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Meaning of THEREAFTER

Pronunciation:  `dhehr'aftur

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adv]  from that time on; "thereafter he never called again"
 
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 Synonyms: thenceforth
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\There*af"ter\, adv. [AS. [eth][=ae]r[ae]fter after
that. See {There}, and {After}.]
1. After that; afterward.
2. According to that; accordingly.
         I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in
         the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye
         how books demean themselves as well as men; and
         thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest
         justice on them as malefactors.       --Milton.
3. Of that sort. [Obs.] ``My audience is not thereafter.''
   --Latimer.
 

 

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