Word Meanings - HITHERTO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to HITHERTO)

• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• BLESSING
  A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• LIMITARY
  1. Placed at the limit, as a guard. "Proud limitary cherub." Milton. 2. Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey.
• UNTIL
  1. To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects. Chaucer. Taverners until them told the same. Piers Plowman. He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them until. Spenser. 2. To; up to; till; before; -- used of time; as, he staid until evening;
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• LIMITANEOUS
  Of or pertaining to a limit.
• BLESSEDLY
  Happily; fortunately; joyfully. We shall blessedly meet again never to depart. Sir P. Sidney.
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• LIMITATE
  Bounded by a distinct line.
• PLACEMAN
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
• FURTHER
  To a greater distance; in addition; moreover. See Farther. Carries us, I know not how much further, into familiar company. M. Arnold. They sdvanced us far as Eleusis and Thria; but no further. Jowett Further off, not so near; apart by a greater
• LIMITOUR
  See 2
• LIMITEDNESS
  The quality of being limited.
• LIMITATION
  1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible
• CURBLESS
  Having no curb or restraint.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• RIBLESS
  Having no ribs.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• LIMBLESS
  Destitute of limbs.
• THUMBLESS
  Without a thumb. Darwin.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• PRELIMIT
  To limit previously.
• CUBLESS
  Having no cubs. Byron.
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• APLACENTAL
  Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
• SHRUBLESS
  having no shrubs. Byron.