theretill, adv. north. dial. and Sc.
(ðɛəˈtɪl)
[ME. þar till: see there 17 and till prep.]
= thereto (in all its senses).
| a 1300 Cursor M. 887 ‘Þe worm’, sco said, ‘me draf þar till’. Ibid. 15638 All þi wil it sal be dun, Þar til i am redi. a 1300 Havelok 1443 Castles ten, And þe lond þat þor til longes. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 110 Heyre was he non, no þertille had resoun; Þe Emperice sonne Henry he had right þertille. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) vii. 26 By cause of þe perilous wayse þertill. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. iii. ix. 1080 A thousand and thre hundyr yhere And ten thare tyll. c 1470 Henry Wallace v. 516 Gret strenth he has, bathe wyt and grace thartill. 1562 Bp. Pilkington Burn. Paules Ch. §7 It is a commen true sayinge: he that wil do no yl, must do nothinge that longes there til. a 1577 Gascoigne Dan Bartholomew Wks., Hearbes, Weedes, &c. (1587) 96 And signe it with my simple hand and set my seale theretil. 1819 Tennant Papistry Storm'd ii. (1827) 63 Wi' angry bill, and wing theretill. 1832 Henderson Scot. Prov. 158 A shower of rain in July..Is worth a plough of owsen, and a' belangs theretill. |