A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1375-1400, 1456-1586
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Ontil(l, prep. and conj. Also: ontyl(l, onetil(l. [Sc. var. of until, s.v. Unto prep. and conj.] Common only in the Cambridge MS. of Doug. Æn., where it occurs chiefly before vowels and h. = Onto.
1. prep. Unto, to, in various senses of Onto.(1) a1500 Henr. Orph. 112 (Bann.).
Ontill hir court c1500-c1512 Dunb. xlii. 12.
To go … Ontill the castell of pennance 1513 Doug. ii. viii. 40.
We start ontil [Ruddim. vntil] a hie turate 1513 Ib. v. iv. 86.
Ontil a wykkyt place 1513 Ib. xiii. 108.
Ontil Avern 1513 Ib. vi. x. 23.
Ontil [Ruddim. vnto] a plesand grond cummyn ar thai 1513 Ib. viii. iv. 65.
And thus his spreith he had ontil his in 1513 Ib. xi. iii. 63.
Ontill our natyve bundis 1513 Ib. v. vi. 2; etc.
Ontyl 1535 Stewart 9295.
All ar gane On till aine tempill(2) 1513 Doug. i. i. 36.
Syne Cartage suld bryng ontill [Sm. onto] finale rewyne 1513 Ib. iii. ii. 157.
Besekyng hym … Quhat end ontil our irksum panys he sendis(3) 1513 Doug. i. Prol. 297.
Quha is attachit ontill a staik 1513 Ib. iv. v. 121.
Ontill hys feyt(4) c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ii. 155.
Ill meyt and drynk thai gert on-till hym giff c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 227 (M).
And me delyuerit on till Hevines 1513 Doug. v. viii. 101.
Thai … left alane The bul ontil Entellus(5) 1525 Douglas Corr. 97.
Ȝe knaw quhat part that I haff kepit onetill hym a1540 Freiris Berw. 422 (M).
On till our dame it micht hir nothing pleis(6) 1375 Barb. iv. 303.
The vif … durst no mair on-till him say 1456–70 Liber Aberbr. II. 105.
Ontyll your nobile lordschypis [etc.] 1513 Doug. ix. xii. 28.
Thus austernly he spekis Turnus ontill 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 340.
Ontyll thyne excellence(7) ?a1500 Steel Roy Robert 56.
On till ws all it is weill kend [etc.] c1500-c1512 Dunb. xlii. 23.
Ontill my lady(8) 1513 Doug. xi. Prol. 110.
All thou sufferis ontyll Hys paynis nocht is 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 140/33.
I can nocht conpair the comont pepil … bot ontyl beystis(9) a1400 Legends of the Saints Prol. 100.
Twelf appostolis … That var rycht dere one-til Jhesu
b. Indicating a resultant relation: As, to be.1375 Barb. xvii. 29.
The marschall quhais cosyne He had weddit on-till his viff
2. prep. and conj. Until. = Onto A 5 and B.a1500 Henr. III. 106/20.
Can nane … be stabil one til he agit be 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 44.
The Cardinall of Lorayne quha ontill that day thocht [etc.] 1586 Warrender. P. MS. 181.
To dyssire us staye … ontyll scho had adwysit apone our propotytiouns
