HITHER
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Hith"er (?), adv. [OE. hider, AS. hider; akin to Icel. h&ē;ðra, Dan. hid, Sw. hit, Goth. hidr&ē;; cf. L. citra on this side, or E. here, he. √183. Cf. He.]
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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.
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2. To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical.
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Hither we refer whatsoever belongeth unto the highest perfection of man.
Hooker.
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Hither and thither, to and fro; backward and forward; in various directions. “Victory is like a traveller, and goeth hither and thither.” Knolles.
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Hith"er, a. 1. Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; -- correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill. Milton.
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2. Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than.
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And on the hither side, or so she looked,
Of twenty summers.
Tennyson.
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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.
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