elsewhere, adv.
(ɛlsˈhwɛə(r))
[f. else + where, q.v. for forms.]
1. At some other point; in some other place.
| Beowulf 138 Elles hwær. a 1200 Moral Ode 331 in Trin. Coll. Hom. 230 Hwu litle hwile we bieð her . hwu longe elles hware. c 1340 Cursor M. 12485 (Fairf.) Lere him quare þou wil ellis-quare. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xxii. 189 To bynde and vnbynde · both here and elleswher. 1495 Act 2 Hen. VII, c. 37 Preamb., In the Countie of Lancaster or elliswhere in England. 1513 Douglas æneis vii. ix. 93 The dyne was hard eik ellis quhair full far. 1587 Golding De Mornay xxiv. 408 God was not knowne and worshipped elswhere than among the people of Israell. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. iii. ii, The parties, which shall be more opportunely spoken of els-where. 1711 Addison Spect. No. 261 ¶8, As I have elsewhere observed. 1790 Paley Horæ Paul. Rom. i. 9 Inquire whether we can find these circumstances elsewhere. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth xxxii, I can speak with you here as well as elsewhere. 1872 Freeman Gen. Sketch xiii. §2 (1874) 238 In England and elsewhere many men had been burned as heretics. |
2. To some other point; = elsewhither.
| 1513 Douglas æneis xi. vii. 68 Bot gif so be that thai lyst ellisquhair To othir costis or pepill for to wend. 1766 Goldsm. Vic. W. xxvi, If used ill in our dealings with one man we..go elsewhere. 1863 G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxv. (1878) 436 Many of them went elsewhere to church. |