Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb Hereto.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Unto this; hereto.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Unto this; up to this time; hereto.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb archaic Unto this; up to this time; hereto.

Etymologies

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here +‎ unto

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Examples

  • And I will aduertise you furthermore of one thing, which till this time I haue kept close, whiche is: that for as mutch as we two togethers cannot without great difficultie accomplishe our businesse, it hath seemed good vnto me to know of you, if you would that a third persone shalbe called hereunto, who is so much at my commaundement as I dare comit my trust vnto him.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • As to the Translation it self, as I hope none but envious Criticks will be offended thereat, so I shall endeavour, though briefly, yet fully, to satisfie every impartial and unprejudiced Reader, both as to the Circumstance, and principal Reason inducing me hereunto, which is as follows.

    The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy 1692

  • In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

    Archive 2010-01-01 2010

  • This office will therefore carefully and diligently discharge his duties of the office which appointed by doing and performing all manner of things hereunto. signed ....

    MICHAEL RICHARD ROGERS 2010

  • In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

    A New Emancipation Proclamation 2010

  • In witness whereof we have hereunto put my [seale] hand, a daie as good as yeare primary abovewritten.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord two thousand nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-fourth.

    Obama issues proclamation in Kennedy's honor 2009

  • In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

    Happy Thanksgiving (Blog for Democracy) 2009

  • In testimony whereof, the said Lewis Cass, James B. Ray, and John Tipton, commissioners as aforesaid, and the chiefs and warriors of the said Potawatamie tribe have hereunto set their hands, at the Wabash, on the sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and of the independence of the United States the fifty-first.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Error in Many Versions of the United States Constitution 2010

  • In witness whereof we have hereunto put my [seale] hand, a daie as good as yeare primary abovewritten.

    Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009

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