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103 words match “HITHER”

HITHER adv. 4 definitions

verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.

Nearest on this side. Sir M. Hale.

HITHERTO adv. 2 definitions

To this place; to a prescribed limit. Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further. Job xxxviii. 11.

HITHERWARD adv.

Toward this place; hither. Marching hitherward in proud array. Shak.

ANYWHITHER adv.

To or towards any place. [Archaic] De Foe.

On this side of. [Obs.] Two miles behither Clifden. Evelyn.

ELSEWHITHER adv.

To some, or any, other place; as, you will have to go elsewhither for it. R. of Gloucester."For elsewhither was I bound." Carlyle.

Not anywhither; in no direction; nowhere. [Archaic] "Thy servant went nowhither." 2 Kings v. 25.

SOMEWHITHER adv.

some indeterminate place; to some place or other. Driven by the winds of temptation somewhither. Barrow.

THITHER adv. 4 definitions

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.

To that point; so far. [Obs.]

THITHERWARD adv.

To ward that place; in that direction. They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward. Jer. l. 5.

WHITHER adv. 3 definitions

To what place; -- used interrogatively; as, whither goest thou "Whider may I flee" Chaucer. Sir Valentine, whither away so fast Shak.

WHITHERSOEVER adv.

To whatever place; to what place soever; wheresoever; as, I will go whithersoever you lead.

WHITHERWARD adv.

In what direction; toward what or which place. R. of Brunne. Whitherward to turn for a good course of life was by no means too apparent. Carlyle.

e a greater contrariety unto Christ's judgment, a more perfect antipodes to all that hath hitherto been gospel Hammond.

ARCHITECTONIC; ARCHITECTONICAL a.

; constructive. "Architectonic wisdom." Boyle. These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp.

To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate. Thither he assembled all his train. Milton. All the men of Israel assembled themselves. 1 Kings viii. 2.

is royal court. Shak. With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither. Macaulay.

treaty and submission. Burke. The rest, in imitation, to like arms Betook them. Milton. Whither shall I betake me, where subsist Milton.