A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1489, 1560-1596
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Hidderto, Hitherto, adv. [ME. hiderto (a 1225).] a. Hitherto, until now. b. To this, hereto. —a. 1489 Lennox Mun. 131.
This realme, quhilk … has hidderto euir bene cleyr of tresone 1573 Three Reformers 58.
Kirkis … [that] hidderto hes stakit bene with ministeris 1587 Acts III. 453/1.
Quhilkis actis hidderto hes tane na effect 1596 Dalr. I. 70/1.
That the Scottis natione hitherto hes bene maist ancientb. 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 1163.
Prouoke me not na further hidderto