Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for UN-TIL'
UN-TIL', prep. [un and till. See Till.]
- To; used of time. He and his sons were priests of the tribe of Dan, until the day of the captivity. Judges xviii.
- To; used of objects. [Obs.] Spenser.
- Preceding a sentence or clause, to; that is, to the event mentioned, or the time of it; as, until this hour; until this year. The scepter shall not depart from Judah–until Shiloh come. Gen. xlix.
- To the point or place of. In open prospect nothing bounds our eye, Until the earth seems join'd unto the sky. Dryden.
- To the degree that. Thou shalt push Syria, until they be consumed. 2 Chron. xviii. Note. Until is always the same part of speech in fact and has the same signification. The only difference is that it is followed sometimes by a single word denoting time, and in other cases by a verb denoting an event, or a word denoting place or degree. The sense is in all cases to; and till may be used as its substitute, and in modem usage it is most common.
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