4. From this source or origin.

All other faces borrowed hence Their light and grace.

Suckling.

Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even

of your lusts?

James. iv. 1.

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.

An ancient author prophesied from hence.

Dryden.

Expelled from hence into a world Of woe and sorrow.

Milton.

Hence (?), v. t. To send away. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Hence`forth" (?), adv. From this time forward; henceforward.

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