Category:Thither

Thith"er, adv. Etym: [oe. thider, as. edhider; akin to e. that; cf. Icel. þaedhra there, goth. þaþro thence. See that, and the.]

1. 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. 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.

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.