adv. [ OE. hennes, hens (the s is prop. a genitive ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnān, G. hinnen, OHG. hina, G. hin; all from the root of E. he. See He. ] 1. From this place; away. “Or that we hence wend.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. Acts xxii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. From this time; in the future; as, a week hence. “Half an hour hence.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. From this reason; therefore; -- as an inference or deduction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hence, perhaps, it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord the beginning of wisdom. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. From this source or origin. [ 1913 Webster ]

All other faces borrowed hence
Their light and grace. Suckling. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts? James. iv. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Hence is used, elliptically and imperatively, for go hence; depart hence; away; be gone. “Hence with your little ones.” Shak. -- From hence, though a pleonasm, is fully authorized by the usage of good writers. [ 1913 Webster ]

An ancient author prophesied from hence. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Expelled from hence into a world
Of woe and sorrow. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To send away. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. From this time forward; henceforward. [ 1913 Webster ]

I never from thy side henceforth to stray. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. From this time forward; from now into the indefinite future; henceforth. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]