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hitherward, adv. arch.|ˈhɪðəwəd|
Forms: see hither.
[OE. hiderweard, f. hider hither + -weard -ward. (In OE. also adj.)]
1. Towards this place; in this direction; hither.
†b. hitherward and thitherward: see hither 5.
a1100O.E. Chron (Laud MS.) an. 1085 Menn..sædan þæt Cnut cyng of Den-mearcan..fundade hider-ward, and wolde ᵹe-winnan þis land. c1205Lay. 30780 Þe an hine putte hiderward And þe oþer hine putte ȝeondward. 1297R. Glouc. (1724) 516 Vor the baronie Vor loue him broȝte hiderward. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. i. (1495) 552 That reeryth partyes therof hitherwarde and thytherwarde. c1450tr. De Imitatione i. xiii. 14 A ship wiþoute gouernaunce is stired hiderwarde & þiderwarde. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, v. i. 3 Marching hitherward. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 794 Some infernal Spirit see Hitherward bent. 1709Lond. Gaz. No. 4561/3 They..could discern five or six Sail more plying hitherward. 1860Hawthorne Marb. Faun I. xvi, It flows hitherward through old subterranean aqueducts.
attrib.1831Lytton Godolph. lxi, Their hitherward career.
2. On this side (of). Also fig.
1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 51 Submerging them to the hair's-breadth hitherward of the drowning-point. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xv. xii. IV. 181 Hitherward of Sohr.
†3. Up to this time; until now; hitherto. Obs.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 150 For Gyneman was for þe Ston⁓henge hiderward ȝet wroþ. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 21 A grete Daneis felde..Þat euer siþen hiderward Kampedene men kalle. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 136 The mischeef that is befalle sin hedirwarde. 1513More in Grafton Chron. (1568) II. 768 From that time hetherward. |