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   There , adv. [OE. ther, AS. ðǣr; akin to D. daar, G. da, OHG. dār, Sw. & Dan. der, Icel. & Goth. þar, Skr. tarhi then, and E. that. √184. See That, pron.]
   In or at that place. “[They] there left me and my man, both bound together.”
   Shak.
   
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   The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
   Ge. ii. 8.
   
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   ☞ In distinction from here, there usually signifies a place farther off. “Darkness there might well seem twilight here.” Milton.
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   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.
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   The law that theaten'd death becomes thy friend
   And turns it to exile; there art thou happy.
   Shak.
   
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   To or into that place; thither.
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   The rarest that e'er came there.
   Shak.
   
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   ☞ 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.
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   A knight there was, and that a worthy man.
   Chaucer.
   
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   There is a path which no fowl knoweth.
   Job xxviii. 7.
   
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   Wherever there is a sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced.
   Locke.
   
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   There have been that have delivered themselves from their ills by their good fortune or virtue.
   Suckling.
   
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   ☞ There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See Thereabout, Thereafter, Therefrom, etc.
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   ☞ There was formerly used in the sense of where.
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   Spend their good there it is reasonable.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Here and there, in one place and another.
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   Syn. -- See Thither.
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