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inˈtill, intil, prep. Sc. and north. dial.
Forms: (3 in tel), 3–5 in til, 4–5 intill(e, in tyl, 4– intil, (-till), (8– intul).
[f. in adv. + till prep. in its northern sense of to. Cf. until. In early use the two elements were often written separately.]
1. Of motion, direction, change of condition: = into. Sc. and north. dial.
1258Eng. Proclam. Hen. III, And al on þo ilche worden is isend in to æurihce oþre shcire.., and ek in tel Irelonde. a1300Cursor M. 5042 In til egypte son come þai. c1375Lay Folks Mass Bk. (MS. B.) 32 Intil englishe þus I draw hit. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1204 (Harl.) Ther sawȝh I dyane turned in til a tree [Ellesm. yturned til, so 3 others; Heng. & Petw. to]. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) ii. 7 He was ledd in til a gardyne. 1490Caxton Eneydos xlv. 136 Vysus dyde putte hym self in tyl a path and was soone goon. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 142 The mids he lept in till. 1562A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) i. 210 Prent þe wordis Intill this bill. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. ii. 141 He fell intill al kynde of lust. 1797Mrs. Wheeler Westmld. Dial. i. 37 They baith lowpt intulth Cart. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge (1863) 190 She was a..gude wife..before she fell away intil that evil propensity. 1893Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., Put them in till a poke.
†b. = unto, to. (Cf. till.) Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 13459 (Gött.) Iesus clamb vp intill a fell. c1340Hampole Prose Tr. 13 At the comynge of Criste intill hyme. 1340― Pr. Consc. 4508 Þai sal turne thurgh Goddes myght Þe fadirs hertes intil þe sons right.
2. Of place, position, condition, state, time: = in. (Cf. into 22.) Only Sc. (central and north-east.)
1375Barbour Bruce i. 186 Bath castell and toune War intill his possessioune. Ibid. 340 As to the gud Erle of Artayis, Robert, befell intill his dayis. c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. x. 174 [He] tretyd hym in-til þat case; As ay þe Dewyle dois in Falase. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 533 Thair wes richt few Or nane that tyme that he mycht traist in till. 1567Gude & Godly B. (S.T.S.) 137 In till ane myrthfull Maij morning Quhen Phebus did vp spring. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 228 The said Maister James and Johne Knox being intill one galay. 1861G. J. Whyte-Melville Tilbury Nogo 244 There's just naething at a' intill him but what he puts in wi' the spune. |