Johnnie Baptiste30 Oct 2003

When did you become such a dunce?

\Till\, prep. [OE. til, Icel. til; akin to Dan. til, Sw.
till, OFries. til, also to AS. til good, excellent, G. ziel
end, limit, object, OHG. zil, Goth. tils, gatils, fit,
convenient, and E. till to cultivate. See {Till}, v. t.]
To; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in
respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc.,
and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and
Ireland; as, I worked till four o'clock; I will wait till
next week.

He . . . came till an house. --Chaucer.

Women, up till this Cramped under worse than
South-sea-isle taboo. --Tennyson.

Similar sentiments will recur to every one familiar
with his writings -- all through them till the very
end. --Prof.
Wilson.

{Till now}, to the present time.

{Till then}, to that time.

\Un*til"\, prep. [OE. until, ontil; un- (as in unto) + til
till; cf. Dan. indtil, Sw. intill. See {Unto}, and {Till},
prep.]
1. To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects. --Chaucer.

Taverners until them told the same. --Piers
Plowman.

He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them
until. --Spenser.

2. To; up to; till; before; -- used of time; as, he staid
until evening; he will not come back until the end of the
month.

He and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan
until the day of the captivity. --Judg. xviii.
30.

Note: In contracts and like documents until is construed as
exclusive of the date mentioned unless it was the
manifest intent of the parties to include it.


\Un*til"\, conj.
As far as; to the place or degree that; especially, up to the
time that; till. See {Till}, conj.

In open prospect nothing bounds our eye, Until the
earth seems joined unto the sky. --Dryden.

But the rest of the dead lives not again until the
thousand years were finished. --Rev. xx. 5.