The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Until \Un*til"\, conj.
As far as; to the place or degree that; especially, up to the
time that; till. See Till, conj.
[1913 Webster]
In open prospect nothing bounds our eye,
Until the earth seems joined unto the sky. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
But the rest of the dead lives not again until the
thousand years were finished. --Rev. xx. 5.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Until \Un*til"\, prep. [OE. until, ontil; un- (as in unto) + til
till; cf. Dan. indtil, Sw. intill. See Unto, and Till,
prep.]
[1913 Webster]
1. To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
Taverners until them told the same. --Piers
Plowman.
[1913 Webster]
He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them
until. --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
2. To; up to; till; before; -- used of time; as, he staid
until evening; he will not come back until the end of the
month.
[1913 Webster]
He and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan
until the day of the captivity. --Judg. xviii.
30.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In contracts and like documents until is construed as
exclusive of the date mentioned unless it was the
manifest intent of the parties to include it.
[1913 Webster]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
while loop
until
while
The loop construct, found in nearly all
procedural languages, that executes one or more instructions
(the "loop body") repeatedly so long as some condition
evaluates to true. In contrast to a repeat loop, the loop
body will not be executed at all if the condition is false on
entry to the while.
For example, in C, a while loop is written
while () ;
where is any expression and is any
statement, including a compound statement within braces
"..".
A for loop, e.g. in the C language, extends the while loop
syntax to collect pre-loop initialisation and loop-end logic
into the beginning of the statement.
Perl provides the "until" loop that loops until the loop
condition is true.
(2009-10-07)