Hypertext Webster Gateway: "thither"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Thither \Thith"er\, a.
1. Being on the farther side from the person speaking;
farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither
side of the water. --W. D. Howells.

2. Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of
more years than. See {Hither}, a. --Huxley.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Thither \Thith"er\, adv. [OE. thider, AS. [eth]ider; akin to E.
that; cf. Icel. [thorn]a[eth]ra there, Goth.
[thorn]a[thorn]r[=o] thence. See {That}, and {The}.]
1. To that place; -- opposed to {hither}.

This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither.
--Gen. xix.
20.

Where I am, thither ye can not come. --John vii.
34.

2. To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended
thither.

{Hither and thither}, to this place and to that; one way and
another.

Syn: There.

Usage: {Thither}, {There}. Thither properly denotes motion
toward a place; there denotes rest in a place; as, I
am going thither, and shall meet you there. But
thither has now become obsolete, except in poetry, or
a style purposely conformed to the past, and there is
now used in both senses; as, I shall go there
to-morrow; we shall go there together.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

thither
adv : to or toward that place; away from the speaker; "go there
around noon!" [syn: {there}] [ant: {here}]


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