thereunder

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   under or beneath the thing just mentioned

   A narrow shelf ran across the wall, and thereunder stood three wooden chests.

2. 2
   adv

   under the authority, terms, or heading of something just mentioned

   The regulation and all licenses issued thereunder remain in force.

From Middle English therunder, continuing Old English thærunder, a compound equivalent to there + under. It survives chiefly in formal, legal, and literary prose, where there points back to a previously named thing or provision.

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