theretilladv.
/ðɛːˈtɪl/, U.S. /ˌðɛrˈtɪl/, Scottish English /θerˈtɪl/ northern dialect and Scottish.
= thereto adv. (in all its senses).
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a1300 Cursor Mundi 887 ‘Þe worm’, sco said, ‘me draf þar till’.
a1300 Havelok 1443 Castles ten, And þe lond þat þor til longes.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 110 Heyre was he non, no þertille had resoun; Þe Emperice sonne Henry he had right þertille.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15638 All þi wil it sal be dun, þar-til i am redi.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) vii. 26 By cause of þe perilous wayse þertill.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. iii. ix. 1080 A thousand and thre hundyr yhere And ten thare tyll.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 516 Gret strenth he has, bathe wyt and grace thartill.
1563 Burnynge Paules Church sig. Hii It is a commen true sayinge: he that wil do no yl, must do nothinge that longes there til.
a1577 G. Gascoigne Dan Bartholmew in Wks. (1587) 96 And signe it with my simple hand and set my seale theretil.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd ii. 63 Wi' angry bill, and wing theretill.
1832 A. Henderson Sc. Prov. 158 A shower of rain in July..Is worth a plough of owsen, and a' belangs theretill.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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