adv. north. dial. and Sc. [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. Maundev. (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.
