after whichとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From after + which

2005, J.R.R. Tolkien, Kenneth Sisam, A Middle English Reader, ISBN 9780486440231, page Glossary:

after, in accordance with which (mixed Fr. かつ E. constr.), IX 302

副詞

An anaphor introducing an adverbial subordinate clause

1. (temporal location) subsequently
   • 1925, George Oliver Curme, “80.C”, in Principles and practice of English grammar:

     We talked a long while about our boyhood days, after which we had a good dinner.

   • 1215 (later translation), “Clause 32”, in Magna Carta:

     We will not keep the lands of people convicted of felony in our hand for longer than a year and a day, after which they shall be returned to the lords of the 'fees' concerned.

Conjunctive adverb (obsolete)

An anaphor introducing an independent clause

1. (Scotland) [efter + whiche] additionally, moreover
   • 1851, John Spalding, John Stuart ed., “Anno 1644”, in Memorialls of the Trubles in Scotland and in England: A.D. 1624- A.D. 1645, Volume 2:

     ...how no remedie wold be submitted to for preventing those tumvltis. Efter whiche, and vther vnlauchfull and vnparliamentarie actionis, many thingis, receaved and sattled...

1. (Scotland) (temporal location) [efter + whiche + tyme] subsequently
   • 1850, Mark Napier, “Sir William Forbes of Craigievar”, in Memorials of Montrose and His Times, Volume 2:

     ...and wes deteand prisoner be the space of a month; efter whiche tyme the deponer wes permitted be the rebells to come aff upon his paroill to returne agane...

同意語

• (soon afterward): and then, and so, subsequently, so
• (next in order): and then