elsewhither

American  

[els-hwith-er, -with-, els-hwith-, -with-] / ˈɛlsˌʰwɪð ər, -ˌwɪð-, ɛlsˈʰwɪð-, -ˈwɪð- /

adverb

Archaic.

1. in another direction; toward a different place or goal.

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Etymology

Origin of elsewhither

before 1000; Middle English elleswhider, Old English elleshwider. See else, whither

Example Sentences

But experience had taught him wisdom; he paid them in their own coin, feasted their false friendship on smooth words, and dismissed them with fasting stomachs; which sovereign means for scaring off the cumbersome brood of pickthanks and toadeaters produced the intended effect, that they betook them elsewhither.

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After his death and disappearance, the thoughts of his friends turned elsewhither, and with an increasing steadiness, as his return was delayed, and the probabilities of their going to him outweighed the probabilities of his coming to them.

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A few days after, the Bodhisatta went elsewhither, and another elephant, a savage beast, came and stood in his place.

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Now at the end of that year when the Feast of Pentecost had come again, King Arthur was holding his court at Caerleon-upon-Usk, and at the high Feast of Pentecost there sat, as usual at the King's table, the lords and the ladies of the court and all the Knights of the Round Table who were not upon adventure that took them elsewhither.

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But others there are who will rush, with Buzot, to Calvados; or far over France, to Lyons, Toulon, Nantes and elsewhither, and then rendezvous at Caen: to awaken as with war-trumpet the respectable Departments; and strike down an anarchic "Mountain" Faction; at least not yield without a stroke at it.

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