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.
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.
Hear it pronounced