the prep. and adv. TO used in combination with verbs, sbs., adjs., and advbs. in the sense of motion, direction, or addition to, or as the mark of the infinitive: see in their alphabetical places, TO-COME, TO-DO, TO-DRAUGHT, TO-GAINST, TOGETHER, TO-MIDST, TO-WHEN, TO-WHILE, etc. Also the following obs. verbs:

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  To-cast, to add, make addition: = L. adicere; to-hang, to append; to-hear, to hearken to, listen to; to-knit, to knit to, bind up: = L. alligāre; to-lay, to put forward, allege; to-neighe, to approach: = L. accēdĕre; to-put, to put to, add, affix: = L. appōnĕre; to-set, to set to, affix; to-stand, to stand to, post oneself, assist: = L. astāre, assistĕre; to-step, to step to, advance: = L. aggredī; to-stick, to stick to, adhere: = L. adhærēre; to-tach, to fasten to, attach; to-yield, to yield to, cede, give up.

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, cxiii. 23. Lord *tokast [L. adiciat] on ȝou, on ȝou & on ȝoure sunnys…. Oure lord eke ȝoure noumbire.

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1464.  in Acc. Fam. Innes (1864), 78. To thir my present lettres I haf *to hungyn my sele.

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1536.  Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 343, note. I have subscrivit thir presentis with my hand, and has to hungin my proper sele of armes.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 84. Þet ȝe þe bet icnowen ham … *to-her hore molden.

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a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter cxlvi. 3. Þat heles forbroken ofe hert for wa, And *toknittes [alligat] þar sorwes swa.

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c. 1450.  Pol. Poems (Rolls), II. 240. Auctoryteys for hem they *toleye.

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1382.  Wyclif, Judith xiv. 14. He wente *to-neȝhende to the curtin [Vulg. Accessit proximans ad cortinam].

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1420.  in Pinkerton, Hist. Scot. (1797), I. 455. The sealls of the forsaid … to thir indentures interchangablie are *toput.

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1445.  in Charters rel. Glasgow (1906), II. 440. I have procurit … the secrete sele of the burgh of Lithqw to be toput.

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, lxxxviii. 22. Þe sun of wickednes sall not *toset [apponet] him to noy.

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c. 1375.  Cursor M., 3498 (Fairf.). Þer-to was he maste *to-sette.

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1455.  in Charters, &c. Edinb. (1871), 81. To the parte of this endentur remanand with the said toune the said Sir James sele is to sett.

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, ii. 2. Tostode [L. astiterunt] þe kynges of erth.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 17406. Þa cnihtes *to-stepen [c. 1275 to-stapte] Mid muchelere strengðe.

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1596.  Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., VI. (S.T.S.), I. 340. The capsell sa fast *tostack … that the force of man culde neuir sindir thame.

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13[?].  Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 579. Queme quyssewes [cuisses] … with þwonges *to-tached.

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c. 1350.  Will. Palerne, 3924. He a-liȝt, & wiȝtli to william his wepun vp *to-ȝelde.

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