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Definition: UNTO |
UNTOPreposition1. Until; till. 2. To; -- now used only in antiquated, formal, or scriptural style. See To. |
Date "UNTO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disinterestedness | Verb: be disinterested; Adjective: make a sacrifice, lay one's head on the block; put oneself in the place of others, do as one would be done by, do unto others as we would men should do unto us. |
Perfection | Phr. " let us go on unto perfection "; " the perfection of art is to conceal art ". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: UNTO |
| English words defined with "UNTO": As soon as ♦ even ♦ God, golden rule, Graven image ♦ hereafter, hereinafter, Hereunto ♦ idol, It seems ♦ lapidation ♦ Power of the keys ♦ So soon as, stoning ♦ The gates of death, Thereunto, To, To come in, To give ear to, To look to ♦ Until ♦ Weaker vessel, whereto, whereunto. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "UNTO": Barbarians, Bosom Friend ♦ Consenting Stars, Cui bono? ♦ Dying Sayings ♦ Excess ♦ Festus, Porcius ♦ GHOUL, Gresham and the Pearl ♦ habendum clause, Hare-stone, Humber ♦ Inogene ♦ Jephthah, Jethro ♦ Loaves and Fishes ♦ Nabal ♦ Poille, Psalm cv. 28 ♦ Rosamond ♦ Sleuth-Hound, Spaie ♦ Toi ♦ Wicket-gate, Wroth Money. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "UNTO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (grease, greasy, oily), Portuguese (grape, grease, lard), Spanish (grease). |
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Screenplays | Woe be unto him who opens one of the seven gateways to Hell, because through that gateway, evil will invade the world (E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldil ; writing credit: Dardano Sacchetti;) Giles, unto every generation is born one who must run the annual talentless show (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Though the road may wind, yea, your hearts grow weary, still shall ye follow them, even unto your salvation (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen) And just as the Blue Man was offered up unto him, so shall be the unbelievers (Children of the Corn; writing credit: George Goldsmith; Stephen King) Therefore render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's (Sergeant York; writing credit: Harry Chandlee; Abem Finkel) | |
Lyrics | Magick shall be our key, prayers said unto thee (One With Darkness; performing artist: Cher) December promise you gave unto me (December; performing artist: Collective Soul) For crying out loud she screamed unto me (Minority; performing artist: Green Day) Guarantee unto me you won't let me down (Do You Know (What It Takes); performing artist: Robyn) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Unto the Hundredth Generation (1950) Night Unto Night (1949) Lamp Unto My Feet (1948) Unto Each Other (1929) Do Unto Others (1925) | |
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During feeding, the flea draws viable Y. pestis organisms into its esophagus, which multiply and block the proventriculus just in front of the stomach, later forcing the flea to regurgitate infected blood unto the host when it tries to swallow. Credit: CDC. | The wasp’s compound eye is actually made up of many identical receptor units called ommatidia. Each receptor contains its own lens and light sensitive cells, and is actually an eye unto itself. Credit: CDC. | ||
![]() | From the rising unto the setting of the sun the Lord's name is to be praised!. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Help your Red Cross "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these" / / Hubert Chapin ; Latham Litho & Printing Co. Brooklyn, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The liberty bell back in its birth-place again now that it has proclaimed liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof, it is perfectly at home. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Help your Red Cross "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these" / / Hubert Chapin ; Latham Litho & Printing Co. Brooklyn, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Edmund Spenser | Wars and alarums unto nations wide. |
Edward Noyes Westcott | Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast. |
Jeremy Taylor | Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward. |
Martin Tupper | Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health. |
Menander | This is living, not to live unto oneself alone. |
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it. |
Psalms 56:4 | ...in God I have put my trust: I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. |
The Bible | Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. |
Thomas Browne | The religion of one seems madness unto another. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | Know that, having regard to God and for the salvation of our soul, and those of all our ancestors and heirs, and unto the honor of God and the advancement of his holy Church and for the rectifying of our realm, we have granted as underwritten by advice of our venerable fathers, Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and cardinal of the holy Roman Church, Henry, archbishop of Dublin, William of London, Peter of Winchester, Jocelyn of Bath and Glastonbury, Hugh of Lincoln, Walter of Worcester, William of Coventry, Benedict of Rochester, bishops; of Master Pandulf, subdeacon and member of the household of our lord the Pope, of brother Aymeric (master of the Knights of the Temple in England), and of the illustrious men William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, William, earl of Salisbury, William, earl of Warenne, William, earl of Arundel, Alan of Galloway (constable of Scotland), Waren Fitz Gerold, Peter Fitz Herbert, Hubert De Burgh (seneschal of Poitou), Hugh de Neville, Matthew Fitz Herbert, Thomas Basset, Alan Basset, Philip d'Aubigny, Robert of Roppesley, John Marshal, John Fitz Hugh, and others, our liegemen. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | This constrained them to come unto laws, wherein all men might see their duty beforehand, and know the penalties of transgressing them. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | All the songs, some melodies of which have been preserved, were humble and lamentable unto weeping |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It is appointed unto man to die and after death the judgment |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others |
Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation. Hail, high Excess -- especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me -- My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason as thy touch, exact and free, Upon my forehead and along my spine. At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup, With the hot grape I warm no more my wit; When on thy stool of penitence I sit I'm quite converted, for I can't get up. Ungrateful he who afterward would falter To make new sacrifices at thine altar! |
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Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Realizing that we can not live unto ourselves alone, we have contributed of our resources and our counsel to the relief of the suffering and the settlement of the disputes among the European nations. |
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| "UNTO" is generally used as a preposition (except "of") -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "UNTO" is used about 398 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Preposition (except "of") | 100% | 398 | 14,032 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "UNTO": do unto others as we would men should do unto us ♦ to go in unto ♦ To lay unto ♦ to look unto ♦ to or unto ♦ To put the hand unto ♦ to trust unto. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "UNTO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tek (at, being an odd number, making up an odd number, odd, off, to, uneven, while), ndaj (allot, apportion, at, bar, by, come between, cut, detach, disarticulate, disembody, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, distribute, disunite, divide, divorce, divvy, fissure, fractionate, grade, hand out, joint, on, part, partition, reconcile, rope off, section, segregate, separate, sever, share, sort out, space, split, sunder, toward, towards, unjoint, unlink, unscramble, winnow). (various references) | |
Arabic | حتى (even, over, pending, than, till, to, until, whenever, while). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | към (about, around, into, nearby, of, off, on, somewhere about, to, towards, with), в (aboard, about, against, around, at, by, down, in, inside, into, on, to, under, up, within), на (aboard, against, at, by, for, in, into, of, on, onto, over, per, to, up, upon, with), за (about, after, against, at, for, for one's sake, for the sake of, in, of, off, on, over, pro-, re, to, touching, toward, towards), при (about, alongside, at, beside, by, during, given, in, on, to, under, with), до (alongside, as far as, at, beside, do, ere, next, next to, over, pending, prior to, to, until). (various references) | |
Czech | za (across, after, around, at, away, behind, beyond, by, each, for, in, instead of, of, over, past, pending, per, under, within), k (by, for, near, on, to, toward, towards), do (by, for, in, into, on, over, to, under). (various references) | |
Finnish | hamaan. (various references) | |
German | zu (a, an, as, at, at the rate of, beside, bought in addition, closed, for, in, inside, into, off, on, per, shut, to, too, too much, toward, towards, with, within). (various references) | |
Greek | για (about, about to, for, to), μέχρι (till, to, until, up to), προσ (concerning, on, to, toward, towards), εισ (at, for, in, into, on, one, to, upon), αρχαικόν αντί to. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל- (during, for, to, toward, towards, upon), על (about, above, by, height, on, onto, to, toward, towards, upon), ע" (eternity, till, to, until), אל (by, don't, naught, no, not, to, toward, towards). (various references) | |
Hungarian | -nek (to), -nak (to), -ig (pending, till, to, until, up), -hoz (on, to), -hez (on, to), -höz (on, to). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sampai (till, to, until). (various references) | |
Italian | verso (about, approximately, at, by, call, cry, direction, grimace, line, meter, metre, near, poetry, reverse, to, toward, towards, verse, verso), fino a (pending, till, to, until), a tavola (to, too, towards, zo). (various references) | |
Korean | 에게. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ountay.(various references) | |
Russian | к (against, at, by, canal, for, how, into, like, near, to, toward, towards), до (above, afore, as far as 1, before, c, in so far as, must, pleased, preliminary to, previous to, prior the, prior to, thru, til, till, till 1, to, to power of, to the earlier of, until, until !мес!, until [h]). (various references) | |
Scottish | chun (to, until : chun a' bhaile, unto the town). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | u (at, board: on board, in, inside, inside of, into, of, to, up in, within), za (after, around, by, con, during, favor: in favor of, favour: in favour of, for, in, into, per, to, towards, with), prema (according to, in, on, opposite, per, to, toward, vis-ŕ-vis), na (at, board: on board, for, in, of, on, on board, to, upon), ka (onto, to, toward), do (as far as, beside, by, next to, till, to, until). (various references) | |
Spanish | hasta (as far as, by, even, pending, through, till, to, until, up, up to), hacia (against, circa, to, toward, towards). (various references) | |
Swedish | under (below, beneath, during, for, in, into, marvel, miracle, over, under, underneath, wonder), vid (about, against, at, beside, broad, by, extensive, for, fore, full, in, in case of, large, near, near to, nearby, next to, of, off, on, over, so, space, spacious, to, vast, wide, with), till (at, by, for, into, more, of, on, onto, over, till, to, toward, towards, until, with), på (about, across, at, away, because of, by, concerning, for, for sake of, forth, in, of, off, on, on account of, over, owing to, through, to, toward, towards, upon, with), mot (across from, against, at, contra, for, in exchange for, on, opposed to, opposite, to, towards, upon, versus, vs, with), i (a, among, at, for, i, in, inside, into, of, on, over, per, through, to, with, within, ye), för (about, as, at, because, for, fore, from, in order to, of, over, per, pre, pre-, prow, so, to, too, towards, with). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | поруч (abreast, adjacently, against, alongside, anear, by, close, hard by, nigh, side by side), до (against, as far as, at, before, by, down, ere, for, into, near, of, on, or, previous to, previously to, prior to, till, to, to the, toward, towards, until, while). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Avestan | 200-600 | aipi, aiwi, avi. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 8, Verse 15 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eipen kurioV o qeoV tw nwe legwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Locutus est autem Deus ad Noe dicens |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The Lord forsothe spake to Noe, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And God spake vnto Noe saynge: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And God spake unto Noah, saying, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And God spoke to Noah, saying, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And God said to Noah, |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 8, Verse 15 |
| Cebuano | Ug nagsulti ang Dios kang Noe nga nagaingon: |
| Chinese | 神 對 挪 亞 說 、 |
| Croatian | Tada Bog reèe Noi: |
| Danish | Da sagde Gud til Noa: |
| Dutch | Toen sprak God tot Noach, zeggende: |
| Finnish | Ja Jumala puhui Nooalle sanoen: |
| French | Alors Dieu parla Noé, en disant: |
| German | Da redete Gott mit Noah und sprach: |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Lè sa a, Bondye di Noe: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu berkatalah Allah kepada Nuh, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lalu firman Allah kepada Nuh, kata-Nya: |
| Maori | ¶ Na ka korero te Atua ki a Noa, ka mea, |
| Norwegian | Da talte Gud til Noah og sa: |
| Portuguese | Então falou Deus a Noé, dizendo: |
| Rumanian | Atunci Dumnezeu a vorbit lui Noe, wi i -a zis: |
| Spanish | Entonces dijo Dios a Noé: |
| Swedish | Då talade Gud till Noa och sade: |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "UNTO": untogether, untold, untorn, untouchabilities, untouchability, untouchable, untouchables, untouched, untoward, untowardly, untowardness, untowardnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "UNTO": hereunto, junto, punto, thereunto, trapunto, whereunto. (additional references) | |
Words containing "UNTO": juntos, puntos, trapuntos. (additional references) | |
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"UNTO" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: antfo, Anto, aunto, bunto, Buntom, cunto, Entlo, eunoto, Gunto, hunto, iuncta, iunto, Jnto, Junot, lunto, numo, nuta, nuto, nuttos, ounto, puncto, Punto, runto, Snto, Ugta, Ugtm, Ugtp, ulto, umt, unato, unote, unsti, unstow, unt, untap, untar, unte, unteo, unti, untim, untog, Unton, untool, untow, untz, upto, uti, utn, utna, utne, uto, utom, uton, uunto. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "UNTO" (pronounced u"ntuw) |
| 3 | -n t uw | into, onto. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "n-o-t-u" | |
-1 letter: not, nut, out, ton, tun. | |
-2 letters: no, nu, on, to, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "n-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: count, donut, fount, futon, junto, knout, mount, muton, notum, punto, puton, snout, tonus, ungot. | |
+2 letters: amount, bounty, bouton, burton, button, cobnut, counts, county, donuts, founts, futons, hognut, juntos, knouts, mounts, mouton, mutons, mutton, nougat, nought, obtund, outgun, outing, outman, outran, outrun, outsin, pluton, puntos, putons, rotund, runout, snouts, snouty, stound, tenour, tenuto, tongue, toucan, turnon, unbolt, unknot, unroot, unstop, untold, untorn, untrod, uptorn, uptown. | |
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