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thitherto, adv.|ðɪðəˈtuː, ˈðɪðətuː|
[f. thither adv. + to prep.: after hitherto.]
1. Up to that time; until then. Now rare.
c1449Pecock Repr. i. iv. 19 The Iewis weren chargid with alle the lawis..with whiche the peple fro Adam thidir to weren chargid. 1529More Dyaloge iii. Wks. 205/2 All the men in effecte yt any faith had from Adam thetherto. 1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 655 Usage..which thitherto I had considered as an invitation. 1822O'Conor Chron. Eri I. p. vi, The thitherto one and only language. 1900H. G. Graham Soc. Life Scot. in 18th C. xiii. i. (1901) 476 Young men who had thitherto thronged to Holland.
†2. To that condition, point, or result. Obs.
1659Wharton Cabal 12 Ho. Astrol. Wks. (1683) 208 Although it be indeed new, and hitherto unheard of, yet it is firmly established upon Physical Reasons, and..is thither⁓to reduced. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 313 The manner of comming thitherto..is moreover far remote. |