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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hitherto \Hith"er*to'\, adverb
1. To this place; to a prescribed limit.
Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further. --Job xxxviii. 11.
2. Up to this time; as yet; until now.
The Lord hath blessed me hitherto. --Josh. xvii. 14.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hitherto
adverb: used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time; "So far he hasn't called"; "the sun isn't up yet" [syn: {so far}, {thus far}, {up to now}, {heretofore}, {as yet}, {yet}, {til now}, {until now}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "hitherto": aforetime, already, as yet, before, before all, before now, beforetime, earlier, early, ere, ere then, erenow, erewhile, erst, formerly, here, heretofore, historically, in the past, in times past, once, only yesterday, or ever, prehistorically, previously, priorly, recently, so far, then, theretofore, thus far, up to now, whilom, yesterday, yet
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