Tmesis

me's is, n. {Rhet.) A figure by which a compound word is separated, by the intervention of 1 more words. To, too {when emphasized, or standing alone, but when not emphatic), prep. It primarily indicates proach and arrival, motion in the direction of place or thing, acce , — opp. to from; also, motion, course, or tendency toward a time, state, condition, aim, etc.: it connects transitive verbs with their direct object, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or pa ive verbs with a following noun which limits their action: as sign of the infinitive, to orig. governed the infinitive as a verbal noun, and connected it as indirect object with a preceding verb adjective, but it has come to be the almost constant prefix to the infinitive: in many phrases, to is used elliptically and denotes or implies extent, limit, gree of comprehension; also, effect, end, consequence; also, apposition; connection; antithesis; position; also, accord, adaptation; comparison; dition; union; also, accompaniment. — To-day, night, to-morrow, are peculiar phrases derived from our ancestors: to, in the 2 first, has the force of this, — this day, tJiis night: in the last, it is equivalent in or on,— in or on the morrow. — To and fro. Backward and forward. — To the face. In presence not in the absence of. — To wit. To know; namely. — To is often used adverbially to modify the sense of verbs; as, to come to; to heave to.