THITHER

adv. a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
adv.

To that place; -- opposed to Ant: 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.
adv.

To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither. Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and another.

3.
a.

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.

4.
a.

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


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