hereto

• Pronominal adverb formed by here and to

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌhɪɹˈtuː/

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hereto (not comparable)

1. (archaic) To here; to this.
   • 1697, Daniel Defoe, An Essay upon Projects:

     I, A. B., do solemnly swear and attest that the account hereto annexed is true and right...

2. (archaic) Yet; so far.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus:

     Which the rather / We shall be bless'd to do, if he remember / A kinder value of the people than / He hath hereto priz'd them at.

   • 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:

     Lords had not been frequent among her acquaintance hereto.

   • c. 1980, Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens), How I Came to Islam

     I realized that everything belongs to God, that slumber does not overtake Him. He created everything. At this point I began to lose the pride in me, because hereto I had thought the reason I was here was because of my own greatness.

3. (archaic) Regarding this subject.

• In current English, hereto is extremely formal and used mostly in legal contexts.

• (yet, so far): erenow, thus far, up to now; see also Thesaurus:hitherto

• hetero, hetero-, othere

hereto

1. first-person singular present indicative of heretar

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /heːˈreː.toː/, [heːˈreːt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈre.to/, [eˈrɛːt̪o]

hērētō

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of hēreō