conj. adv. Obs. Also 4 toquil(i)s, to whils. [f. prec. † -es of adverbial genitive: see WHILES, WHILST.] = prec.; whilst.
13[?]. Cursor M., 4269 (Cott.). Hir luue … Sco miþed [Gött. kithid] it, to-quils [Gött. ay quilis] sco moght. Ibid., 6264 (Gött). Þe se on ayder side him stod As wallis to quilis þai forth ȝode.
1357. Lay Folks Catech. (MS. T.), 139. To whiles that his bodi lai in þe graue The saule with the godhede went untill hell.
a. 1400. R. Brunne’s Chron. Wace (Rolls), 2645. Þe while [Petyt MS. Towhils] þer fader was on lyue For þe royalme gon þey to stryue.
