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# tillest

verb, old form used with thou

«tillest» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

«tillest» means «you till», a form of «till»: Till means until, up to a time: open from 9 till 5. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tillest/#m1)

### Then and now

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou tillest» = «you till».

### Examples

- When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.' (Torah GEN.4.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tillest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you till.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tillest» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tillest/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tillest» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/tillest.html) on Mova free.