wch

See also: -wch and WCH

English

Determiner

w^ch

1. (obsolete) Abbreviation of which.
   • 1653, “Will of Robert Keayne, 1653”, in A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Containing Miscellaneous Paperrs, Boston, Mass.: Rockwell and Churchill, published 1886, page 41:

     There is also at my ffarme a long paper booke bound in parchment , such a one as my Inventory booke in my closet at Boston w^ch I mentioned before, w^ch booke I comonly keepe in that roome at my ffarme w^ch I keepe locked up for my owne use, in w^ch is the pticul^rs of the charges & profitts that I make of my ffarme ev’y yeare with an acco^tt of the Corne & Apples & Butter & Cheese that is made & where they are with some debts therein due to me & some other acco^tts to be Kept & pused

   • c. 1680, [Gilbert Clerke], To Baxter, on the Right of Antitrinitarians to be esteemed Christians; republished as “Original Letters from the Baxter Manuscripts in Dr. Williams’s Library”, in The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, volume XIX, number CCXXIV, Hackney: […] George Smallfield; […] Sherwood, Jones, and Co., […], 1824 August, page 452:

     As to your letter, for w^ch I thanke you, I willingly acknowledge y^e Trinity in Unity, and X^t to be not meer man but true God, in y^e Scripture sense, therefore I am a Christian. […] For y^e present I must denie y^t major, viz. He that denieth y^t in X^t w^ch is most essential in him, denieth X^t, for admit your minor was true, yet Jesus was called X^t, in respect of his unction […] Maldonati in Evang. thinkes y^t y^e disciples did not know y^e eternal generation, till after y^e resurrection, and yet they knew y^t Jesus was y^e X^t, y^e Sonne of y^e living God, w^ch seem to be used as words of the same importance, Matth. xvi. 16, John vi. 69, and Mark and Luke say only—Thou art y^e X^t, and for this confession were declared blessed.

   • 1692 November 29, W[illia]m Penn, [To Robert Turner], page 356; republished as “Fruits of Solitude, 1692–1694”, in Marianne S. Wokeck, Joy Wiltenburg, Alison Duncan Hirsch, Craig W. Horle, Richard S[lator] Dunn, and Mary Maples Dunn, editors, The Papers of William Penn, volume three, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986, →ISBN:

     […] & Xt taught himself that it was expedient he went, as outwardly, that he might send them that w^ch would be better for them & w^t was that, but his own appearance in Spirit.