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Webster 1913 Edition

Thither

Thith′er

,
adv.
[OE.
thider
, AS.
ðider
; akin to E.
that
; cf. Icel.
þaðra
there, Goth.
þaþrō
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.
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
.

Thith′er

,
Adj.
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
,
Adj.
Huxley.

Webster 1828 Edition

Thither

THITH'ER

,
adv.
To that place; opposed to hither.
This city is near, O let me escape thither. Gen.19.
Where I am, thither ye cannot come. John 7.
1.
To that end or point.
Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and another.

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