Middle English Dictionary Entry
til-intọ̄̆ prep.
Entry Info
| Forms | til-intọ̄̆ prep. |
| Etymology | From til adv. or prep. & in-tọ̄̆ prep., corresponding to L usque ad, usque in. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. til-to prep.
1.
(a) As far as (a place), up to; from..~, from (one point) to (another); (b) continuously until (a time, the end of time); from world and ~ world, forever and ever.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Mac.14.16 : It is herd at Rome, for Jonathas is dead, and til in to [L usque in] Spartialis, and thei ben ful sorewful.
- a1400 LShip Venice (Trin-C O.5.26)402 : Than putt oon fote of the compas in the poynt of a, & with that other fote discreue a bowe from the poynt of b til into the poynt of c.
b
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Dan.2.20 : Be the name of God blessid fro world and til in to world.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Dan.7.26 : Dom shal sitte, that power be taken awey, and be broken to gydre, and perishe til into the eende.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Luke 17.27 : Thei eeten and drunken..and weren ȝouun to weddingis til in to the day in which Noe entride in to his schip.
- c1400 Apoc.(2) (Hrl 171)15/6 : Holde ȝe þat þat ȝe han til I come..to him..þat schal kepe til in to þe eende my werkis, I schal ȝeue power on folkis.
- a1425(c1384) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Ezek.20.29 : The name of it is clepid Heeȝ Thing til in to [WB(2): til to; L usque ad] this dai.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ecclus.51.19 : Bifore the tyme of eelde y axide for it [wisdom], and til in to the laste thingis [WB(1) (Bod 959): vn to in þe laste thingis; L usque in novissimis] y schal enquere it.
Note: Temporal meaning: see til-to prep. and prep. phr. as obj. or til-into prep.
Note: See unto prep., sense "8. In temporal senses: (a)..~ in the laste thinges, continuously until the last, to the end." (The Bod 959 quot. is used here.
Note: Belongs to sense (b). Perhaps gloss phrase: ~ the laste thinges, until the last, to the end, .--per MLL