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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Under which.

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  • adverb archaic Under which or what.

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Examples

  • “Bend in pensiveness, even in sorrow, on the flowery bank of youth, whereunder runs the stream that passes irreversibly! let the garland drop into it, let the hand be refreshed by it — but — may the beautiful feet of Aspasia stand firm.”

    Uncollected Prose 2006

  • Especially on the spritsail of the Rosalie, whereunder was sitting, with the tiller in his hand and a very long pipe in his mouth, Captain Zebedee

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Also, amid the golden radiance there could be distinguished a quivering of the leaves on the lower branches of the tree whereunder the woman sat shaded.

    Through Russia 2003

  • And new laws whereunder you might kill all you wanted and not be jailed, but rather be decorated.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • Tuesday (28) we plyed to the Westwards alongst the shoare, the wind being at Northwest, and as I was about to come to anker, we saw a sayle comming about the point, whereunder we thought to haue ankered.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • And new laws whereunder you might kill all you wanted and not be jailed, but rather be decorated.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • 'We have seen, O citizens, Diomede in his Argive camp, and outsped our way and passed all its dangers, and touched the hand whereunder the land of Ilium fell.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Aeolian Lipare, steep with smoking cliffs, whereunder the vaulted and thunderous Aetnean caverns are hollowed out for Cyclopean forges, the strong strokes on the anvils echo in groans, ore of steel hisses in the vaults, and the fire pants in the furnaces: the house of Vulcan, and

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • They walked along, side by side, close together, through the dull weary streets, by barrack-rows of houses wrapped in slumber or showing an occasional light; through thoroughfares which the windows of the shops that thrive, owl-like, at night still made brilliant; down the long avenue of trim-clipped trees whereunder time-defying lovers still sat whispering; past the long garden wall, startling as they crossed the road

    The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

  • The Comstocks, in employing him, insisted upon a formal, written agreement whereunder

    History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills Robert B. Shaw

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