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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HITH'ERTO, adv. To this time; yet.
The Lord hath blessed me hitherto. Josh 17.
1. In any time, or every time till now; in time preceding the present.
2. To this place; to a prescribed limit.
Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further. Job 38.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adv
1: used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time; "So far he hasn't called"; "the sun isn't up yet" [syn: so far, thus far, up to now, hitherto, heretofore, as yet, yet, til now, until now]

Merriam Webster's

adverb Date: 13th century up to this or that time

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adv. until this time, up to now.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hitherto Hith"er*to`, adv. 1. To this place; to a prescribed limit. Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further. --Job xxxviii. 11. 2. Up to this time; as yet; until now. The Lord hath blessed me hitherto. --Josh. xvii. 14.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You use hitherto to indicate that something was true up until the time you are talking about, although it may no longer be the case. (FORMAL) The polytechnics have hitherto been at an unfair disadvantage in competing for pupils and money... ADV: ADV after v, ADV with cl, ADV adj/-ed

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

hith'-er-too (to this): Used of both place and time. It is the translation of various words and phrases:

(1) Of place, `adh halom (2Sa 7:18, "Thou hast brought me hitherto," the Revised Version (British and American) "thus far"; 1Ch 17:16; perhaps 1Sa 7:12, `adh hennah, "Hitherto hath Yahweh helped us" (in connection with the setting up of the stone Ebenezer)) belongs to this head; hennah is properly an adverb of place; it might always be rendered "thus far."

(2) Of time, `adh koh, "unto this" (Ex 7:16, "Hitherto thou hast not hearkened"; Jos 17:14, "Hitherto Yahweh hath blessed me"); me'az, "from then" (2Sa 15:34, the Revised Version (British and American) "in time past"); hale'ah, "beyond," etc. (Isa 18:7, "terrible from their beginning hitherto," the Revised Version (British and American) "onward"); `adh kah, Aramaic (Da 7:28, the Revised Version (British and American) "here," margin "hitherto"); `adh hennah, "unto here" (Jud 16:13; 1Sa 1:16; Ps 71:17, etc.); achri tou deuro (Ro 1:13, "was let (the Revised Version (British and American) "hindered") hitherto"); heos arti, "until now" (Joh 5:17, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work" the Revised Version (British and American) "even until now," that is, "on the Sabbath as well as on other days', and I do as He does"; Joh 16:24, "Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive," that is "up till now"; "now ask in my name and ye shall receive"); oupo, "not yet" (1Co 3:2, "Hitherto ye were not able to bear it," the Revised Version (British and American) "not yet").

W. L. Walker

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

ad. Yet, till now, to this time, up to this time, until this time, thus far.

Moby Thesaurus

aforetime, already, as yet, before, before all, before now, beforetime, earlier, early, ere, ere then, erenow, erewhile, erst, formerly, here, heretofore, historically, in the past, in times past, once, only yesterday, or ever, prehistorically, previously, priorly, recently, so far, then, theretofore, thus far, up to now, whilom, yesterday, yet