity, or Composure thereof.

He therefore appeared before Aunt Chloe with a touchingly subdued, resigned expression, like one who has suffered immeasurable hardships in behalf of a persecuted fellow-creature,--enlarged upon the fact that Missis had directed him to come to Aunt Chloe for whatever might be wanting to make up the balance in his solids and fluids,--and thus unequivocally acknowledged her right and supremacy in the cooking department, and all thereto pertaining.

Despite his age, being of greater years than Marvell, he maintains a manly gravity and thereto a quality I fear Marvell does not possess of utter dedication to his art where Marvell spreads himself thin between his venal politicking, his grand projects and his poetry.

Too unsubstantial to sustain its own weight, it sprawls, like the track of a tipsy snail, indeterminately, slowly developing its sinuosities over the irregular surface of a rock, and slightly adherent thereto, throughout its whole length.

He did not wish to be understood as concurring in any intimation that they would refuse to receive such an appropriation of alternate sections of land because a condition enhancing the price of the reserved sections should be attached thereto.

King appointed thereto his son, the Comte de Vegin, and as the Benedictine monks secretly complained that they should have given to them as chief a child almost still in its cradle, the King instructed the grand almoner to remind them that they had had as abbes in preceding reigns princes who were married and of warlike tastes.

Of all the holy of holies which the thern venerates and worships none is more revered than the yellow wig which covers his bald pate, and next thereto comes the circlet of gold and the great diadem, whose scintillant rays mark the attainment of the Tenth Cycle.