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hitherto, adv. (a.)|hɪðəˈtuː, ˈhɪðətuː|
Forms: see hither.
[f. hither adv. + to prep.]
A. adv.
1. Up to this time, until now, as yet.
a1225Leg. Kath. 447 Hwucche men þu hauest ihaued hiderto to meistres. a1300Cursor M. 4554, I haf soght..both farr and nerr..Bot hider-to moght i noght spede. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 24 Verely wele y was hedir to but now..verely euyl y am and fele my selfe. 1526Tindale John ii. 10 Thou hast kept backe the goode wyne hetherto. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xviii. 93 Except the vulgar be better taught than they have hetherto been. 1769Robertson Chas. V, vii. (1805) III. 259 The veil under which he had hitherto concealed his real sentiments. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 46 Objects hitherto unknown to Europe.
†2. Up to this point (in discourse, writing, argument, etc.); thus far. Obs. (or merged in 1).
a1225Ancr. R. 48 Þis is nu ðe uorme dole, þet ich habbe ispeken hiderto. 1382Wyclif Jer. xlix. 1 Hyderto the domes of Moab. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 159 b/2 Hyderto endure the wordes of the sayd Sermon. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 143 Thus hytherto we haue shewed [etc.]. 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 216 Hitherto doth Loue on Fortune tend. 1762Kames Elem. Crit. xviii. (1833) 278 Hitherto of arranging single words.
3. To this place or point in space; thus far. arch.
1535Coverdale Job xxxviii. 11 Hither to shalt thou come, but no further. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. i. 74 England, from Trent, and Seuerne, hitherto, By South and East, is to my part assign'd. 1694S. Johnson Notes Past. Let. Bp. Burnet i. 64 Hitherto shall ye come and no further.
†4. To this end or purpose; to this subject or division; hereto; = hither 4. Obs.
1637J. Pocklington Sunday no Sabb. 2 Hitherto, if I can but hold me by my text, I hope not to fall into impertinences. 1656Ridgley Pract. Physick 253 Hitherto belongeth mad love.
B. quasi-adj. [attrib. use of adv.: cf. then.]
1787F. Burney Diary (1842) III. 303 All his hitherto offences. 1874J. H. Newman Tracts Theol. & Eccl. 365 The hitherto editions. 1883Green Proleg. Ethics iii. ii. 207 The hitherto experience of men. |