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everybody, pron.|ˈɛvərɪ-, ˈɛvrɪbɒdɪ, -bədɪ|
[Comb. of every and body n. in the sense (now obs. in literary use) of person. Formerly written as two words: cf. anybody.]
Every person, every one. everybody else: every other person. Sometimes incorrectly with pl. v. or pron.
c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. 285 Everye bodye was in theyr lodgynges. 1580Sidney Arcadia ii. (1613) 156 Now this king did keepe a great house, that euerie body might come and take their meat freely. 1620Horæ Subsec. 477 To take vpon him the disciplining of euery body for their errours. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. lxxxvii, That which is every body's work is no body's. 1710Berkeley Princ. Hum. Knowl. §97 Time, place, and motion..are what everybody knows. 1715De Foe Fam. Instruct. i. i. (1841) I. 10 Do not everybody else love him? 1759Bp. Warburton Lett. (1809) 280 Every body else I meet with are full ready to go of themselves. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. II. 196 Gilbert was every body's body. 1820Byron Wks. (1840) IV. 298 Every body does and says what they please. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xi. 72 What I suppose has been observed..by everybody. 1866Ruskin Eth. Dust v. (1883) 82 Everybody seems to recover their spirits. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 119 He was ever on the alert..to impart of it [knowledge] to everybody else. |