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other some, † othersome, a. and pron. Now arch. or dial.
[The two words other a. and some pron. or a., formerly often improperly written as one. Usually as correlative to some.]
adj. Some other; pron. Some others.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 686 After ðis cam swilc oðer sum. 13..Cursor M. 6491 Þaa fraward folk..Said þat moyses was slain,.. And oþer sum said þat he Was liuand. 1551Turner Herbal i. K iij b, In sum placies Cicuta is much stronger then in other sum. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) Matt. xiii. 5 Othersome also fell vpon rockie places. Ibid. 8 Othersome fell vpon good ground. 1593Stubbes Motive Gd. Wks. 80 In othersome places I have seene the Churches strawed over either with hay grasse, strawe, sedges. 1611Bible Acts xvii. 18 Some said, What will this babbler say? Other some, He seemeth to bee a setter foorth of strange gods. 1651C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 42 Some think that the English translation..in some places takes away, in other places addes, and other-some places changes the meaning. 1770C. Jenner Placid Man II. v. v. 126 It makes some folks prouder than othersome. 1854Mrs. Oliphant Magd. Hepburn III. 105 These might be rude missionaries, in some cases, but in other some, they were the highest of heart, and noblest of spirit. 1875Parish Sussex Dial. s.v., Sometimes my old gal's better than what she be othersome.
†b. esp. in phr. othersome time(s (also othersometime(s: cf. sometime(s): At some other times, at other times. So othersome whiles. Obs.
1575Banister Chirurg. iii. (1585) 448 They are engendred otherwhiles, of..common matter, and othersometime, of some..peculier matter. 1606G. W[oodcocke] Hist. Ivstine iv. 21 Some-whiles flashes of fyre, other some-whiles againe..dangerous vapors. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 687 Othersome times..hee goeth from one thicket to another. 1647H. More Song of Soul Notes 165/1 Sometimes it signifieth the soul, othersometime, the naturall spirits. 1671H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 485 Sometimes water, and othersome⁓times fire. |