whereby

«whereby» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: by which; how — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

by which; how

part of speech

adverb

meaning for a pupil

By what means or by which thing. tree →

how it differs from today

Today we would say "how" or "by what means"; the word is old and no longer used in everyday speech.

examples

• And he said: 'O Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?' (Torah GEN.15.8, JPS 1917) tree →
• And now I have something to give you whereby to remember me when I am gone.” (Japanese Fairy Tales) tree →
• Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.' (Torah GEN.44.5, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

manual 10.1; corpora 20 (Torah 9, tales 11, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.3 (Torah alone 21.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And he said: 'O Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?'
• Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.'
• Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and ordinances whereby they should not live;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «whereby» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.