Definition of "him"

Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym in royall apparell, and set hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], Acts ]

Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,He sees his little lot the lot of all;[...]But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil,Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.

1765, Oliver Goldsmith, The traveller, or, A prospect of society

Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene x]

Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.

2003 June 11, Claire Cozens, The Guardian

[…] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]

1985, Hélène Cixous, Sorties (translated)

Both hims took a good look at him.

2004, Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel‎

By this time, she had so many questions, but she only hit him up for one answer about those “hims” and “hers.” She asked, “Do both hims and hers reproduce hummers?”

2004, Charles J. Sullivan, Love and Survival, page 68