2. To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a
sense not physical.
Hither we refer whatsoever belongeth unto the
highest perfection of man. --Hooker.
{Hither and thither}, to and fro; backward and forward; in
various directions. ``Victory is like a traveller, and
goeth hither and thither.'' --Knolles.
2. Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of
fewer years than.
And on the hither side, or so she looked, Of twenty
summers. --Tennyson.
To the present generation, that is to say, the
people a few years on the hither and thither side of
thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside
of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday.
--Huxley.