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† albeˈdene, adv. Obs.
3–5. Also al bidene, alle bidene, al bydene, albydene, all bedene.
[Really two words all bedene, i.e. ‘all soon,’ but so much used together that all preserved little of its force. Cf. although.]
Forthwith, immediately.
a1300Havelok 730 And thrie, he gat it al bidene. c1320Syr Bevis 3685 And men told hem albedene How the geaunt Ascopard In a castel hire hadde to ward. 1330R. Brunne Chron. 45 Lyndeseie he destroied quite alle bidene. c1400Syr Percyv. 2278 Grete lordes and the qwene Welcomed hym al-bydene. c1450Erle of Tolous 1211 Betwene them had they chyldyr fyftene Doghty Knyghtys all bedene. |