1. At some other point; in some other place.
Beowulf, 138. Elles hwær.
a. 1200. Moral Ode, 331, in Trin. Coll. Hom., 230. Hwu litle hwile we bieð her . hwu longe elles hware.
c. 1340. Cursor M., 12485 (Fairf.). Lere him quare þou wil ellis-quare.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. XXII. 189. To bynde and vnbynde · both here and elleswher.
1495. Act 2 Hen. VII., c. 37. Preamb., In the Countie of Lancaster or elliswhere in England.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. ix. 93. The dyne was hard eik ellis quhair full far.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xxiv. 408–9. God was not knowne and worshipped elswhere than among the people of Israell.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. i. III. ii. The parties, which shall be more opportunely spoken of els-where.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 261, ¶ 8. As I have elsewhere observed.
1790. Paley, Horæ Paul., Rom. i. 9. Inquire whether we can find these circumstances elsewhere.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, xxxii. I can speak with you here as well as elsewhere.
1872. Freeman, Gen. Sketch, xiii. § 2 (1874), 238. In England and elsewhere many men had been burned as heretics.
2. To some other point; = ELSEWHITHER.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XI. vii. 68. Bat gif so be that thai lyst ellisquhair To othir costis or pepill for to wend.
1766. Goldsm., Vic. W., xxvi. If used ill in our dealings with one man we … go elsewhere.
1863. G. Macdonald, Ann. Q. Neighb., xxv. (1878), 436. Many of them went elsewhere to church.
