Thĭth’er, adv.
[O. Eng. thider, A-S. thider, thyder, Icel. thadhra, Goth. thathrō, allied to A-S. the, theo, thæt. See THAT and THE.]
Sense 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.
Sense 2. To that point, end, or result.
Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and another.
Synonyms—There.—THITHER, THERE. Thither 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 hence there has taken the place of thither; as, I shall go there to-morrow: we shall go together.