Thêre-âft'er, adv.

adverb

[From there and after. A.-S. thæræfter, after that.]

Sense 1. After that; afterward. Spenser.

Sense 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.

Sense 3. Of that sort. [Obs. and rare.]

My audience is not thereafter. Latimer.