adv. [f. THITHER adv. + TO prep.: after hitherto.]
1. Up to that time; until then. Now rare.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., I. iv. 19. The Iewis weren chargid with alle the lawis … with whiche the peple fro Adam thidir to weren chargid.
1529. More, Dyaloge, III. Wks. 205/2. All the men in effecte yt any faith had from Adam thetherto.
1654–66. Earl Orrery, Parthen. (1676), 655. Usage … which thitherto I had considered as an invitation.
1822. O’Conor, Chron. Eri, I. p. vi. The thitherto one and only language.
1900. H. G. Graham, Soc. Life Scot. in 18th C., XIII. i. (1901), 476. Young men who had thitherto thronged to Holland.
† 2. To that condition, point, or result. Obs.
1659. Wharton, Cabal 12 Ho. Astrol., Wks. (1683), 208. Although it be indeed new, and hitherto unheard of, yet it is firmly established upon Physical Reasons, and … is thitherto reduced.
1662. J. Chandler, Van Helmont’s Oriat., 313. The manner of comming thitherto … is moreover far remote.
