(prep.) To the inside of; within. It is used in a variety of applications.
(prep.) Expressing entrance, or a passing from the outside of a thing to its interior parts; -- following verbs expressing motion; as, come into the house; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another; water enters into the fine vessels of plants.
(prep.) Expressing penetration beyond the outside or surface, or access to the inside, or contents; as, to look into a letter or book; to look into an apartment.
(prep.) Indicating insertion; as, to infuse more spirit or animation into a composition.
(prep.) Denoting inclusion; as, put these ideas into other words.
(prep.) Indicating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable to be seduced into error and folly.
Example Sentences:
Unto
Definition:
(prep.) To; -- now used only in antiquated, formal, or scriptural style. See To.
(prep.) Until; till.
(conj.) Until; till.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their brief was to eradicate cross-border raids by Palestinian fedayeen (guerrillas), yet many felt the overzealous Sharon was becoming a law unto himself.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The City of London is a world unto itself.
(3) Once more unto the valley of the kings, then, as another Silicon monopolist issues a decree, in this case to the indescribably junior entity that is Norway.
(4) Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.
(5) And be open unto themselves as to how they behaved and why they behaved as they did, and to understand – not to blame them – but to understand, and to show greater courage the next time round.
(6) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
(7) I would like to see, over time, an understanding by all people and cultures, and religions, that there should be separation of church and state, that there is a sense of rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.
(8) There were occasional bursts of vivacity: the comment, when the Tory government economised on a booster station for the BBC World Service, that "Nation shall murmur unto nation"; shrewd opposition to entry into the ERM "at an unsustainable rate"; and an early warning to Nigel Lawson, in 1988, of the looming economic crisis.
(9) Still the Vatican turns a blind eye to this most repugnant and damaging of all sexual practices, the suffering little children whose priests come unto them.
(10) Members are required to "keep secret all matters committed and revealed unto you or that shall be treated secretly in council".
(11) Far from ignoring the white working class during this election, they were written about so extensively by nervously placatory liberal journalists that these articles became a genre unto themselves, satirised perfectly by Benjamin Hart last week (“I couldn’t help but notice that people in Bleaksville are angry … I wanted to hear more but Ed explained that David Brooks had scheduled an interview with him to discuss whether he ate dinner with his family every night, and what it means for America.”) So here’s an alternative take: we’ve heard enough of white rage now.
(12) Health,” reckons Friel, “remains a law unto itself.” Less pronounced special needs that lie outside formally specified provisions are being moved out of School Action and School Action Plus programmes into a system called SEN Support.
(13) Even when "which" isn't mandatory, great writers have been using it for centuries, as in the King James Bible's "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's" and Franklin Roosevelt's "a day which will live in infamy".
(14) What is new – and what, surely, ought to have given Mr Hunt pause for thought – is the emerging evidence that the company has been run as a law unto itself.
(15) Why you should listen : “Answer not a fool according to his folly,” it says in Proverbs, “lest thou also be like unto him.” Jones’s appearance on Rogan’s show is a cautionary tale.
(16) He lived on and off in Italy for some years, unearthing the lives of his father’s family in Calabria, which became a book: Unto the Sons .
(17) Every checkpoint is a law unto itself,” he mused, also unconvincingly upbeat about the future.
(18) Great power relations conducted through official and unofficial channels in foreign capitals are a world unto themselves.
(19) Arterial blood samples were taken 3 minutes after spinal injection then every 15 minutes unto 90 minutes after the first sampling.
(20) The first thing, Thiele – a Catholic – thought, was the golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.