thither

adv. [ OE. thider, AS. ðider; akin to E. that; cf. Icel. þaðra there, Goth. þaþrō thence. See That, and The. ] 1. To that place; -- opposed to hither. [ 1913 Webster ]

This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither. Gen. xix. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where I am, thither ye can not come. John vii. 34. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and another. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- There. Thither, There. Thither properly 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 there is now used in both senses; as, I shall go there to-morrow; we shall go there together. [ 1913 Webster ]