wherewith

adv

1. (archaic, not-comparable)With which; with what.

   “Yee are the ſalt of the earth: But if the ſalt haue loſt his ſauour, wherewith ſhall it bee ſalted?”

   “In the left there was a ſort of Engine, from the Back of which were extended twenty long Poles, reſembling the Paliſado's before your Majeſty's Court; wherewith we conjecture the Man-Mountain combs his Head, for we did not always trouble him with Queſtions, becauſe we found it a great Difficulty to make him underſtand us.”

   “Worship we the Godhead, / Love Incarnate, Love Divine, / Worship we our Jesus,— / But wherewith for sacred sign? // Love shall be our token, / Love be yours and love be mine, / Love to God and all men, / Love the universal sign.”

noun

1. (archaic, uncountable, usually)Something with which; the means by which.

   “Hath not he wherewith [translating dequoy] to be beholding vnto this his killing vivacitie?”