Definitions

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

  • preposition To.
  • preposition Until.
  • preposition By.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To: now somewhat antiquated, but much used in formal or elevated style.
  • They also brought a full intelligence in reference unto the particulars they were sent about.
  • Up to the time or degree that; until; till.

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

  • preposition To; -- now used only in antiquated, formal, or scriptural style. See To.
  • preposition obsolete Until; till.
  • conjunction obsolete Until; till.

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

  • conjunction obsolete Up to the time or degree that; until; till.
  • preposition Up to, indicating a motion towards a thing and then stopping at it.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

By analogy with until, substituting to for till.

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  • Unto the stock, that hath been simmering

    slowly for nearly twenty-four hours already,

    cast ye a bushel of the following, mixed...

    - Peter Reading, receipt, from Diplopic, 1983

    June 29, 2008