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n. One of the Therapeutae. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ F. thérapeutique, Gr. &unr_;, from &unr_; attendant, servant, &unr_; to serve, take care of, treat medically, &unr_; attendant, servant. ] (Med.) Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative. “Therapeutic or curative physic.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Medicine is justly distributed into “prophylactic, ” or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. thérapeutique. ] That part of medical science which treats of the discovery and application of remedies for diseases. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in therapeutics, or the discovery and application of remedies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Therapeutics. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ OE. ther, AS. ð&aemacr_;r; akin to D. daar, G. da, OHG. dār, Sw. & Dan. der, Icel. & Goth. þar, Skr. tarhi then, and E. that. √184. See That, pron. ] 1. In or at that place. “[ They ] there left me and my man, both bound together.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. Ge. ii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In distinction from here, there usually signifies a place farther off. “Darkness there might well seem twilight here.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place; as, he did not stop there, but continued his speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

The law that theaten'd death becomes thy friend
And turns it to exile; there art thou happy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To or into that place; thither. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rarest that e'er came there. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ There is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling the attention to something, especially to something distant; as, there, there! see there! look there! There is often used as an expletive, and in this use, when it introduces a sentence or clause, the verb precedes its subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

A knight there was, and that a worthy man. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is a path which no fowl knoweth. Job xxviii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherever there is a sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

There have been that have delivered themselves from their ills by their good fortune or virtue. Suckling. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See Thereabout, Thereafter, Therefrom, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ There was formerly used in the sense of where. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spend their good there it is reasonable. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here and there, in one place and another. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Thither. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. [ The latter spelling is less proper, but more commonly used. ] 1. Near that place. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Five or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some three months since, or thereabout. Suckling. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Concerning that; about that. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

What will ye dine? I will go thereabout. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

They were much perplexed thereabout. Luke xxiv. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ AS. ð&aemacr_;ræfter after that. See There, and After. ] 1. After that; afterward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. According to that; accordingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of that sort. [ Obs. ] “My audience is not thereafter.” Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]