hither

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  1. adverb To or toward this place: Come hither.
  2. adjective Located on the near side.
  3. idiom thither In or to many places; here and there: looked hither and thither for the ring; ran hither and yon.

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  • In the 24 yere after his comming hither, that is to say, about the yéere of your Lord 519, he began his reigne ouer the Westsaxons, and gouerned them as king by the space of 15 yéeres, as before ye haue heard. —  Chronicles 1 (of 6): The Historie of England 5 (of 8) The Fift Booke of the Historie of England.
  • The most distinguished of these was the oracle of Epidaurus, in the Argivian territory; from which spot his worship extended over a great proportion of the old world;--hither, as being the place of his birth and the site of his richest temple, crowds of sick persons constantly repaired in quest of dreams. —  Thaumaturgia
  • "Come hither--come hither, all of you When they had descended and knelt to her, she made as if she would punish the Duke's Daughter by striking her with a scarf that lay at her hand, but to Angele she said How think you then, hath that other greater skill--Darnley's wife I mean Not she or any other hath so delighted me," said Angele, with worship in her eyes--so doth talent given to majesty become lifted beyond its measure The Queen's eyes lighted. —  The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
  • Thou may'st come hither, here is room and place, For such as willingly would live by grace 5. —  Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
  • They beckon to the world to wander hither, and rest under these blue-vaulted balmy skies. —  The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English hider; see ko- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. With change of d to th (dh), as in thither, whither, father, mother, etc.; from Middle English hider, hidere, hidre, heder, from Anglo-Saxon hider (sometimes hidres, in the phrase hidres thidres, usually hider and thider, hither and thither; the form hither is found once, apparently miswritten) = Icelandic hedhra = Swedish hit = Danish hid = Gothic (Moesogothic) hidre, hither, = Latin citra, on this side (see cis-), from hi-, the pronominal base of he, him, here, etc., + -der, -dra, comparative suffix, = -ther, -ter, in whether, after, etc. Cf. thither and whither.
  2. from hither, adv.
 

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