hence

adv

1. (archaic, not-comparable)From here, from this place, away.

   “I'm going hence, because you have insulted me.”

   “Get thee hence, Satan!”

   “O Gertrude, come away: / The sun no ſooner ſhall the Mountaines touch, / But we will ſhip him hence,”

   “Ye men of Galilee! / Why stand ye looking up to heaven, where Him ye ne’er may see, / Neither ascending hence, nor returning hither again?”

   “`Now leave me,' she said, `and sleep if ye may. I must watch and think, for to-morrow night we go hence, and the time is long since I trod the path that we must follow.'”

2. (archaic, figuratively, not-comparable)From the living or from this world.

   “After a long battle, my poor daughter was taken hence.”

3. (not-comparable)In the future from now.

   “A year hence it will be forgotten.”

   “[…]And now farewell / Till half an hour hence.”

   “There may be an occasion to do so two years hence.”

4. (conjunctive, not-comparable)As a result; therefore, for this reason.

   “I shall go to Japan and hence will not be here in time for the party.”

   “The purse is handmade and hence very expensive.”

   “Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.”

   “Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.”

   “That hence arises the peculiar Unhappiness of that Business, which other Callings are no way liable to;”

intj

1. (obsolete)Go away! Begone!

   “Zuc[cone]. Hence auant I will marie a woman with no wombe, a creature with two noſes, a wench with no haire rather then remarie thee, […]”

   “Mira[nda]. Beſeech you Father. Proſ[pero]. Hence: hang not on my garments.”

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To utter "hence!" to; to send away.
2. (dated, intransitive)To depart; to go away.