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Whereinto

Whereinto \Where`in*to"\, adv.

  1. Into which; -- used relatively.

    Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not?
    --Shak.

    The brook, whereinto he loved to look.
    --Emerson.

  2. Into what; -- used interrogatively.

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whereinto

adv. into which.

Usage examples of "whereinto".

Education is well finished, for all worldly purposes, when the head is brought into the state whereinto I am accustomed to bring a marrow-bone, when it has been set before me on a toast, with a white napkin wrapped round it.

In the mean time they have ready another great earthen pot, as set fast in a furnace, boiling full of water, whereinto they put their pot with rice, by such measure, that they swelling become soft at the first, and by their swelling stopping the holes of the pot, admit no more water to enter, but the more they are boiled, the harder and more firm substance they become.

Then the vast sweetness of that violet night entered into his blood,--filled him with that awful joy, so near akin to sadness, which the sense of the Infinite brings,--when one feels the poetry of the Most Ancient and Most Excellent of Poets, and then is smitten at once with the contrast-thought of the sickliness and selfishness of Man,--of the blindness and brutality of cities, whereinto the divine blue light never purely comes, and the sanctification of the Silences never descends .

Now, holding a lantern above his head, the deviser of the trap whereinto we, mouselike, had blindly entered, came through the cellars, following the brown man who carried Weymouth.

Grace of Ebury performed his most brilliant feat of statesmanship, and redeemed that local off-shoot of the Church of Christ over which he ruled from the political slough whereinto it had fallen.

Method from the essential Saltes of humane Dust, a Philosopher may, without any criminal Necromancy, call up the Shape of any dead Ancestour from the Dust whereinto his Bodie has been incinerated.

Let us not venture into a kind of abyss, out of which races and peoples to come may perhaps find a passage, but whereinto man, in so far as he is man, must not seek to penetrate.

At length my ignorant sleepes, brought me into a thick wood, whereinto being a pritty way entred, I could not tell how to get out of it.

Discoverie of a gaping gulf whereinto England is like to be Swallowed by another French marriage, if the Lord forbid not the Banes by letting Her Majestie see the sin and punishment thereof.

But if a new mental life emerges from the dying form of man, it lies in a spiritual realm whereinto we have no instruments to gaze.

He made in the side of each animal an opening, whereinto he crept, and so warmed it into life.

The armada halted, and swung in a great circle, hovering about the wilderness of cloven peaks of naked stone whereinto the fantastic flying cannibal-monsters had borne off both myself and the youth, Tomar.

There were others at Antioch, Iconium and Thessalonica, whereinto he entered, to dispute: And such was the Synagogue of the Libertines, Cyrenians, Alexandrians, Celicians, and those of Asia.