elsewhither - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)
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From else + whither (“to which place, to what place”).
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛlswɪðə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛlswɪðɚ/
elsewhither (not comparable)
- (formal) To some other place; in some other direction.
Synonym: otherwhither; more at somewhere else- 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Chapter VIII, The Didactic”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope), page 295:
[…] know that ‘impossible,’ where Truth and Mercy and the everlasting Voice of Nature order, has no place in the brave man’s dictionary. That when all men have said “Impossible,” and tumbled noisily elsewhither, and thou alone art left, then first thy time and possibility have come.
- 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Chapter VIII, The Didactic”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope), page 295:
John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “elsewhither”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.