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Definition of thither

Thither
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.
Thither
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.

Meaning of thither from wikipedia

- once was) a formal relationship between "where/there/here", "whither/thither/hither", and "whence/thence/hence". Archaic or obsolete. Pro-form Look...
- Mardi: and a Voyage Thither is the third book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. Beginning as a travelogue in the...
- public libraries there during this period. He published Cathay and the Way Thither (1866), and the Book of Marco Polo (1871), for which he received the Founder's...
- 2023-04-11. Retrieved 2017-09-09. Yule, Henry (1866). Cathay and the Way Thither. Asian Educational Services. pp. 3–7. ISBN 978-81-206-1966-1. Zhi, Chen...
- "in good condition" and noted that in July 1668, "200 or 300 people fled thither in time of war". The French attacked again in 1688, 1745 and 1798, causing...
- health, ( and ) ( afterwards ( ? ) ' ' I heard that a message ] was sent thither to you ( saying ) thus : ... look after the farming but the order was given...
- Keaweikekahialiiokamoku, the Moi of Hawaii, was at the time residing in Kau. Eepairing thither, he was hospitably received, and his entertainment was correspondingly...
- duty it shall be to instruct these scholars and any others who may resort thither from any part of England in the knowledge of letters, and especially of...
- Retrieved 16 December 2015. Sir Henry Yule, ed. (1866). Cathay and the Way Thither: Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China, Issue 36. pp. 86–87....
- to Meaco will return, and then with the good help of God we shall sail thither. The distance from Cagoxima is three hundred leagues. We hear wonderful...