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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Hiddertillis, Hithertillis, adv. Also: hider-, hiddir-, hydder-, hydirtillis, -es, hyddyrtyllys; hedder-, heddirtillis, hedertyllys; hithertil(l)s, -tiles, -tellis, heithertills. [f. Hiddertil(l,adv.]

1. Until now, hitherto.The usual form in the 17th c. is hithertill(i)s.(a) ?1438 Alex. ii. 3643.
I grantit ȝow my lufe … Ȝit haue I ȝemit it hidder tillis 1456 Hay I. 62/27.
I fand never storye … hydirtillis that ever callit Julius Cesar Emperour Ib. 213/16.
Thai … wan all and was lordis hydirtillis 1474 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 32.
The alderman … hes had the vse of that office … hiddertilles 1501 Acta Conc. XI. MS. 33 b.
[He] dischargis him as hiddertillis of al commone gudis that he has intromettit with 1545 Acts II. 461/2.
Thai haue hidder tillis alwayis … differit to mak payment 1556 Prot. Bk. T. Dalrymple 43 b.
He haid nocht falit to him hyddertillis of na promeis 1576 Reg. Privy C. II. 578.
Perpetuallie hiddirtillis(b) 1444 Aberd. B. Rec. I. ii.
Heddirtillis yhe hau al tyme obeit the king 1491 Maxwell Mem. I. 52.
Auld Thome of Maxwell was ay onekynd ȝhet hedertyllys 1545 11th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. VI. 36.
The kingis … that hes heddertillis roung be just richt of successioun(c) 1564 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 192.
The maist pairt of them, … hes refusit hithertellis to gif ony pairt … of thair gudis to the support of the said pure 1585 Acts III. 411/2.
According to … his demeritis in avaitting vpoun our seruice hithertillis 1600-1610 Melvill 115.
We salbe na mair a sklander to uther nationes as we hithertiles haiff been 1641 Kirkcaldy Presb. 195.
Hithertills this Presbytrie hes had the brethren furnishing a preacher thairto 1665 Reg. Privy C. 33 Ser. II. 60.
[We] have bein hithertills spareing to putt them to any charge for carryeing on this warr(d) 1565 Rec. Earld. Orkney 278.
As he hes done hethertillis 1593 Warrender P. (MS.) II. 355.
Crymes forged and led hethirtillis against me 1657 Balfour Ann. I. 385.
The … happiest game that the King had played … heithertills

2. Until then; up to this point, thus far. 1456 Hay II. 5/16.
Nane … had euir hidertillis manetenyt sa … hye order in all worschip 1513 Doug. v. xi. 1.
Thus, hyddyrtyllys, warryn derenys seyr Excersyt in wyrschip of hys fader deyr 1562-3 Winȝet II. 37/27.
Hiddirtillis, sua dremis Apollinaris