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Webster 1913 Edition
Hither
Hith′er
,adv.
[OE.
hider
, AS. hider
; akin to Icel. hēðra
, Dan. hid
, Sw. hit
, Goth. hidrē
; cf. L. citra
on this side, or E. here
, he
. √183. Cf. He
.] 1.
To this place; – used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither;
as, to come or bring
. hither
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.
Hith′er
,Adj.
1.
Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; – correlate of thither and farther;
as, on the
. hither
side of a hillMilton.
2.
Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than.
And on the
Of twenty summers.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hither
HITH'ER
, adv.1.
To this place; used with verbs signifying motion; as, to come hither; to proceed hither; to bring hither.2.
Hither and thither, to this place and that.3.
To this point; to this argument or topic; to this end. [Little used and not to be encouraged.] Hither we refer whatever belongs to the highest perfection of man.
HITH'ER
,Adj.
Definition 2024
hither
hither
See also: hithër
English
Adverb
hither (not comparable)
Usage notes
- Compare to the pronominal adverb "hereto" which follows the pattern of "preposition + what" or "preposition + which".
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
to here
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Adjective
hither (not comparable)
- (archaic) On this side; the nearer.
- 1954, The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil. — Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (Chatto & Windus 1954, p. 30)
Translations
on this side
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