Then adv.
 1. At that time (referring to a time specified, either past or future).
    And the Canaanite was then in the land.   --Gen. xii. 6.
    Now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.   --1 Cor. xiii. 12.
 2. Soon afterward, or immediately; next; afterward.
    First be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.   --Matt. v. 24.
 3. At another time; later; again.
    One while the master is not aware of what is done, and then in other cases it may fall out to be own act.   --L'Estrange.
 By then. (a) By that time. (b) By the time that. [Obs.]
    But that opinion, I trust, by then this following argument hath been well read, will be left for one of the mysteries of an indulgent Antichrist.   --Milton.
 Now and then. See under Now, adv.
 Till then, until that time; until the time mentioned. --Milton.
 Note: ☞ Then is often used elliptically, like an adjective, for then existing; as, the then administration.


 Till, prep.  To; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked till four o'clock; I will wait till next week.
    He . . . came till an house.   --Chaucer.
 Women, up till this
 Cramped under worse than South-sea-isle taboo.   --Tennyson.
    Similar sentiments will recur to every one familiar with his writings -- all through them till the very end.   --Prof. Wilson.
 Till now, to the present time.
 Till then, to that time.