Thence

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thence \Thence\, adv. [OE. thenne, thanne, and (with the
     adverbal -s; see {-wards}) thennes, thannes (hence thens, now
     written thence), AS. [eth]anon, [eth]anan, [eth]onan; akin to
     OHG. dannana, dann[=a]n, dan[=a]n, and G. von dannen, E.
     that, there. See {That}.]
     1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." --Chaucer.


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              When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your
              feet for a testimony against them.    --Mark vi. 11.
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     Note: It is not unusual, though pleonastic, to use from
           before thence. Cf. {Hence}, {Whence}.
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                 Then I will send, and fetch thee from thence.
                                                    --Gen. xxvii.
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     2. From that time; thenceforth; thereafter.
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              There shall be no more thence an infant of days.
                                                    --Isa. lxv.
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     3. For that reason; therefore.
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              Not to sit idle with so great a gift
              Useless, and thence ridiculous, about him. --Milton.
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     4. Not there; elsewhere; absent. [Poetic] --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  thence
       adv 1: from that place or from there; "proceeded thence directly to
              college"; "flew to Helsinki and thence to Moscow";
              "roads that lead therefrom" [syn: {therefrom}]
       2: from that circumstance or source; "atomic formulas and all
          compounds thence constructible"- W.V.Quine; "a natural
          conclusion follows thence"; "public interest and a policy
          deriving therefrom"; "typhus fever results therefrom"
          [syn: {therefrom}, {thereof}]
       3: (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or
          reason or as a result; "therefore X must be true"; "the
          eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"; "we were young
          and thence optimistic"; "it is late and thus we must go";
          "the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted" [syn: {therefore},
           {hence}, {thus}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "thence":
     accordingly, away, because of that, because of this, consequently,
     ergo, for that, for that cause, for that reason, for this cause,
     for this reason, for which reason, forth, from here in,
     from now on, from then on, from this point, hence, henceforth,
     henceforward, henceforwards, hereafter, hereat, hereinafter, off,
     on that account, on that ground, on this account, out, propter hoc,
     then, thenceforth, thenceforward, thenceforwards, thereafter,
     thereat, therefor, therefore, therefrom, thereof, thus, thusly,
     thuswise, whence, wherefore, wherefrom