otherwhere, adv.
(ˈʌðəhwɛə(r))
Forms: see other a. and where. Also hyphened, or as two words.
[f. other a. + where: cf. somewhere. Very common in 16–17th c., rare or obs. in 18th, revived in 19th.]
In another place; somewhere else; elsewhere.
| a 1541 Wyatt Deserted Lover 8 With words to win The hearts of them which otherwhere doth grow. 1559 Morwyng Evonym. 19 The reason is declared otherwher. c 1630 Milton Passion 25 His godlike acts, and his temptations fierce, And former sufferings other where are found. a 1677 Barrow Serm. Wks. 1716 II. 61 Otherwhere in this Epistle. 1706 Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 5 On board..ships that lie at Portsmouth..and on those otherwhere. 1820 Keats Eve St. Agnes vii, But she saw not: her heart was otherwhere. 1854 Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. II. 387 At Charing Cross, and otherwhere about London. 1894 J. R. Illingworth Pers. Hum. & Div. vii. (1895) 186 Analogous with the workings of the human spirit otherwhere. |
b. To another place.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxiii. (VII Sleperis) 92 For þat he was far to fare Of þe cyte vthyre-quhare. c 1610 Women Saints 92 To leaue that place and to goe other-where. 1638 Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (1654) II. 28 Since your honour calls you otherwere. 1870 Morris Earthly Par. I. ii. 510 It seemed that time had passed on otherwhere Nor laid a finger on this hidden place. |
c. quasi-n., esp. with some, any, etc. (better written separately; some other where = some other place).
| c 1300 Cursor M. 23906, Þat..I sal tel of sum oþer quar [v.r. sum elles quar]. 1526 Tindale Luke xiii. 33 It cannot be that a prophet perisshe eny other where save att Ierusalem. 1597 Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xxx. §4 Any thing done any other-where. 1635 Swan Spec. M. (1670) 36 Else it rained from some otherwhere. a 1845 Hood Poems (1846) II. 69 [To] forbear their privacy and seek some other where. 1889 Voice (N.Y.) 28 Nov., They are destined for otherwhere than the plowed field with the grave at the end of it. |