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cither

NOUN
  1. a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers
  2. a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings

How To Use cither In A Sentence

  • I like your uncle better than I like cither your aunt or you He likes me. Sir Charles Grandison
  • Concerntug the v* - trade* the force of my argument goes no farther than this; — that its Juppftfliou, by the ISrihfli government only, other nations continuing the trade as ufua\ % who would of cotirfe felSC on what we funender, would anfwer the purpofes of humanity, cither to the negroes tn Africa, or to thofe already in the Weft Indies; and I have quoted* in fupport of this opinion, the authoiitiesof men (naval commander! and others) who arc intimately acquainted with the trade, though no ways intended in its continuance; and I have not yet met with any evidence or argument* to Kivtttdate their testimony. The Monthly Review
  • Citheras et vielas nostras non vidi ibi, sed multa alia instrumenta, quæ apud nos non habentur. The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
  • I was returned out of the valley aliue, they reuerenced me much, saying that I was baptised and holy, and that the foresayd bodies were men subiect vnto the deuils infernall, who vsed to play vpon citherns, to the end they might allure people to enter, and so murther them. The Journal of Friar Odoric
  • See Citherera's biids, that milk-white pair On yonder leavy myrtle tree which groan. The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical
  • And that whatever action can have no effect either upon one's self, or any other person, and is neither pleas - ing nor displeasing to God, cannot be called cither virtu - ous or vicious. The Dignity of Human Nature, Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for ...
  • It was getting a bit late for prevarications, cither to myself or anyone else. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • The wife was sick in the same bed, and cither from terrar or exhaustion, uttered not a word during the whole scène. De la philosophie de la nature
  • Nothing and no one, no pressure, cither from the right or from the left, will make me abandon the positions of perestroika and new thinking. Mikhail Gorbachev - Nobel Lecture
  • The rending of Pentheus on Mount Citheron by his own mother and sisters, who, while under the influence of the Bacchic _afflatus_, imagined they saw in his form the appearance of a wild beast, might be adduced as an example at once of the furious character of the frenzy, and of the liability of the afflated to optical illusions. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
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