wherewith

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   with which; using the thing just mentioned

   The inventory lists the instruments wherewith the survey was made.

2. 2
   adv

   with what or by what means, in archaic questions

   Wherewith shall we repair the roof if the fund is empty?

From Middle English wherwith, a compound of where + with. It survives chiefly in formal or archaic prose, both as a relative adverb meaning "with which" and, more rarely, in questions meaning "with what."

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