Middle English Dictionary Entry
until conj.
Entry Info
| Forms | until conj. |
| Etymology | From until prep. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. til conj., unto conj.
1.
Marking the limit of the action of the main verb: until (sb. does sth., sth. happens, etc.); also, before (sth. happens) [quot. ?1440, 1st]; ~ that; from…~, from (a specified time) until (sth. is so).
Associated quotations
- c1330 Harrow.H.(Auch)153 : Vntil it com domesday, fare þou seþþen whare þou may.
- c1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.168 : An Aungel…sett a seal vpon hym [Satan] þat he ne shulde noȝt desceyue þe folk vntil a þousande ȝer were gon.
- a1400 NVPsalter (Vsp D.7)93.15 : For lauerd sal noght his folke schouue awai, Ne his heritage forlet…Vntil þat rightwisenes Be turned in dome.
- a1400 Pep.Gosp.(Pep 2498)2/29 : Elizabeth…hudde hire fyue moneþes on til þat sche were syker þat sche were wiþ childe.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.56 : Þei…þat wer in þe ilde duelled þer for drede, Untille þe kyng turned, & his wrath ouer ȝede.
- a1425(?c1350) Ywain (Glb E.9)2508 : Þe neghest way þan gan he wele, Until he come to þe chapele.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.619 : The cok his eyron and his briddis hateth Vntil [L priusquam] the crest uppon theire hedis growe.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.707 : Fro Marche kalendis gees to sette obrood Vntil [L vsque ad] the day be lengest, is ful good.
- a1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)1238 : In hert penance sal sche lende, Vntill sche wil hir mys amend.
- a1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)1275 : Þe same payn sal þai vnderly…Vntil þai haue þat mys amend.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)1094/11 : Whyle my body ys hote lat thys lettir be put in my ryght honde…untyll that I be colde.
- ?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.86.58b : Þis ymage berest þou…vntil bi grace of ihesu it be sumdel destroied and broken doun.
- a1500 GRom.(Glo 42)729/18 : This chylde wexed vn-tyll it were seuen yer olde.