Middle English Dictionary Entry
hider adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | hider adv. Also hidre, hidder, idder, hither, ither & huder, hvedir & heder, hether. |
| Etymology | OE hider |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To or toward this place, in this direction, hither; ?also, in this place; here; (b) ~ and thider, this way and that, hither and thither; also, all about, everywhere; ~ ne thider, nou ~ nou thider, etc.; (c) with verbs of looking and listening: in this direction, this way; (d) as command: come here!
Associated quotations
a
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.656 : Hider ic wille þet we secan Sancte Petre.
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1100 : Ða to foran sancte Michaeles mæssan com se arcebiscop..hider to lande.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)106/29 : He him sylf..hider on middænearde us eft sechon walde.
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)4/17 : Cumeð hider to me, & eower þurst ibæteð of þisse haliȝe watere.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)209 : Hiderr amm icc sennd to þe.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)2304 : Þu nast of whulche londe heo com heder liðen.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)123 : Hider he cumeð on wowe, and heðen wit on wowe.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)33/342 : Sei me swiðe..hwa þe hider sende.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)462 : Ich..habbe boþe luue & þonc Þat ich her com & hider swonk.
- ?a1300 Jacob & J.(Bod 652)378 : From Ierusalem..we beþ hider icome.
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)1333 : God sende him þe riȝte, & wind him hider driue.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2351 : Doð him to me cumen hider.
- c1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)1094 : Mo þat hider wil ride, Þus grayþed schul ȝe be.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Gen.15.16 : Þey schall torne aȝeyn hyþer [vr. hidir].
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Gen.27.45 : I schall senden & lede þe fro þens heþer.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.672 : Ful loude he soong com hider [vr. hedir] loue to me.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.1041 : What woot I if that Crist haue hider sent My wyf by see?
- a1400(?a1350) Siege Troy(1) (Eg 2862)391 : King Priamus did me heder [vrr. hider, hedur] sende.
- a1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)10276 : Whenne þou hast childe..þin offring hidur [Ld: heþer] is welcome.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)11.179 : Þei sente me hider [vrr. hyddyr, hedyr, hedur].
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)21.339 : Yf he deyede And hus soule huder come, he sholde shende ous alle.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.970 : Ȝif þat ȝe considere Þe pleyn entent of oure comynge hider.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.4856 : She was heder brouȝt.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)5.614 : And hider hom I com whan it was eve.
- c1425 Found.St.Barth.40/32 : From the highe descense of heuynnes..hedir I descende.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)28/37 : Hedyr cam I, Lord, for þi lofe.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)239 : Hyddyr, or to thys place: Huc.
- (1447-8) Acc.Yatton in Som.RS 488 : Vor the dyner of the man that come hydyr to se the playster of the stypyll..iij d.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)151/2576 : Mankynde! þyne hande heder þou reche!
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)52/215 : Wende forthe þi course..andyþer þe wynd.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)627 : Help me to haue þat I hidur seche.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)6948 : Wyghtly ydder he wendes.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)135/19 : And so we come hidre.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)1252/5 : Wherefore I pray you calle hym hyddir to me.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)275/102 : Jhesus, þou Art welcome hedyr to oure presens.
- c1475 Brm.Abraham (Brm)352 : For ȝyn same rame he hath vs sent Hether down to vs.
- ?c1475 *Trev.Nicod.(Sal 39)142a : Ȝif þou bringgest him hudur to me.
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)113 : Sir, þow art come hvedir for me.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)39 : Bringe hethir thy counsell.
- a1500(?a1475) Guy(4) (Cmb Ff.2.38)304 : I am come hedur agenste þy wille.
b
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)140/35 : Hueruore guo ich hider more þanne þider?
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Num.16.37 : Þat he take þe ensensers..& þe fuyr heder & þeder scatere he.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)158a/a : Bitalapsum is ycleped þe tonge of þe erþe y-streiȝht hider and þider, biclippid with þe see.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)244b/a : Þe moste heuy partyes toschediþ hider and þider by here owne heuynesse.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)280b/b : Whan houndes pursueþ him..he renneþ nouȝt forth right but now hider and now þider.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)16001 : Þai iesus ledd..Bath hidir and þider.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)17806 : Ga we nu þan lufsumli þider, And faand we for to bring ham hider [Göt: heder; Ld: heþer].
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)225/10 : Þou schalt..make þat þe pacient turne hidir & þidir, vpward & dounward.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)319/6 : Meue his arme hidir & þidir liȝtli til þou heere sownynge of þe boon.
- a1425(?a1400) PCounsel.(Hrl 674)168/2 : Þou leuyst bareyn in þe bote, blowyn with blundryng, now heder now þeder, þou wost neuir where ne wheder.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)132/13 : Þai sall chace him hider and þider.
- c1425 Found.St.Barth.43/18 : Wawys..cast the shippe, nowe hydyr, now thydyr.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)12423 : Þe geaunt glente hider & tyder.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)13180 : Þe Romayns..hider & þyder [vr. here & þare] þe prisons sought.
- a1450(?1404) As þe see (Dgb 102)2 : As þe see doþ ebbe and flowe, So fareþ þe world hyder and þedere.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)106a/a : Vlcus ambulatiuum, þat is to seie, an vlcus þat walkiþ or crepiþ fro place to place hidir & þidir, but neþeles he corrodiþ not depe.
- a1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Eg 615)5.1.86b : I saughe him ful often flien heder and theder.
- a1500(?c1414) ?Brampton PPs.(1) (Sln 1853)p.30 : I may noȝt meve me hyder ne thyder.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)59/10 : Deuelis aboute him ledyng and drawyng hym hydur and theder bounden with a bridell.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)258 : Resteth yow that ye go nothir hider ne thider.
c
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)41/25 : Hlesteð hider, hlesteð hider, ȝe modi menn.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)133/26 : Hise eiȝene, þat hie ne bien to swiðe gawrinde hider and ȝeond.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)35 : He..shal loke hider and þider for to loke ȝif he may do eny harme.
- a1450-a1500(1436) Libel EP (Warner)108 : If the see be kepte, then herkene hedere, Yf these ij londes comene not togedere, [etc.].
d
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)868 : Bermen, bermen, hider forth alle!
2.
Up to the present time, until now.
Associated quotations
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)27/23 : From þat tyme hider the Sowdaun clepeth him self Calyffee.
- (1466) Paston (Gairdner)4.246 : We..repute them as gentlemen descended lineally of worshipfull blood sithen the Conquest hither.