Therefore

·adv Consequently; by consequence.

II. Therefore ·adv For that or this reason, referring to something previously stated; for that.

finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.
Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose