Hither
Hither , adverb
[Old English hider, Anglo-Saxon hider; akin to Icelandic hēera, Danish hid, Swedish hit, Gothic hidrē; compare Latin citra on this side, or English here, he. r183. Compare He.]
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.
2.
To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical.
Hither we refer whatsoever belongeth unto the highest perfection of man.
Collocations (1)
Hither and thither , to and fro; backward and forward; in various directions. Victory is like a traveller, and goeth hither and thither.
Hither , adjective
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
2.
Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than.
And on the hither side, or so she looked,
Of twenty summers.
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.