† heren.¹

Forms: Old English–Middle English here, Middle English hære, Middle English her, Middle English heere.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English hęre (masculine), genitive hęrges , hęriges , hęres = Old Frisian here , hiri , Old Saxon heri , masculine and neuter (Middle Dutch hēre , Dutch heir , heer (neuter), Low German hêr , neuter), Old High German hari , hęri (Middle Low German here , German heer ) neuter, Old Norse hęrr (masculine), genitive hęrjar (Swedish här , Danish hær ), Gothic harjis masculine < Old Germanic *harjo-z , *harjo^m (in proper names of Roman age chario- ) = Old Prussian karjiz host. Apparently a derivative (adjective) from a radical har- , pre-Germanic kar- , kor- , in sense ‘war’: compare Old Church Slavonic kara contention, strife, Lithuanian kàras war. Hence harry v., harbour n.¹, heriot n.

Obsolete.

An armed host, an army. Also, more generally: A host; a multitude, a great company.In the Anglo-Saxon Chron. the usual word applied to the ‘host’ of the Danish invaders.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > [noun] > an army

ferd823

herec855

drightOE

drightfolkOE

ferdingc1000

gingOE

land-fyrd11..

hostc1290

powerc1300

preyc1300

chivalry1382

puissance1423

enarmec1430

exercite1485

force1487

armya1522

land-force1614

wall1657

ground force1929

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered > large or numerous

weredc725

herec855

heap971

trumec1380

multitudea1382

herda1400

swarm1423

confluence1447

puissance?a1475

army?1518

multitudine1547

bike1554

conflux1702

snarl1775

rallya1794

populace1823

hive1834

skreeda1838

skit1913

rort1941

c855 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker MS.) an. 837 Þy ilcan geare gefeaht Æþelhelm dux wiþ Deniscne here.

a890 Anglo-Saxon Chron. an. 872 Her for se here to Lunden byrig from Readingum.

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxii. 7 Ða se cyning..sende hys here.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3889 An here off godess enngless.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1912 Morgan ledde muchele here.

a1400 K. Alis. 5265 Tygres, olyfaunz, and beres Comen flynge with grete heres.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 21840 Be ur scheld eke and ure spere Bituixin us and helles here [Vesp. her, Gött. here].

a1400–50 Alexander 4800 So hard þai hampird oure heere & herid oure erles.

1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. d^v The tothir knightis maid care of arthuris here.

1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 137 Over 35 men (or 3 × 12) constituted a Here by Ini's laws.]

Compounds

General attributive. See also heregeld n., heretoga n., hereyeld n.

C1.

here-burne n. a coat of mail.

ΚΠ

OE Beowulf 1443 Herebyrne hondum gebroden.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11959 Þe helm an his hæuede and his hereburne.

here-dring n. a warrior.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > [noun]

wyec900

rinkeOE

earlOE

manlOE

champion?c1225

warrer?c1225

drightmanc1275

here-dringc1275

here-gumec1275

here-kempec1275

wal-kempc1275

warrior1297

battlerc1300

fighterc1300

battle-wrighta1400

man-of-war1449

frekec1475

war-manc1485

combatant1489

Mars1565

warfarer1591

combater1598

Mavortian1598

brave1601

fire-eater1792

war-wolf1810

war-hound1812

war-dog1846

toa1860

Mavors1868

fightist1877

ninja1964

simba1964

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4290 Ȝif here is æi heredring.

here-feng n. booty.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > spoil or plunder > taken in war or raid

here-fengc1275

preya1325

wainc1330

spoila1340

ravinc1350

spoila1382

pillagea1393

forayc1425

booty1474

trophya1522

prize1522

sackage1609

boot-haling1622

free-booty1623

plunder1647

capture1706

loot1839

sack1859

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 5845 Heo funden herre-feng inoh.

here-gang n. an invasion by an army.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > attack > invasion > [noun]

here-gang10..

inrunning1382

incursion?a1475

invasion1539

incurse1543

irruption1577

invade1591

invading1603

invadationa1607

infall1645

inroadinga1656

incursation1659

infallinga1698

big one1960

10.. tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. i. xi. [xiv.] (MS. B) To wiðscufanne swa reðum heregange.

a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1191 Ich wot of hunger, of hergonge.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9079 In þan here-ȝeonge inne Walisc londe.

c1330 Arth. & Merl. 4094 Here is comand to this lond Gret hunger, and here gong.

here-gume n. = here-kempe n.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > [noun]

wyec900

rinkeOE

earlOE

manlOE

champion?c1225

warrer?c1225

drightmanc1275

here-dringc1275

here-gumec1275

here-kempec1275

wal-kempc1275

warrior1297

battlerc1300

fighterc1300

battle-wrighta1400

man-of-war1449

frekec1475

war-manc1485

combatant1489

Mars1565

warfarer1591

combater1598

Mavortian1598

brave1601

fire-eater1792

war-wolf1810

war-hound1812

war-dog1846

toa1860

Mavors1868

fightist1877

ninja1964

simba1964

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7254 Þus heo comen..hæðene hære-gumen.

here-kempe n. a warrior.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > [noun]

wyec900

rinkeOE

earlOE

manlOE

champion?c1225

warrer?c1225

drightmanc1275

here-dringc1275

here-gumec1275

here-kempec1275

wal-kempc1275

warrior1297

battlerc1300

fighterc1300

battle-wrighta1400

man-of-war1449

frekec1475

war-manc1485

combatant1489

Mars1565

warfarer1591

combater1598

Mavortian1598

brave1601

fire-eater1792

war-wolf1810

war-hound1812

war-dog1846

toa1860

Mavors1868

fightist1877

ninja1964

simba1964

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14117 Sixti þusende. here-kempen harde.

here-marke n. a standard, ensign.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > flag, banner, or standard

senyec900

beaconOE

markOE

banner?c1225

here-markec1275

ensignc1400

standard?a1439

standard1497

armory1523

flag1530

handsenyie1545

ancient1554

labarum1563

antsign1571

ensign-staff1707

brattach1828

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14245 Heo..heuen here-marken.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13710 Feollen here-mærken [c1300 Otho hire markes].

here-scrud n. (also here-shroud) = here-weeds n.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [noun]

here-weedsOE

weedOE

here-scrudc1275

armourc1325

armsc1325

armingc1330

armouryc1330

harnessc1330

warnementa1400

fighting-wisec1400

gome-graithc1420

graithc1420

armaturea1460

habiliment1470

furniture1569

proof1583

harnessment1610

pewter1622

equipage1633

pamphract1934

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2528 Leie a-dun þin hære-scrud.

here-weeds n. armour, martial accoutrements; (all only Old English and early Middle English).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [noun]

here-weedsOE

weedOE

here-scrudc1275

armourc1325

armsc1325

armingc1330

armouryc1330

harnessc1330

warnementa1400

fighting-wisec1400

gome-graithc1420

graithc1420

armaturea1460

habiliment1470

furniture1569

proof1583

harnessment1610

pewter1622

equipage1633

pamphract1934

OE Beowulf 1897 Sægeap naca hladen herewædum.

a1400–50 Alexander 1010 Al to heuy to be hildid in any here wedis.

C2.

herefare n. a military expedition (in 17th cent. legal antiquaries).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military operations > [noun] > expedition

ferdingc1000

voyage1297

journeyc1380

hosting1422

armyc1425

hosteyingc1425

expedition1430

voyage royal1528

expedit1613

herefare1626

1626 H. Spelman Glossarium Herefare, profectio militaris.

1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Herefare.

1672 T. Manley Νομοθετης: Cowell's Interpreter sig. Rrrb Burgbote, Brigbote, Herefare, Heregeld, etc.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

hereadv.n.²

Brit.

/hɪə/, U.S.

/hɪ(ə)r/

Forms: Old English hér, Middle English her, Middle English–1600s heer(e, Middle English– here; also (Old English hǽr, Middle English heren, hur), Middle English hier, Middle English hir(e, Kent. hyer, Middle English–1500s Scottish heyr, Middle English–1600s Scottish heir(e, Middle English hiere, 1500s–1600s hear(e.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English hér = Old Frisian hîr , Old Saxon hêr , hîr (Middle Dutch, Dutch hier ), Old High German hiar , hear , hier (Middle High German, modern German hier ), Old Norse hêr (Swedish här , Danish her ), Gothic hêr : apparently from the pronominal stem hi- ‘this’ (see he pron., n.¹, and adj.); the nature of the formation is obscure.

A. adv.

a. In this place; in the place (country, region, etc.) where the person speaking is, or places himself.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [adverb] > here

herec825

hereinc1000

here-rightlOE

aplace1393

hereatc1540

'ere1837

yere1867

heah1927

c825 Vesp. Psalter cxxxi[i.] 14 Her eardung..icgeceas hie.

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xiv. 17 Nabbas we her buta fif hlafum.

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxviii. 6 Nys he her, he aras..swa swa he sæde [1382 Wyclif, He is not here, sothli he roos, as he seide].

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 83 Here he is and honen he nis.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 174 Art þu quod he ȝet her.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Kings xix. 9 What dost thow here, Helyas?

c1386 G. Chaucer Friar's Tale 272 Heere wynne I no thyng vp-on cariage.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3296 Mi hernes dun heir did i lai.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 7 I here hier that reygnart is sore complayned on.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 305 Thi modyr and thow rycht heir with me sall bide.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 1 b Let him be heere for the space of sixe daies.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 186 We here in the Campe..have not had much to doe.

1662 King Charles II in J. M. Cartwright Madame (1894) 121 I am doing all I can to gett him a rich wife heere.

1670 Lady M. Bertie in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 22 All heare are well.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 289 That load which pressed most heavily on..the great continental states was here scarcely felt.

b. With ellipsis of I am (or we are), in answer to a call or summons, or to attract attention; esp. in answer to a roll-call: = present, adsum.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > presence > [adverb] > who is present > in answer to a call

herec970

c970 Abbo Hist. S. Eadmundi in Surius Vitæ SS. (1618) IV. 443 Patria lingua dicens: Her, her, her; quod interpretatum Latinus sermo exprimit, Hîc, hîc, hîc.

c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints (E.E.T.S.) II. 324 Hwær eart þu nu gefera? And him and-wyrde þæt heafod, Hêr, hêr, hêr.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 22 Up and doune in þe felde þei souht it aboute..Tille þe hede him self said, here, here, here.

c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 726 Here, lord, here! qwat wol ȝe?

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. ii. 39 Quin. Francis Flute, the Bellowes mender? Flu. Here Peeter Quince.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. i. 2 Master. Bote-swaine. Botes. Heere Master.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxiii. 354 ‘Answer to your names, gentlemen, that you may be sworn,’ said the gentleman in black. ‘Richard Upwitch.’ ‘Here’, said the green-grocer.

c. Placed after the name of a person or thing to whose presence attention is called: = who or which is here, whom you see here.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > presence > [adverb] > who is present

here1600

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. iv. 29 Onely attended by Nerrissa heere .

1637 [see sense A. 1d].

1673 J. Dryden Amboyna ii. 19 In the mean time, bear my worthy friend here company.

1751 tr. Female Foundling II. 4 My Daughter here wants Linen.

1898 N.E.D. at Here Mod. ‘My brother, here, is ready to give information.’

d. Used for the sake of emphasis after a noun qualified by this, these, or after these demonstratives themselves when used absolutely; dialectally or informally appended to this, these, when used adjectively. (Cf. French ce livre-ci, ceci, celui-ci.)

ΚΠ

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xv. 181 The best wyse that we may Hast vs outt of this here.

1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. I5 Now what experience will we haue greter than this heare?

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxii. xv. 213 (note) But this here seemeth to be venomous.

1637 J. Milton Comus 23 And first behold this cordial julep here.

1762 S. Foote Orators ii. 38 I should be glad to know, how my client can be try'd in this here manner.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. i. 17 Are you, cried he, the bearer of this here letter?

1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xxi. 238 I would n't wish for better sport than to swing her round this here pond!

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxx. 180 ‘Now, with regard to this here robbery, master,’ said Blathers. ‘What are the circumstances?’

1872 Punch 31 Aug. 92/2 ‘It is no use a trying on these here games with us’.

e. here today and gone tomorrow: a catchphrase indicating a constant change of events or someone (or something) remaining in a place for a short time.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > change [phrase]

tempora mutantur1577

the wind has changed1615

here today and gone tomorrow1687

plus ça change1893

the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > shortness in time [phrase] > here today and gone tomorrow

here today and gone tomorrow1687

1687 A. Behn Luckey Chance iv. i. 47 Faith Sir, we are here to Day and gone to Morrow.

1776 H. Newdigate Let. in A. E. Newdigate-Newdegate Cheverels (1898) i. 10 Going over for a day to Arbury to beat for Wood Cocks..as they are birds of passage, here today and gone tomorrow.

1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 196 Here to-day and gone to-morrow. Didn't come to stay for ever.

1944 W. S. Maugham Razor's Edge iv. iv. 132 Even in the old days you could never count on his being where you expected him to be. He was here today and gone tomorrow.

1972 Listener 23 Nov. 690/2 We [sc. the TUC] put forward proposals for a general rise in pensions—not a ‘Christmas Box’ that is here today and gone tomorrow.

a. In weakened sense, more or less directly indicating something present to the sight or the mind. Chiefly with verb to be (sometimes with ellipsis). Here is calls attention to what the speaker has, brings, offers, or discovers; = there is here, see or behold here. (French voici.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > presence > [adverb]

presenta1400

presentlyc1425

presentiallyc1450

herea1500

towards1548

presentificly1653

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ix. 85 And therto here my hand.

a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1616) sig. F2^v What's here? an ambush to betray my life.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. iii. 33 Theres honour for you, heres no vanitie.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 96 Heere's a change indeed in the Commonwealth.

a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. i. 83 Here's no grosse flattery: Will she swallow this?

1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 136 O frightful, thought I! here's an Avowal of the Matter at once.

1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 65 Here is half the summer past, and still I'm at the chimney nook.

1889 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Crooked Path vi I says, ‘here's your tea, sir’, but he made no answer.

b. here's to (elliptical for here's a health to), here's hoping, how, looking (at you), luck, formulas used in drinking healths.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking salutations [interjection] > in drinking healths

have towardsc1400

here's to1597

skol1600

tope1651

hob or nob1756

slainte1824

here's hoping, how, looking (at you), luck1888

santé1903

prosit1916

here's to the skin off your nose1925

(here's) mud in your eye1927

lechayim1932

the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking salutations [interjection]

rivoa1593

my service to you1637

tope1651

three times three1683

hob or nob1756

bottoms up!1858

chin chin1888

here's hoping, how, looking (at you), luck1896

down the hatch1918

cheerio1919

cheero1919

(here's) mud in your eye1927

cheers1930

lechayim1932

salut1933

salud1938

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 119 Heers to my loue.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler xi. 209 Well then, here's to you Coridon; and now for my Song.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 143 Come, Madam; here's a Health to our Friends, and hang the rest of our Kin.

1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal iii. iii. 36 Here's to the maiden of blushing fifteen, Now to the widow of fifty..Let the toast pass, drink to the lass.

1821 W. Scott Pirate II. i. 12 Drink about, Master Yellowley..Here's to you, Master Yellowley.

1888 R. Kipling Soldiers Three 48 He opened a bottle... ‘Here's luck!’

1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 99 Yes, a health to ourselves ere we scatter... Here's how!

1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor iii. 40 ‘Here's hoping,’ Bucky nodded gaily. ‘I bet there will be a right lively wolf hunt.’

1933 M. Lowry Ultramarine 164 Here's looking at you!

1938 E. Hemingway Fifth Column (1939) 184 Here's looking at you... Here's how.

1973 E. Lemarchand Let or Hindrance xii. 142 Pollard..raised his glass to her. ‘Here's hoping.’

3. Of a point or period of time: to be here, to be present, to have arrived.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > present time [verb (intransitive)] > arrive so as to be present

arrive1614

to be here1891

to come up1909

1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 13 The Easter recess will be here in a day or two.

4. In this world; in this life; on earth. Also here below († beneath, down). Cf. French ici bas.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > [adverb] > situation

here971

under the sunOE

on (the) grounda1000

an-earthOE

on (the) moulda1350

971 Blickl. Hom. 35 Þa hwile þe we lifgaþ her on worlde.

c1000 Laws Eccles. Inst. in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) II. 394 Her gehyrð Drihten þa þe hine biddað.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 9 Þet me her on þisse liue for his saule bidde.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 75 Þet sichðe þet is nu dosch her.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 232 Holy cherche þet is hier beneþe.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Heb. xiii. 14 Sothli we han not here a citee dwellinge [ Tindale For here have we no continuynge citie].

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 238 Thow wolt hongy heye þer-fore her oþer in helle.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 67 Wnto wardlie prince heir downe.

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 211 Both here and there pursue me lasting strife.

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 81 Experience teacheth us, that the influence of..planets are true..here below, which none can denie.

1766 O. Goldsmith Ballad [the Hermit] in Vicar of Wakefield I. viii. 71 Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

1824 J. Montgomery Friend after Friend Departs (hymn) There is no union here of hearts, That finds not here an end.

a. At this point or period in action, speech, or thought; at this juncture; in this passage (of something written): frequently referring to what immediately precedes or follows.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [adverb] > here or at this point or juncture

here871

871–89 Charter of Ælfred in Old Eng. Texts 452 Her sindon ðæra manna naman awritene ðe ðeosse wisan geweoton sindon.

a900 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker MS.) an. 871 Her cuom se here to Readingum.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 241 Her endenn twa goddspelless þuss.

a1300 Cursor Mundi 1627 (heading) Her bigins at noe þe lele Þe toþer werld right for to del.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 52 An oþer poynt is her putt.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Tiij^v Here zenophon sayd neuer a worde.

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 3 Examples, which to set heer would be superfluous.

1662 Bk. Com. Prayer, Morn. Pr. (rubric) In Quires and Places where they sing, here followeth the Anthem.

1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature & Cure Calculus 212 Here are some experiments and reasons, upon which their theory of respiration is founded.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 296 Here Adeimantus interposed a question.

b. here's where..: this is the point at which. U.S. colloquial.

ΚΠ

1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean xii. 203 ‘It makes me feel sick at my stomach’, declared Briscoe. ‘Here's where you feel sicker. Great Scott, look at that.’

1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean xiv. 250 Here's where I slip it out to the old gink.

6. In the matter before us or in question; in this case; in this particular.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > [adverb] > in relation or with reference to or concerning > concerning this or that

hereofc1050

herec1175

hereonc1175

heretoc1175

hereuponc1175

thereofa1200

hereanenta1225

hereabout?c1225

herein?c1225

herebyc1230

therebya1250

theretilla1300

thereabouta1375

thereto1377

hereforc1380

thereanenta1400

thereata1400

thereuntoa1400

thereanentsc1400

thereonc1400

thereupon1414

thereoffena1450

thereatour1457

herintil1489

hereunto1509

thereover1535

hithera1538

hereabouts1584

thereabouts1592

hitherunto1635

hitherto1637

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 81 Her me ah to understonden for-whi hit seið alf quic and noht alf ded.

c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 86 Heere may ye se and heer-by may ye preue That wyf is mannes helpe and his confort.

1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 205^v And here Ladie Caterine and Cavallero had the honour.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. ii. 41 Here I hit it righ Our Romeo hath not bin a bed to night.

1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. ii. vii. 359 Heere was his sinne; An ouer-reaching of his commission.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 76. ⁋4 Here can then be no Injustice, where no one is injured.

1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 550 Certainly, there is as much reason to adjudge the heir in by descent here, as there is to adjudge an heir in by descent, where a recovery was had against the ancestor.

1878 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 199 Here more than anywhere else you need to give the tools to him who can handle them.

a. With verbs of coming and bringing: to or towards this place; now, in ordinary use, taking the place of hither v. look here: see look v. 9.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > direction > [adverb] > to or towards some thing or place > to or towards this place or direction

hitherc725

hereOE

hitherwarda1100

hitherwardsc1200

heretoc1275

hither1340

hereunto1509

hitherto1535

hereaway1549

this-way-ward1662

this-a-way1903

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [adverb] > towards the speaker or this place

hitherc725

hereOE

hereonc1275

OE Beowulf 376 Is his eafora nu heard her cumen.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 5 He is iblesced þe þe her cumet on drihtenes nome.

c1305 St. Swithin 9 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 43 Siþþe hit was þat seint berin her bi weste wende.

a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 207 Heir cumis our awin queir clerk.

1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 127 See them, Looke here, Here they be.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 376 Returne him here againe.

1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 96 I still had hopes..Here to return—and die at home at last.

1798 L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 4) iii. 158 The adverbs here, there, where, are often improperly applied to verbs signifying motion, instead of the adverbs hither, thither, whither: as, ‘He came here hastily’;..should be, ‘He came hither..’.

1814 Ld. Byron Corsair i. xvii. 28 Call Pedro here!

1898 N.E.D. at Here Mod. Bring them here at once.

b. Hence, by extension, after belong: = to this place. colloquial.

ΚΠ

1898 N.E.D. at Here Mod. I'm a stranger, I don't belong here.

8. Used elliptically in calling an attendant, etc. (Cf. Gothic hiri! come here!) Hence, to call attention to or introduce a command: = Greek ἄγε, Latin age, French tiens, tenez.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [adverb] > to attract attention

here1632

1576 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Houres of Recreation: Garden of Pleasure (new ed.) 52 She reaching him foorth to him, added moreover. Holde heere, for I will give him to thee.]

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 18 Here, take these hundred crownes.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 211 Here, take away the Tea-table, and bring up Candles.

1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xi. 182 Here, come out to the fresh air.

1898 N.E.D. at Here Mod. John! here! quick.

9. here and there.

a. In this place and in that; in various places; in some scattered places; at intervals of space: sometimes = now-and-then adj. Also, in same sense, with notion of constant or very frequent recurrence, every (†ever) here and there. (So, formerly, † here and yonder.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scattered [phrase] > here and there

here and yonda1325

here and therea1375

up and downc1374

here and yonder1412

to and fro1617

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 3821 But william as a wod man was euer here & þere.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13981 Iesus preched hir and þar.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) ix. 112 A lyttille Village, and Houses a brood here and there.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. xxvii He shulde on peces hewen be a sonder Upon the playne dismembred here & yonder.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 52/2 Yet began there here & there about, some maner of muttering amonge the people.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Pet. i. 1 Peter an Apostle of Iesu Christ, to them that dwell here and there as straungers thorow out Pontus, Galacia, Capadocia.

1587 R. Hovenden in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 217 They be dispersed here and there in hedgerowis.

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 96 Yong Fortenbrasse,..Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there, Sharkt vp a sight of lawlesse Resolutes.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 50. ¶6 Able to understand but here and there a Word of what they said.

1845 London Jrnl. 1 189 Every here and there are seen dark pits and vaulted caverns.

1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 326 A good picture may here and there be found in our churches.

1879 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 29 391/2 Her style is a curious medley, every here and there, of the ambitious and the slovenly.

b. To this place and to that: hither and thither; in various directions; to and fro.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [phrase] > hither and thither

hither and thitherc725

here and there1297

from place to placea1398

hitherward and thitherwarda1398

from post to pillarc1500

from pillar to posta1550

from wig to wall1602

hither and yon1787

hither and yond1831

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 378 Þe kyng hem sende her and þer aboute in Engelond.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 66 Ase þe wyȝte þet ualþ ine hot weter, þet kest hyer and þer.

a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Passioun in Poems (1998) I. 34 In yre thay harlit him heir and thair.

1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 1357 Th' Ape..Fled here and there, and euerie corner sought.

1646 F. Hawkins tr. Youths Behaviour (ed. 4) 33 Be attentive, turning not thine eyes here and there.

1879 F. T. Pollok Sport Brit. Burmah I. 78 The brute..was caught, and taken here and there for sale.

†c. This way and that way; with shifts or evasions. Obsolete. Also attributive. (Perhaps) shifting, evasive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [adverb]

here and therec1300

shiftingly1580

palterly1598

shufflingly1657

evasively1736

wrigglingly1866

c1300 Beket 42 Tho Gilbert ihurde this; he stod in grete thoȝt, And feignede his word her and ther, and ne grantede noȝt.

1710 ‘J. Touchwood’ Quixote Redivivus 11 Thou canting, whining, here and there Villain.

d. Hence here-and-thereian n. humorous one who moves about from place to place.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1701 C. Cibber Love makes Man iv. 43 I am a kind of a—what decallum—a sort of a Here-and—thereian; I am Stranger no where.

10. here…there. In one place…in another place; = Latin hic…illic, alibi…alibi.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > in a or the place [phrase] > in one place... in another place

here…therec1400

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxii. 101 Þai er few, here a hare and þare a hare.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings xviii. 4 I hyd an hundreth of the Lordes prophetes, here fiftye, and there fiftye in the caues.

1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. §1 Borrowing here of the french, there of the Italian, euery where of the Latine.

1658 W. Sanderson Graphice 12 Here, barrells flote, there packs, not yet through-wet.

11. here, there, and everywhere. In every place, indicated or not indicated. (Also formerly here and everywhere; here, there, all where.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [phrase] > everywhere

far and near or nighOE

in length and (in) breadth (or brede)a1250

high and low1525

here, there, and everywherea1593

in every stead1596

through long and broad ——1617

from Dan to Beersheba1738

all along the line1877

all over the auction1930

a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. B3^v That I may be here and there and euery where.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. v. 26 Here, there and euery where, he leaues and takes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) i. i. 139 An extrauagant, and wheeling Stranger, Of here, and euery where.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. 327 Like yong maides, and youths together, Run here and there, alwhere, and none know whether.

1790 J. B. Moreton Manners & Customs West India Islands 97 [He] must go round the corn field and cane pieces..he must be here and there and everywhere.

1879 F. T. Pollok Sport Brit. Burmah I. 16 We were soon scattered here, there, and everywhere.

12. neither here nor there. Of no account either one way or the other; of no matter or consequence; unimportant.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adverb] > of no importance > either way

neither to nor fro1555

neither here nor there1583

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xcii. 570 True it is that our so dooing is neither here nor there (as they say) in respect of God.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. iii. 57 Tis neither here nor there .

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. ix. vi. 353 But if he does, that is neither here nor there .

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I li. 28 But what I say is neither here nor there.

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xiv. 182 You'll find him a little too much for your gravity. However, that's neither here nor there.

13.

a. here goes! An exclamation declaring one's resolution or resignation to perform some act, usually of a bold or rash character. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > the decisive step is taken [phrase] > declaration of resolution or decision

here goes!1829

1829 J. H. Newman Corr. (1891) I. 209 I do not expect to finish this by post-time; but here goes.

1862 W. M. Thackeray Wks. (1872) X. 218 Since it must be done, here goes!

1889 R. Browning Ponte dell' Angelo in Asolando xxi Spare speech! I'm resigned: Here goes! roared the goblin.

b. here we go again: we are off on the same undesirable course, project, etc., as before. Also used as attributive.phr.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > repeating > repetition of an (undesirable) course of action [phrase]

here we go again1954

1954 R. P. Bissell High Water (1955) xix. 161 ‘Time to get up, Mister Duke.’ ‘Oh, hell,’ I thought. ‘Here we go again.’

1958 B. Malamud Magic Barrel (1960) 72 ‘Ah, there I can't help you,’ said the portiere. ‘I haven't got the key.’ ‘Here we go again,’ Carl muttered.

1962 J. Baldwin Another Country (1963) ii. iii. 270 ‘Oh, shit,’ he said, ‘here we go again.’

1969 Listener 12 June 836/1 One of William Glock's most difficult tasks in planning each year's series of Promenade Concerts is to write that desperate here-we-go-again introduction to the prospectus.

14. here we (also you) are. Here is what we (you) want. colloquial.

ΚΠ

1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh vi Hum! ha! now let's see, here we are—the ‘G-i-a-o-u-r’—that's a nice word to talk about.

15. Here was formerly often placed before verbal nouns and nouns of action. This is now rare.

ΚΠ

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 125 Þe erueðliche herbiwist and þe wunderliche heðen sið of ure louerd.

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 185 Hure her wunenge is swiðe reulich.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 141 It semeth nouȝ t þat ȝe shulle Haue heuene in ȝowre here beyng and heuene her after.

1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. K1, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) To continue my here being to some profitable purpose.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. iii. 149 Which often since my heere remaine in England, I haue seene him do.

B. n.²

= this place; (also) the present; the present life. Frequently in here and now; also as adv.phr.; so here-and-nowness. Also here and there n.phr.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun]

instancec1374

nowa1393

presenta1425

nowadays?c1425

the time1484

presentens1509

here1608

present tense1630

now1633

the now1720

day1766

today1831

this day and age1832

of the period1859

nowaday1886

these days1936

the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [noun] > here or this place

here1608

the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [phrase] > here > here and now

here and now1829

hic et nunc1935

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear i. 252 Thou loosest here, a better where to find.

1816 M. E. Bicknell Let. 26 Sept. in J. Constable Corr. (1964) II. 210 I know of no other plan but of my leaving here early on Monday.

1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Dec. 117 With Him it is a universal Here and Now.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxxiv. 269 I—I—ought to have left here before.

1839 C. Dickens Let. ?24 July (1965) I. 567 I dine in town tomorrow and shall leave for here at 10 at night.

1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha Introd. 9 Full of all the tender pathos Of the Here and the Hereafter.

1857–8 E. H. Sears Athanasia 19 [Motion] requires a here and a there.

1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxxiv. 623 You would rather not leave here till to-morrow morning.

1874 ‘G. Eliot’ in Macmillan's Mag. XXXVIII. July 177 Widening his consciousness from Here and Now to larger wholes.

1887 H. R. Haggard Allan Quatermain xvi. 228 Here and now for thy dear sake I will forget my people and my father's house.

1922 W. S. Maugham On Chinese Screen xliii. 172 Your thoughts travel through time and space, far from the Here and Now.

1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage xiv. 176 Its romantic appeal is an escape from here and now into an artificial world of somewhere else or some time past.

a1943 R. G. Collingwood Idea of Hist. (1946) 248 The detail of the here-and-now as given him in perception.

1957 C. Day Lewis Pegasus 56 The truant here-and-there of the Stour.

1959 Listener 26 Feb. 385/1 Whether Condorcet or Huxley is right is an undecidable question for us here and now.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Sept. 522/3 All combine to form a subtle escape-route from the unwelcome here-and-now of the twentieth century.

1961 I. Murdoch Severed Head x. 85 She was all gentleness and filled with so genuine a concern to save me here and now from distress and anxiety.

1962 Listener 26 Apr. 717/2 Here and now Russia, while she does not want a war with us, is nevertheless our antagonist.

1963 Times 27 Feb. 13/1 They came, it seems, to a realization of the here-and-nowness of life.

1971 New Scientist 27 Apr. 263/1 Cocking's group have their minds firmly concentrated on the here-and-now.

Compounds

here- in combination with adverbs and prepositions.

871–89 Charter of Ælfred in Old Eng. Texts 452 Þas gewriotu Þe herbeufan awreotene stondað.

1646 F. Hawkins tr. Youths Behaviour (ed. 4) 44 As hath beene said here above.

[These originated, as in the other Germanic languages, in the juxtaposition of here and another adverb qualifying the same verb. Thus, in 805-31 at herebefore adv. 1 hær beforan = here (in this document), before (i.e. at an earlier place). Compare herein before adv., herein after adv. at herein adv. Compounds, in which herein is similarly used. But as many adverbs were identical in form with prepositions, and there was little or no practical difference between ‘here, at an earlier place’ and ‘before or at an earlier place than this’, the adverb came to be felt as a preposition governing here (= this place); and, on the analogy of this, new combinations were freely formed of here (there, where) with prepositions which had never been adverbs, as herefor, hereto, hereon, herewith.]

C1. With adverbs. Also hereaway adv., hereunder adv., etc.

here-beneath adv.

ΚΠ

1576 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Houres of Recreation: Garden of Pleasure (new ed.) 138 Among us heere beneth.

here-within adv.

ΚΠ

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 115 Ȝie maisterlinges her~wið-innen openeð ȝiure gaten.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) clv. 593 We haue..chaumbers garnysshed and ordeyned as ye haue sene herewith-in.

here-without adv.

ΚΠ

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 819/1 Here without, icy dehors.

hereforth adj. forward in this direction or this way.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > [adverb] > in this direction

hereforthc1305

c1305 St. Christopher 94 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 62 Þat child him bad par charite þat he him ouer bere; Ȝe com herforþ, quaþ Cristofre, y nuste wher þu were.

c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 144 Heer forth ne lith no wey.

here-next adj. next to this, immediately after this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adverb] > next in order or then

then971

sitha1300

sinc1330

afterward1340

here-nexta1400

synea1450

juxt1614

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 26138 To quam I salle þe tel here nest [Vesp. here nexist] þou sal þe shriue.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 141 Here neist sal be siþen teld Hu Ioseph was bath bogh[t] and seld.

C2. With prepositions = this, this place, this matter, etc. Also hereabout adv., herewith adv. and adj., etc., etc.

hereabove adv. (also here-above)

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [adverb] > mentioned above or previously

herebefore805

abovelOE

overc1485

supra1616

ante1688

therein before1827

hereabove1892

1892 C. E. Norton tr. Dante Divine Comedy III. xxviii. 185 He who saw it hereabove disclosed it to him.

here-among adv.

ΚΠ

1640 E. Dacres tr. N. Machiavelli Prince xxi. 180 To the end hee might be able here-among to undertake greater matters.

here-beside adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > distance > nearness > [adverb] > near this place

here-besidec1400

c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 320 Her bisyde es a well.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 819/1 Here bysyde, icy pres.

hereinto adv.

ΚΠ

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. i. 49 Our first entrance hereinto.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 69 A neere friend..looked heerinto with an indifferent and vnpreiudicating eye.

here-within adv.

here-without adv.

† hereafore adv. Obsolete = herebefore adv.

ΚΠ

1824 R. Southey Bk. of Church (1841) 224 I have told you hereafore.

† herintil adv. Scottish Obsolete herein.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > [adverb] > in relation or with reference to or concerning > concerning this or that

hereofc1050

herec1175

hereonc1175

heretoc1175

hereuponc1175

thereofa1200

hereanenta1225

hereabout?c1225

herein?c1225

herebyc1230

therebya1250

theretilla1300

thereabouta1375

thereto1377

hereforc1380

thereanenta1400

thereata1400

thereuntoa1400

thereanentsc1400

thereonc1400

thereupon1414

thereoffena1450

thereatour1457

herintil1489

hereunto1509

thereover1535

hithera1538

hereabouts1584

thereabouts1592

hitherunto1635

hitherto1637

1489 Sc. Acts Jas. IV c. 14 Officiaris þat beis necligent herintill.

c1575 Balfour's Practicks (1754) 40 The Schiref..is on na wayis Judge competent heirintill.

† hermid adv. Obsolete herewith.

ΚΠ

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2671 Her-mid we sculleð heom bi-charren.

† hereover adv. Obsolete in addition to this.

ΚΠ

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ii. ii. 60 Hereouer aungelis kynde passiþ al bodiliche kynde in subtilite of his essencia.

† hertoȝeines adv. Obsolete against this, on the other hand.

ΚΠ

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 120 Eft he seið riht her to ȝeines. ne let tu..þine meiden no gult to ȝiues.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	here
释义	† heren.¹ Forms: Old English–Middle English here, Middle English hære, Middle English her, Middle English heere. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English hęre (masculine), genitive hęrges , hęriges , hęres = Old Frisian here , hiri , Old Saxon heri , masculine and neuter (Middle Dutch hēre , Dutch heir , heer (neuter), Low German hêr , neuter), Old High German hari , hęri (Middle Low German here , German heer ) neuter, Old Norse hęrr (masculine), genitive hęrjar (Swedish här , Danish hær ), Gothic harjis masculine < Old Germanic harjo-z , harjo^m (in proper names of Roman age chario- ) = Old Prussian karjiz host. Apparently a derivative (adjective) from a radical har- , pre-Germanic kar- , kor- , in sense ‘war’: compare Old Church Slavonic kara contention, strife, Lithuanian kàras war. Hence harry v., harbour n.¹, heriot n. Obsolete. An armed host, an army. Also, more generally: A host; a multitude, a great company.In the Anglo-Saxon Chron. the usual word applied to the ‘host’ of the Danish invaders. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > [noun] > an army ferd823 herec855 drightOE drightfolkOE ferdingc1000 gingOE land-fyrd11.. hostc1290 powerc1300 preyc1300 chivalry1382 puissance1423 enarmec1430 exercite1485 force1487 armya1522 land-force1614 wall1657 ground force1929 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered > large or numerous weredc725 herec855 heap971 trumec1380 multitudea1382 herda1400 swarm1423 confluence1447 puissance?a1475 army?1518 multitudine1547 bike1554 conflux1702 snarl1775 rallya1794 populace1823 hive1834 skreeda1838 skit1913 rort1941 c855 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker MS.) an. 837 Þy ilcan geare gefeaht Æþelhelm dux wiþ Deniscne here. a890 Anglo-Saxon Chron. an. 872 Her for se here to Lunden byrig from Readingum. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxii. 7 Ða se cyning..sende hys here. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3889 An here off godess enngless. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1912 Morgan ledde muchele here. a1400 K. Alis. 5265 Tygres, olyfaunz, and beres Comen flynge with grete heres. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 21840 Be ur scheld eke and ure spere Bituixin us and helles here [Vesp. her, Gött. here]. a1400–50 Alexander 4800 So hard þai hampird oure heere & herid oure erles. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. d^v The tothir knightis maid care of arthuris here. 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 137 Over 35 men (or 3 × 12) constituted a Here by Ini's laws.] Compounds General attributive. See also heregeld n., heretoga n., hereyeld n. C1. here-burne n. a coat of mail. ΚΠ OE Beowulf 1443 Herebyrne hondum gebroden. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11959 Þe helm an his hæuede and his hereburne. here-dring n. a warrior. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > [noun] wyec900 rinkeOE earlOE manlOE champion?c1225 warrer?c1225 drightmanc1275 here-dringc1275 here-gumec1275 here-kempec1275 wal-kempc1275 warrior1297 battlerc1300 fighterc1300 battle-wrighta1400 man-of-war1449 frekec1475 war-manc1485 combatant1489 Mars1565 warfarer1591 combater1598 Mavortian1598 brave1601 fire-eater1792 war-wolf1810 war-hound1812 war-dog1846 toa1860 Mavors1868 fightist1877 ninja1964 simba1964 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4290 Ȝif here is æi heredring. here-feng n. booty. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > spoil or plunder > taken in war or raid here-fengc1275 preya1325 wainc1330 spoila1340 ravinc1350 spoila1382 pillagea1393 forayc1425 booty1474 trophya1522 prize1522 sackage1609 boot-haling1622 free-booty1623 plunder1647 capture1706 loot1839 sack1859 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 5845 Heo funden herre-feng inoh. here-gang n. an invasion by an army. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > invasion > [noun] here-gang10.. inrunning1382 incursion?a1475 invasion1539 incurse1543 irruption1577 invade1591 invading1603 invadationa1607 infall1645 inroadinga1656 incursation1659 infallinga1698 big one1960 10.. tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. i. xi. [xiv.] (MS. B) To wiðscufanne swa reðum heregange. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1191 Ich wot of hunger, of hergonge. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9079 In þan here-ȝeonge inne Walisc londe. c1330 Arth. & Merl. 4094 Here is comand to this lond Gret hunger, and here gong. here-gume n. = here-kempe n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > [noun] wyec900 rinkeOE earlOE manlOE champion?c1225 warrer?c1225 drightmanc1275 here-dringc1275 here-gumec1275 here-kempec1275 wal-kempc1275 warrior1297 battlerc1300 fighterc1300 battle-wrighta1400 man-of-war1449 frekec1475 war-manc1485 combatant1489 Mars1565 warfarer1591 combater1598 Mavortian1598 brave1601 fire-eater1792 war-wolf1810 war-hound1812 war-dog1846 toa1860 Mavors1868 fightist1877 ninja1964 simba1964 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7254 Þus heo comen..hæðene hære-gumen. here-kempe n. a warrior. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > [noun] wyec900 rinkeOE earlOE manlOE champion?c1225 warrer?c1225 drightmanc1275 here-dringc1275 here-gumec1275 here-kempec1275 wal-kempc1275 warrior1297 battlerc1300 fighterc1300 battle-wrighta1400 man-of-war1449 frekec1475 war-manc1485 combatant1489 Mars1565 warfarer1591 combater1598 Mavortian1598 brave1601 fire-eater1792 war-wolf1810 war-hound1812 war-dog1846 toa1860 Mavors1868 fightist1877 ninja1964 simba1964 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14117 Sixti þusende. here-kempen harde. here-marke n. a standard, ensign. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > flag, banner, or standard senyec900 beaconOE markOE banner?c1225 here-markec1275 ensignc1400 standard?a1439 standard1497 armory1523 flag1530 handsenyie1545 ancient1554 labarum1563 antsign1571 ensign-staff1707 brattach1828 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14245 Heo..heuen here-marken. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13710 Feollen here-mærken [c1300 Otho hire markes]. here-scrud n. (also here-shroud) = here-weeds n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [noun] here-weedsOE weedOE here-scrudc1275 armourc1325 armsc1325 armingc1330 armouryc1330 harnessc1330 warnementa1400 fighting-wisec1400 gome-graithc1420 graithc1420 armaturea1460 habiliment1470 furniture1569 proof1583 harnessment1610 pewter1622 equipage1633 pamphract1934 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2528 Leie a-dun þin hære-scrud. here-weeds n. armour, martial accoutrements; (all only Old English and early Middle English). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [noun] here-weedsOE weedOE here-scrudc1275 armourc1325 armsc1325 armingc1330 armouryc1330 harnessc1330 warnementa1400 fighting-wisec1400 gome-graithc1420 graithc1420 armaturea1460 habiliment1470 furniture1569 proof1583 harnessment1610 pewter1622 equipage1633 pamphract1934 OE Beowulf 1897 Sægeap naca hladen herewædum. a1400–50 Alexander 1010 Al to heuy to be hildid in any here wedis. C2. herefare n. a military expedition (in 17th cent. legal antiquaries). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > [noun] > expedition ferdingc1000 voyage1297 journeyc1380 hosting1422 armyc1425 hosteyingc1425 expedition1430 voyage royal1528 expedit1613 herefare1626 1626 H. Spelman Glossarium Herefare, profectio militaris. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Herefare. 1672 T. Manley Νομοθετης: Cowell's Interpreter sig. Rrrb Burgbote, Brigbote, Herefare, Heregeld, etc. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † hereadj. Etymology: Old English héore, hýre: compare Old Norse hyrr sweet, smiling, mild; also Old Saxon and Old High German unhiuri dreadful, Middle High German gehiure gentle. Obsolete. Gentle, mild, pleasant. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [adjective] winsomea900 sweetc900 likingeOE i-quemec950 lieflyOE winlyOE hereOE thankfulc1000 merryOE queemc1175 beina1200 willea1200 leesomec1200 savouryc1225 estea1250 i-wilc1275 winc1275 welcomea1300 doucea1350 well-pleasingc1350 acceptablea1382 pleasablea1382 pleasanta1382 pleaseda1382 acceptedc1384 amiablec1384 well-likinga1387 queemfulc1390 flattering1393 pleasinga1398 well-queeminga1400 comelyc1400 farrandc1400 greable1401 goodlyc1405 amicable?a1425 placablec1429 amene1433 winful1438 listyc1440 dulcet1445 agreeablec1450 favourousc1485 sweetly?a1500 pleasureful?c1502 dulcea1513 grate1523 prettya1529 plausible1541 jolly1549 dulcoratec1550 toothsome1551 pleasurable1557 tickling1558 suavec1560 amenous1567 odoriferous?1575 perfumed1580 glada1586 tickle1593 pleasurous1595 favoursome1601 dulcean1606 gratifying1611 Hyblaean1614 gratulatea1616 arrident1616 solacefula1618 pleasantable1619 placid1628 contentsome1632 sapid1640 canny1643 gustful1647 peramene1657 pergrateful1657 tastefula1659 complacent1660 placentiousa1661 gratifactorya1665 bland1667 suavious1669 palatable1683 placent1683 complaisant1710 nice1747 tasty1796 sweetsome1799 titbit1820 connate1836 cunning1843 mooi1850 gemütlich1852 sympathique1859 congenial1878 sympathetic1900 sipid1908 onkus1910 sympathisch1911 OE Beowulf 1372 Nis þæt heoru stow. OE Genesis 1468 Oðþæt heo [culufre] rumgal restestowe fægere funde and þa fotum stop on beam hyre. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12910 Þa sæide þat wif here [c1300 Otho ore]. c1420 Sir Amadas (Weber) 16 And how they were guode & here. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021). hereadv.n.² Brit. /hɪə/, U.S. /hɪ(ə)r/ Forms: Old English hér, Middle English her, Middle English–1600s heer(e, Middle English– here; also (Old English hǽr, Middle English heren, hur), Middle English hier, Middle English hir(e, Kent. hyer, Middle English–1500s Scottish heyr, Middle English–1600s Scottish heir(e, Middle English hiere, 1500s–1600s hear(e. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English hér = Old Frisian hîr , Old Saxon hêr , hîr (Middle Dutch, Dutch hier ), Old High German hiar , hear , hier (Middle High German, modern German hier ), Old Norse hêr (Swedish här , Danish her ), Gothic hêr : apparently from the pronominal stem hi- ‘this’ (see he pron., n.¹, and adj.); the nature of the formation is obscure. A. adv. 1. a. In this place; in the place (country, region, etc.) where the person speaking is, or places himself. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [adverb] > here herec825 hereinc1000 here-rightlOE aplace1393 hereatc1540 'ere1837 yere1867 heah1927 c825 Vesp. Psalter cxxxi[i.] 14 Her eardung..icgeceas hie. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xiv. 17 Nabbas we her buta fif hlafum. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxviii. 6 Nys he her, he aras..swa swa he sæde [1382 Wyclif, He is not here, sothli he roos, as he seide]. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 83 Here he is and honen he nis. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 174 Art þu quod he ȝet her. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Kings xix. 9 What dost thow here, Helyas? c1386 G. Chaucer Friar's Tale 272 Heere wynne I no thyng vp-on cariage. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3296 Mi hernes dun heir did i lai. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 7 I here hier that reygnart is sore complayned on. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 305 Thi modyr and thow rycht heir with me sall bide. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 1 b Let him be heere for the space of sixe daies. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 186 We here in the Campe..have not had much to doe. 1662 King Charles II in J. M. Cartwright Madame (1894) 121 I am doing all I can to gett him a rich wife heere. 1670 Lady M. Bertie in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 22 All heare are well. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 289 That load which pressed most heavily on..the great continental states was here scarcely felt. b. With ellipsis of I am (or we are), in answer to a call or summons, or to attract attention; esp. in answer to a roll-call: = present, adsum. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > [adverb] > who is present > in answer to a call herec970 c970 Abbo Hist. S. Eadmundi in Surius Vitæ SS. (1618) IV. 443 Patria lingua dicens: Her, her, her; quod interpretatum Latinus sermo exprimit, Hîc, hîc, hîc. c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints (E.E.T.S.) II. 324 Hwær eart þu nu gefera? And him and-wyrde þæt heafod, Hêr, hêr, hêr. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 22 Up and doune in þe felde þei souht it aboute..Tille þe hede him self said, here, here, here. c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 726 Here, lord, here! qwat wol ȝe? 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. ii. 39 Quin. Francis Flute, the Bellowes mender? Flu. Here Peeter Quince. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. i. 2 Master. Bote-swaine. Botes. Heere Master. View more context for this quotation 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxiii. 354 ‘Answer to your names, gentlemen, that you may be sworn,’ said the gentleman in black. ‘Richard Upwitch.’ ‘Here’, said the green-grocer. c. Placed after the name of a person or thing to whose presence attention is called: = who or which is here, whom you see here. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > [adverb] > who is present here1600 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. iv. 29 Onely attended by Nerrissa heere . View more context for this quotation 1637 [see sense A. 1d]. 1673 J. Dryden Amboyna ii. 19 In the mean time, bear my worthy friend here company. 1751 tr. Female Foundling II. 4 My Daughter here wants Linen. 1898 N.E.D. at Here Mod. ‘My brother, here, is ready to give information.’ d. Used for the sake of emphasis after a noun qualified by this, these, or after these demonstratives themselves when used absolutely; dialectally or informally appended to this, these, when used adjectively. (Cf. French ce livre-ci, ceci, celui-ci.) ΚΠ a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xv. 181 The best wyse that we may Hast vs outt of this here. 1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. I5 Now what experience will we haue greter than this heare? 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxii. xv. 213 (note) But this here seemeth to be venomous. 1637 J. Milton Comus 23 And first behold this cordial julep here. 1762 S. Foote Orators ii. 38 I should be glad to know, how my client can be try'd in this here manner. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. i. 17 Are you, cried he, the bearer of this here letter? 1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xxi. 238 I would n't wish for better sport than to swing her round this here pond! 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxx. 180 ‘Now, with regard to this here robbery, master,’ said Blathers. ‘What are the circumstances?’ 1872 Punch 31 Aug. 92/2 ‘It is no use a trying on these here games with us’. e. here today and gone tomorrow: a catchphrase indicating a constant change of events or someone (or something) remaining in a place for a short time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change [phrase] tempora mutantur1577 the wind has changed1615 here today and gone tomorrow1687 plus ça change1893 the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > shortness in time [phrase] > here today and gone tomorrow here today and gone tomorrow1687 1687 A. Behn Luckey Chance iv. i. 47 Faith Sir, we are here to Day and gone to Morrow. 1776 H. Newdigate Let. in A. E. Newdigate-Newdegate Cheverels (1898) i. 10 Going over for a day to Arbury to beat for Wood Cocks..as they are birds of passage, here today and gone tomorrow. 1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 196 Here to-day and gone to-morrow. Didn't come to stay for ever. 1944 W. S. Maugham Razor's Edge iv. iv. 132 Even in the old days you could never count on his being where you expected him to be. He was here today and gone tomorrow. 1972 Listener 23 Nov. 690/2 We [sc. the TUC] put forward proposals for a general rise in pensions—not a ‘Christmas Box’ that is here today and gone tomorrow. 2. a. In weakened sense, more or less directly indicating something present to the sight or the mind. Chiefly with verb to be (sometimes with ellipsis). Here is calls attention to what the speaker has, brings, offers, or discovers; = there is here, see or behold here. (French voici.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > [adverb] presenta1400 presentlyc1425 presentiallyc1450 herea1500 towards1548 presentificly1653 a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ix. 85 And therto here my hand. a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1616) sig. F2^v What's here? an ambush to betray my life. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. iii. 33 Theres honour for you, heres no vanitie. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. ii. 96 Heere's a change indeed in the Commonwealth. View more context for this quotation a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. i. 83 Here's no grosse flattery: Will she swallow this? 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 136 O frightful, thought I! here's an Avowal of the Matter at once. 1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 65 Here is half the summer past, and still I'm at the chimney nook. 1889 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Crooked Path vi I says, ‘here's your tea, sir’, but he made no answer. b. here's to (elliptical for here's a health to), here's hoping, how, looking (at you), luck, formulas used in drinking healths. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking salutations [interjection] > in drinking healths have towardsc1400 here's to1597 skol1600 tope1651 hob or nob1756 slainte1824 here's hoping, how, looking (at you), luck1888 santé1903 prosit1916 here's to the skin off your nose1925 (here's) mud in your eye1927 lechayim1932 the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking salutations [interjection] rivoa1593 my service to you1637 tope1651 three times three1683 hob or nob1756 bottoms up!1858 chin chin1888 here's hoping, how, looking (at you), luck1896 down the hatch1918 cheerio1919 cheero1919 (here's) mud in your eye1927 cheers1930 lechayim1932 salut1933 salud1938 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 119 Heers to my loue. View more context for this quotation 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler xi. 209 Well then, here's to you Coridon; and now for my Song. View more context for this quotation 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 143 Come, Madam; here's a Health to our Friends, and hang the rest of our Kin. 1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal iii. iii. 36 Here's to the maiden of blushing fifteen, Now to the widow of fifty..Let the toast pass, drink to the lass. 1821 W. Scott Pirate II. i. 12 Drink about, Master Yellowley..Here's to you, Master Yellowley. 1888 R. Kipling Soldiers Three 48 He opened a bottle... ‘Here's luck!’ 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 99 Yes, a health to ourselves ere we scatter... Here's how! 1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor iii. 40 ‘Here's hoping,’ Bucky nodded gaily. ‘I bet there will be a right lively wolf hunt.’ 1933 M. Lowry Ultramarine 164 Here's looking at you! 1938 E. Hemingway Fifth Column (1939) 184 Here's looking at you... Here's how. 1973 E. Lemarchand Let or Hindrance xii. 142 Pollard..raised his glass to her. ‘Here's hoping.’ 3. Of a point or period of time: to be here, to be present, to have arrived. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > present time [verb (intransitive)] > arrive so as to be present arrive1614 to be here1891 to come up1909 1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 13 The Easter recess will be here in a day or two. 4. In this world; in this life; on earth. Also here below († beneath, down). Cf. French ici bas. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > [adverb] > situation here971 under the sunOE on (the) grounda1000 an-earthOE on (the) moulda1350 971 Blickl. Hom. 35 Þa hwile þe we lifgaþ her on worlde. c1000 Laws Eccles. Inst. in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) II. 394 Her gehyrð Drihten þa þe hine biddað. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 9 Þet me her on þisse liue for his saule bidde. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 75 Þet sichðe þet is nu dosch her. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 232 Holy cherche þet is hier beneþe. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Heb. xiii. 14 Sothli we han not here a citee dwellinge [ Tindale For here have we no continuynge citie]. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 238 Thow wolt hongy heye þer-fore her oþer in helle. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 67 Wnto wardlie prince heir downe. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 211 Both here and there pursue me lasting strife. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 81 Experience teacheth us, that the influence of..planets are true..here below, which none can denie. 1766 O. Goldsmith Ballad [the Hermit] in Vicar of Wakefield I. viii. 71 Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long. 1824 J. Montgomery Friend after Friend Departs (hymn) There is no union here of hearts, That finds not here an end. 5. a. At this point or period in action, speech, or thought; at this juncture; in this passage (of something written): frequently referring to what immediately precedes or follows. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [adverb] > here or at this point or juncture here871 871–89 Charter of Ælfred in Old Eng. Texts 452 Her sindon ðæra manna naman awritene ðe ðeosse wisan geweoton sindon. a900 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker MS.) an. 871 Her cuom se here to Readingum. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 241 Her endenn twa goddspelless þuss. a1300 Cursor Mundi 1627 (heading) Her bigins at noe þe lele Þe toþer werld right for to del. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 52 An oþer poynt is her putt. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Tiij^v Here zenophon sayd neuer a worde. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 3 Examples, which to set heer would be superfluous. 1662 Bk. Com. Prayer, Morn. Pr. (rubric) In Quires and Places where they sing, here followeth the Anthem. 1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature & Cure Calculus 212 Here are some experiments and reasons, upon which their theory of respiration is founded. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 296 Here Adeimantus interposed a question. b. here's where..: this is the point at which. U.S. colloquial. ΚΠ 1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean xii. 203 ‘It makes me feel sick at my stomach’, declared Briscoe. ‘Here's where you feel sicker. Great Scott, look at that.’ 1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean xiv. 250 Here's where I slip it out to the old gink. 6. In the matter before us or in question; in this case; in this particular. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > [adverb] > in relation or with reference to or concerning > concerning this or that hereofc1050 herec1175 hereonc1175 heretoc1175 hereuponc1175 thereofa1200 hereanenta1225 hereabout?c1225 herein?c1225 herebyc1230 therebya1250 theretilla1300 thereabouta1375 thereto1377 hereforc1380 thereanenta1400 thereata1400 thereuntoa1400 thereanentsc1400 thereonc1400 thereupon1414 thereoffena1450 thereatour1457 herintil1489 hereunto1509 thereover1535 hithera1538 hereabouts1584 thereabouts1592 hitherunto1635 hitherto1637 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 81 Her me ah to understonden for-whi hit seið alf quic and noht alf ded. c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 86 Heere may ye se and heer-by may ye preue That wyf is mannes helpe and his confort. 1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 205^v And here Ladie Caterine and Cavallero had the honour. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. ii. 41 Here I hit it righ Our Romeo hath not bin a bed to night. 1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. ii. vii. 359 Heere was his sinne; An ouer-reaching of his commission. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 76. ⁋4 Here can then be no Injustice, where no one is injured. 1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 550 Certainly, there is as much reason to adjudge the heir in by descent here, as there is to adjudge an heir in by descent, where a recovery was had against the ancestor. 1878 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 199 Here more than anywhere else you need to give the tools to him who can handle them. 7. a. With verbs of coming and bringing: to or towards this place; now, in ordinary use, taking the place of hither v. look here: see look v. 9. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > [adverb] > to or towards some thing or place > to or towards this place or direction hitherc725 hereOE hitherwarda1100 hitherwardsc1200 heretoc1275 hither1340 hereunto1509 hitherto1535 hereaway1549 this-way-ward1662 this-a-way1903 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [adverb] > towards the speaker or this place hitherc725 hereOE hereonc1275 OE Beowulf 376 Is his eafora nu heard her cumen. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 5 He is iblesced þe þe her cumet on drihtenes nome. c1305 St. Swithin 9 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 43 Siþþe hit was þat seint berin her bi weste wende. a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 207 Heir cumis our awin queir clerk. 1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 127 See them, Looke here, Here they be. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 376 Returne him here againe. View more context for this quotation 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 96 I still had hopes..Here to return—and die at home at last. 1798 L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 4) iii. 158 The adverbs here, there, where, are often improperly applied to verbs signifying motion, instead of the adverbs hither, thither, whither: as, ‘He came here hastily’;..should be, ‘He came hither..’. 1814 Ld. Byron Corsair i. xvii. 28 Call Pedro here! 1898 N.E.D. at Here Mod. Bring them here at once. b. Hence, by extension, after belong: = to this place. colloquial. ΚΠ 1898 N.E.D. at Here Mod. I'm a stranger, I don't belong here. 8. Used elliptically in calling an attendant, etc. (Cf. Gothic hiri! come here!) Hence, to call attention to or introduce a command: = Greek ἄγε, Latin age, French tiens, tenez. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [adverb] > to attract attention here1632 1576 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Houres of Recreation: Garden of Pleasure (new ed.) 52 She reaching him foorth to him, added moreover. Holde heere, for I will give him to thee.] 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 18 Here, take these hundred crownes. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 211 Here, take away the Tea-table, and bring up Candles. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xi. 182 Here, come out to the fresh air. 1898 N.E.D. at Here Mod. John! here! quick. 9. here and there. a. In this place and in that; in various places; in some scattered places; at intervals of space: sometimes = now-and-then adj. Also, in same sense, with notion of constant or very frequent recurrence, every (†ever) here and there. (So, formerly, † here and yonder.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scattered [phrase] > here and there here and yonda1325 here and therea1375 up and downc1374 here and yonder1412 to and fro1617 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 3821 But william as a wod man was euer here & þere. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13981 Iesus preched hir and þar. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) ix. 112 A lyttille Village, and Houses a brood here and there. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. xxvii He shulde on peces hewen be a sonder Upon the playne dismembred here & yonder. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 52/2 Yet began there here & there about, some maner of muttering amonge the people. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Pet. i. 1 Peter an Apostle of Iesu Christ, to them that dwell here and there as straungers thorow out Pontus, Galacia, Capadocia. 1587 R. Hovenden in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 217 They be dispersed here and there in hedgerowis. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 96 Yong Fortenbrasse,..Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there, Sharkt vp a sight of lawlesse Resolutes. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 50. ¶6 Able to understand but here and there a Word of what they said. 1845 London Jrnl. 1 189 Every here and there are seen dark pits and vaulted caverns. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 326 A good picture may here and there be found in our churches. 1879 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 29 391/2 Her style is a curious medley, every here and there, of the ambitious and the slovenly. b. To this place and to that: hither and thither; in various directions; to and fro. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [phrase] > hither and thither hither and thitherc725 here and there1297 from place to placea1398 hitherward and thitherwarda1398 from post to pillarc1500 from pillar to posta1550 from wig to wall1602 hither and yon1787 hither and yond1831 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 378 Þe kyng hem sende her and þer aboute in Engelond. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 66 Ase þe wyȝte þet ualþ ine hot weter, þet kest hyer and þer. a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Passioun in Poems (1998) I. 34 In yre thay harlit him heir and thair. 1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 1357 Th' Ape..Fled here and there, and euerie corner sought. 1646 F. Hawkins tr. Youths Behaviour (ed. 4) 33 Be attentive, turning not thine eyes here and there. 1879 F. T. Pollok Sport Brit. Burmah I. 78 The brute..was caught, and taken here and there for sale. †c. This way and that way; with shifts or evasions. Obsolete. Also attributive. (Perhaps) shifting, evasive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [adverb] here and therec1300 shiftingly1580 palterly1598 shufflingly1657 evasively1736 wrigglingly1866 c1300 Beket 42 Tho Gilbert ihurde this; he stod in grete thoȝt, And feignede his word her and ther, and ne grantede noȝt. 1710 ‘J. Touchwood’ Quixote Redivivus 11 Thou canting, whining, here and there Villain. d. Hence here-and-thereian n. humorous one who moves about from place to place.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1701 C. Cibber Love makes Man iv. 43 I am a kind of a—what decallum—a sort of a Here-and—thereian; I am Stranger no where. 10. here…there. In one place…in another place; = Latin hic…illic, alibi…alibi. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > in a or the place [phrase] > in one place... in another place here…therec1400 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxii. 101 Þai er few, here a hare and þare a hare. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings xviii. 4 I hyd an hundreth of the Lordes prophetes, here fiftye, and there fiftye in the caues. 1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. §1 Borrowing here of the french, there of the Italian, euery where of the Latine. 1658 W. Sanderson Graphice 12 Here, barrells flote, there packs, not yet through-wet. 11. here, there, and everywhere. In every place, indicated or not indicated. (Also formerly here and everywhere; here, there, all where.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [phrase] > everywhere far and near or nighOE in length and (in) breadth (or brede)a1250 high and low1525 here, there, and everywherea1593 in every stead1596 through long and broad ——1617 from Dan to Beersheba1738 all along the line1877 all over the auction1930 a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. B3^v That I may be here and there and euery where. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. v. 26 Here, there and euery where, he leaues and takes. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) i. i. 139 An extrauagant, and wheeling Stranger, Of here, and euery where. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. 327 Like yong maides, and youths together, Run here and there, alwhere, and none know whether. 1790 J. B. Moreton Manners & Customs West India Islands 97 [He] must go round the corn field and cane pieces..he must be here and there and everywhere. 1879 F. T. Pollok Sport Brit. Burmah I. 16 We were soon scattered here, there, and everywhere. 12. neither here nor there. Of no account either one way or the other; of no matter or consequence; unimportant. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adverb] > of no importance > either way neither to nor fro1555 neither here nor there1583 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xcii. 570 True it is that our so dooing is neither here nor there (as they say) in respect of God. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. iii. 57 Tis neither here nor there . View more context for this quotation 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. ix. vi. 353 But if he does, that is neither here nor there . View more context for this quotation 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I li. 28 But what I say is neither here nor there. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xiv. 182 You'll find him a little too much for your gravity. However, that's neither here nor there. 13. a. here goes! An exclamation declaring one's resolution or resignation to perform some act, usually of a bold or rash character. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > the decisive step is taken [phrase] > declaration of resolution or decision here goes!1829 1829 J. H. Newman Corr. (1891) I. 209 I do not expect to finish this by post-time; but here goes. 1862 W. M. Thackeray Wks. (1872) X. 218 Since it must be done, here goes! 1889 R. Browning Ponte dell' Angelo in Asolando xxi Spare speech! I'm resigned: Here goes! roared the goblin. b. here we go again: we are off on the same undesirable course, project, etc., as before. Also used as attributive.phr. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > repeating > repetition of an (undesirable) course of action [phrase] here we go again1954 1954 R. P. Bissell High Water (1955) xix. 161 ‘Time to get up, Mister Duke.’ ‘Oh, hell,’ I thought. ‘Here we go again.’ 1958 B. Malamud Magic Barrel (1960) 72 ‘Ah, there I can't help you,’ said the portiere. ‘I haven't got the key.’ ‘Here we go again,’ Carl muttered. 1962 J. Baldwin Another Country (1963) ii. iii. 270 ‘Oh, shit,’ he said, ‘here we go again.’ 1969 Listener 12 June 836/1 One of William Glock's most difficult tasks in planning each year's series of Promenade Concerts is to write that desperate here-we-go-again introduction to the prospectus. 14. here we (also you) are. Here is what we (you) want. colloquial. ΚΠ 1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh vi Hum! ha! now let's see, here we are—the ‘G-i-a-o-u-r’—that's a nice word to talk about. 15. Here was formerly often placed before verbal nouns and nouns of action. This is now rare. ΚΠ c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 125 Þe erueðliche herbiwist and þe wunderliche heðen sið of ure louerd. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 185 Hure her wunenge is swiðe reulich. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 141 It semeth nouȝ t þat ȝe shulle Haue heuene in ȝowre here beyng and heuene her after. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. K1, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) To continue my here being to some profitable purpose. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. iii. 149 Which often since my heere remaine in England, I haue seene him do. View more context for this quotation B. n.² = this place; (also) the present; the present life. Frequently in here and now; also as adv.phr.; so here-and-nowness. Also here and there n.phr. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] instancec1374 nowa1393 presenta1425 nowadays?c1425 the time1484 presentens1509 here1608 present tense1630 now1633 the now1720 day1766 today1831 this day and age1832 of the period1859 nowaday1886 these days1936 the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [noun] > here or this place here1608 the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [phrase] > here > here and now here and now1829 hic et nunc1935 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear i. 252 Thou loosest here, a better where to find. View more context for this quotation 1816 M. E. Bicknell Let. 26 Sept. in J. Constable Corr. (1964) II. 210 I know of no other plan but of my leaving here early on Monday. 1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Dec. 117 With Him it is a universal Here and Now. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxxiv. 269 I—I—ought to have left here before. 1839 C. Dickens Let. ?24 July (1965) I. 567 I dine in town tomorrow and shall leave for here at 10 at night. 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha Introd. 9 Full of all the tender pathos Of the Here and the Hereafter. 1857–8 E. H. Sears Athanasia 19 [Motion] requires a here and a there. 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xxxiv. 623 You would rather not leave here till to-morrow morning. 1874 ‘G. Eliot’ in Macmillan's Mag. XXXVIII. July 177 Widening his consciousness from Here and Now to larger wholes. 1887 H. R. Haggard Allan Quatermain xvi. 228 Here and now for thy dear sake I will forget my people and my father's house. 1922 W. S. Maugham On Chinese Screen xliii. 172 Your thoughts travel through time and space, far from the Here and Now. 1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage xiv. 176 Its romantic appeal is an escape from here and now into an artificial world of somewhere else or some time past. a1943 R. G. Collingwood Idea of Hist. (1946) 248 The detail of the here-and-now as given him in perception. 1957 C. Day Lewis Pegasus 56 The truant here-and-there of the Stour. 1959 Listener 26 Feb. 385/1 Whether Condorcet or Huxley is right is an undecidable question for us here and now. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Sept. 522/3 All combine to form a subtle escape-route from the unwelcome here-and-now of the twentieth century. 1961 I. Murdoch Severed Head x. 85 She was all gentleness and filled with so genuine a concern to save me here and now from distress and anxiety. 1962 Listener 26 Apr. 717/2 Here and now Russia, while she does not want a war with us, is nevertheless our antagonist. 1963 Times 27 Feb. 13/1 They came, it seems, to a realization of the here-and-nowness of life. 1971 New Scientist 27 Apr. 263/1 Cocking's group have their minds firmly concentrated on the here-and-now. Compounds here- in combination with adverbs and prepositions. 871–89 Charter of Ælfred in Old Eng. Texts 452 Þas gewriotu Þe herbeufan awreotene stondað. 1646 F. Hawkins tr. Youths Behaviour (ed. 4) 44 As hath beene said here above. [These originated, as in the other Germanic languages, in the juxtaposition of here and another adverb qualifying the same verb. Thus, in 805-31 at herebefore adv. 1 hær beforan = here (in this document), before (i.e. at an earlier place). Compare herein before adv., herein after adv. at herein adv. Compounds, in which herein is similarly used. But as many adverbs were identical in form with prepositions, and there was little or no practical difference between ‘here, at an earlier place’ and ‘before or at an earlier place than this’, the adverb came to be felt as a preposition governing here (= this place); and, on the analogy of this, new combinations were freely formed of here (there, where) with prepositions which had never been adverbs, as herefor, hereto, hereon, herewith.] C1. With adverbs. Also hereaway adv., hereunder adv., etc. a. here-beneath adv. ΚΠ 1576 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Houres of Recreation: Garden of Pleasure (new ed.) 138 Among us heere beneth. here-within adv. ΚΠ c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 115 Ȝie maisterlinges her~wið-innen openeð ȝiure gaten. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) clv. 593 We haue..chaumbers garnysshed and ordeyned as ye haue sene herewith-in. here-without adv. ΚΠ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 819/1 Here without, icy dehors. b. hereforth adj. forward in this direction or this way. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > [adverb] > in this direction hereforthc1305 c1305 St. Christopher 94 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 62 Þat child him bad par charite þat he him ouer bere; Ȝe com herforþ, quaþ Cristofre, y nuste wher þu were. c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 144 Heer forth ne lith no wey. here-next adj. next to this, immediately after this. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adverb] > next in order or then then971 sitha1300 sinc1330 afterward1340 here-nexta1400 synea1450 juxt1614 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 26138 To quam I salle þe tel here nest [Vesp. here nexist] þou sal þe shriue. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 141 Here neist sal be siþen teld Hu Ioseph was bath bogh[t] and seld. C2. With prepositions = this, this place, this matter, etc. Also hereabout adv., herewith adv. and adj., etc., etc. a. hereabove adv. (also here-above) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [adverb] > mentioned above or previously herebefore805 abovelOE overc1485 supra1616 ante1688 therein before1827 hereabove1892 1892 C. E. Norton tr. Dante Divine Comedy III. xxviii. 185 He who saw it hereabove disclosed it to him. here-among adv. ΚΠ 1640 E. Dacres tr. N. Machiavelli Prince xxi. 180 To the end hee might be able here-among to undertake greater matters. here-beside adv. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [adverb] > near this place here-besidec1400 c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 320 Her bisyde es a well. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 819/1 Here bysyde, icy pres. hereinto adv. ΚΠ 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. i. 49 Our first entrance hereinto. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 69 A neere friend..looked heerinto with an indifferent and vnpreiudicating eye. here-within adv. here-without adv. b. † hereafore adv. Obsolete = herebefore adv. ΚΠ 1824 R. Southey Bk. of Church (1841) 224 I have told you hereafore. † herintil adv. Scottish Obsolete herein. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > [adverb] > in relation or with reference to or concerning > concerning this or that hereofc1050 herec1175 hereonc1175 heretoc1175 hereuponc1175 thereofa1200 hereanenta1225 hereabout?c1225 herein?c1225 herebyc1230 therebya1250 theretilla1300 thereabouta1375 thereto1377 hereforc1380 thereanenta1400 thereata1400 thereuntoa1400 thereanentsc1400 thereonc1400 thereupon1414 thereoffena1450 thereatour1457 herintil1489 hereunto1509 thereover1535 hithera1538 hereabouts1584 thereabouts1592 hitherunto1635 hitherto1637 1489 Sc. Acts Jas. IV c. 14 Officiaris þat beis necligent herintill. c1575 Balfour's Practicks (1754) 40 The Schiref..is on na wayis Judge competent heirintill. † hermid adv. Obsolete herewith. ΚΠ c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2671 Her-mid we sculleð heom bi-charren. † hereover adv. Obsolete in addition to this. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ii. ii. 60 Hereouer aungelis kynde passiþ al bodiliche kynde in subtilite of his essencia. † hertoȝeines adv. Obsolete against this, on the other hand. ΚΠ a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 120 Eft he seið riht her to ȝeines. ne let tu..þine meiden no gult to ȝiues. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : † herheren.¹ < n.¹c855adj.OEadv.n.²c825 see also
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