Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In another direction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb To some, or any, other place.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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But in their homes, in the dance, in the assembly and the banquet all their thought was only for their captive maidens; until some god put desperate courage in our hearts no more to receive our lords on their return from Thrace within our towers so that they might either heed the right or might depart and begone elsewhither, they and their captives.
The Argonautica 2008
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Besides which they will not suffer their antagonists in those parts65 to carry these products elsewhither, or they will cease to use the sea.
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Nay, she said, I deem that I am drawn elsewhither, but soon I shall tell thee.
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In this wise wore day after day till June began to wane, and then on a time came Hugh unto Birdalone, and spake unto her and said: All we have been talking together, and I am sent to ask thee what is in thy mind as to abiding here or going elsewhither.
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So presently leaving the macadamized road to pursue its course elsewhither, I step off upon the fallow, and plod stumblingly across it.
A Changed Man 2006
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Whereupon the young fellow rose, and was removed elsewhither.
Through Russia 2003
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That when all men have said "Impossible," and tumbled noisily elsewhither, and thou alone art left, then first thy time and possibility have come.
Daily Strength for Daily Needs Mary W. Tileston
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But in their homes, in the dance, in the assembly and the banquet all their thought was only for their captive maidens; until some god put desperate courage in our hearts no more to receive our lords on their return from Thrace within our towers so that they might either heed the right or might depart and begone elsewhither, they and their captives.
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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Kari said he thought he might go elsewhither on a better journey, but still he would go if that were Njal's counsel.
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown
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Such scene does history disclose, as in sunbeams, as in blazing hell-fire, on Calais sands, in the raw winter morning; then drops the blanket of centuries, of everlasting night, over it, and passes on elsewhither.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
yarb commented on the word elsewhither
"With Strickland the sexual appetite took a very small place. It was unimportant. It was irksome. His soul aimed elsewhither."
- Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
December 30, 2011