adv. (a.) arch. [OE. þiderweard: see THITHER and -WARD.]

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  1.  Towards that place; in that direction; thither.

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  Hitherward and thitherward: see HITHERWARD.

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c. 893.  K. Ælfred, Oros., I. i. § 20. Ða he þiderweard seʓlode.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Josh. x. 7. Iosue þa ferde mid his fyrde þiderweard.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 1662. Swiðe he fusde þider ward kene his ferde.

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1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 9183. Anon he wende þuderward wiþ vair compainie.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 9908 (Cott.). Þe man þat þider-werd [v.rr. þiþer-ward, thedirward] es fledd.

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c. 1340.  Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 979. Þider sal we com … If we þederward hald þe right way.

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1393.  Langl., P. Pl., C. VIII. 205. This ys þe heye weye þyderwarde.

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1433.  Rolls of Parlt., IV. 425/1. His passage from hens thitherward.

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a. 1533.  Ld. Berners, Huon, lx. 208. Huon … saw a shyppe comynge thether warde.

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1560.  Bible (Genev.), Jer. l. 5. They shal aske the waye to Zion, with their faces thetherward.

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1624.  Capt. Smith, Virginia, V. 196. He … instantly made thitherward in person.

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1823.  Scott, Quentin D., viii. Were thy vocation in truth thitherward!

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1884.  Roe, Nat. Ser. Story, viii. All eyes turned thitherward.

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  † 2.  On the way thither; going thither. Obs.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xxx. 200. Þa he ðyderweard wæs, ʓeseah he þæt an wulf ʓenam þæt [child].

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c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 3. Þa wes hit cud … þet þe helind wes þiderward, heo urnen on-ȝein him.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 2956 (Cott.). Þiderward þair wonnyng was.

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a. 1400.  Stac. Rome, 242. Ȝyf þou dye dydurward, Heuenne blys shalle be þy part.

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1634.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 28. He dared not to … plead his defence … in our Company and thitherward.

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  B.  quasi-adj. Moving or directed thither. rare.

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1795.  Southey, Joan of Arc, VI. 49. The sentinel, soon as he heard Thitherward footsteps,… Challenged the darkling travellers.

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