whereat

where- +‎ at

• IPA^(key): /wɛəɹˈæt/

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whereat (archaic)

1. At which, or toward which.
   • 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book I]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], OCLC 12997447, page 6:

     But as ſome of the Oxen in driving, miſſed their fellovvs behind and honing after them, bellovved as their nature is: Hercules chanced to heare them lovv again, and anſvver from out of the cave vvherein they had been beſtovved: vvhereat he turned back, and made haſte thither.

   • 1800, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Christabel. Part II.”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, OCLC 1380031, page 35:

     Again she saw that bosom old, / Again she felt that bosom cold, / And drew in her breath with a hissing sound: / Whereat the Knight turn'd wildly round, / And nothing saw, but his own sweet maid / With eyes uprais'd, as one that pray'd.

2. Because of which; whereupon.
   • 2020 May 15, Robert Frost, Delphi Complete Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series)‎, Delphi Classics, →ISBN, OCLC 1155329538:

     Whereat in a moment of cross unruth
     He thought, “All right if you want the truth!”
     “I don't believe it! It isn't true!
     It never happened! Did it, you?”
     Seeing no help in wings or feet
     She withdrew back in self-retreat […]

• weareth, weather, whate'er, wreathe