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  1. preposition To.
  2. preposition Until: a fast unto death.
  3. preposition By: a place unto itself, quite unlike its surroundings.

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  • King Burizlaf now sent word unto the Earl that he would demand the fulfilment of the pact, & bade the Earl go to Denmark & bring Queen Tyri to him Then did Earl Sigvaldi hie him on his journey, and laid he the matter before the Danish King; and by his fair words came he even so far that into his hands gave King Svein his sister Tyri. —  The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)
  • Harvest S. Matthew xxii., 21 Render--unto God, the things that are God's INTRODUCTION.--David says in the 8th Psalm, "What is man, that Thou art mindful of him: and the son of man that Thou visitest him? —  The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year
  • Some of them were great and some of them were small; all being different, each one shining according to the power of its own light Then Jehovah created souls for other living things of all manner of shapes and forms, great and small--unto the infinite small things until the substance of life was contained Jehovah set for his created things an order and a procession of life, creating for them bodies. —  The Secret of the Creation
  • It cannot be multiplied, it cannot be divided, it cannot be added unto--you may attempt to subtract from it, but it is useless. —  The King's Own
  • A word unto my mother to bid her think o' me Only as a little lad playing at her knee A word unto my tried friend to bid him see again Two laughing lads in Springtime a-racing down the glen A word unto my true love--a single word--to pray If one day I cross her path to turn her eyes away MONSEIGNEUR PLAYS Monseigneur plays his new gavotte Within her gilded chair the Queen Listens, her rustling maids between A very tulip-garden stirred To hear the fluting of a bird Faint sunlight through the casement falls On cupids painted on the walls At play with doves. —  The Dreamers And Other Poems
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English : un-, up to; see until + to, to; see to.

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  1. from Middle English unto (not found in Anglo-Saxon), from Old Saxon untō, untuo, unte = OFries. ont ti, until, = Old High German unze, unzi, unza, Middle High German unze, untze = Gothic (Moesogothic) unte, up to, until; Anglo-Saxon ōth, up to, until, from Old Saxon und, unt = OFries. und, ont = Old High German Middle High German unz = Icelandic unz, unuz, unst = Gothic (Moesogothic) und, up to, as far as, until; prob. another form of the preposition which appears as the prefix and-, an-, and with a reversive or negative force as un-. The same first element appears in until, q. v.
 

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