there upとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

thereup (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, formal, uncommon) Up there; thereupon; upon that.
   • 1834, chapter XI, in The Life and Labours of Adam Clarke, London: John Stephens, page 295:

     I was to preach in the old chapel, Halifax, which is much larger than the new one; and the trustees had set collectors at the foot of the gallery stairs to take silver from all who should go thereup.

   • 1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, page 571:

     This place of endearment! How it is clear! And how they cast their spells upon, the fronds that thereup float, the bookstaff branchings!

   • 1960, William Caxton, transl., edited by Donald B. Sands, The History of Reynard the Fox, Harvard University Press; Oxford University Press, page 74:

     Tho led I him to a place where I told him there were seven hens and a cock which sat on a perch and were much fat and there stood a falldoor by and we climbed thereup.

   • 1962, W. O. Hassall, “Domesticated Animals”, in W. O. Hassall, compiler, How They Lived: An Anthology of original accounts written before 1485, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, page 8:

     If it be said that the track is wrongfully pursued, then must he who traces the cattle lead to the ‘staeth’, and there himself one of six unchosen men, who are true, make oath that he according to folk-right [customary law] makes lawful claim on the land, as his cattle went thereup.