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hereˈfrom, adv. Now rare.
Also 6 Sc. heirfra.
[f. as herefor, -fore adv. + from prep. Cf. Da. herfra.]
1. From this place; hence. Also, from this state or condition.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 33 The boundes [L. trajectus] heirfra till Irland is only xvi. myles. 1679J. Brown Life of Faith (1824) II. viii. 222 Shall we never be redeemed herefrom? 1839J. Rogers Antipopopr. xii. §6. 278 Power to deliver hereto, and to deliver herefrom. 1870Morris Earthly Par. IV. 247 Over the mountain-passes that men see Herefrom, a town there is.
2. From this thing, fact, or circumstance; from this source.
1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. Ep. to Rdr. 3 The profite and commodity that issueth herefrom is great. 1602Carew Cornwall ii. (1811) 248 Others..may (perhaps) take some light herefrom to do the like. 1762Phil. Trans. LII. 472 Herefrom, possibly, the..proportional distances of the fixed stars may be essayed at. |