单词 | thitherto |
释义 | thithertoadv. 1. Up to that time; until then. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adverb] > until then thithera1400 thithertoc1449 to1468 until that present1600 up-to-then1959 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 19 The Iewis weren chargid with alle the lawis of resoun with whiche the peple fro Adam thidir to weren chargid. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 205/2 All the men in effecte yt any faith had from Adam thetherto. 1656 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa V. iii. iii. 132 Usage..which thitherto I had considered as an invitation. 1822 C. O'Conor Chron. Eri I. p. vi The thitherto one and only language. 1900 H. G. Graham Social Life Scotl. 18th Cent. (1901) xiii. i. 476 Young men who had thitherto thronged to Holland. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [adverb] > to that condition or point thitherto1662 the world > space > direction > [adverb] > to or towards some thing or place > to or towards that place or direction thitherwardsc888 thitherwardc893 thitherc897 therea900 yondc975 theretoc1000 theretowarda1225 yonderc1300 thereuntilla1400 thitherways1630 thitherto1662 thataway1839 thereward1922 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 313 The manner of comming thitherto..is moreover far remote. a1681 G. Wharton Cabal 12 Houses Astrol. in Wks. (1683) 208 Although it be indeed new, and hitherto unheard of, yet it is firmly established upon Physical Reasons, and..is thitherto reduced. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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