Forms: see below. [OE. ðider, þider, earlier þæder (Lindisf. ðadder): corresp. in form to ON. þaðra there; f. þa-, stem of THAT, THE + suffix, denoting motion towards, Goth. -drē, Vedic -trā: cf. hither, OE. hider, Goth. hidrē, and whither, OE. hwider :—hwæder, Goth. hwadrē; a form corresp. to OE. þæder is wanting in Goth. (which uses jaindrē thither, yonder); cf. Vedic tatrā there, thither. The OE. þæder, hwæder became þider, hwider, app. under the influence of hider, HITHER, in which the i was original. For the later ME. -ther for -der in all three words (first in MSS. of Cursor Mundi, but rare bef. 1525), as in gather, mother, etc., see TH (6), and Note s.v. FATHER. In Sc. thidder came down to 1600. The extended ME. þidere, þidre, was app. influenced by ordinary adverbs in -e.]
1. To or towards that place (with verb of motion expressed or implied). (Now almost exclusively literary; in ordinary speech superseded by THERE.)
α. 1 þæder, ðadder.
a. 900. O. E. Martyrol., 190. On merʓen com se biscop þæder. Ibid., 222. Þa Thome þæder ineode.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., John vii. 35. Ðadder ðes færende is [mistr.].
c. 1000. Ælfric, Exod. xxxii. 34. Ga þu and læde þis folc þæder, þe ic þe ær sæde.
β. 1–3 ðider, (1 ðieder), 1–4 þidder, 1–5 þider, 3 (Orm.) þiderr (tiderr), 4 thidur, þyder, -ir, (tyder), 4–5 þidur, -ir, thider, 5 thidir, -yr, thyd(d)ur, 5–6 thyder, 6 thidder, -ir.
a. 900. trans. Bæda’s Eccl. Hist., III. vi. [viii.] (1890), 174. Þæt ʓyldne mynet … þætte þider of Cent cwom.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., John xi. 8. Eftersona ðu faeris ðidder [c. 975 Rushw. ðider].
c. 1000. Ælfric, Deut. i. 37. Ne færst þu þider.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 61. Crist us ȝire þider to cumen.
c. 1200. Ormin, 17924. & tiderr comm þe follc till himm.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 1959. Ðan ruben cam ðider a-ȝen.
13[?]. Curser M., 746 (Fairf.). Selcuþ was how he þidder [v.r. þider] wan.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, iii. (Andreas), 23. He knew nocht [t]hydir þe way. Ibid., 1008. Þare-for had he þidder socht.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Frankl. T., 763. They ne wiste why she thider wente.
1388. Wyclif, John xviii. 3. He cam thidur with lanternys, and brondis, and armeris.
14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 588/46. Illuc, thydur.
c. 1450. St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 347. How þe kyng sent hir thider.
1559. Mirr. Mag. (1563), H iv. Thyder they came wyth kynge Henry out of Skotlande.
a. 1600. Montgomerie, Misc. Poems, xi. 28. Thidder did I drau For to refresh my werynes.
γ. 1 þyder, 3–5 þuder(ü).
Beowulf, 3086. Wæs þæt ʓifede to swið þe ðone þyder ontyhte.
971. Blickl. Hom., 29. Þæt he þyder come … mid his wyllan.
12[?]. Moral Ode, 396 (Egerton MS.). Crist ȝyue us … Þat we moten þuder [v.r. þider] come.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 2509. Þis king com þuder priueliche.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), III. 455. Moche folk was iflowe þider [MS. γ. þuder]. Ibid., IV. 445. Men … com þider [γ. þuder].
δ. 4–5 þedir, -yr, 4–6 þeder, 5 -ur, þeoder.
13[?]. Cursor M., 1700 (Cott.). Al þeir filth sal þedir [Gött. þeder] fall.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 2235. Whanne þei þeder.
c. 1400. R. Gloucester’s Chron., 8078 (MS α). Hii þeoder ne wende.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 13454. Thedur kynges wold come.
1447. Bokenham, Seyntys (Roxb.), 165. Of hire thedyr goyng this was the entent.
1464. Nottingham Rec., II. 375. At their first ridyng thedir.
1536. Wriothesley, Chron. (Camden), I. 50. After dynner the Kinges grace came theder in a maske.
ε. 4 þeþir, 5 thethur, 6–7 thether.
a. 1400. Cursor M., 17566 (Gött.). Þat iesus be noght rauist þeþir [Cott., Trin. þider].
c. 1420. Avow. Arth., xxii. Wold ȝe thethur be bowne.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 14. By bothe wayes man may come thether.
1560. Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 307 b. Thether came none at all; and hether but very fewe.
1653. Hane, Jrnl. (1896), 1. A ship … which I made use of for my transportacion thether.
ζ. 4 þiþer, -ir, 6 thyther, 6– thither.
a. 1400. Cursor M., 13692 (Gött.). Þiþer [v.rr. þidder, þidur] ȝode he ai … Þar to prai.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. ccliii. 376. Thyther syr Eustace was ryght wellcome to all the company.
1548–9. (Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer, Collect Ascension Day. We may also in heart and mind thither ascende.
1585. T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy., I. iv. Merchauntes comming thyther too lade salte.
1605. Shaks., Macb., II. iv. 36. Will you to Scone?… No, Cosin, Ile to Fife … Well, I will thither.
1709. Steele & Addison, Tatler, No. 88, ¶ 12. The Gentlewoman of the next House begged me to step thither.
1872. Jenkinson, Guide Eng. Lakes (1879), 256. The road thither leaves the main road at right angles.
η. 3–4 þidere, þudere(ü), 4 þedirre, þid(d)ire, þeodre, 4–5 þ-, thedere, þ-, thidere, 5 thed(d)re, thidre, thidyre, 6 thiddre.
c. 1205. Lay., 8171 He wes þudere icumen.
1340–70. Alex. & Dind., 2. Rydinge þedirre. Ibid., 156. Drawen hem þiddire.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. VIII. 292. Now most ich þudere, To loke how me lykeþ hit.
c. 1400. R. Gloucester’s Chron. (Rolls), 827. (MS. α). Pur meseise him þeodre [v.r. theder] drof. Ibid., 5721. Þe monekes out of abendone verst were þedere yuet.
c. 1400. Maundev. (1839), ii. 13. Grete Lordes that comen thidre.
1448. Lett. Marg. Anjou & Bp. Beckington (Camden), 101. To resorte thedre.
1473. Warkworth, Chron. (Camden), 9. The Lorde Scales … was sent thedere.
1483. Cath. Angl., 382/2. Thidyre, illo, illuc.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, xxii. 81. Yf she went thidre.
1492. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 323. Nor lo goo theddre.
1507. in Leadam, Sel. Cas. Star Chamber, 252. He … resorted thiddre.
θ. (chiefly north.; perh. scribal errors.) 4 didir dydur, dedur, 5 -yr; 4 diþer, deþir(e, -er, -ur.
a. 1400. Cursor M., 2383 (Gött.). Als suith als þai diþer cam. Ibid., 14573. For didir gas sua mani man. Ibid., 14596. Deþir. Ibid., 17352. Deþire.
a. 1400. Stac. Rome, 66. To alle þat wylle deþur goo.
1482. Monk of Evesham (Arb.), 75. Al that … whent not dedyr.
ι. 4 Sc. yd(d)ir, -yr(e, -ire. (app. for þdir, etc.)
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xvi. (Magdalena), 784. & yddir ewinely can hyr mark. (So xxxii. 352, xxxiii. 65, xl. 119; xxix. 347 ydir; xviii. 864 ydyr; vii. 616 yddyre; xvi. 384 yddire.)
† b. Followed by in, out: In or out thither.
971. Blickl. Hom., 207. Hie þyder inwæron to ðæm lofsangum ʓesamnode.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xxiii. B. 500. Ic becom to sanctes iohannes cyrcan … and ic me þyder inneode.
c. 1205. Lay., 31599. Ah Penda ga þider ut anon.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 22643. It sal … dump þe deuls þider in.
c. Defined by a relative clause introduced by þe or þæt (see 2), whither, where, or equivalent.
The relative clause with whither, etc., often precedes.
[c. 897, 1393, 1496: see 2.]
c. 1380. Wyclif, Serm., Sel. Wks. II. 37. Wherever þe bodi be, þiþir shal þe eglis be giderid. For whidir ever comeþ Cristis bodi, þidir shal his seintis come.
1482. Monk of Evesham (Arb.), 35. They wondrid howe … he myght comme thedyr to that place, where the couent was.
1548–9. (Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer, Communion. That where he is, thither might we also ascende.
1650. T. B., Worcester’s Apoph., 27. The meanes of bringing her thither, where now she had but little way to go.
a. 1700. Dryden, Ceyx & Alcyone, 440. She … thither by her destiny was brought, Where last he stood.
d. Hither and thither: see HITHER adv. 5.
† 2. With relative particle (þe, that, as) = WHITHER rel. adv. (See THE particle 2, THAT conj. 6, AS 27.)
c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xi. 65 (Hatton MS.). Ðonne ne maʓon ðider fullice becuman ða stæpas ðæs weorcas ðieder ðe he wilnað.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. II. 119. For þider as þe fend flegh, hus fote for to sette, Ther he failede & ful.
1496. Dives & Paup. (W. de W.), VI. v. 237/1. Theder that the hede ledeth thyder sholde the bodye folowe.
† 3. transf. a. Up to that time; until then. b. To or towards that end, purpose, result or action.
13[?]. Cursor M., 5181 (Cott.). Yee sal ha lijf langer þen þider.
1600. Shaks., A. Y. L., I. i. 179. This wrastler shall cleare all: nothing remaines, but that I kindle the boy thither.
B. adj. Lying on that side or in that direction, i.e., the side or direction away from this; the farther or more remote (of two things). A recent use, introduced as the opposite of HITHER a.
1830. Lamb, Lett. to Wordsworth, 22 Jan. These all came in … on the thither side of innocence.
1857–8. Sears, Athan., 5. Death is not a transition to another existence on the thither side of nature.
1868. Hawthorne, Amer. Note-Bks. (1879), II. 166. Between the hither and the thither row of houses.
1890. Kipling, in Fortn. Rev., XLVII. 165. I doubt that a double is to be found on the thither side of hell.
