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elsewhere, adv.|ɛlsˈhwɛə(r)|
[f. else + where, q.v. for forms.]
1. At some other point; in some other place.
Beowulf 138 Elles hwær. a1200Moral Ode 331 in Trin. Coll. Hom. 230 Hwu litle hwile we bieð her . hwu longe elles hware. c1340Cursor M. 12485 (Fairf.) Lere him quare þou wil ellis-quare. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xxii. 189 To bynde and vnbynde · both here and elleswher. 1495Act 2 Hen. VII, c. 37 Preamb., In the Countie of Lancaster or elliswhere in England. 1513Douglas æneis vii. ix. 93 The dyne was hard eik ellis quhair full far. 1587Golding De Mornay xxiv. 408 God was not knowne and worshipped elswhere than among the people of Israell. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. iii. ii, The parties, which shall be more opportunely spoken of els-where. 1711Addison Spect. No. 261 ⁋8, As I have elsewhere observed. 1790Paley Horæ Paul. Rom. i. 9 Inquire whether we can find these circumstances elsewhere. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxxii, I can speak with you here as well as elsewhere. 1872Freeman Gen. Sketch xiii. §2 (1874) 238 In England and elsewhere many men had been burned as heretics.
2. To some other point; = elsewhither.
1513Douglas æneis xi. vii. 68 Bot gif so be that thai lyst ellisquhair To othir costis or pepill for to wend. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xxvi, If used ill in our dealings with one man we..go elsewhere. 1863G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxv. (1878) 436 Many of them went elsewhere to church. |