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alladj.pron.n.adv.conj.Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with (as adjective and pronoun) Old Frisian al , ol , (in inflected forms) all- , oll- (West Frisian al , alle ), Old Dutch al , (in inflected forms) all- (Middle Dutch al , Dutch al ), Old Saxon al , all (Middle Low German al , alle ), Old High German al , (very rarely) all , (in inflected forms) all- , (Middle High German al , German all ), Old Icelandic allr , Old Swedish aller , alder (Swedish all ), Old Danish all (Danish al ), Gothic alls , further etymology uncertain; perhaps ultimately reflecting a suffixed form < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin alere (see aliment n.) and also (with different suffixation) old adj., hence perhaps originally with the meaning ‘full-grown’, hence ‘complete’. However, there are no secure cognates showing the same suffixation of the same base; perhaps compare Oscan allo whole, entire. A quite different etymology, ultimately < the same Indo-European base as else adv., is also sometimes suggested. The nature of the connection (if any) with Early Irish uile , huile and Welsh oll , holl , both in senses ‘all, every, the whole’, is uncertain and disputed. With use as adverb compare Old Frisian al , alle (West Frisian al ), Old Dutch al , all (Middle Dutch al , alle , Dutch al ), Old Saxon al , all (Middle Low German al , alle ), Old High German al (Middle High German al , alle , German all , alle ), Old Icelandic (in compounds) all- , Swedish all , Old Danish, Danish al . Compare also (as first element of compounds) Old High German ala- and Gothic ala- (and see discussion of Old English forms below), and compare also the cognates of alling adv. It is likely that these forms reflect the existence of a variant with single consonant from an early date (perhaps compare the variation shown by cognates of full adj.).Form history. In Old English the stem-final geminate ll inherited from the Germanic base caused breaking of early Old English æ to ea in West Saxon (eall ) but retraction to a in Anglian (all ). The stem-final geminate was subsequently simplified before a following consonant (in e.g. genitive plural ealra ) and also word-finally (eal , al ), although the geminate is often retained in writing. Beside this, a form æl- , æle- , without geminate, existed in Old English, originally and chiefly in compounds. This probably reflects the same origin as Old High German ala- and Gothic ala- in compounds. In late West Saxon, it can be difficult to distinguish this from forms reflecting incipient monophthongization of ea (æl , æll- ). The early attestation of a variant æl- for individual compounds in Old English can be an indication of the early formation of that compound (compare e.g. ælmihtig beside eallmihtig almighty adj., æltǣwe beside ealltǣwe perfect, complete, sound, true), but it is evident that eall (adverb) was freely substituted for æl- in compounds. Occasional forms with initial h- in Old English and Middle English are to be regarded as inverted spellings, reflecting the general instability of initial h . The (chiefly late) Old English and early Middle English forms with initial g- show the development of a palatal on-glide. As an adjective (determiner), the word appears frequently to be unstressed in Old English, and forms that may reflect development under weak stress are occasionally found, e.g. West Saxon all . However, the word is stressed in certain fixed phrases, including those that developed into adverbs, such as alway adv., and compound adverbs, such as also adv. The β. forms show word-final vocalization of l to u . This is a frequent sound change in Older Scots and some regional, chiefly northern, varieties, of English. The resulting diphthong (au ) subsequently underwent monophthongization. Inflected forms and their survival in Middle English. In Old English, as a pronominal adjective indicating indefinite quantity, the word was usually inflected as a strong adjective, although weak forms are occasionally attested. The standard (West Saxon) strong paradigm is: masculine: singular: nominative eall , accusative ealne , genitive ealles , dative eallum , instrumental ealle , plural: nominative and accusative ealle , genitive ealra , dative eallum ; feminine: singular: nominative eall , accusative ealle , genitive and dative ealre , plural: nominative and accusative ealle , ealla , genitive ealra , dative eallum ; neuter: nominative and accusative eall , genitive ealles , dative eallum , instrumental ealle , plural: nominative and accusative eall , genitive ealra , dative eallum . The forms of the neuter are usually the same in the singular and the plural except in the genitive (although by-forms of the nominative and accusative plural such as ealle , eallu occur with increasing frequency in later Old English); this can make it difficult to distinguish singular and plural when the word is used as a pronoun or noun already in Old English. As with other monosyllabic adjectives, Middle English usage for some time preserves the reflex of the Old English inflectional endings -e , -a (and also -um ) as final -e , most commonly in the plural. However, all adj. (and also all pron. and n.) shows preservation of inherited inflectional endings in Middle English to an unusual extent and in particular preservation of the reflex of the Old English genitive plural ending -ra . Eventually these isolated genitive forms of the word became opaque, as is evident in the reanalysis of fossilized former genitive constructions reflected in alder- prefix and alther adj. (compare also elder-father n.). The following examples illustrate the occurrence of inflected forms of the adjective and the pronoun other than the genitive plural in early Middle English (for the latter see discussion at alder- prefix):a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 123 Luuian we hine mid alre heorte, mid alre saulen, mid alle mode, mid alle meine.a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 31 Me nis naht of alles woreldes blisse.a1225 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Digby) clxxxviii, in Anglia (1878) 1 31 Vten eftin þiderward mid aldre ȝernuolnesse and vorsien þisne midelard mid his wouernesse.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2063 Biddeh alne godne mon þe grið wulle halden. & alle þe me of haldeh cumen ær sone.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3023 Leouede Belin þe king in alre [c1300 Otho allere] blisse.c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) l. 12610 He lette ȝam scrude mid allere [c1275 Calig. ælchere] prude.c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig. A.xi) (1887) l. 1364 Hor eiþer oþer..bileuede alne winter to gadere in þis londe.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 145 Alle he heþ imad communliche, alle yboȝt communliche, to allen porueyþ communliche. For fossilized forms of the genitive singular see further β. forms at alkin adj. and forms of always adv. and (in adverbial use) alles adv. For fossilized forms of the masculine accusative singular compare α. forms at alway adv. Adverbial use. Use of one or several case forms as adverb is probably inherited from Germanic. In Old English the usual form of the adverb is endingless (eall ) and could represent the coalescence of several case forms, especially of the neuter; perhaps it partly reflects an earlier accusative, partly a locative form. As this form is homonymous with the nominative singular of the adjective and also with the neuter nominative plural, the adverb can be difficult to distinguish from predicative use of the adjective already in Old English. Beside eall , use of the neuter instrumental ealle is also found in senses of the adverb in Old English, although more rarely. For use of the genitive singular in adverbial function see alles adv. With the uses in other Germanic languages compare also adverbial use of the neuter singular form allt in Old Icelandic (and similar uses in other North Germanic languages), which appear to show relatively late developments. The use of the word as a conjunction in concessive clauses appears to have arisen from uses of all adv. as an intensifier in clauses that were already concessive in their own right. Compare discussion at although conj. A. adj. ( determiner). When all follows the noun phrase which it modifies, either immediately or separated by a copular or auxiliary verb (see senses A. 1b(c), A. 1b(c), A. 1c(c), A. 1f(b), A. 1f(c), A. 2d) it is sometimes interpreted as the pronoun in appositional or postpositional use (cf. sense B. 5): see R. Quirk et al. Comprehensive Gram. Eng. Lang. (1985) §5.16, §6.50, and cf. quots. 1654, 1813 at sense B. 4a. Those cases in which all is separated from the noun by a copular or auxiliary verb are often ambiguous and interpretable as showing any of adjective, pronoun, or adverb: see the discussion at sense C. 1. It is notable that in modern English the postpositional use of all with a subject noun phrase, whether or not it is interpretable as an adverb, follows the rules of adverbial placement, namely immediately after the subject if there is a simple main verb and otherwise immediately after the first auxiliary. 1. With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of. a. With nouns denoting a physical expanse: the whole of. Also in extended use, esp. with regard to geographical areas: the whole population of; every person living or present in (now somewhat formal). the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [adjective] eOE (Parker) anno 886 Ęlfred cyning..him all Angelcyn to cirde þæt buton deniscra monna hæftniede was. OE Ælfric (Royal) (1997) i. 185 Of ðam wearð eft gestaðelad eal middaneard. OE (Nero) v. xvi. 240 Sancte Eadwerdes mæssedæg witan habbað gecoren, þæt man freolsian sceal ofer eal Englaland on xv kalendas Aprilis. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 2894 Wenden ȝe mid fehten to fellen uren leoden & beon eow seluen riche and welden al Rome? c1300 (Laud) (1868) l. 610 He shal hauen in his hand A [read Al] denemark and engeland. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) vii. 862 In foure and twenty houres evene The carte with the bryhte Sonne Thei drawe, so that overronne Thei have under the cercles hihe Al Middelerthe. a1500 (1839) 3 And so Kynge Edward was possessed of alle Englonde. 1543 ( (1812) 231 Godiue..naked throughout all Couentree, The tolles sore and seruage agayn right To redeme hole of her femynitee. 1612 J. Davies 135 And thus was all Ireland Cantonized among tenne persons of the English Nation. 1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi I. iii. 116 Harfleur was the chiefest Port Town of all Normandy. 1707 W. Funnell v. 113 The biggest and best traded City in all America. 1750 J. Huxham (ed. 2) ii. 20 The catarrhal Fever..spread through all Europe. 1817 J. Farey III. Pref. p. vii The near completion of my large and minute Mineral Map of all Derbyshire. 1849 T. B. Macaulay I. 576 At Exeter all Devonshire had been gathered together to welcome him. 1949 J. Mockford 267 The Mother City and the mountains and the clouds, and all South Africa, grow misty before my eyes. 1978 Apr. 4/1 The Irish side had given all Wales a fright by pegging the score back to 13–13. 1992 10 Oct. (Suppl.) 3/2 The capitalist government..claims still to be the legal government of all China. eOE (Parker) anno 855 Þy ilcan geare gebocude Ęþelwulf cyning teoþan dęl his londes ofer al his rice Go[de] to lofe. eOE (Parker) anno 860 Her Ęþelbald cyng forþferde..& feng Ęþelbryht to allum þam rice his broþur. eOE (Parker) anno 870 Þa Deniscan sige namon & þone cyning ofslogon & þæt lond all geeodon. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 283 (MED) For þat dede al þe cherche sownede for joye, and þe street grucched. 1488 (c1478) Hary (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 1336 The Regioun aw. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. (Rawl.) (1898) 136 Al the roialme thanne rumourt and lothit for that rousty Synne. 1569 R. Grafton II. 291 The French king should clerely geue vnto him all the Duchy of Guyan. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. vii. 139 All the world's a stage. 1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle 144 The Canara-Language, which is the vulgar in Ikkeri and all that State. 1700 in (1895) 514 Several dunghills are..left at times unfitt in the street..to the great anuisance of all the neighbourhood. 1764 J. Wesley Jrnl. 31 Mar. in (1768) 59 We rode to Grimsby, once the most dead, now the most lively place in all the country. 1832 Ld. Tennyson New Year's Eve vi, in (new ed.) 97 And all the world is still. 1938 A. de Blacam (1943) x. 279 That enormous building could house the Government..of all a mighty commonwealth. 1985 M. Monroe 110 You so big and fat you take up all the room, Mama Ruby. 1993 J. K. Hall tr. T. Terzani (1994) iv. 65 In all the Soviet Union there are more than 150 ‘nationalities’. c1425 (c1300) (Harl.) 367 Þer nas prince in þe al worlde [c1325 Calig. al þe world] of so noble fame. 1583 J. Foxe (ed. 4) II. 2027/1 That the all world might see what he coulde do in his office. 1659 J. Gauden Embleme Trees sig. *2v One among all Churches in the all world. a1686 T. Watson (1692) 487 The Iews thought, that if but two in the all World went to Heaven the one should be a Scribe and the other a Pharisee. 1891 June 304 The burden was heavy through fear of mistake, whereby the glorious record of this Grand Body, not excelled throughout the all world, might be broken. 2009 S. Akhter i. 17 The Holy prophet, has said that the all earth has been blessed and made a Mosque for Muslims. b. With collective nouns (with singular agreement): each and every member or example of; the entire number of. OE Ælfric (Royal) (1997) i. 185 Þa behet god þæt he nolde næfre eft eal mancyn mid wætere acwellan. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 17 He..þrouwede deð for al moncun. a1425 (c1300) (BL Add.) (1901) l. 425 I hadde reuþe on al mankyne, That alle went to helle pyne. 1495 (de Worde) i. sig. Aiv v/2 Cryst Iesus very god and man is..moost blessyd and inestymable dyuynyte or deyte for all mankynde. 1534 Sir T. More Let. in J. Strype (1721) I. App. xlviii. 134 Sith al Christendom is one Corps. 1570 J. Foxe (rev. ed.) II. 1939/1 None that had not cleane exiled all humanitie. 1625 T. Godwin i. v. 26 All Israel could not stand by, for the narrownesse of the place. 1729 C. Cibber iii. i. 23 So will thy Tongue out-scold all Womankind. a1832 J. Bentham Anarchical Fallacies in (1843) II. 498 The anarchist..denies the validity of the law..and calls upon all mankind to rise up in a mass, and resist the execution of it. 1896 T. F. Tout iii. 50 All Christendom was terribly moved by the assassination. 1924 24 Oct. 362/2 The goodwill of all Arabdom. 1992 Mar. 91/1 The idea of original sin—that all humanity is fallen because of the first sin of Adam and Eve. OE Ælfric (Julius) (1881) I. 242 Eall ure folc mid fleame ætwand buton we feowertig. c1230 (?a1200) (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 105 Þe Vox awurieð al a floc þah he ne mahe buten an frechliche swolhen. c1300 11000 Virgins (Laud) l. 147 in C. Horstmann (1887) 91 And al þis compaygnie I-burede weren in Coloyne in one Nonnerie. c1490 in C. Brown (1939) 206 (MED) O loode sterre..Ageyne all such pereyles lette þi lyght a-dawe On all thy peple. c1540 (?a1400) (2002) f. 202v All a company is cumbrit for a cursed shrewe. 1632 in R. F. Williams (1848) (modernized text) II. 197 Nutt the pirate..with all his gang of varlets. 1682 J. Dryden 19 Frogs and Toads, and all the Tadpole Train. 1749 J. Ray 331 She got together all her Clan, and marched at their Head. 1821 Ld. Byron lxxxv. 113 As for the figuranti, they are like The rest of all that tribe. 1919 ‘K. Mansfield’ 4 Dec. (1993) III. 136 You're like a lamb thats left behind. When all the flock has pattered away. 1981 J. May i. i. 18 In honor of the maying, the betrothed Princess Bonne and all her retinue were dressed in malachite-green silk. 2003 Feb. 123/1 All Poland's once substantial Jewish population. 1726 J. Swift I. ii. i. 5 Our Ship was staunch, and our Crew all in good Health. 1809 tr. G. B. Guarini i. iii. 32 Mankind all Should supplicate the favour of the gods In times of need, and pray with hope sincere. 1892 ‘G. Travers’ I. vi. 57 Humanity will all be uniformly, hideously, commonplacely yellow! 2002 23 Aug. (Review section) 6/1 Police jargon includes ‘pinch-points’—where the crowd all bunches up. c. With nouns denoting a substance, quality, or attribute: the whole amount, extent, or compass of; the whole of. the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [adjective] OE Ælfric (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xl. 341 He [sc. Christ] is sylf soð wisdom, and eal wisdom is of him. OE Ælfric (Claud.) ix. 15 Ic beo gemyndig mines weddes wið eow, ðæt heononforð ne byð flod to adylgienne eall flæsc [L. universam carnem]. c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxviii. 18 Al power is ȝouun to me, in heuene and in erthe. c1450 ( J. Lydgate (1840) 11 Gramer..Cheeff ffounderesse and roote of alle connyng. 1579 in J. G. Nichols (1859) (Camden) 34 He sayd his stomache was gonne from all meate excepte it wer a warden pye. 1611 1 Pet. i. 24 All flesh is as grasse. View more context for this quotation 1678 R. Cudworth i. iii. 144 Concluding that all Matter and Substance as such, hath Life and Perception. 1752 D. Hume (ed. 2) v. 83 All water, wherever it communicates, remains always at a level. 1856 P. E. Dove ii. ii. 117 All matter is only localised and partial force. 1906 J. Galsworthy 207 That indefinable malaise, that terrible blight which killed all sweetness. 1997 T. Pynchon 232 All light from the outside vanishes, as something fills the Doorway. OE Ælfric tr. Basil 52 Ðis is seo geendung ealles þæs wlites and þæs lichaman fægernysse. lOE (Corpus Cambr.) (1997) 95 Se Godes mann wearð gefrefrod mid þæs halgan gastes gife & ealle his wræððe þærrihtes niðer alegde. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 6048 All hiss lufe & all hiss lusst Iss naȝȝledd upp inn heoffne. ?c1335 in W. Heuser (1904) 95 Of al þis ioi þer nis non end. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 2758 Al hir sorowe was holp and remedyed. 1521 T. More Let. 21 Sept. in H. Ellis 2nd Ser. (1827) I. 290 The archbishop of Saint Andrewis putteth all his possible power..to rere broilerie, warre, and revolution in the Realme. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus sig. Qiij If we..bring out of (the buttery) or spence all the meate that is left. 1668 A. Marvell Let. 28 Jan. in (1971) II. 256 We are, as for all other your kindnesse, obliged to you. 1702 R. Steele ii. 35 We..have nothing at all, of all this High-Flown-Fury! 1759 85/1 They..stove all the beer in the cellar. 1791 A. Radcliffe I. ii. 54 The sun appeared in all his glory..vivifying every colour of the landscape. 1807 tr. in A. Wilson 207 All his presence of mind, and all the coolness he may have occasion for. 1876 R. Routledge 33 The puddler is able to collect all the metal at the end of an iron rod into a spongy mass. 1997 4 May 41/1 You're not giving all your attention to the road ahead, increasing the chance of being involved in an accident. 2005 Apr. 35/1 The clay roof tiles and all the wood have been reclaimed from other local buildings. 1623 Managing Tobacco Contract in S. M. Kingsbury (1935) IV. 31 The Sumer Islandes tobacco..shall be all sould..by the candle. 1697 W. Dampier xi. 315 I observed their Cloath to be all of..equal fineness; but 'tis stubborn when new. 1725 D. Defoe ii. 161 Their first Discouragement was, the Country was all open, with very little Wood. 1792 W. Borrow in M. F. G.-B. Giner & M. Montgomery (2003) 201 You put that Money all in your pockit. 1844 G. P. R. James 151/2 The cheese was all eaten up. 1886 G. Allen xviii The fine of the day will all be gone by that time. 1889 A. E. Barr xii. 236 The devil's corn all goes to bran. 1913 W. Cather iii. ii. 203 Her training had all been toward the end of making her proficient in what she had undertaken to do. 1997 11 Apr. c13/5 The money all went into a giant ‘honey pot’. the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > greatest in quantity, amount, or degree > greatest possible OE tr. (Cambr.) xvii. §1. 197 Uton we gan and cuman to heom myd eallum wurðmynte [L. cum omni honore]. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) ii. xxvi. 157 He þa sona æt þam halgan were onfeng mid eallre hrædnesse [L. sub omni celeritate] þære ærran hæle. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 187 In alle haste com to me. 1443 in H. Nicolas (1835) V. 417 (MED) Þat þe saide Viscounte..ordeine þe saide men, vitaille, & shippes to be sent over in all haste to Bourdeaulx for þe socoure & rerelief of it. a1513 R. Fabyan (1516) II. f. iiiv Wherfore in all haste he sent downe gyuyng strayte commaundement yt they shuld cease of yt ryot. 1597 W. Shakespeare iv. i. 56 Stan. I in all hast was sent. Duch. And I in all vnwillingnes will go. View more context for this quotation 1608 R. Johnson i. xv. 160 Therevpon he stepped to the Orchard doore, and with all expedition locked it. 1665 A. Marvell Let. 2 Nov. in (1971) II. 41 I..beseech God to continue you in all health and well fare. 1728 11 Jan. 12 Orders were come there for fitting out, with all Expedition, some Men of War and two Bomb Galliots. 1778 F. Burney III. xviii. 207 If either of you have any inclination to pull caps for the title of Miss Belmont, you must do it with all speed. 1858 T. Carlyle II. ix. vi. 460 Gazetteers, who would earn their wages..had to watch with all eagerness the movements of King August. 1879 258 A weasel..makes all speed into the fern. 1909 99/1 He dashes home with all speed, and in a trice plunges head-foremost down the mouth of his capacious friend. 1989 R. Horrox (1999) iii. 150 Four days later Richard ordered 2000 Welsh bills to be sent to him in all haste. e. With a noun denoting a period of time, or an event, activity, etc., which has a finite duration: the whole duration or period of. Usually forming a noun phrase used as the adverbial component of a clause. Frequently (usually colloquial) used hyperbolically denoting an inordinately long or excessive period of time, esp. in to be (also take) all day, not to have all day, etc. OE (1932) lv. 9 Ic ealne dæg ecne drihten wordum weorðige. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 1104 He wass all daȝȝ Vnnclene anan till efenn. a1350 in G. L. Brook (1968) 50 For hire loue al nyht ich wake; for hire loue mournyng y make more þen eny mon. c1400 (?c1380) (1920) l. 779 In longyng al nyȝt he lengeȝ. 1535 Judges xix. 13 Tarye at Gibea or at Ramah allnight. 1581 N. Woodes iv. i. sig. Fiiv Let him go Hypocrisie, stand not all day dodging. 1600 A. Munday et al. sig. F2 Sirrha, no more adoe, come, come, giue me the mony you have, dispatch, I cannot stand all day. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. i. 90 Nay, Ile fit you, And not be all day neither. View more context for this quotation 1706 S. Centlivre v. 59 Come, come, Sir, we cann't wait all Day. 1719 D. Defoe 82 It rain'd all Night and all Day,..during which time the Ship broke in Pieces. 1770 I. Bickerstaff ii. i. 39 Beat.: Lazarillo, I say, will you be all day? Laz.: Coming, Mrs. Beatrice, coming. 1775 J. Nourse in (1925) 19 351 Water enough for Cattle may be kept all year here for pasture grounds. 1846 R. C. Trench Prelim. Ess. ii. 11 This speaking is diffused over all time. 1865 ‘L. Carroll’ ix. 142 Drive on, old fellow! Don't be all day about it! 1865 C. Dickens I. ii. xii. 271 Ain't you got nothing to do but..stand a Poll Parroting all night? 1894 J. B. Salmond (rev. ed.) 93 But a' forenicht I hard Sandy wirrin' awa' till himsel'. 1907 E. M. Forster iv. 63 He muddles all day with poetry and old dead people, and then tries to bring it into life. 1958 J. Yaffe 63 You know, I haven't got all morning, I've got a business to get to. 1983 T. Pratchett 135 It is allowable to issue a challenge by proxy... It shows intelligence. Don't take all day about it. 1985 (Nexis) 1 Apr. He used his slice serve to advantage on the slippery and low bouncing centre court and returned very well all match. 1992 J. Torrington xxix. 260 ‘For any favour, do hurry along,’ she commanded, ‘We haven't got all day.’ 2006 Dec. 190/2 Passionate Mars in your ‘sex’ zone all month. You'll be a total man-magnet and at the top of everyone's guest list. OE Acct. Voy. Ohthere & Wulfstan in tr. Orosius (Tiber.) (1980) i. i. 16 Ealle ða hwile he sceal seglian be lande. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 3192 Moni bisi kempen, Þeo fihten wið þone duke al þene dæi longe. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 671 And songen al the roundel lustily. c1425 in E. Edwards (1866) 158 I wole that my men..dele hem of my good al the whyle they on lyve ben. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine f. cccixv/2 For to adaunte & subdue my prowde flesshe I rose at mydnyght alle the weke long. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart I. ciii. 124 They helde the Englysshe archers well aworke all the day. 1597 W. Shakespeare iii. ii. 170 You haue but mistooke me al this while. View more context for this quotation 1622 F. Bacon 106 The King..kept Triumphes of Iusting and Tourney during all that Moneth. 1676 G. Etherege i. i. 2 They're ever poaching after Whores all the Morning. 1720 W. R. Chetwood i. 64 It shak'd its Tail to and fro..all the while it felt the Water. 1768 J. Wesley 28 Mar. (1931) V. 358 Possibly some may be in the favour of God, and yet go mourning all the day long. 1824 L. L. Cameron (new ed.) ii. 12 On Sunday morning he looked so clean..that nobody would have thought he had been driving a jenny-carriage all the week. c1860 Chaise in (March's Penny Libr.) Come Jenny, don't be all the day. 1934 A. L. Rowse 5 Mar. (2003) 81 All that weekend I was in a dazed condition, not knowing what to do with myself. 1974 A. Pierrepoint i. 24 We spent all the day at the Crystal Palace in peace and quiet. 2000 17 Jan. 38/3 (heading) All this week at 8 p.m., the History Channel presents ‘History's Mysteries: Conspiracy Theories’. 2008 C. Gleason xii. 157 Now, spit it out, my lady's not got all the day to wait for ye to figger out what t'say. ?a1160 (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1137 Hi..brendon alle the tunes, ðat wel þu myhtes faren al a dæis fare, sculdest thu neure finden man in tune sittende. c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) 60 in C. Horstmann (1887) 221 (MED) Here ȝe habbez al a ȝer meteles i-beo. a1375 (c1350) (1867) l. 2215 (MED) Þei trauailed al a niȝt. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) (1996) i. 9230 Alle a seuenyght [a1450 Lamb. al a wyke] þe kyng þer lay, he spilte his tyme, sped of no pray. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 640 She wepeth, wayleth, al a day or two. a1425 (a1400) (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 3010 A malady..lastand alle a yhere. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart I. liv. 75 Ther was one [assault] endured al a day. 1534 J. Heywood sig. Aiv Ye Stood in colde water all a day to the kne And I halfe the same day to myd leg in the fyer. 1610 G. Markham lxix. 334 Rope his legge all a day with wet hay-ropes, and hee will be sound. 1667 J. Milton i. 449 To lament his fate In amorous dittyes all a Summers day. View more context for this quotation a1718 T. Parnell (1758) 273 Where Wretched Love endur'd a world of woe, For all a Winter's length of night below. a1763 W. Shenstone (1764) II. 282 He that lies a-bed all a summer's morning, loses the chief pleasure of the day. 1837 E. Webbe Let. in (1862) 324 I must say I have found many things more pleasant than dabbling all a summer's evening in one's own lifeblood. 1853 M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in (new ed.) 207 Children..Have known thee watching, all an April day. 1903 M. Dods et al. VI. 795/2 We might impose upon ourselves the penance of being shut up all a winter's night with a corpse. 1915 R. Le Gallienne 119 Each petal fleeting as a wing, All a May morning blows and blows. 2006 J. T. Kirby 146 He and his two local guides traveled all a July day on foot. f. With an anaphoric pronoun, as it, this, that. OE (Julius) (1994) 41 Eall hit wæs heom uncuð, ac hit wæs Gode ful cuð. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 49 (MED) Her uppon heo þencheð muchele mare þen uppon godalmihtin, þe al þis heom haueð isend. a1350 Holy Cross (Ashm.) 5 in R. Morris (1871) 18 Al [h]it com of one more. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) (1996) ii. 5163 Edenburgh..he asked quite, & his sonne Alisandere for ostage ȝeld him tite. Bot þe Kyng William alle þis ageynsaid. a1500 (a1460) (1994) I. xxx. 411 With thare hemmyd shoyn; All this must be done. 1533 T. More ii. xxi. f. clxiiiiv What is hys owne irrefragable reason that he layth agaynst all this? 1600 T. Dekker sig. D3 Wel maister, al this is from the bias, do you remember the ship. 1655 T. Fuller iv. 197 All this would not ingratiate this Usurper with them. 1741 S. Richardson III. xxi. 123 Ads-dines, Madam, said he, what of all that! 1773 O. Goldsmith v. 97 And is it to you, you graceless varlet, I owe all this. 1830 28 247 All this is by the way. 1855 T. B. Macaulay III. 323 He and he alone has done all this. 1924 A. D. Sedgwick i. vii. 69 It was strange to her, as she spoke, to feel how deeply she knew all this about Giles. 1992 23 Aug. b6/5 They lost all that. OE 58 Ic þæt eall beheold. OE (1992) xv. 255 Wa ðam mannum þonne þe geþeodeð hus to huse & land to lande, for þan hit eall mid fyre forbærneð & he sylf mid forwyrðeð! c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1940) 434 Heo hit al weldeð. c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham (1902) 57 Þe fend hyt was þat schente hyt al Myd gyle and hys abette. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) l. 354 Ȝyf you yn swerd, oþer yn bacyn, Any chylde madyst loke þeryn..or yn cristal,—wycchecraft men clepyn hyt al [MS alle]. 1568 W. Dunbar in W. T. Ritchie (1928) II. 146 Keip this all secreit gentill brothir. 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster i. sig. Bv And you will stay till to morrow you shall haue it all in new soueraignes. 1666 Earl of Arlington 11 Jan. (1701) I. 53 He tells me he answered it all in his own hand; of which he hath told me the effect. 1719 D. Defoe 136 My Crop promis'd very well, when on a sudden I found I was in Danger of losing it all again. 1754 W. Dodd II. vii. 190 Think of the excess of my passion for you—oh lay it all to your heart. 1842 J. F. Cooper II. i. 10 The Queen of the Fleet—our Lady Admiraless, had it all to herself. 1891 12 Sept. 415 You will not get it all in the study-halls and in the class-halls. 1922 ‘K. Mansfield’ 14 Oct. (1954) 334 This all sounds very strenuous and serious. 1992 14 Aug. 4/7 We took in this man and gave him a chance. He threw it all back in our faces. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 4046 Hit wes al isomned and [read at] þere sereuunge. 1340 (1866) 190 He ne hedde bote þri pans, uor say[n]t germayn hit hedde al yeue to pouren. c1400 (?c1380) (1920) 1545 Ay biholdand þe honde til hit hade al graven And rasped on þe roȝ woȝe runisch sauez. 1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede iv. ix. f. 122v It might al be perboyled out by the fire of long tribulation. 1598 W. Shakespeare iii. iii. 156 Theres no roome for faith, trueth, nor honestie, in this bosome of thine. It is all fild vp with guttes and midriffe. View more context for this quotation 1605 J. Rosier sig. D3v And surely it did all resemble a stately Parke, wherein appeare some old trees with high withered tops, and other flourishing with living greene boughs. 1606 T. Dekker iv. sig. E3 It is all sluttishly ouergrowne with Mosse on the out-side. 1652 W. Blith xxxvi. 234 It may be..beflaked or flayed that it may all go one way. 1700 W. Congreve V. i. 74 If it must all come out, why let 'em know it. 1726 I. Newton Let. 25 June in (1977) VII. 349 There are now come into the Mint, 134 journey of gold and it will all be coined into money by Wednesday next. 1782 F. Burney IV. vii. ii. 30 This is all vastly true; but I have no time to hear any more of it just now. 1813 J. Austen I. v. 38 It may all come to nothing. 1851 E. E. Stuart Let. 27 Dec. in R. Stuart et al. (1961) I. 248 It will all eventuate most to the glory of God. 1872 T. Wright I. i. vii. 188 There was not wanting a number of the after-the-event school of prophets, who..had ‘known what it would all come to’, and had ‘told you so’. 1913 D. H. Lawrence xi. 280 It would all come right if they tried. 1979 A. Ayckbourn ii. i. 54 It was all rather pathetic. 2009 V. Coren ix. 118 It will all raise money for an important charity! Purrfect. 1825 T. D. Lauder I. vi. 115 ‘This is all the home the poor soul has now,’ said one of the men, whose appearance and accent bespoke him an Irish labourer. 1829 W. Kinkade ix. 141 It is not probable that they could understand him to mean any other covenant than the one made at Horeb, because it was all the one that existed between them and the Lord, and they knew of no other. 1879 Apr. 179/2 This is all the coat I have in the world, and I thank God for it. 1911 H. K. Job 91 That's all the car there is, except one for colored people. The rest of the train is freight cars. 1976 4 Mar. 4/2 He is all the man I'll ever need in my lifetime. 2009 C. Orzel viii. 167 One of you is all the dog we need. 2. With a plural noun, a plural personal or anaphoric pronoun, or a noun phrase or collective noun with plural agreement. The whole number of individual components or instances of, without exception; the entire number of. Almost never denoting two components or instances, for which both is normally used, but cf. all both, all two at Phrases 7b. In adverbial use often denoting two competitors in sporting contexts: see sense C. 10. a. OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius (Vitell.) (1984) clxvii. 210 Wið ealle wundela genim þas wyrte zamalentition. ?a1160 (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1135 Þa þestrede þe dæi ouer al landes. a1250 (?c1200) (Titus) (1940) 36 Ha..is as in syon þe hehe tur of hevene, freo ouer alle fram alle worldliche weanen. c1275 (?c1250) (Calig.) (1935) l. 431 (MED) Wanne snov liþ þicke & wide An alle wiȝtes habbeþ sorȝe, Þu singest from eue fort amorȝe. a1375 (c1350) (1867) l. 857 Wanne..meliors miȝt se his face, sche þout..þat leuer hire were haue welt him at wille þan of þe world be quene; so fair of alle fetures þe frek was. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 444 All people sholde be at his castell the fifth day aftir. a1568 R. Ascham (1570) ii. f. 46v Marke all aiges. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten i. xxix. 54/1 In all places of India, where the Portingales inhabite. 1604 W. Tooker 13 All trees are not of one growth or proceritie. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. iv. 9 A man, who is th'abstracts of all faults, That all men follow. View more context for this quotation 1687 R. L'Estrange 37 So Comprehensional a Charity, that All Christians..may go to Heaven, Hand in Hand. 1709 R. Steele No. 57. ⁋2 All Mankind are indifferently liable to adverse Strokes of Fortune. 1742 E. Young 19 All men think all men Mortal, but themselves. 1786 J. H. Tooke ii. 57 The right use, significancy, and force of all words except the names of Ideas. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. p. xiv All plants that bear flowers have spiral vessels, and are therefore Vascular. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato (ed. 2) IV. 30 Pleasure the most fleeting of all things. 1907 4 May 672/1 Nearly all Englishmen are either Shakesperians or Miltonians... Each represents something in the make-up of England. 1979 ‘A. Blaisdell’ iii. 49 He reflected that even detectives come in all shapes and sizes. 1995 17 Jan. 18/7 The enormous satisfaction reported by virtually all women following breast enlargement. OE Ælfric (Julius) (1881) I. 18 Ealle þing þe æfre wæron oððe nu synd oþþe ða þe towearde synd, ealle hi synd on godes gesihðe anwearde. OE Wulfstan (Junius) 138 Ealle we habbað ænne heofonlicne fæder and ane gastlice modor, seo is ęcclesia genamod, þæt is Godes cyrce. a1225 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Lamb.) 174 in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 171 Alle hi sculen cumen þider. a1382 (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. liii. 6 Alle wee as shep erreden [1611 King James Alle we like sheepe haue gone astray]. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) III. 1196 All they were arayed in whyght velvet. 1496 (de Worde) sig. Evi All you the whiche are faythfull soules and byleue the promysse of god. 1546 J. Bale Pref. sig. ♣iiijv I answere them, that all they are of no soche autoryte. 1560 Isa. xxiii. 9 To bring to contempt [1611 into contempt] all them that be glorious in the earth. 1605 A. Munday tr. G. Affinati xxv. 275 All we are brethren, trauailing from this earth to heauen. 1645 Narr. State of Bristoll in Prince Rupert 7 His Highnesse having made all possible preparations, consulted with all us, the Colonels of Posts, for our opinion concerning the tenablenesse of the Line. 1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller iii. iii. 146 So will he, falling, draw down..All us, who're fix'd and mortic'd to his fortune. 1809 R. Adam I. 258 All they who have performed it [sc. the hajj], are confident that they are absolved from all sin. 1866 A. C. Swinburne Litany in 17 I will scatter all them that have sinned. 1907 H. Pyle vi. iii. 301 All they who had thus come forth from the town looked with great curiosity upon the Lady Elaine and the Lady Lesolie. 1909 May 832/2 All them are dead and gone. 1993 July 28/3 They probably would have won awards, although not all them were strategically on-target. 2001 N. Hornby vii. 108 I'm like one of those American comic-book guys. Spiderman and all them. OE Ælfric (Julius) (1881) I. 10 Hi [sc. the Trinity] ne synd na þreo anginnu, ac hi ealle þry [c1175 Bodl. 343 heo alle þreo] synden an angin. OE Ælfric (Julius) (1881) I. 242 Hi þa ealle feowertig ætforan him stodon. c1325 in T. Wright (1842) 105 Alle thre shule ben aleyd, with huere foule crokes. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) f. 53 To godhed goþ þre & god is alle þre. 1490 W. Caxton tr. (1885) ix. 222 Bayarde, whiche shall maye bere vs all four at a nede. 1558 in A. Feuillerat (1908) 17 He will..make waiste, sucke the Quene, or pynche the poore or all thre. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny I. xvi. xxxvii. 485 The third that is smallest of all three, is the French Willow. 1678 T. D'Urfey iv. i. 39 The Sisters of St. Albans—what all five?—ha, ha, that Boy, that's my own Boy. 1787 Chron. 183/2 They were all five in Spanish dresses..of white crape spangled with gold. 1869 R. Browning IV. xii. 209 All five, to-day, have suffered death. 1940 Feb. 7/1 This school won all eight of its games. 2007 7 Oct. 82/1 All three immediately agreed. OE Homily: De Temporibus Anticristi (Corpus Cambr. 419) in A. S. Napier (1883) 197 He ahefð hine sylfne ofer ealle, þa ðe hæðene men cwædon, þæt godas beon sceoldan... Ofer ealle þas he hine ænne up ahefð. c1325 (c1300) (Calig. A.xi) (1887) l. 9204 Alle þes were aȝen þe kinge as veruorþ [v.r. verþuorþ] as hii couþe. a1400 tr. Lanfranc (Ashm.) (1894) 183 Pulueris pigre, turbit electi..pulpe coloquintide..grynde all þese & sarce hem. c1500 (?a1475) (1896) l. 1583 (MED) Behynde all these was worshipfull Beede. ?1521 A. Barclay sig. Bv If thou haue all these, thou mayst grathly carpe. 1581 W. Blandie f. 26v All these are through long triall and experience ripe, most fitt to doe their countrye seruice. 1663 E. Waterhouse xxxii. 416 Pellican sayes, the Ramification of his testicles is purposely expressed to set forth his invincible strength above all creature's. 1671 J. Milton ii. 376 All these are Spirits of Air, and Woods, and Springs. 1702 I. iv. 285 All those..who were sent for, appeared punctually at the hour that was assigned them. 1778 Aug. 430/1 Granting the English to be..a copious, nervous, and sometimes a soft and beautiful language, yet it is too often the very reverse of all these. 1846 A. H. A. Hervey I. xv. 186 Each man's trunk or portmanteau was put down;..and the weight of each article, carefully noted. All mine were correct. 1886 20 Feb. 246/1 All these are desirable, and should be sought after and prized. 1929 A. Huxley 9 May (1969) 311 Now..I can write a letter. It will be a poor return for all yours, because I am not one of nature's letter-writers. 1961 M. Costin & D. Phipps v. 43 All these, plus the single transverse torsion bar and the telescopic dampers, pick up on the rear bulkhead of the monocoque. 2001 22 Oct. (Sports Daily section) s8/1 It was the classic game of two halves..as London Irish scored all their points in the first half and Gloucester all theirs in the second. OE Ælfric (Royal) (1997) i. 180 Þa wearð he & ealle [a1225 Vesp. A.xxii halle] his geferan forcuþran & wyrsan þonne ænig oðer gesceaft. OE (Corpus Cambr.) xxvi. 35 Gelice þam cwædon ealle ða oþre leorningcnihtas. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) 5093 Luces þe king..lond þer-to leide & sette þer-on Godes frið & freoden alle þe chirchen. ?a1300 (Bodl.) (1916) l. 418 (MED) Alle þese ten breþren turneþ hem aȝein Mid reuþfule wepe & mid dreri drem. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland (Vernon) (1867) A. Prol. l. 55 (MED) I Font þere Freres, all þe Foure Ordres. a1450 (Richardson 44) (1884) 13 He..loueth hir chastite a monge alle þe virgyns in erthe. c1500 (?a1475) (1896) l. 706 (MED) All these pety capteyns folowyd by & by..Idolatres, enchauntours, with false renegates. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay xxxiii. 623 We would impute al those interruptions and chaunges, to the nature of nature it self. 1655 T. Stanley I. iii. 91 He form'd a Law, which all the old men follow'd. 1671 (Royal Soc.) 5 2100 All mine being of a late Hatch, and none of them yet turned into Nympha's (which is the word of Art for the Aurelia of a Bee). a1706 Earl of Dorset in Earl of Rochester et al. (1718) 61 To all you Ladies now on Land..with a Fa, la, la, la, la. 1741 Apr. 214/2 My ballad..is of a sprightly most whimsical rattle, Who excels all us women in mirth, and in tattle. 1849 T. B. Macaulay I. 171 They had watched all his motions, and lectured him on all his youthful follies. 1886 W. J. Tucker 198 The numberless Jewish equipages with all those insolent-looking Hebrew women of the Leopoldstadt. 1913 Mar. 358/1 Keep enclosed all your chicks not poisoned. 1960 16 July 51 When you have discovered all seven answers, list them neatly on a postcard. 2002 D. Hemans 33 All them criminals they have down here lock up in jail doing nothin' but just eatin' food and gettin' fat. 2006 June 35/2 All the cards, apart from one, are from the suits of Pentacles and Cups. c. Immediately following the noun or pronoun. eOE (Parker) anno 878 He gerad to Ecgbryhtes stane.., & him to coman þær ongen Sumorsæte alle & Wilsætan. a1400 (a1325) (Gött.) 11781 If he no war god of might, vr goddes alle had standen up right. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil (1959) viii. x. l. 18 Duke Tharcon and the Tuscanys maste and lest Not fer from thens..Thar palȝeonys all had plantyt. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxvi. 39 in (1998) II. 187 Thy people all beholding: Who deere their deaths dost weigh. 1610 H. Broughton (new ed.) xiii. 179 Scholars all should haue a voice in Bishopps proceedings. 1642 4 By the prevailing power of God, and the stratagems of their hand-Granadoes, the Rebells all were fired in the Castle. 1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan v. 1029 If some rushing Storm the Journey cross, The wingy Leaders all are at a loss. 1782 W. Cowper 114 The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all. 1815 W. Burney To cheer, to salute a ship en passant, by the people all coming upon deck and huzzaing three times, called three cheers. 1868 Feb. 149/1 Her servants all were in livery, from the big-breasted butler down to the ebon page. 1915 F. H. Burnett vi. 60 The Squad all began to jabber at once. 1928 39 The others all Were giggling blond bathingbelles. 2002 26 July 18/1 The panellists all head to the Green Room for refreshments and mutual back slapping. OE (1992) xi. 225 Se God us to ðam gefultumige þe ofer us ealle liofað & rixað. OE Ælfric (Royal) (1997) vii. 239 He bið heononforþ undeadlic swa swa we ealle beoð æfter þam gemænelicum æriste. OE St. Euphrosyne (Julius) in W. W. Skeat (1900) II. 338 Singað ge ealle..on anre cyrcan, and fæstað ge ealle gelice [L. omnes in ecclesia vestra psallitis, et æqualiter jejunatis?]? a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 125 (MED) Ure drihten and ure alesend iunne us allen þet we swa on þisse liue maȝen his hest and his biboden halden. a1275 in C. Brown (1932) 25 (MED) He bringet us alle in-to is blis superni; he hauet i-dut þe foule put inferni. a1300 (?c1175) Poema Morale (McClean) l. 311 in (1907) 30 236 (MED) Go we alle in þilke paþ, & he us wule bringe..biuore þe heuenkinge. c1300 (Laud) (1868) l. 2587 (MED) Yif he regne þus-gate longe, He Moun us alle ouer-gange. c1480 (a1400) St. Machor l. 1186 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) II. 34 Lowe we all god, my breþir dere, þat has ws send a gud gestenere. 1546 J. Heywood ii. ix. sig. Lii Euery man for hym selfe, and god for vs all. 1557 T. More (1641) 15 The place that they al preach of. 1611 (new ed.) i. sig. E4 We all are vndone, And brought to discredence. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. ii. 60 The best Courtier of them all..could neuer haue brought her to such a Canarie. View more context for this quotation 1688 A. Behn 99 They all, with one Accord, assur'd him, they cou'd not suffer enough, when it was for his Repose and Safety. 1709 No. 4521/2 We all bore down to secure what Merchant ships we could. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iv, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge 22 And they all dead did lie! 1815 ‘J. Mathers’ II. xi. 237 Not a man of them all will come within an acre's length of you. 1828 1 632/1 There are men, we all know, who would kill, but not butcher. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ xxii. 192 They all come riding in..looking just like a gang of real sure-enough queens. 1924 R. Kipling (1926) 166 'E 'ad us all screened in over in a cuttin' on a little spur-line. 1995 16 Dec. 5/1 This, they all agreed, was a red letter day in Euroland. OE (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1050 Heom com þa strang wind to, swa þæt hi wæron ealle forfarene buton feower. lOE (Laud) anno 1085 Hi wæron ealle þæs cynges clerecas. c1300 (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 1081 (MED) Tho other men were alle aslepe..He ros him up and bihuld on than ymage anheȝ. c1325 (c1300) (Calig. A.xi) (1887) l. 527 Þe geans were alle aslawe þat þer ne bileuede na mo. c1380 (1879) l. 2026 Þay in-to hure chambre come..Wan þay weren alle yn y-paste..Florippe het schitte þe dore. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre (1894) I. lf. 50v They of the counceyll were all of the oppynyon that Iupiter shold goo in to Crete. 1542 T. Becon lv. sig. T.iij Let vs praye for..the inhabitantes of this Realme of Englond, that they maye all beare a faythfull harte bothe towarde God and oure kynge. ?1562 sig. C.iiii Seinge we be mortall all Let not our wroth be immortall. 1616 T. Adams i. 16 They were all lifting at a feather, and could not stirre it. 1675 P. Bellon v. iv. 59 Though distinct Couples, we can all agree. 1696 T. Brookhouse 8 The whole Race of Mankind are All concluded under Death. 1719 D. Defoe 55 If we had kept on board, we had been all safe. 1738 J. Swift ii. 182 My lord, we must all die. 1768 26/2 You ought all, gentlemen, to consider the melancholy circumstances which you have drawn upon us. 1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in 88 They are all here to-night. 1890 M. Oliphant III. iii. 42 The windows were all closed and curtained shutting out the lingering light of day. 1918 F. A. Swinnerton i. xiii. 198 Ach! They're all alike. All these Hughes girls. 1962 T. G. Hiebert (ed. 4) ii. ix. 168 [The] combination stimulates further production of antibodies with this structure, even after the antigens have all been destroyed. 1994 16 June 32/1 The heart, soul and breathtaking guitar technique were all Clapton's. 2002 13 Mar. (T2 section) 28/2 The rescue team are all volunteers. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > not specified > of every kind > each or every OE 115 Þa he [sc. the world] ærest gesceapen wæs, þa wæs he ealre fægernesse full. OE Ælfric (Claud.) vii. 8 Eac swylce ða nytenu of eallum cynne & eallum fugolcynne comon to Noe in to ðam arce. c1175 ( Ælfric Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine (1993) 68 Heo sona wurdon hale fram al untrumnesse for his scæde repunge. 1340 (1866) 17 To huam alle triacle went in to venym. a1375 (c1350) (1867) l. 1605 (MED) Plente of alle purueaunce. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cii. 994 [Mirra] helpeþ aȝeins alle cause rewmatyk [MS flewmatyk; L. omnes causas reumaticas]. c1480 (a1400) St. Machor l. 344 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) II. 10 Of alman but offens. 1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen sig. Ciii He luffis thayme notht as hime self in al maner. 1556 W. Lauder sig. A4v Ȝour..dewtie..That ȝe aucht tyll all Creature. 1558 Q. Kennedy xviii. sig. Hvi Lat all christiane man (quhilk is in dout) haue refuge to the iuge. 1658 R. Brathwait Age of Apes in 171 Observations of all sort. 1768 4 July 3/2 (advt.) Jams and Hearth Pieces of all Kind. 1886 W. Newton 8 Posh..money of all kind. 1898 W. J. Knowles in I. 38/2 [Ulster] Is that generally believed?—It is, by a' man. 1943 L. Lenski xi. 164 Plenty animal come too—deer, muskrat, coon, opossum,..all kind. 1973 M. P. Jones 125 They were there already, all man jack with a paint brush, painting hell out of the front wall. 1994 I. J. Boodhoo 29 Man, everybody left every kind of work: teachin', clerkin', burnin' coals. All man goin' for dollars. 2010 M. Warshaw ii. 76/1 Trophies and championships—the staff of life to sportsmen of all kind. the world > relative properties > quantity > [adjective] > some or any eOE tr. Bede (Tanner) iv. xxv. 348 Þa frægn he hwæþer heo ealle smolt mod & buton eallum incan bliðe [L. placidum erga se animum et sine querela controuersiae ac rancoris] to him hæfdon. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 746 He ansuerede..þat he ne kepte bote hire [sc. Cordelia] one wiþ oute alle oþer þinge. a1382 (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xxii. 28 Whether [is he] a vessel withoute al voluptuouste [L. absque omni voluptate]? 1535 Heb. vii. B Now is it so without all naysayenge that the lesse receaueth blessynge of ye better. 1565 in J. H. Burton (1877) 1st Ser. I. 370 A thing sa far beyond all measour that [etc.]. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 51/1 in I Certaine garrisons of Romaine souldiers..whom they slewe downe right without al mercie. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. ii. 13 Things without all remedie Should be without regard. View more context for this quotation 1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden 75 The Carthaginians enjoyed the command of the Sea without all Controversie. 1710 G. Berkeley §10 An undoubted truth, which they can demonstrate beyond all exception. 1768 W. Blackstone III. 249 Upon this the bishop and the clerk usually disclaim all title. 1806 T. S. Surr III. i. 39 ‘This is Francis's writing beyond all question,’ said the signora. 1847 H. W. Longfellow i. iii. 10 Without all guile or Suspicion..was he. 1855 T. B. Macaulay III. 382 He disclaimed all intention of attacking the memory of Lord Russell. 1907 16 176 Thus it was that the duke was passed over as a candidate until he should renounce all intention upon Hanover. 1958 ‘C. Fremlin’ i. 7 Soon he would be yelling beyond all hope of control. 1992 16 Aug. iv. 3/2 Republican eagerness to disclaim all responsibility for growing inequality. 2009 ‘R. Keeland’ tr. S. Larsson xviii. 303 It proved beyond all doubt that Salander had done a hostile takeover—her term—of his computer. ?c1335 in W. Heuser (1904) 109 Maid bere heuen King Þat is al ure creatoure. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 9709 Wit-vten vr al [a1400 Gött. all vre] comun a-sent. 1459 (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1459 §32. m. 11 Youre said oratour shall daily pray to preserve and kepe youre highnes..long to reigne and endure to his pleaser, and oure all comfort. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 1083 You..ar all oure ledar and all oure worship. 1548 T. Cranmer (new ed.) f. clxviii A most assured trust in God (who is all oure father) that we shall lacke nothinge. 1643 W. Slatyer iv. v. 547 Of all our Father we aske all our bread. 1682 J. Bunyan 40 It should be all our wisdoms and care, to nip the head of all such rumors as shall tend to trouble our people. View more context for this quotation 1865 M. Oliphant III. xv. 226 It's all our duties to save the master. 1874 A. C. Swinburne ii. i Mine and all their free and sovereign king. 1979 D. Mitchell i. 2 Nature, who is all our mother, is not easily predicted. 1986 W. W. Katz 150 She is your mother, Thorny! She is all our mothers! And in the end she abandons us all. 2006 P. L. Gaus xxix. 186 It's all our faults, Andy. Yours, mine, everyone's. B. pron. and n. I. As a pronoun. See also senses A. 1f, A. 2c, and A. 2d, examples of which are sometimes interpreted as appositional or postpositional uses of the pronoun. 1. eOE (Parker) anno 827 Þy ilcan geare geeode Ecgbryht cyning Miercna rice & al þæt be suþan Humbre wæs. eOE (Parker) anno 874 He gearo wære mid him selfum & on allum þam þe him læstan woldon to þæs heres þearfe. OE cxv. 12 Quid retribuam domino pro omnibus quę retribuit mihi : hwæt ic selle drihtne for eallum hwæt he sealde me [OE Royal eallum ðe he sealde me]. lOE (Laud) anno 1104 Ealle þe hit gesawon wundredon. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 5531 Þe feorþe ȝife off haliȝ gast iss strenncþe..to þannkenn innwarrdliȝ drihhtin all þatt he senndeþþ. ?a1300 Fox & Wolf l. 224 in G. H. McKnight (1913) 34 (MED) Al þat þou hauest her bifore I-do, In þohut, in speche..In euche oþeres kunnes quede, Ich þe forȝeue. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 11722 Þai fell in suun al þat þar war. a1500 (a1460) (1994) I. xiv. 172 Lord, it is sothe all that we say. 1531 W. Tyndale 15 All that lyue in ignoraunce are called darknesse. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay i. 9 Yee Rivers, and all that euer is. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. ii. 35 To haue his pompe, and all what state compounds. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton ix. 569 To tell thee all What thou commandst. View more context for this quotation 1702 I. ii. 124 Three of the Commissioners..were all inspir'd by the Scots, and liked well all that they pretended to desire. 1790 E. Burke 44 To derive all we possess as an inheritance from our forefathers. View more context for this quotation a1834 S. T. Coleridge (1836) I. 136 Is there some one humorific point common to all that can be called humourous? 1850 Ld. Tennyson xxiii. 40 And all we met was fair and good, And all was good that Time could bring. View more context for this quotation 1884 M. S. Bell II. iii. 133 All that we spoke to were civil and respectful. 1925 O. R. Cohen iii. 78 An' that's all what you says? 1953 84 All that we have..are certain asterisked allophones. 2006 F. Chalk (2009) 30 I cannot hear all that they are shouting. 1605 A. Munday tr. G. Affinati Ep. Ded. sig. A2 And if the world giue me good words, tis all I aske of it. 1690 J. Locke i. iv. 30 This is all could be inferr'd from the Notion of a God. 1826 T. Wilson Pitman's Pay i, in Oct. 465 For she gets a' her heart can wish In strang-lyced tea and singin' hinnies. 1859 May 849/2 A little portmanteau, a spyglass, a passport, a note-book, and perhaps a buffet de poche, are all we need. 1879 M. E. Braddon xxxviii That's a kind of thing we never tell. We got the straight tip; that's all you need know. 1915 V. Woolf xv. 235 All I ask is to be left alone to moulder away in solitude. 1928 R. Langer tr. S. Zweig i. i. 30 Mosca. I'll go with you. Corvino. That's all I need, you good-for-nothing! 1953 J. Strachey tr. S. Freud Interpr. Dreams in V. 528 All that we can ever get rid of are purposive ideas that are known to us. 1985 J. Adams x. 82 That's all you need, messing around with some cokehead's woman. 2007 J. Baggini iv. 114 All she was saying was that she was grateful to have the option to do something else. 2. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > the generality > everything eOE tr. Bede (Tanner) i. xvi. 80 Eall bið clæne clænum [L. omnia munda mundis]: þæm besmitenum & ungeleafsumum noht bið clæne. eOE tr. Bede (Tanner) ii. xii. 142 Se mon wæs þurh eall [L. per omnia] se cristenesta & se gelæredesta. OE Ælfric (Julius) (1881) I. 18 God is æghwær eall. OE Ælfric (Julius) (1900) II. 130 Man ahrærde cyrcan on his rice geond eall. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) 19887 All iss sett i cristess dom Þatt æfre iss don onn erþe. a1250 Wohunge ure Lauerd in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 271 (MED) Al is tin, mi sweting, and al þu wilt ȝiue me ȝif i þe riht luuie. c1330 (?c1300) (Auch.) l. 2269 (MED) Al is pes þar ichaue went, Saue in þe lond of Dabilent. c1400 J. Gower (1901) II. 489 Here fame abit, bot al is vanite. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 388 But in God is all. 1533 J. Heywood sig. Ciiv For spryngynge and plumpyng..corne yet muste ye haue water or all is forlorne. 1589 J. Lyly sig. B4 Alls as it is taken; marie the diuell take al. 1646 H. Lawrence 125 Love hath given all in grosse, and therefore can reteyne nothing in retayle. 1667 J. Milton i. 106 What though the field be lost? All is not lost. 1713 J. Addison ii. i Something whispers me All is not right. 1785 G. Crabbe 15 Something to all men, and to some men all. 1814 Intrigues of Day i. i, in I. 76 That may soon be washed away. Only a little milk of roses, or violet soap, and all will be well. 1855 July 279/2 The Captain, as usual, was looking around to see that every body was ‘tucked in’ and all was right. 1931 V. Woolf 34 All here is false; all is meretricious. 1986 S. Penman (1991) (U.K. ed.) i. xxv. 349 It is a fair system,..fairer for younger sons than Norman primogeniture, which gives all to the eldest son. 2005 Z. Smith 233 All was good with the world. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 842 Thys ys all: I muste pray you to leane me youre hole armoure, for ye se that I am unarmed. 1616 B. Jonson Epicoene ii. iii. 49 in I Meere Essaists! a few loose sentences, and that's all. 1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal 186 He, at the sight of supper, wont to fall A yawning, gapes and gapes, and that is all. 1739 Ld. Chesterfield (1932) (modernized text) II. 398 He [sc. an ignorant man] can just be said to live, and that is all. 1774 L. Carter (1965) II. 915 What has this author done in this contest? Shot his bolt and that is all. 1836 F. Marryat Snarleyyow xxiv, in Nov. 231 Look out for squalls, that's all. 1836 C. Dickens 2nd Ser. 122 Now this was bad enough, occurring as it did three times a week on the average, but this was not all. 1897 R. Kipling x. 221 I'm not stuck on myself any just now—that's all. 1927 C. Porter (1983) 98 It's sex appeal, it's sex appeal, it's sex appeal, that's all. 1990 A. L. Kennedy 94 She'd known she was getting on a wee bit and splashed out, that was all. 2009 D. Nicholls (2010) vi. 124 It's just a silly, late-night programme, that's all. It's post-pub. 1609 B. Jonson i. v. sig. C1v No is your presence nothing, I shall want that, and wanting that, want all For that is all to me. View more context for this quotation 1721 E. Young ii. i. 20 What costs you Nothing, yet is All to him. 1852 Aug. 356 He finds his happiness in his very vices, and since temporal happiness is all, he concludes that he may as well have it in vice as in what this reformer would call virtue. 1898 June 257 When Ellen Terry is playful, one realises that the play is all to her—her shallow emotion is absorbed in the enjoyment of it. 1922 E. A. Guest 7 ‘All That Matters’ is dedicated to my wife who is all to me. 1973 10 Aug. 5/6 Jesus is all to me. 2004 M. Nathan (2005) 368 In a world where speed has overtaken sense, where money is all and where feeding one's soul has become the last priority. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > the generality > everyone OE (Corpus Cambr.) xiii. 37 Soðlice þæt ic eow secge eallum [c1200 Hatton eallen, OE Lindisf. allum], ic hit secge, waciað. OE (1932) lii. 3 Þa of heofenum beseah halig drihten ofer manna bearn, hwæðer his mihta ða andgyt ænig ealra hæfde. ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 47 Þes þe god seolf seide bi þis deorewurðe saȝe king & prophete icured of alle. c1300 (Laud) (1868) 427 (MED) Haue he þe malisun to-day Of alle þat eure speken may! c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Eph. iv. 6 O God and fadir of alle, the which is aboue alle men, and by alle thingis, and in vs alle. c1475 Gregory's Chron. in J. Gairdner (1876) 230 Docter Ive..radde many fulle nobylle lessonnys to preve that Cryste was lorde of alle. 1488 (c1478) Hary (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 1339 Gret Iulius that tribut gat off aw, His wynnyng was in Scotland bot full smaw. 1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Prol. sig. B.viiiv The beneuolencie and wyllyng fauour of all. 1597 W. Shakespeare iii. ii. 156 Some poisoned by their wiues, some sleeping kild, All murthered. 1611 1 Tim. iv. 15 That thy profiting may appeare to all . View more context for this quotation 1684 J. Bunyan ii. 4 He..receiveth of the smiles and favours of him that is Judg of all . View more context for this quotation 1711 J. Addison No. 122. ¶2 Beloved and esteemed by all about him. 1721 E. Ward (1729) i. 29 Here all are welcome to repair Their aching Limbs or damag'd Ware. 1764 O. Goldsmith 5 Nature, a mother kind alike to all. 1812 S. Randall iv. 40 All must die!! 1889 Aug. 383/2 Where no one is pushed to the wall, or reduced to a seat and to silence, where all may move about at will. 1922 J. Joyce ii. 326 Bye bye all, says Martin. 1996 Feb. 104 (caption) Wide acceptance is given to all. 4. With of. A comparable partitive use with the genitive is found in Old English, but there is no continuity with the present use, which probably arose by association with none of, some of, etc.OE Ælfric Homily (Corpus Cambr. 188) in J. C. Pope (1967) I. 279 Eac þæra gedwolmanna..ealle heo oferswiðde mid soðum geleafan.] a1375 (c1350) (1867) l. 370 (MED) He so grette alle of his compers þat he knew. a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xi. 21 Alle of foulys þat gooþ on foure feet shal been abhomynable to ȝow. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in f. 119 Take summe or alle of þe colde herbis bifore rehersid of ech an handful. a1500 (?a1475) (Cambr. Ff.2.38) l. 1132 We hym all abowte sett; We slewe all of hys men, But hymselfe skapyd then. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay v. 55 Albeit that of the things which are in this world, some vnderstand, and some vnderstand not;..all of them are appoynted to some certeyne end. 1628 8 All of these trees were euen laden with fruit. 1654 J. Bramhall vii. 188 How their Kings..have all of them, in all ages, affronted and curbed the Roman Court. 1711 J. Addison No. 93. ¶1 We all of us complain of the Shortness of Time. 1778 J. Cook 8 Oct. (1967) III. i. 459 Some of them wear boots and all of them a kind of oval snouted Cap made of wood. 1813 J. Austen I. vii. 62 As it happens, they are all of them very clever. View more context for this quotation 1892 G. Saintsbury in June 107 Telegrams, postcards, correspondence-cards, letter-cards,—all of these things the truly good and wise detest. 1903 T. B. Aldrich (1904) 169 All of Herrick's geese were swans. 1983 19 June x. 26/6 Virtually all of the fares have contractural riders of one sort or another. 2011 9 Jan. 43/2 Eight or 10 loops were going on his laptop's screen all at once, all of them on mute until he clicked them on. the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > a great quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > so great a quantity or amount 1614 J. Cooke sig. E2 Yes this is the first game, but by the crosse of this siluer heere's all of fiue pounds. 1771 J. Shebbeare II. 137 That such it was, can be proved by all of twenty-two thousand persons, who are arrived to the age of giving a legal testimony. 1829 R. C. Sands (1834) II. 57 Miss Cross, who was all of six feet high. 1883 ‘M. Twain’ xviii. 220 It must have been all of fifteen minutes..of dull, homesick silence. 1944 ‘G. Graham’ i. iii. 65 He was all of thirty-three, solitary and unsure of himself. 1992 26 Mar. 3/1 He should later claim to have learnt this extremely difficult concerto on all of three hours' practice a day. 2004 S. Quigley (2005) 5 All of two miles he'd managed, two friggin' miles. 2010 5 Apr. 26/3 It took him all of 14 years. OE Ælfric Homily (Vitell. C.v) in J. C. Pope (1968) II. 567 Ða ferde he geond eall þære foresædan scire.] 1651 T. Hobbes iv. §14. 69 As the law of nature is all of it Divine, so the Law of Christ by conversion..is all of it also..the doctrine of Nature. 1686 R. Plot iv. 168 It being all of it good weatherstone, but not enduring the fire. 1718 J. Quincy 7 Of Turpentines, Gums, and all of that Tribe. 1808 A. Wilson I. 133 The House Wren inhabits the whole of the United States, in all of which it is migratory. 1858 E. H. Sears x. 81 The Sadducees held that all of human existence was bounded between birth and death. 1932 J. H. Frederick vii. 77 There were insufficient American vessels to handle all of the traffic. 1999 M. Pendergrast iv. xvii. 351 All of it was gone, along with his house, beneficio, and personal possessions. 1670 R. T. 4 Neither may we easily suppose..that of so great a number, all should be so ready witted, as to give their answers at a venture, and yet with so much cunning. 1770 J. Wesley 12 Apr. (1931) V. 188 If two or three letters have miscarried, all will not; so I am determined to write again. 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ II. l. 171 So nut-shelly had all books and subjects become, that all could be even cracked and devoured in infant schools! 1882 June 202/1 Even among first-rate tenors not all can easily compass this beautiful air. 1904 L. Steffens 68 They did these things that they planned—all and more. 1967 D. Baxter i. 33 She had ten dolls, all made in the images of ten different men. 2006 T. Anderson (2008) vi. 202 Most modern ships are fitted to the Canal's specifications, known in the industry as ‘Panamax dimensions’, but not all can pass. II. As a noun. 6. Usually with possessive. the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > a person's collective property or substance > the whole of one's property or possessions the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > the whole quantity, number, or amount > the whole lot > of one's possessions or interests 1340 (1866) 116 (MED) Þet is a grace þet bedeaweþ þe herte..and makeþ his al become grene and berþ ynoȝ frut of guode workes. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. v. 111 If of my Freedome 'tis the maine part, take No stricter render of me, then my All . View more context for this quotation 1628 O. Felltham xxxi. sig. O2v Hee shall not command the All of an honest man. 1681 H. Neville 235 Those matters..which concern our All. 1707 J. Addison 242 Our All is at stake. 1722 W. Wollaston viii. 157 When two persons throw their all into one stock as joint-traders for life. 1794 E. Burke (1844) IV. 221 We are, as I think, fighting for our all. 1846 R. C. Trench iii. 139 It was their all, and therefore, though it might be a few poor boats and nets, it was much. 1878 R. B. Smith 259 They had ventured their all, or nearly their all, on this one throw. 1917 S. Aumonier xxv. 306 What more profitable beginning could be made than..to look pity between the eyes and give it your all because it needs it? 1973 R. Allen vii. 45 She didn't enjoy the prospect of..having her every whim subjected to the ‘commune’ necessity of sharing their all. 1989 N. Cave i. x. 62 Whereupon he proceeded to extravasate them mercilessly for their all. 1992 28 Feb. 17/2 I'm just going to give it my all. 2009 10 June 19/3 After giving our all for half a century or more, we entered what we call ‘The blessed state of Emeritude’. 1599 S. Daniel Musophilus in sig. Aiiiiv Short-breath'd mortalitie would yet extend That span of life..That all this little All, might not descend Into the darke. 1603 J. Davies 29 Myne active Loue, My little All doth..imploy For thee. 1631 F. Quarles 71 That little all Was left, was all corrupt. 1738 S. Johnson 189 [You] leave your little all to flames a prey. 1744 J. Wesley in J. Wesley & C. Wesley (new ed.) i. 421 My little All I give to Thee. 1755 S. Johnson 7 Feb. (1992) I. 95 No Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. 1797 27 Nov. 15/2 Or roguish Lawyer made you lose your little All in a law-suit. 1833 W. Hamilton in Apr. 198 The Compend of Aldrich..has furnished for above a century the little all of logic taught..by the University of Bradwardin and Scotus. 1862 C. S. Calverley (ed. 2) 64 I..Place 'neath my head the havre-sac Which I have stowed my little all in. 1912 Aug. 21 We are ambitious and wish to do our little all! 2008 May 14/2 The island speaker has a too-late impulse to give his little all..to the emigrant. OE tr. Defensor (1969) xi. 113 Sunt quidam qui facilius omnia sua pauperibus dei distribuunt quam ut ipsi pauperes dei fiant : synd sume þa eþelicur ealle hyra þearfum godes todælað þænne þæt hi þearfan godes gewyrþan.] 1683 (single sheet) Now Oats for Pegs, may pack up his All's, And there inform his Master. 1749 H. Fielding I. ii. iii. 67 She..ordered Jenny immediately to pack up her Alls, and be gone. View more context for this quotation 1763 I. Bickerstaff 44 So pack up your alls, and be trudging away. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage I. ii. vii. 292 I should be a great fool, to pack up my alls when the prize was falling into my hands. 1830 A. Royall I. 153 I shall not go without you, so pack up your alls and be ready. 1889 E. Peacock (ed. 2) Alls, goods and chattels, especially workmen's tools. ‘Pack up your alls and slot off’ is a common form of dismissal, used by masters to workmen. 1910 J. Prior xxxvii. 438 His widow..gave her an hour to pack up her alls, and sent her off in the post-chaise in which she herself had arrived. 7. With a determiner, esp. the. Cf. all of all n. at Phrases 22. the world > the universe > [noun] 1598 J. Bastard in E. Farr (1845) II. 316 Man is the little world (so we him call), The world the little god, God the Great All. 1612 G. Wither Prince Henries Obseq. in (1633) 298 Living in any corner of this All. 1623 W. Drummond 11 Come see that King which all this All commands. 1729 B. Mandeville ii. i. 21 The whole, the beautiful All, must be the Workmanship of one great Architect of Power and Wisdom stupendious. 1848 P. J. Bailey (ed. 3) 329 The atom and the all Commune and know each other. 1850 T. Carlyle vi. 27 No pin's point can you mark within the wide circle of the All where God's Laws are not. 1912 A. Besant iv. 75 Into Brahman such a Soul enters and gains its liberation,..having reached what the Hindu calls Moksha, in perfect unity with the One and with the All. 2006 19 Oct. 69/2 As his motto Holderlin adopted the Greek phrase en kai pan, one and all: life is a harmonious unity, our goal must be to merge with the All. the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] 1619 A. Gorges tr. F. Bacon 22 Pan..represents and lays open the All of things or Nature. 1674 N. Fairfax 145 The laws of motion, in the round All of bodies. a1761 W. Law (1809) 86 This pure love introduces the creature into the all of God. 1843 T. Carlyle ii. xvii. 172 An All of rotten Formulas. 1918 18 Aug. 251/2 The all of mortal belief comprises much more than appears on the surface. 1990 A. Duff (1995) xiv. 165 But Grace wasn't the all of it. C. adv. 1. As part of a predicate, the complement of a verb, or a phrase used in apposition. Apparently arising from the separation of the adjective from the subject by a main verb, so that it was taken to modify the predicate rather than the subject. This use remains very often syntactically ambiguous with the adjective. In cases where the subject of the verb is plural, the use is typically understood as the adjective (see sense A. 2d), but not, for example, when the subject refers to only two persons or things. Cases where the subject is singular are frequently interpretable adverbially, although particular cases may be understood as unambiguously adjectival. In cases where the subject refers to a complex entity which might be understood as plural (i.e., as the aggregate of its parts or elements), interpretation as or overlap with the adjective is more likely (cf. sense A. 1b(c), A. 1c(c)). Since a personal subject is less likely to be understood as a composite or aggregate in this way than is a physical object or abstract entity, use with respect to the latter is more often ambiguous (see senses C. 1a(a), C. 1b(b)).When the copular verb has an auxiliary, all is typically placed between the auxiliary and the verb rather than before the predicate, and this proximity to the subject sometimes suggests an adjectival interpretation. In cases where the subject is a singular noun, all is rarely, if ever, found in this position other than in predicative constructions; with singular pronouns it is found with verbs other than copular ones, typically when the pronoun refers generally to a complex entity, and is usually unambiguously adjectival in these wider cases (see sense A. 1f(c)). a. With a past participle, adjective, or (later also) adjectival phrase: wholly, completely, entirely; altogether, quite; fully; (later also in somewhat weakened use) to a strikingly large extent; very much. OE 756 Hit is nu Adame eall forgolden. OE (Julius) (1994) 50 Ne we nellað þe ameldian, ac hit eall stille lætan. lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius (Bodl.) (2009) I. xxvii. 299 Þeah se leasa wena..tiohhie þæt se anweald sie þæt hehste good, ac hit bið eall oðer. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 9579 Issraæleþeod. tatt wass. All wesste. & all forrworrpenn. a1250 (?c1200) (Titus) (1940) 308 Ah al is meidenes song unilich þeose. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 3881 Þe tur wes al ȝaru. a1382 (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xii. 3 The roote of riȝtwis men shal not ben al moued. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 5 Art, sciens and lawe al were i-falle,..but þe mercy of God had i-ordyned vs of lettres in remedie of vnparfiȝtnesse of mankynde. a1475 J. Shirley Death James (BL Add. 5467) in (1818) II. 26 (MED) Withe hookid ynstrumentes of yryne, fuyre hote all red glowyng, thay pynchid and twynched his theghis. 1548 W. Turner sig. B.iijv It [sc. Asparagus] maye be called in englishe pricky Sperage, because it is all full of pryckes. 1611 Nahum iii. 1 Woe to the bloody City, it is all full of lyes and robberie. View more context for this quotation 1648 R. Herrick sig. L8 Lips she has, all Rubie red. 1671 in M. P. Brown (1826) II. 704 When first shown it was most white and tight, the next time it was all sullied, rankled, and torn. 1729 R. Barford iii. i. 33 Her dim Eyes rolling round, Now clos'd in Death, her faded Lips all white! 1737 H. Baker tr. Virgil in II. 239 His Eyes are all inflam'd. 1857 T. Hughes ii. iii. 274 His long skinny arms all covered with anchors and arrows and letters. 1883 Feb. 586/1 Her feet are all banged up. 1921 M. E. Stone vii. 355 To me it seemed all wrong. 1960 8 Nov. 1/6 The two men, shaved and rested and all duded up. 2003 W. J. Mann (2004) 155 ‘Jeff,’ he whispers, his face all red and shiny from the cold. lOE (Tiber. B.iv) anno ?1130 For þet he wes all forswoorn. a1200 (?OE) MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 191 Þurch onde com deað in to þe worelde al umbegonge. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 10609 Al wæs þe king abolȝen swa bið þe wilde bar. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) (1996) ii. 280 Þe kyng was alle affraied. c1450 (?c1425) St. Christina in (1885) 8 122 (MED) Þey, alle-astonyed, sawe the womman byfore hem in verrey body. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry (1971) xxx. 53 The lady wente oute of her wytte, and was al demonyak. 1490 W. Caxton tr. xv. 52 The duke Eneas and Dydo fleynge the wedrynge, shalle rendre hemself bothe togydre alle alone. 1534 J. Fewterer tr. U. Pinder i. iv. f. xiv The sonne of god theternall, and onely sonne of god, very god and man, all good, all myghty, all wyse, the kynge of glorie. 1590 E. Spenser iii. iii. sig. Ee The doubtfull Mayd..Was all abasht, and her pure yuory Into a cleare Carnation suddeine dyde. 1595 E. Spenser lxxxii. sig. F2 I..shall all be spent, In setting your immortall prayses forth. 1602 W. Shakespeare iv. v. 105 Her husband hath beaten her that she is all Blacke and blew. 1662 R. Mathews (new ed.) §75. 97 When through impatience he had got some violent astringer..he was all torn in his Limbs. 1684 J. Bunyan ii. 76 I was a Dreamed that I sat all alone. View more context for this quotation 1713 J. Addison iv. iii. 48 He was all made up of Love and Charms. 1757 S. Foote i. 14 I cou'd have made as good a Speech upon any Subject, in Italian, French, German,—but I am all unhing'd! all. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in II. ix. 217 Some aspiring mountain-crag..standing all alone. 1812 S. H. Burney I. vi. 97 Will you make little Missy not stand here, and get all wet and cold? 1814 Ld. Byron iii. xv. 85 I am not all deserted on the main. 1847 J. Halliday 343 I felt all sad, surrounded By scenes of early joy. 1880 R. Browning 28 All-agog to have me trespass. 1923 10 May 9 He was all confused when taken to the presence of Her Majesty by a camerlengo. 1935 D. Thomas 14 Aug. (1987) 197 I'm writing by candlelight all alone in a cottage facing the Atlantic. 1983 14 Sept. d22/5 John Emmerling..was all abubble with new-business news yesterday. 2010 A. R. Hawkins vii. 111 And look at you, you're all filthy! b. With a noun used predicatively: consisting entirely of, or wholly or prominently characterized by what is denoted by the noun; entirely, completely, altogether. OE Ælfric (Royal) (1997) vii. 237 He [sc. se ælmihtiga scyppend] ne forestihte nænne to yfelnysse, for þan ðe he sylf is eall godnyss. a1225 (c1200) (1888) 35 (MED) Þanne cumþ ðe hali gast ðe is all fier barnende. a1438 i. 42 Þe Holy Gost meuyth neuyr a þing a-geyn charite..for he is al charite. 1485 (St. Albans) iii. sig. fiij He wos all a tyrend. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger II. iv. iii. sig. Ccc.vii/1 He is all eye, because he seeth all things. All hand, because he worketh all things. All foote because he is present euery where. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach ii. f. 102 The Elme..(as it is al hart) it maketh good tymber. 1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley ii. sig. C4v The Colonel soone inrag'd, (As hee's all touch-wood). 1678 S. Butler iii. ii. 192 Force, enough to fly; And beat a Tuscan running Horse, Whose Jocky-Rider is all Spurs. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot i. 72 They..ram down a sizable Bullet with the Scowring-stick, which is all Iron. 1688 R. Holme iii. xx. 247/1 The Third, is called a Padle or Mundle, it is like an old spade without its Iron shooe, all wood. 1702 J. Vanbrugh 1 She's all Divinity. 1775 W. Marshall 23 July (1778) I have given him the rips, instead of the best team, and he is all submission. 1785 J. Trusler III. 157 He draws back when they are addressing him, as if contamination was in their breath, and is all gooseskin at a low bred man. 1813 J. Austen I. vi. 58 ‘Miss Elizabeth Bennet!’ repeated Miss Bingley. ‘I am all astonishment. How long has she been such a favourite?’ View more context for this quotation 1827 B. Disraeli V. vii. viii. 93 His Royal Highness was all smiles, and his Consort all diamonds. 1850 T. T. Lynch xi. 224 Another is all frivolity. 1851 III. 569 Dutch fabric carpets, all wool, and..warp made from silk noils. 1861 30 235/1 Young converts..are apt to think that the Christian's path is all sunshine to their glorious home above. 1928 8 May 11/2 The modern woman is all eyes, mouth, and a neat silhouette of hair. 1974 23 Mar. 14/4 I was..enchanted by the dining car, all wood panelling and twiddly bits. 1992 B. Sewall vi. 75 We were all ineptitude and incapacity. 2001 A. Hawes (2002) 115 His office is all leather Chesterfields, mahogany desks, and carved cigar boxes. 2003 R. Lacey 46 He's all charm now, but what if he's bluffing? a1225 (c1200) (1888) 27 (MED) Wið-uten ðe læche ðe loceð after mannes ikynde, þe newe oðer elde, and ðe wrihte his timber to keruen after ðare mone, ðe is ikyndelich þing; elles hit is al ȝedwoll. 1340 (1866) 143 Him hit þingþ þet hit is al wynd and metinge and lyeȝynge. a1400 tr. Lanfranc (Ashm.) (1894) 270 But if it be in children..it is al traueile in idil. a1500 (?a1400) (Cambr.) (1930) l. 229 Hit is alle þe Kyngus waren; Ther is nouþer knyȝt ne sqwayne Þat dar do sich a dede, Any conyng here to sla. 1588 Ld. Hunsdon in (1894) I. 305 But it is all dissemblacion, and that wee shall find if wee trust to them. 1641 R. Baillie Pref. sig. A2v This is all the labour of his hypocritish emissary. 1703 M. Chudleigh 3 The past was all a Dream. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer I. ii. Observ. 104 Eustathius..quotes Herodotus, as affirming that she [sc. Penelope] had a son, named Pan, by Hermes; but the Bishop declares it is all a scandal. 1788 J. Atkinson 52 This is all Cherokee to me—I don't understand a word of your simile. 1814 J. Austen III. xv. 282 It might be all a lie, he acknowledged. View more context for this quotation 1936 N. Coward iii It was all a trick—I planned it. 1952 A. Wilson (1957) 32 Bernie had said it was all balls. 1989 J. Sullivan (2000) II. 6th Ser. Episode 5. 109/2 No, no, it's all a load of old tosh. Only a simpleton would believe in it. the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adverb] > characteristically or in terms of specific qualities 1881 24 I went all wimley-wamley e me head. 1922 E. von Arnim (1989) 111 She'll leave off being ossified, and go all soft and able to stretch, and we shall get quite—why, I shouldn't be surprised if we get quite fond of her. 1932 S. Gibbons v. 71 She will..go all arty-and-crafty. 1935 16 Oct. 448/2 If Mr. Morley does go all Rider Haggard for a few pages towards the end of the book the circumstance is scarcely to be deplored. 1947 M. Gilbert iii. 50 ‘I have questioned Canon Beech-Thompson,’ replied Pollock shortly. ‘And got an imperial raspberry?’ said Halliday... ‘I suppose he went all Crockford at once.’ 1991 F. Kanga (1992) vii. 91 So I went all English and said, ‘I wouldn't dream of bothering you; please carry on.’ 2001 Dec. 107/2 It's [his] voice that makes me go all silly. 1982 D. M. Alford Fall 1982–3 6 S/he's all, [with hands on hips and falsetto voice] ‘Why don't you ever do what you're told!’ 1983 (Nexis) 12 May Some men are all like—‘We're all powerful, women are just meek and humble.’ 1996 V. Walters ix. 160 Then she begged him to dance and she was all pushing herself on him and then taking him into corners and whispering things in his ear. 2003 in E. Langer xxxix. 282 He was all ‘You snitch, you,’ and he's all saying ‘Tom told me you snitched up there.’ 2010 J. DeVillers & J. Roy v. 47 Out of the corner of my eye I saw my twin's mouth drop open and her face went all like, What are you doing? the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adverb] > entirely, altogether, or completely OE Wulfstan (Hatton 113) (1957) 179 Ðonne þis gedon bið eal fullice wel swa to ðære cristnunge gebyreð, þonne is..to efstanne wið fontbæðes. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 15214 All þuss wass iohaness fulluhht. 1340 (1866) 89 Nou ich þe habbe al uolliche ysseawed þet ich leue. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) i. l. 2069 (MED) Thus was it spoken to and fro..Al prively behinde his bak. ?1410 T. Hoccleve Ballad to Somer l. 7 in (1970) i. 64 It is no wit..Vse the rule foorth as we been Inne; But al an othir rule to begynne. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer (Hunterian) (1891) l. 286 That she ne myght al abate his pris. 1488 (c1478) Hary (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 342 He thocht that it was all in fyr. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour (Adv.) i. 392 All othir contenance had he. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun (Nero) vi. 169 Hir childe il al suddandly Trawalit hir sa angrely. 1533 T. More i. xiii. f. lv His exposycyon flytteth all fro the poynte. 1541 T. Elyot xi. f. 20v But it succeded all other wise. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil i. 11 Doubtlesse thee gods al greatlye doe tender Thy state, neere Tyrian citty so lucklye to iumble. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny II. xi. 337 None have their eyes all of one color. 1693 tr. J. Le Clerc i. 57 They endeavour all anew to put those..in a state uncapable. 1707 C. Cibber i. 21 He..has prickled my Face till my Eyes are all of a Water. 1793 R. Southey Triumph of Woman 63, in II. 7 All hopelessly our years of sorrow flow. 1839 P. J. Bailey 36 Gazing o'er thee I all Forget the bounds of being. 1857 J. W. Carlyle II. 308 Mr. C. dines all by himself at present, I merely looking on. 1889 Aug. 415/2 The deception I had all innocently practised. 1951 N. Pevsner (Buildings of Eng.) 38 So the church lies now all on its own. 1990 M. Martin i. v. 144 Technically, it was—perhaps all unconsciously—an act of misfeasance in high office. 2004 T. Wolfe ix. 185 Nike all by itself had a $200 billion advertising budget. the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [adverb] > in every respect OE Royal Charter: Æðelred II to Christ Church, Canterbury (Sawyer 914) in J. M. Kemble (1845) III. 349 Ic ðisne ðeodscype undergyte ðurh manna yfelnysse and unrihtwisnysse eall to wide fordonne, and forhergudne. a1200 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Trin. Cambr.) 328 in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 230 (MED) Of þesse riche we þencheð to ofte, of þare alto selde. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 232 in C. Horstmann (1887) 113 (MED) Swuche prelatus al-to fewe beoth nouþe In office i-do! a1400 in F. J. Furnivall (1903) 250 (MED) Wonne..þin teth ratilet..and þi þrote ruteletz, Al to late..þen is te wayn atte yate. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 288 Dido..That loued alto sone a gest. a1500 (c1410) (Hunterian) (1976) i. 165 Þer ben al to many þat knowyn þese..and practysyn newe ȝer be ȝer. 1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Scotl. (new ed.) 314/1 in (new ed.) II The King..did send foorth (but all too late) Andrew Wood. 1600 W. Shakespeare v. ii. 24 Our argument Is all too heauy to admit much talke. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil sig. f1v Mr. Cowley had found out, that no kind of Staff is proper for an Heroick Poem; as being all too lirical. 1706 M. Prior iv Me all too mean for such a Task I weet. 1797 A. Radcliffe III. ix. 320 The colours were all too fresh and garish for the meek dejection of her eye. 1805 R. Southey ii. xvii. 350 Give me the boy..he travels all too slow. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. xii, in Aug. 193/2 Thy all-too Irish mirth and madness. 1840 T. P. Thompson (1842) V. 191 War is all soon enough when it cannot be helped. 1921 J. Joyce (1957) 160 The last word (human all-too-human) is left to Penelope. 1987 N. Spinrad 30 In high school he became all too painfully aware of his nerdishness in the form of his ability to get laid. 2004 H. Kennedy (2005) v. 130 The short-comings of British constitutional arrangements were becoming all too clear. 4. Giving emphasis to a prefix to a verb: completely, utterly, quite. See also all-to at Phrases 14. the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > utterly OE Ælfric Homily (Vitell. C.v) in J. C. Pope (1968) II. 577 He eaþelice tobræc þa isenan racenteaga, & þa fotcopsas eall tocwysde [OE Cambr. Gg.3.28 ealle tocwysde]. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iii. xvi. 213 He sceolde beon eall tosliten for þam clifstanum. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 113 (MED) Ure helende brac þo þe irene herre and alto shiurede þe giaten. c1330 (?a1300) (Auch.) (1973) l. 4843 Þat he tok he al torof. c1449 R. Pecock (1860) 484 That her ordre schulde be alto broke. c1450 (?a1400) (1880) l. 262 Riche hawberkes were all to-rent. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine f. ccxxxvj/1 They..were alle to cutte with the stones. ?1534 (de Worde) (new ed.) sig. B.iv With thy tongue thou me all to terest. 1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus sig. Diijv Beyng all to laught to scorne. 1577 R. Holinshed II. 1631/2 Which the Scots in tymes paste haue all to broken. 1611 Judges ix. 53 And a certaine woman cast a piece of a milstone vpon Abimelechs head, and all to brake his scull. View more context for this quotation a1688 J. Bunyan Acceptable Sacrifice in (1853) I. 698 This was it, that all to-brake his heart. the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > utterly OE Ælfric (Julius) (1881) I. 468 Seo ealde cyrce wæs eall behangen mid criccum, and mid creopera sceamelum, fram ende oð oþerne on ægðrum wage. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 2832 Himm wass hiss spæche..Þurrh drihhtin all biræfedd. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 11146 Arðures men weoren mid wepnen al bi-þehte. a1375 (c1350) (1867) l. 661 (MED) Al bi-weped for wo. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 76 Al bismotered with his haubergeoun. a1492 W. Caxton tr. (1495) i. xxxv. f. xxx/1 Saynt Anthonye..wepte and alle bywette his face wyth teeres. a1500 (?c1450) (1899) x. 165 His swerde, all be-soyled with blode of men and of horse. 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid ii. f. 12v All beevenymd was her toong. 1600 S. Rowlands xxiii. 29 Drinke with his dart hath all bestabbed mee. 1660 T. Hall Verses sig. G2 In bowers of May-sprigs gaily built With Flowers and Garlands all bedilt. 1760 L. Sterne II. iii. 19 The souls of connoisseurs themselves, by long friction and incumbition, have the happiness, at length, to get all be-virtu'd. 1797 W. Taylor in 4 134 Lordlings all begarter'd and bestarr'd. 1810 W. Combe Schoolmaster's Tour in Nov. 3 The cot, that's all bewhiten'd o'er. 1882 S. M. Heckford 302 Fine-looking Kaffirs, all be-cat-tailed. 1999 20 Sept. 76/2 Her upper body is all besuited business. eOE (2009) xxix. 87 Gif he swa gestæððig ne staðolade ealla gesceafta.., æghwilc hiora ealle to nauhte weorðan sceoldon wraðe toslopena [lOE Bodl. to nauhte wurdon ealle gesceafta]. OE Ælfric Homily (Trin. Cambr. B.15.34) in B. Assmann (1889) 74 Ge beoð geunrotsode, ac eower unrotnys bið witodlice awænd eow eall to blisse. OE Wulfstan (Corpus Cambr. 201) 58 And arære man unlaga ahwar on lande oððe unsida ahwar to swiðe, þæt cymð þare þeode eal to unþearfe. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 35 (MED) Þu forwurðest..al to nohte. ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 278 [He] tuki ham alto wunder. c1300 (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 22 The Princes douȝter..that hire hurte al upe him caste. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) III. 1212 They thus overryde oure londis, they shall by proces brynge us all to nought. 1559 Certayne Serm. (new ed.) in J. Griffiths (1859) i. 134 David, when Semei did call him all to naught, did not chide again. 1594 W. Shakespeare (new ed.) sig. Gv It was not she that cald him all to nought. a1617 P. Baynes (1618) xi. 258 Hee..doth giue his son all to death. 1626 F. Bacon §540 The sap is not so frank as to rise all to the boughs. 1739 M. Delany (1861) II. 37 [The Duchess of Portland]..calls herself all to nought for having been so long in her debt. 1828 J. K. Paulding 174 The citizen geese will call us all to nought, and choose other wise geese in our stead. 1866 ‘O. Optic’ xviii. 214 Dat schooner down dar got a big gun; blow de steamer all to squash. 1912 Dec. 445/2 If it be your drive that has gone all to the dogs, you call upon god. 1999 P. Jackson xi. 99 The electric gear was all to hell and the steering all to buggery. 6. With prepositions and adverbs denoting movement or extension in space or time. the world > space > extension in space > [adverb] > as far as or all the way eOE (Parker) anno 904 Þa for Eadweard cyning æfter..& oferhergade eall hira land betwuh dicum & Wusan, eall oð ða fennas norð. lOE (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1123 Ða ferde se kyng þenen to Portesmuðe & læi þære eall ofer Pentecostewuce. c1300 St. Wulstan (Laud) 224 in C. Horstmann (1887) 77 (MED) Þat holie bodi..al along þe rewe þoruȝ þe queor he gan i-wiende. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 197 His breste and his brayre [perh. read brayle] was bloode, and [hit] rayled all over the see. 1569 E. Spenser tr. J. du Bellay Sonets in T. Roest tr. J. van der Noot sig. C.vv He shed a water, whose outgushing streame Ran flowing all along the creekie shoare. 1610 G. Markham i. ciii. 205 Feele all downe the strunte of his taile with your hand. 1676 J. Beaumont Let. 7 Apr. in H. Oldenburg (1986) XII. 243 From ye sharpe toppe there grows thinne flatt cells,..one close to ye other, all round ye stone. 1697 W. Dampier xiv. 392 The Fruit grows in Clusters, all about the body of the Tree. 1712 E. Cooke 150 All along the Banks grow abundance of Mangroves and Sarzaparilla. 1795 Ld. Nelson in (1845) II. 11 The wind all round the compass. 1849 T. B. Macaulay II. 455 All down the Rhine, from Carlsruhe to Cologne. 1875 T. W. Higginson xxvi. 264 This made a great excitement all over the country. 1943 Dec. 645/2 This boundary, between cold and warm air, extending almost all around the world, is known as the ‘polar front’. 1968 B. Dylan All Along Watchtower (song) in (1987) 252 All along the watchtower, princes kept the view. 1990 Aug. 15/1 All across the Northeast, beer enthusiasts are opening micro-breweries and pubs. OE Homily: De Sancto Iohanne (Corpus Cambr. 198) in (1885) 8 478 Fugelas manige, eall embuton efne ferdon ufene and neoþone and on ælce healfe. c1300 (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 2141 And crope ek as emeten alaboute. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 13 Britayne is al aboute eyȝte and [fourty] siþe seuenty þowsand paas. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour (St. John's Cambr.) xii. 354 That, as ane hyrcheoune, all his rout Gert set out speris all about. c1540 Pilgrim's Tale 175 in F. Thynne (1875) App. i. 82 With a blak fryng hemyd al about. 1595 E. Spenser Epithalamion in viii. sig. G7v The people standing all about..doe thereto applaud. 1609 J. Davies sig. D2v As Thornes did his Head, conuulnerate: So, Rods all round did Him excoriate. 1688 R. Holme (1905) iii. xviii. 135/1 A screwed barrell, is when the bore is of six or eight squares, or thrids, all throughout. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer II. vii. 145 Th' allotted space of ground, Fenc'd with a green enclosure all around. 1800 W. Hunter in 6 75 All around is a wide verandah, containing ranges of cells. 1804 12 307 I fell foul of a..woman's tea-table, at the corner of a street, and had like to have thrown the..tea-things all about. 1882 26 Jan. 291/2 There is a strong inflow of the air along the surface of the ground all round. 1915 W. S. Maugham xxviii. 122 He sat with his feet like ice, his fingers numb and heavy, and all around was the sickly odour of pomatum. 1992 Jan. 48/3 All throughout, cinematographer Alfredo Mayo's saturated colors..leap from shadows. 2001 T. Winton (2003) 224 A carton of Victoria Bitter has burst and cans lie all about. 7. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) ii. iii. 109 Þær æt nehstan byð unnyt gewinn..on þam yflan mannum, & eac ealle þe swyþor [OE Otho ealles þe swiðor], gif on neawiste genihtsumiað þa wisan. c1450 (?a1370) (1990) l. 297 (MED) When Cristes peple hath parte hym payes alle the better Then here ben hodirde and hidde and happede in cofers. ?1492 tr. Raymond of Capua (de Worde) i. iv. sig. biij/1 For thys blessyd ymagynacyon she serued hem alle the more gladdely, soo that they were alle a meruaylled therof. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. ii. 92 All the better: we shalbe the more Marketable. View more context for this quotation a1732 T. Boston (1775) v. 259 He..could not miss to catch scathe if all the better care was not taken to prevent it. 1775 S. Johnson 182 By choosing an advantageous exposition, they can raise all the more hardy esculent plants. 1840 C. Dickens I. 10 A man of his state and fortune could all the better afford to recognise an old friend. 1870 Ld. Tennyson Golden Supper in 180 He was all the more resolved to go. 1924 28 Oct. 19/2 Professional baseball might be all the better if the athletes would..make a few of the ‘old college trys’. 1968 13 June 774/1 There was a rock band that whooped it up all the louder, to drown the inevitable news. 1999 31 Oct. i. 25/1 The failure to articulate the Irish perspective is all the more surprising given the number of prominent Irish-Australians in the republican camp. 1869 Mar. 315/1 ‘Further’, in an improper connection, for ‘as far as’—‘This is all the further the lesson goes.’ 1891 19 Dec. 75/2 That's all the high (or higher) he can jump. 1910 19 Jan. I have been trying to get out for ten minutes and this is all the far I have got. 1922 A. E. Polk i. 18 This is as fast as we can go. Not This is all the faster we can go. 1934 May 9/2 That's all the further Streak gets. 2003 P. Berg i. 17 Two hours. That's all the longer I'll give you because that's all the longer I can put up with those heathens of yours. 8. Exactly, expressly, just. Often passing into mere intensive or emphatic use. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [adverb] > exactly so, just OE (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1013 Þa he æl þus [lOE Laud eall þus] gefaren hæfde, wende þa norþweard to his scypum. OE (Junius) 172 We ræddon on ðam Penitentiale þæt man sceolde don dædbote for heafodlicum gyltum gear..on hlafe and on wætere, and be ðam læssan gyltum wucan oððe monað eall be gelican. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. lvii. 345 He forðferde, & eall he wæs swa bebyrged, swa ic ær sæde. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 16704 & all all swa se moysæs Hof upp þe neddre i wesste [etc.]. c1300 St. Christopher (Laud) l. 63 in C. Horstmann (1887) 272 He tolde him clanliche al-hou it was. c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) l. 121 (MED) Þan..he..Clede him all as a clerke & his croune shauys. 1485 (Caxton) i. vi. sig. aiiiiv Ector told hym all how he was bitaken hym..And by whoos commandement. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in 195 Al bicause he would not acknowledge the presence of Christ. 1633 P. Fletcher v. lxviii. 63 All so who strives..To bring his dead soul to the joyfull skie. 1720 J. Gay II. 405 All in the Downs the fleet was moored. 1808 W. Scott i. xi. 32 He..Gave them a chain of twelve marks weight, All as he lighted down. 1897 A. Lang in Oct. 503 I remember Mr. Fry returning a simple ball as a yet simpler catch to bowler in his first over, all because he tried to hook it. 1920 N. Munro in 35 I heard a maiden sing, All in the lee-lone Sabbath morn. 2004 4 May 41/1 And all because none of you can afford to live any closer to the office than Suffolk. the mind > will > intention > [phrase] > with the intention or object of c1300 (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 99 Gilbert..ȝeode and tolde everechdel, red alto afonge. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 25435 (MED) Adam rap him in a res Thoru an apul þat eue him ches Vs all for to spill. c1475 (Harl. 5086) (2002) i. 7 For yt ys nouhte ywys convenyent,..Alle forto holde that vnto yow ys brouhte, And as wrecches on other vouchesauf nouhte. ?a1525 (?a1475) l. 478 Now am I bold with batayle hym to bleyke, Þe mydle part alle for to prene..In þe myddys yt shalbe sene. a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in (1620) II. 249 The Spirit of God came..all to shew how these men were inabled of God. 1730 C. Coffey i. iii. 16 Six score and forty Cows, Sheep were slaughter'd, And all for to make us a Feast in one Day. a1838 (single sheet) Through bushes and through briers, I lately took my way, All for to hear the small birds sing, And the lambs to skip and play. 1848 N. Fletcher Let. 9 Aug. in (1908) 31 227 I walked out in the country ‘all for to see my lady love’. 1884 New Irish Emigrant (song) in 167 My heart is breaking all for to leave you. 1939 E. St. V. Millay 3 A lady came from over the sea, All for to say good-day to me. 1996 M. Harding Hubert Murray's Widow i, in 17 I'm a simple-minded eegid that threw up a wonderful destiny in the fight for freedom, all for to spend a couple of years broadening me mind in New York. the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [adverb] > without deviation 1652 No. 144. 2160 (advt.) On Munday night..there was lost a Sorrel Gelding..the Gelding trots all. 1705 No. 4155/4 Trots and gallops all. 1705 No. 4159/4 Stolen..a black Gelding..trots all, except forced, and then paces a little. 1705 No. 4178/4 Paces all. 1782 in B. Franklin (2003) XXXVII. 196 (advt.) A stocky well set Horse..trots all. 1742 E. Hoyle xi. 25 Suppose the Game to be Nine all. a1769 E. Hoyle (1778) 203 In Case it should be six Games all, two successive Games must still be won on one Side to conclude the Set. 1837 T. Bacon I. 252 In the fourth 20, they were even; 67 all. 1883 7 155 Up to within ten minutes when time was called the score was one goal all. 1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. II. 242/1 The marker's..duty is to call the game..from the start at ‘love all’. 1929 M. C. Work p. xv Any advice given for bidding, raising, etc., applies when the score is ‘love-all’. 1992 Apr. 33/2 At 5-all in the third set, 40-all, Johnstone laid down a chase the line. 2004 A. Buzo ii. 8 The upshot was that the 1962–63 Ashes series went to the fifth and final test in Sydney one-all. D. conj.the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > on condition that [conjunction] > although c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1940) l. 632 [Pride] bihalt eche wununge alle hire modres, al beon ha meidnes. ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 124 Al were [he] þurch Miracle iboren..ȝet for al þis ne durste he wune bi mong monne. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 734 Al speke he neuer so rudeliche and large. c1430 (c1370) G. Chaucer (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1878) l. 45 Al haue I ben a beste in wit & dede Ȝit ladi þou me close in with þyn owene grace. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 1820 Al be ther in me no Iustice Me lyst not doo hyt nowe. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in (1557) 385/2 All were he neuer so olde eare he were baptysed. 1597 Bp. J. Hall iii. i. 51 All could he further then Earths center go. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine xi. x. 418 All were hee a bungler, and had no skill. 1659 T. Fuller ii. 94 From whence came Smith, al be he Knight or Squire, But from the Smith that forgeth at the fire. 1876 R. T. Fisher 4 All be they worthless, yet will I..rake things up. 1999 K. Comer p. x With our two (all be they beautiful) boys. PhraseseOE tr. Bede (Tanner) iii. ii. 158 Ond he se cyning his monungum..lustlice in eallum þingum [L. in omnibus] hyrsum wæs.] ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 311 Twa wimmen..beon obedient to hare dame inalle þing. c1330 (?a1300) (1886) l. 3202 (MED) Marke, in al þing Brengwain þanked he. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) i. l. 2024 A King Wys and honeste in alle thing. c1475 (?c1400) (1842) 6 (MED) Many popis han synnyd..þerfor þei are not to be folowid sympli in al þing. c1480 (a1400) St. Clement l. 628 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) I. 391 Clement..empleysit wele in godis serwice In althing, at al dewise. c1550 in J. G. Dalyell (1801) II. 130 Hee is fair, sober and bening, Sweet, meek, and gentle in all thing. a1568 R. Ascham (1570) i. f. 21 Good order in all thyng. P2. all one. In predicative use. Cf. alone adj., adv., and n.the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [adjective] > identical the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [adverb] > all one or quite the same OE Byrhtferð (Ashm.) (1995) ii. i. 62 Gyf hyt byð embolismaris oððe embolismus (þæt ys eall an). lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius (Bodl.) (2009) I. xxxiii. 315 Swiðe wunderlic is þæt gecynd þines godes forþam ðe hit is eall an, þu & þin godnes. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 3090 Þatt wass inoh all an wiþþ þatt Þatt godess enngell seȝȝde. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xii. iv. 609 It semeþ þat alietus and a litil sparhauk is al one, þat is iclepid muskete in frensche, or ellis hit hiȝte þe sparhauk. a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk (Claud.) (1974) 372 Vsure and okere þat beth al on. 1546 sig. A.iiii It is..all one to denye Christes wordes for Heresye and Christe for an heretyke. 1636 24 If you aske me how he comes, I answere after the French Post-coach, or Post-horse, though he come a foot 'tis all one. 1691 J. Ray Acct. Errors in 154 As for the vulgar and illiterate it is all one to them. 1719 D. Defoe 62 It was all one, he could not sleep. 1768 W. Blackstone IV. 20 What persons are, or are not, capable of committing crimes; or, which is all one, who are exempted from the censures of the law. 1815 W. Scott II. 273 It's a' ane to Dandie. 1881 W. Besant & J. Rice II. iii. 51 A well-dressed woman and a draggletail are all one to them. 1930 C. Williams iii. 35 I gather it's all one to you whether we take it or leave it? 1981 S. McAughtry i. 11 Interviews could come and interviews could go: it was all one to the punters. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 14512 Þa weoren heo al an. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) ii. 6019 Calchas..to Achilles he went... After sone þei [were] confederat, Swor to-gidre be bonde & assuraunce To ben al on. 1462 T. Howes in (2004) II. 273 God graunt we may overcome theym; and so we shuld, I dought not, if we were alle oon. P3. of all: out of everyone or everything (previously specified or implied). See also of prep. 56. OE 297 Heo let þurh þa scenan scinendan ricu, gebletsodost ealra, þæs breman fæder..rice rædwitan.] c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) l. 526 (MED) He, kempene king, haueð to dei ouercumen helles bule belial, baldest of alle. c1300 Vision St. Paul (Laud) in (1874) 52 35 (MED) Seue dawes aren þat men callez þe sonenday is best of alle. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) vi. l. 1206 (MED) He which goth the pass Defyed best of alle was. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 1v First of al was Ipocras, which, as it is radde in introductorio medicine, ouercome alle. a1500 (a1460) (1994) I. xvi. 186 Hayll, the worthyest of all! To the must I bow. 1549 H. Latimer 4th Serm. sig. Mviiv He by vnrepentaunce fel from euyll to worse, and from worse, to worste of al. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. ii. 181 Through this, the wel-beloued Brutus stabb'd..This was the most vnkindest cut of all . View more context for this quotation 1674 J. Wallis Let. 14 Feb. in H. Oldenburg (1975) X. 478 Considering ye Annual as, by much, the most praedominant of all. 1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage I. iii. i. 181 The best joke of all was, I did not know my master's name. 1816 J. Austen I. xi Hardly any degree of personal compliment could have made her regardless of that greatest fault of all . View more context for this quotation 1900 H. L. Keeler 356 Lateral lobes are obovate,..the middle ones usually the largest of all. 1943 24 Jan. x. 16/3 I cannot leave the subject of squash without mentioning what we consider the best flavored of all. 2004 H. Strachan x. 99 Van Wuurwapen's evidence on the use of this vehicle was the most puzzling of all. OE (1932) cviii. 28 Him si abrogden swa of brechrægle hiora sylfra sceamu swyþust ealra.] a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) ii. l. 775 Wherof thei merveile everychon, Bot Elda wondreth most of alle. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil (1957) ii. iii. 147 And, first of all, the mannakillis and hard bandis Chargit he lows of this ilk mannis handis. a1652 S. Foster (1654) 187 This I shall adde as a Corollary to that which hath last of all been delivered in general for all Plains and Indexes. 1711 J. Addison No. 135. ¶4 First of all by its abounding in Monosyllables. 1792 E. Burke (1844) III. 391 My party principles..must lead me to detest the French revolution, in the act, in the spirit, in the consequences, and most of all, in the example. 1848 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare 2nd Ser. (ed. 2) 4 One may develope an idea..But one cannot add to it, least of all in another age. 1858 T. Carlyle I. iv. iii. 407 ‘Genius’..means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all. 1933 D. Thomas 15 Apr. (1987) 115 The composition of my own letter and—best of all—the having of yours, has become the greatest event of the week. 1966 E. Palmer viii. 141 Of all our vanished creatures we mourn these quaggas most of all. 2011 27 July (Viewspaper section) 7/3 No one else, Mr Clegg least of all, has the integrity and public trust to revive a moribund political force. a1593 C. Marlowe (1594) sig. H3 Vilde wretch, and why hast thou of all vnkinde, Borne armes against thy brother? 1605 L. Andrewes (1841) II. 158 From each part;—but of all, from the last part. 1649 R. Lovelace 30 She Whom thou of all ador'st. P4. With a noun denoting category or type, and usually of: many different types, or every different type, of the specified category. c1300 St. Barnabas (Laud) l. 82 in C. Horstmann (1887) 29 (MED) Alle manere turmenz huy him duden. ?a1425 (c1400) (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 140 Spices & all manere of marchandises. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. (Lamb.) 193 The ije caus is that matremony ys to be comend is the oldennysse of hit..of oldennys hit passith all manner of orderis in erth. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus I. Pref. 14 Void of almaner parcialitie of affection. 1583 in J. D. Marwick (1882) IV. 277 Yorkschyre clayth, cairsayes, and all sort of schrynking clayth. 1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in sig. K3v All kinde of arguments. c1680 W. Beveridge (1729) II. 21 Avoid all manner of evil. 1711 R. Steele No. 32. ⁋2 I shall be quite out of all manner of Shape. 1799 J. Duncan (new ed.) v. 332 The germination of all manner wickedness and depravity continues still to shoot forth. 1817 J. Mill II. v. iv. 437 Orders which might be construed all manner of ways. 1878 A. Trollope I. xiii. 174 I hate all kind of strictness and duty and self-denying. 1922 J. Joyce ii. 137 Our galleys,..laden with all manner merchandise furrow the waters of the known globe. 1979 J. Muirden (ed. 4) xxi. 387 This affects all type of cell. 2002 26 July (Classifieds section) Helping and guiding people of all nations with all kind of social and psychological problems. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. vi. 302 In alle kyndes of bestis þe femel is more febil þan þe male. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre (1913) 127 She was all expert in alle maners of enchantemens & of sorceries. a1500 (?c1425) (1936) 125 Alle kyndes of presoynes, of peynes of jayles and of jebbet. ?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust xxx. f. xliv Iugurth..anone prepared the greattest army that he coude of all sortes of people. 1529 J. Frith sig. lvv Doth not the pope..Curse, excommunicate, & rebuke with all kindes of checkes the hyghest kinges and ruelars when he liste? 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne ii. xxxvi. 431 All..have made vse of..his Bookes, as of a Seminarie, a Spring-garden or Store-house of all kinds of sufficiency and learning. 1677 A. Yarranton 185 The Wyer must be..drawn and made sizeable and fit to make all sorts of Pins. 1713 30 Mar. 2/2 To be sold by Mr. Zabdiel Boylston, at his Apothecaries Shop in Dock-Square, Boston, viz... All sorts of Snuff, Brazil, Barcelona, Spanish, Perfum'd, or Plain. 1799 J. B. Bordley xvi. 211 It is a rule applicable to all sorts of livestock. 1849 15 626/1 Toryism, feudalism, medievalism, all manners of retrogradism and rottenness in opinion. 1900 G. Patten v. 50 Man after man came up to bat against him, but he sent in all kinds of curves, shoots, drops, and rises. 1976 I. Murdoch i. 18 There are all kinds of growing up and getting educated which are not academic kinds. 2011 18 Aug. (Viewspaper section) 7/1 There are all sorts of interesting ways to humiliate yourself publicly on Facebook. P5. In phrases with and and an adjective designating an individual or distinct part. a. all and some. See also all and summyn at summyn n. [Not (as sometimes suggested) an alteration of either i-same adv. or insame adv., as shown by the phonology of examples such as the following (showing insame adv.) from the same text as quot. a1450:a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) (1810) l. 4386 Among the toun folk was no game; To counsayl they gaderyd hem insame. ] c1330 (Auch.) (1882) l. 231 (MED) Tel me nou, alle & some, In what message artou come? a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) l. 169 (MED) Þe tale ys wrytyn, al and sum, In a boke of ‘Vitas Patrum’. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Ellesmere) (1872) Prol. l. 91 This is al and som [v.rr. sum, some, somme]. c1485 (?a1400) Child Bristow l. 338 in C. Horstmann (1881) 2nd Ser. 319 By that the fourtenyght was come, His gold was gon, al & some. a1542 T. Wyatt (1969) cvi. 103 Hens fourth, my Poynz, this shalbe all and some. 1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Pref. sig. B.iv Herein resteth all and some concerning these matters. 1753 23 May 425 Where a Legacy is given him, that implies he shall have no more, otherwise he would have all and some. 1891 W. Morris (1892) 100 The lord that owneth all and some Would send his men to fetch us home. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > the generality > each and every one thing a1350 in G. L. Brook (1968) 42 (MED) Þis oþer [read oþes] swore alle ant some..þat so nes hit nout ryht. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1329 Thise lordes alle and some Been on the Sonday to the Citee come. a1450 (?a1300) (Caius) (1810) l. 5846 They that wolde nought Crystene become, Richard leet slen hem alle and some. a1475 Friar & Boy (Brogyntyn) in J. O. Halliwell (1855) 51 The boy pypyd throwȝ the town; The bestes hym foloyd alle and some. ?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 402 in N. Davis (1970) 70 Whyle they were all togethere and sum..Comedite Corpus meum. a1550 ( G. Ripley (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 43v Tese be our menstrualles all and some. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy xxvii. xiii. 637 e To endeavour and strain themselves, both all and some [L. singulis universisque]. 1682 N. Tate & J. Dryden 14 Now stop your noses Readers, all and some. 1849 July 103 We [were]..Enjoined perpetually, all and some, Sub prohibitione superum. 1870 W. Morris 478 Two hours after midnight all and some Into the hall to wait his word should come. 1919 J. L. Lowes iii. 103 The balade could cry peccavi to these stern indictments all and some. 2010 D. Meier 223 Did you just leave my bag here for all and some to take? b. Originally Scottish. all and sundry. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > not specified > of every kind > each or every OE (Northumbrian) ii. 3 Et ibant omnes ut profiterentur singuli in suam ciuitatem : & gaað alle þæt foreondetande weron ða syndrigo uel æl syndrio in his ceastra.] 1389 in W. Fraser (1888) II. 24 Til there thyngys al and syndry lelily and fermly to be fulfyllyt and yhemmyt. 1480 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett (1886) IX. 120 (note) All and sendri oure liegis and subditis. 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Pref. (heading) Till all & sindry Personis. 1562 A. Scott (1896) i. 95 To ceis all sindrye sectis of hereseis. 1597 303/2 Togidder with all and sindrie the teindscheves. 1621 (Church of Scotl.) 2 Inhibition shall be made to all and sundry persons, now Serving in the Ministery, who hath not entered into their charges by the order..appointed. 1682 No. 1682/1 To have forfault..all and sundry his Lands, Heretages, Liffrents, and Rents. 1707 J. Spotiswood 157 With all and sundry other Commodities, Liberties, Privileges, Easements, and righteous Pertinents whatsoever. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in 1st Ser. IV. 137 All and sundry his moveable goods and gear..inbrought to his Majesty's use. 1926 Aug. 35 One arranged..in such a manner that it can be played by all and sundry combinations. 1990 N. Payne 40 His dog Nero chased all and sundry intruders with such vigour that people were always scattering..at terrific speeds. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > the generality > each and every one thing 1428 in C. Innes (1837) 519 Till all & syndry to quham þe knawlage of þir presentz lettris sall to cum. 1442 in 63/2 Till al and sindri that thir presentez lettrez sall here or see. 1550 J. Knox 4 Apr. (1556) sig. f.vi Ye should haue power to appli..the merites of Christes passion, to all & sondry, who tolde or numbred money to you for yt purpose. 1665 Acts Sederunt 1661–81 7 in J. Dalrymple (1683) In time coming, no Charges, nor Letters of Horning shall be direct Generally, against all and sundrie. 1783 W. Gordon tr. Livy iv. ii. 310 Sedition never failed to procure honour and respect to all and sundries, its authors and abettors. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiv*, in 2nd Ser. IV. 366 Join wi' Rob Roy..and revenge Donacha's death on all and sundry. 1835 N. Hawthorne Rill from Town Pump in (1837) 202 I cry aloud to all and sundry, in my plainest accents. 1901 13 Mar. 12/2 The city must advertise for estimates from all and sundry. 1967 F. Hardy 135 Some half-shrewd mug, usually a barber, would set himself up to advise all and sundry. 2005 Apr. 24/3 There was no way I would leave my road bike outside for all and sundry to dismantle! f. all and singular. [Compare post-classical Latin omnes et singuli (5th cent. in Augustine).] 1472 in H. Littlehales (1905) 17 To..fulfille all & singuler my..willes & ordenaunces herevnder wreten. 1535–6 c. 42 §1 The tenthe of all and singuler dignyties. 1549 sig. C.iijv All and synguler actes & Statutes. 1583 in A. Feuillerat (1908) 360–1 Summa Totallis of..all & singuler the paimentes. 1622 R. Sanderson i. 48 All and singuler the 39. Articles. 1696 tr. G. Croese i. 95 Judging, Condemning, Sadding, and Cursing of all and singular Persons, who did not agree with them in their matters. 1739 in (1851) IV. 346 Inviolably observed in all and singular the parts thereof. 1781 §13 Each and every of the said Articles.., and all and singular the matters..therein contained. 1838 W. Bell 558 All and singular the felonies,..and all and singular other the premises. 1838 W. Bell 558 The truth..of all and singular articles and circumstances. 1910 C. A. Hawkins (rev. ed.) 48/1 Grant, bargain, sell, assign, transfer and set over, unto the said party of the second part..heirs and assigns forever, all and singular lands, tenements, real estate [etc.]. 1971 16 Dec. 19 All and singular those two pieces or parcels of land. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > the generality > each and every one thing 1669 King Charles II Let. in E. Ashmole (1672) viii. 244 To all and singular to whom these presents shall come Greeting. 1767 W. Dodd 163 To all and singular each one, To whom these presents shall be known. 1843 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross (1885) I. 123 To say to all and singular, ‘Swallow my opinions and you shall be whole’. 1875 W. Stubbs II. xiv. 152 The common concordant and unanimous consent of all and singular. 1900 24 Nov. 495/1 There passed four or five unhappy-looking demonstrators, whose sashes of green and gold proclaimed to all and singular that they were Free Foresters or Ancient Druids. 1925 N. Wilkinson (title) To all and singular. 1556 W. Lauder sig. B Cause ȝour prechours, all and od Trewlie sett furth, the wourd of God. P6. In pleonastic or emphatic combination with whole or ( Scottish) hale. Cf. all whole adj. and adv.a1375 (c1350) (1867) l. 184 (MED) & al his hole meyne. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxvii. 1369 Al þe hole worlde haþ a round schap. 1448 in S. A. Moore (1871) i. 63 (MED) The Mayer and all the hole Communalte of Excetre recommaunded tham unto his gode and gracious lordship. c1450 ( G. Chaucer (Fairf. 16) (1871) l. 554 I wol do alle my power hool. 1530 R. Whitford (new ed.) sig. A ij Our owne conscyence..shall clerely confesse al our hole lyfe, and euery wryncle & parte therof. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin i. xi. 26 b The fountaine of al this whole mischiefe is an vnorderly counterfaiting. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in 154 All the whole vpper house is manifestly contrarie vnto it. 1641 (1855) I. 169 The Court hath graunted vnto Willm Thomas..all that whole neck of vpland. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie i. iii. 77 As for the Fruits that are for the spending both during the End of Autumn, and all the whole Winter. 1766 at Surveying Then may you measure all the whole chains by your regulated chain. a1771 T. Gray tr. Dante in (1884) I. 159 All that whole Day, or the succeeding Night. 1844 A. W. Kinglake xvii. 272 All the whole earth that I could reach with my utmost sight, and keenest listening was still. 1911 W. S. Churchill Let. 29 June in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill (1999) iii. 50 Of course all the whole route I was cheered and in places booed vigorously. 1984 A. Copland & V. Perlis xv. 339 All this whole section sounds like warmed-over Scriabin. 1991 P. O'Brian (1993) x. 313 In all the whole class of..mammalia. b. all and whole (also hale). Cf. Phrases 5. 1438 in R. W. Cochran-Patrick (1881) 48 Al and hale the ta halfe of the tenement. 1493 in W. Fraser (1874) II. 149 All and hall the lafe of the Iandis. 1563 L. Humphrey Ep. Ded. sig. A.iiv To whose becke, worde, and prouidence, all and whole this wondrous facte (howesoeuer greate) must freelye and wholy be imputed. 1566 in J. R. N. Macphail (1924) 225 Quhare the said maister Thomas hes lyt..all and haill the auchtene parte of landis. 1611 in C. C. Harvey (1930) 300 All and whole that salmon fishing and tugnet. 1641 in (2007) 1641/8/284 The charter and infeftment granted..to Thomas Forbes..of all and whole the lands, fortalice and manor place of Abbotshall of Ellon. 1696 7 To have and to hold all and whole the said Wharf. 1713 in R. Renwick (1908) IV. 511 All and haill the milners service. 1773 18 Jan. All and whole these two Husband Lands and Half a Husband Land in Newton. 1803 in C. D. Bentinck (1926) 303 Heretable State and Sasine real, actual and Corporal possession to the said Capt. William Falconer of all and whole the foresaid House and Garden. 1896 in (1948) 95 We as trustees foresaid dispone to the said company and their assignees heritably and irredeemably All and Whole the subject. a1912 in (1913) I. 62/2 All and Whole my whole heritable and moveable Estate. 2010 733 The Pursuers validly exercised their Option to purchase all and whole that area of ground known as Dalgig Plantation. 1565 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ (new ed.) vii. sig. W.iiii He is all and whole, the rest but part. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny I. xiii. xxv. 402 The lower sort of these trees the floud covereth all and whole. 1696 G. Keith 26 Neither W. Burnet, nor no Baptist, place the all and whole of our Justification on Christ's outward Sufferings. a1752 R. Erskine (1754) iii. xxi. 139 Their righteousness Is all and whole of me. 1938 23 Mar. 17/2 I wish all and whole to be given to Montrose Town Council to improve the town in whatever way they think best. P7. a1375 (c1350) (1867) l. 851 (MED) Gon þan to þat gome a god pas al boþe. a1450 (Faust.) (1883) l. 3567 Þey weron as bleynd alle bothe y-wys As euer was ony stok or stone. 1533 J. Heywood sig. Civv Ye passe them all both in your owne conceyt and myne. 1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia 129 Yet would he retain with hym still Silan and Sasilas, all both Lacedemonians. 1927 E. C. L. Adams v. 10 He sho' is wase' up a lot of hell fire on all both un 'em. 1967 in (1985) I. at All both If you hurt a snake so he can't go, a green snake or doctor snake will be there shortly to help him and all both of them gone. 1755 J. Shebbeare I. x. 120 He left all two of them alone till the Child was grown up. 1838 C. Gilman xiv. 94 Sister Nelly begin for sing till Maus Ben and him fell asleep, all two. 1888 C. C. Jones vii. 17 Buh Wolf an Buh Rabbit all two bin a spark at um an a cote um. 1904 19 Nov. Miss Janie Zingar is a ooman way cud feed oll two ah dem. 1925 G. Stratton-Porter 239 Both all two of 'em make me sick! 1938 M. K. Rawlings xxix. 381 I'll tear down all two of you. Now git down and pick up ever' one o' them peas and wash 'em off. 1953 G. Lamming iii. 51 But there it wus, all two both lost. 1975 T. Callender 9 Well, I know this is going to be fight grandmother, a fight to watch, 'cause all two of them is giants at stick-licking. 1998 J. Deaver 266 All two of you go back a ways? P8. at all. Also (usually Irish English and Caribbean) reduplicated. In Caribbean and U.S. regional use, also written atall, a-tall, etc.the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > altogether, entirely, or completely a1375 (c1350) (1867) l. 283 I þe coniure & comande att alle. c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate (Durh.) (1961) v. l. 272 Myrre declareth vnto us at all Of his manhode that he was mortell. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil (1957) i. Prol. 31 My waverand wyt, my cunnyng febill at all. a1555 H. Latimer (1562) ii. f. 133 They were carelesse at all, they thought all things were cocksure. 1898 G. M. Hopkins in I. 86/2 [Ireland] It's the greatest fun at all. 1906 May 418/1 I think it the best time at all. 1916 4 302 He is the greatest man at all. 1976 in (1985) I. 103/2 Use one statement at all. the world > relative properties > quantity > degree or relative amount of a quality, action, etc. > [adverb] > in any degree or at all the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [phrase] > nothing, no one, not any > not at all 1476 B. Burgh tr. (Caxton) i Ayenst woordy folk ay ful of wynde Stryve not at al It may not the profite. 1515 sig. C3 Game lyketh me not at all. 1535 Jer. vi. 14 Sayenge: peace, peace, when there is no peace at all. 1611 1 Sam. xx. 6 If thy father at all misse me. View more context for this quotation 1664 H. Oldenburg Let. 25 Aug. in R. Boyle (2001) II. 301 He affirms, that the Earthdamp is a vapor not at all visible, though this kind be the most dangerous and destructive. 1701 N. Grew iv. v. §38 Snowy, or whatever else he [sc. Spinoza] means by Glacial Air, or Clouds, may serve to darken the Day, but not at all to prolong it. 1762 S. Foote (1780) ii. 57 I'll wager you three thirteens to a rap, that it is no such matter at all, at all. 1771 T. Smollett II. 219 I am not at all surprised that these Scots make their way in every quarter of the globe. 1831 S. Lover Paddy the Piper in 156 I cut a brave long wattle, that I might dhrive the man..without bein' near her at all at all. 1849 T. B. Macaulay II. 557 If he refuses to govern us at all, we are not bound to remain..without a government. 1897 A. Barrass 18 Me mother's ne nusence at a'. 1924 J. Galsworthy i. viii There are rules of the game which must be observed, if society is to function at all. 1954 Harder Coll. in (1985) I. 102/2 Them chillern ain't a'tall good. 1971 J. Updike i. 50 You're nice to put up with us at all. 1975 3 320 I have no problem at all with that. 1996 R. Allsopp 23/2 [Guyana] If you bother me at all at all today, you go nowhere. 2006 17 Mar. (Central ed.) w9/6 He's not much of an actor and can't dance at all. c. In interrogative use. 1566 T. Becon ii. f. 125v For what power can it haue on you at all? 1600 B. Jonson v. i. sig. Oiiv But shall I not vse Tabacco at all ? View more context for this quotation 1683 C. Wase tr. Cicero v. xxxii. 325 What great need hath he for Money, or rather why should he at all regard it? 1730 28 How rare a thing was it to hear of any body who stood to talk about the Price before-hand at all? 1782 W. Cowper 167 Say why bareheaded you are come, Or why you come at all? 1810 I. Harby iv. iii. 67 If, with no thought of meeting Madalena,—You entered the convent,—why, to what end, Did you go there at all? 1870 E. Money (1878) xxiv. 108 Why wither at all? 1912 19 Oct. 356/1 How do they even manage to ‘hold down’ the job of writing about the Olympic Games at all? 2008 Sept. 150/1 Why should people care about football at all? 1842 S. Lover xxii And what was it at all? an upset, was it? 1894 H. Caine 56 Is the woman mad at all? 1895 J. Barlow 262 And what at all have you got there? 1914 J. Joyce 154 ‘Is he a priest at all?’ ‘Mmmyes, I believe so.’ 1964 I. Khan 37 What happen to you at all? 1992 P. McCabe (1993) 104 How is he at all at all? Oh he's the best, I said, never better. 2002 J. Mercurio (2003) 201 The niece says, ‘Can we see him at all?’ the world > action or operation > ability > be able to [verb (intransitive)] > be versatile c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. ix. 22 To alle men I am maad alle thingis. a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 112 Poule studied to plese all men in oure lorde, & was made all þinges to all men. 1611 1 Cor. ix. 22 To the weake became I as weake, That I might gain the weake. I am made all things to all men, that I might by all meanes save some. View more context for this quotation 1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Pref. Epist. 59 To become all things to all men, with the Doctor of the Gentiles, that Omniformist. 1763 C. Churchill 11 If they, directed by Paul's holy pen, Become discreetly all things to all men, That all men may become all things to them, Envy may hate, but justice can't condemn. 1784 J. Wesley 28 June (1931) VII. 224 Accommodableness is only the art of becoming all things to all men without wounding our own conscience. 1873 J. A. Symonds iii. 89 Theognis bids his friend (Cyrnus) be as much as possible all things to all men. 1907 E. Charteris in D. Elcho 29 Grant..was all things to all men, a Jacobite to Jacobites, a Georgite to Georgites, and an agreeable companion to every one. 1940 P. G. Wodehouse ix. 86 I pointed out to him that it is of the essence of a barmaid's duties that she be all things to all men. 1999 L. Norfolk in A. Holgate & H. Wilson-Fletcher 125 Our increasing geographical homogeneity makes it easier for a book to be all things to all men. P11. a. in all. the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > that is all or the whole [phrase] > in all or altogether c1380 (1879) l. 4387 V. hundred knyȝtis in al þay wore. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 363 He lived in alle þre and sixti ȝere. 1442 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark (1886) I. 387 xvj Skaynys of grete packethrede..at ob a pec; in al viij d. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane f. cccxiiiv Ther be in al .ii. sacrifices of christ. 1611 1 Chron. ii. 6 Fiue of them in all . View more context for this quotation 1674 C. Cotton xi. 116 If either side are at eight Groats he hath the benefit of calling Can-ye, if he hath two Honours in his hand, and if the other answers one, the Game is up, which is nine in all. 1743 32 The Infield is divided into three Shots or Parts, much about eighteen Acres in all. 1774 O. Goldsmith III. 137 The fawns continue to follow the deer eight or nine months in all. 1837 T. Carlyle II. vi. i. 370 There will not have arrived, at the set day, Three thousand of them in all. 1897 Nov. 400/2 Each section, however, was served by a cuisine comprising in its personnel: three chefs, five helpers, two ice-makers—forty men in all. 1901 27 Aug. 3/1 Capt. Sycamore kept the crew busy setting jib topsails. Five in all were set. 1993 R. Rao ix. 93 His much-holed mattress of sorts, and his tattered blankets three in all. 1423 in J. B. Paul (1882) II. 31/2 Nothir in al na in part. 1512 in M. Livingstone (1908) I. 365/2 The landis..in all or part. 1639 R. Gentilis tr. P. Sarpi 64 It is received either in part, or in all, or in part, or in all laid aside. 1795 (ed. 7) 45 The master, or owner, who undertakes to let out to freight the ship or vessel in all, or in part. 1853 8 326 This judgment could not be the ground, in all nor in part, of the plaintiff's right of action. 2010 L. Athens iii. 43 The innovation may be rejected in all or in part. b. all in all. the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > absolutely all the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > that is all or the whole [phrase] > in respect of everything or part > in every respect c1475 (Folger) (1969) l. 754 (MED) Cum slepers, Rekleshede and Idyllnes, All in all, Surfet and Gredynes. 1494 W. Hilton (de Worde) ii. iv. sig. i.vv Thenne shall Ihesu bothe god and man be all in all. 1539 1 Cor. xv. 28 That God maye be all in all. [So 1611; Wyclif, alle thingis in alle thingis, Tindale, all in all thinges.] 1593 T. Nashe f. 10v Without any care, fore-cast, or plotting on thy part..I shall bee to thee all in all. 1614 R. Carew Excellencie Eng. Tongue in W. Camden (rev. ed.) 44 Will you haue all in all for Prose and verse? 1658 tr. J. Ussher 309 Every man cast in his mind, that Eumenes would be all in all. 1718 M. Prior Alma i, in (new ed.) 320 The Mind,..Throughout the Body squat or tall Is, bonâ fide, All in All. 1766 J. Fordyce I. i. 27 Mirth and diversion are all in all. 1824 T. Campbell Lines on receiving Seal in 77 The all-in-all of life—Content! 1832 Ld. Tennyson New Year's Eve vi, in (new ed.) 97 Their Flemish go-between And all-in-all. 1922 12 177 Value, distinction, artistry, quality, do not count, while mere quantitative production is made the all in all. 1998 B. J. Nelson 197 She knew at a certain level I had excluded her, that she'd never been my all-in-all. 1826 T. Flint II. i. 5 He was, all in all, singular in character, and as singular in fortune. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in 114 And trust me not at all or all in all. 1938 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth (ed. 2) xxv. i. 265 All in all, the correct application of the method..entails the careful selection of well-preserved minerals. 1948 23 Aug. 107 Many others who, all in all, have won 17 Pulitzer prizes. 1954 N. Tomalin in 6 Nov. 23/2 All in all the most amazing thing about the show is the preponderance of lavatory jokes. 1989 Winter 55/1 All-in-all, it was a pretty inelegant way of capturing action on film. 2001 15 July (Food Monthly Suppl.) 53/1 The empenadas were made the night before and took about four hours all in all. 1519 W. Horman xi. f. 123 Whan it cometh all to all. a1529 J. Skelton (?1530) sig. Eiiii For your sake what so euer befall I set not a flye and all go to all. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch 179 When all came to all, nothing was done. 1607 T. Middleton iii. sig. E2v Is she but your vnderput Maister Lethe? Leth. No more of my credit..when all comes to al tis but a plaine Pung. 1668 S. Pepys 19 Aug. (1976) IX. 283 When all came to all, a fit of jealousy about Tom. 1690 J. Clark 6 Let all go to all, let Gods Honour still be minded. 1733 June 277/2 When all comes to all, it is no more than a second Part of the Putney-Bridge Plot. 1794 Sept. 344/1 Bishops and parsons.., when all comes to all, are the sole object of his malice. 1832 Aug. 596 Do they ken who, when all comes to all, is master o' the house? 1862 8 Mar. 431/2 Don't you stir until the worst comes; and when all goes to all, you can make for the coal-hole. 1919 ‘L. Malet’ vi. 270 When all came to all, this was hardly good enough. 2007 M. Frazer ii. 16 When all came to all, what mattered was the same as what always mattered. P12. In phrasal conjunctions with the subjunctive of to be and it as subject (in inverted order). Cf. sense D. Now only in albeit conj.a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) iv. l. 2920 (MED) Many a swevene hath be certein, Al be it so that som men sein [etc.]. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) vii. l. 5062 (MED) Of thilke wickednesse Which was unto hire bodi wroght, Al were it so sche myhte it noght, Nevere afterward the world ne schal Reproeven hire. ?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius (BL Add. 10340) (1868) v. pr. vi. l. 5090 Al be it so þat ȝe seen and byholden þat oon and þat oþer to-gidre. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 381 Ther was a mayden..Which þt of beautee hadde greet renoun Al were it so she were of smal degree. c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius (Linc. Cathedral 103) 89 Now vnderstond: all were it so..Þat goodes whiche þat fortune haþ bestowen [etc.]. 1529 T. More iii. v. f. lxxviiv/1 I trowe we be agreed both, yt al were it so yt ye man had ben fautlesse in dede [etc.]. †c. all were it. Used as a past tense equivalent of all be it before the grammaticalization of the phrase as albeit was complete.c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 121 I wol haue moneye..Al were it yeuen of the pouerest page Or of the pouereste widwe in a village. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer (Hunterian) (1891) l. 6099 For what word that hem prikke or biteth In that word noon of hem deliteth Al were it gospel. 1479 Earl Rivers tr. (Caxton) iii. iii Al were it neuer so delicious, it coude not lye in his power continually to endure hit. 1560 H. Cole Let. in J. Jewel & H. Cole sig. G.i We broughte more then ye were able to answere, all were it not Scriptures, nor doctours, nor Councelles. 1567 T. Stapleton iii. xxix. f. 334v Al were it true, that they wrote in the fauoure of Lewys the .4. then Emperour, yet were you neuer the nerer of your purpose by one iote. c1580 ( tr. (1921) II. ii. 4167 All was it maugre thairis baith. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1145 Al were it that myne Auncestres weren rude Yet may the hye god..Graunte me grace to lyuen vertuously. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville (Cambr.) (1869) 16 He clepede grace dieu with an haunteyn vois, al were it she was not fer. 1580 J. Stow 810 Al were it that hys owne conscience well shewed him that they talked no good, yet [etc.]. P13. As an emphatic modifier of conjunctions. Earliest, and now only, in although conj.the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > on condition that [conjunction] > although a1400 (a1325) (Fairf. 14) l. 1991 Al if [a1400 Vesp. And þof, a1400 Gött. And if] na rayne on erþ felle. a1425 (a1400) (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 3045 Þe saul, al-if it haf na body. ?a1425 (c1400) (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 8 Ȝif all it be so þat men seyn þat this croune is of thornes. 1446 in L. Morsbach (1923) 37 (MED) The said john meuerell said he was neuer holdon to hym, all yff they were Cosyns, ffor his lyuelod. c1475 Antichrist & Disciples in J. H. Todd (1851) p. cxlv Þat þise bischops kunnen hem boþe [sc. the old law and the new] betokeneþ her mytres; if al þei kepen neiþer, but oonly þe popis. ?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Prol. f. iiiiv All if he haue power so to do. c1530 A. Barclay ii. sig. Kij All yf I woulde it were but shame. the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > on condition that [conjunction] > although ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) ii. 37 (MED) Þof alle Edgar þe gate, Estrild þi moder ware. c1443 R. Pecock (1927) 495 Þouȝ al þer be difference in accidentals. 1551 J. Bale ii. f. cxviv Thus maye these. iij. bokes be knowne dyuerse..though all they procede out of one only argument of Englysh votaryes. c1440 (?a1400) l. 2235 Thane þe Romayns releuyde, þat are ware rebuykkyde, And all torattys oure men with theire riste horsses. a1535 T. More (1553) iii. xi. sig. P.ii She fell in hand with him..& al to rated him. 1538 H. Latimer Let. 25 June in (1845) (modernized text) II. 397 We be fallen into the dirt, and be all-to dirtied, even up to the ears. 1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer iv. f. 54v Poore knaue into some ryuer than, they cast him cruellie, And all to souse him in the streame. 1589 R. Greene sig. H2v Her cheekes all to be blubbered with her iealous teares. 1611 R. Cotgrave Papilloteux, All-to-bespangled..set thicke with spangles. 1637 J. Milton 14 Her wings..Were all to ruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd. 1647 J. Cleveland 3 I wonder my Lord..is not once more all-to-be-traytor'd. 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux i. 314 Him too the bounteous Dean All-to-be-Blesses. 1684 J. Bunyan ii. 48 She all-to-be-fooled me. View more context for this quotation P15. and all. ?c1450 in G. Müller (1929) 125 (MED) Take ȝonge swalowys owte of þe neste and putte hem, fediris and all, in-to þe potte. c1535 W. Tyndale in (1849) II. 11 He will save Devils and all. a1554 J. Croke tr. (1844) li. 18 The walles, and all, shalbe made newe. 1653 H. More iii. x. 130 Down came John, Pipe and all. 1681 29 Jeff. Who were the All? Dugdale. King and Clergy-men and all. 1702 J. Savage 479 He fell Horse and all into the Ditch. 1774 O. Goldsmith VII. 328 After furrowing up the sand, it hides itself under it, horns and all. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth v, in 2nd Ser. I. 133 With smithy, bellows, tongs, anvil, and all. 1892 H. E. Wright i. 20 The copper is ‘turned out’ or ‘struck’, the boiling wort, hops and all, rushing out through an opened valve. 1933 D. L. Sayers x. 182 My dear! and got up regardless..fish-net stockings and all. 1989 T. Parker xvi. 186 House moving is just what it says, moving people's houses for them: the whole house, contents and all. 2004 Feb. 39/1 I clocked the room prices. How reasonable, I mused—fluffy robes, giant beds and all. ?1750 8/2 Was not she very well off, That was Woo'd and Married and a. 1810 A. Cunningham et al. 108 The red, red rose is dawning and a'. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Northern Farmer: Old Style xi, in 133 I..runn'd plow thruff it an' all. 1887 T. Darlington ‘Th' Tories binna gotten in, bin they?’ ‘They bin, an aw.’ 1899 Oct. 21/1 Mr Gallon shouted... ‘At him, good dogs!’ And they did an' all. 1945 M. James 4 You know what a claim-jumper a cowbird is—laying its eggs in other birds' nests and all. 1952 T. Armstrong ii. 55 I've enjoyed myself an' all. 1977 Apr. 11/1 Yeah, I thought that enal. 2010 J. McGregor (2011) ii. 20 A pigeon..settled on the edge of the bin... You can fuck off an all, Sammy said. P18. a. all at once. ?1499 J. Skelton (de Worde) sig. Bvv Thenne I astonyed of that sodeyne fraye Sterte all at ones. 1531 G. Joye tr. xxvii. sig. G.ij Who then maye so move me to be so grete an enymye to hyr that..I wolde set hyr a fyer all at once with thornes & bryers? 1582 in 1 Cor. xiv. 23 (note) Singing Psalmes,..one in this language, and another in that, all at once like a blacke saunts, and one often not vnderstood of another. 1588 W. Kempe sig. F2v A sillable of eight letters, being too hard for a childe to learne all at once, he may learne letter by letter. a1617 P. Baynes (1643) i. 334 Not all at once, but by ounces, as we say. 1662 R. Mathews (new ed.) §82. 109 She..popt it into her mouth, and swallowed it all at once. 1706 (new ed.) at Orgues Several Musket-Barrels set in a row within one wooden Stock, to be discharged either all at once, or separately. 1759 S. Johnson 21 Apr. 121 She must not rid herself of them all at once. 1827 J. Farey v. 358 By releasing the catches..the expansion-valve b, the exhausting-valve i, and injection-valve j, are opened all at once. 1894 A. B. Gomme I. 66 You throw down the cubes all at once, then toss the ball. 1930 27 Sept. 686/2 The recently prepared solution is warmed to body heat and may be quite safely injected all at once provided it is injected slowly. 1995 23 Feb. 6/4 Transfer of other powers to the new Assembly likely to be phased in rather than introduced all at once. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage IV. x. vi. 77 He assumed the start of a man who all at once hits upon a circumstance which had hitherto escaped his recollection. 1816 J. Wilson ii. iii. 108 All at once the hurricano ceased. 1883 June 131/2 All at once something seemed to sift away from before my eyes. 1906 U. Sinclair vii. 91 At last he fell to pieces, all at once and in a heap. 1945 I. Gershwin All At Once (song) in (1993) 317/1 All at once, My lucky star was flowing; All at once, I knew I'd met my Once-for-All. 2000 M. Kneale (2001) v. 125 All at once the captain strode back on to the platform looking fierce. b. 1913 P. H. Wicksteed ix. 263 It is in this eternal life of all-at-onceness..that Dante and Aquinas alike find heaven. 1967 6 Oct. 394/3 One of the many tiresome aspects of the Marshall McLuhan cult is the assumption that ‘all-at-onceness’ occurs when real events are televised live. 1991 M. Heim Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace in M. Benedikt (1993) 69 The temporal simultaneity, the all-at-once-ness of God's knowledge. 2003 C. Lienhardt et al. in M. Gandy & A. Zumla xi. 203 The ‘all-at-onceness’ of social context can make it difficult to grasp in applied research. 1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant (de Worde) xlvii. sig. M.i Yf there is ony thynge that I can do for you I am all yours bothe body & godes. 1605 G. Chapman et al. i. sig. B2 Sir, I am all yours:..to your wisedome I wholy dispose my selfe. 1661 R. Flecknoe v. xii. 95 Cy. I shall alwayes claim a friends part in her. Cle. She is all yours Madam. 1702 W. Burnaby v. 61 A little Air, my dear, will recover me, and then I'll be all yours. 1851 Sept. 204/2 ‘I ask your friendship.’ ‘It is all yours,’ said the Count. 1895 May 588/2 Now listen, Robert, while I tell you something; and I beg you not to be angry—oh, do not be angry, for I am all yours. 1959 H. Pinter ii. 34 Goldberg: Now, Mrs Boles, it's all yours. Meg.: I don't know what to say. 1972 A. Ross 17 ‘Go ahead, old boy,’ he said plummily, ‘He's all yours.’ 1983 M. Magorian (BNC) 136 Tom climbed down the ladder. ‘All yours,’ he said. 2002 E. Wooff xiv. 129 Dad checks his watch. ‘Right then. I just need to catch the library before it closes, then I'm all yours,’ he says. P20. all of a. Cf. all of a sudden at sudden n. 1a. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria f. 16v There was no rocke or hyll that coulde be seene, but the same was all of a smoke [L. Nulla erat specularis rupes ex qua fumus non egrederetur]. 1602 R. Shelford (new ed.) 92 Before their eyes all was of a smoake and burning fire. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden i. 66 Whiles Commodus was Emperour, Britannie, was all of a Garboile. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto v. 12 The masts and sail yards were all of a flame. 1668 Duchess of Newcastle (new ed.) 143 When the Tide came in, all their Houses were of a Fire, which did so rarifie the Water, that the Tide was soon turn'd into Vapour. 1697 W. Dampier xv. 414 The Sea seemed all of a Fire about us. 1707 20 Oct. 2/2 The House was all of a smoke, and a very strong smell of Brimstone. 1719 D. Defoe 232 The House, which was by this Time all of a light Flame, fell in upon them, and they were smother'd or burnt together. 1747 H. Glasse xvi. 147 Mill the Cream till it is all of a thick Froth. 1766 O. Goldsmith I. ix. 83 She observed, that..she was all of a muck of sweat. 1827 B. Disraeli IV. vi. i. 10 The poor man, Sir, was all of an ague. 1830 F. Marryat II. vi. 90 The master..finds one day that his sextant case is all of a smudge. 1884 (at cited word) The corn had grown that length, and was all of a cot. 1915 W. S. Maugham civ. 547 The sweat stood in heavy beads on her painted face. ‘Look at me,’ she said. ‘I'm all of a perspiration.’ 1938 8 June 8/8 Later in the season they [sc. crabs] drop off almost altogether until late July,..when they seem to come back all of a rush. 1980 J. Aiken 85 She is all of a sweat, it will do her good to walk her for a mile, till she dries off. the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > be in a specific state or condition [phrase] > in a temporary state or condition 1744 M. Collyer x. 110 I am sure I am all of a flame now, added she..O Madam, cried Lucius, with a design to make her change the subject, that modest blush becomes you incomparably. 1769 H. Brooke IV. xvii. 11 I am all of a tremble. 1802 G. Colman (new ed.) i. i. 5 If I ben't all of a twitter to see my old John Harrowby again! 1848 J. R. Lowell 1st Ser. iv. 57 In the Tower Victory sets, all of a fluster. 1895 Apr. 336/2 I can't wittle a bit o' stick but mai hed is all of a muzz. 1898 S. J. Weyman v. 42 Oh Lord, I have such a head this morning!.. I am all of a twitter. 1918 May 299/1 I feel all of a doo-dah, all of a wonk. 1922 J. Joyce ii. 387 Bless me, I'm all of a wibblywobbly. 1996 J. Trollope xv. 193 Velma's just been in, all of a tizz. 2001 C. Glazebrook 302 He's got me all of a wag, narmean? the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > [adjective] 1594 T. Nashe sig. Eiij The diuell..hath left forme and is all for matter. 1608 G. Markham & L. Machin iv. sig. G3 The Queene is all for reuelles, her light heart..Bestowes it self vpon delightfulnesse. 1659 D. Pell sig. a3v The Age wee live in is all for novelties, and high-strained Jigs of Musick. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in 249 The wight..Who true to Love, was all for Recreation, And minded not the Work of Propagation. 1791 J. Boswell anno 1775 I. 467 Mrs. Thrale was all for..according to the vulgar phrase, making the best of a bad bargain. 1819 Ld. Byron iv. 5 The Prince is all for the land-service, Forgetting Duncan, Nelson, Howe, and Jervis. 1864 A. Trollope I. xix. 150 I am all for Mr. Cheesacre..I can't abide anything that's poor. 1919 C. Dawson v. 49 In watching him they will feel a thrill of excitement; they, too, will become ‘all for it’. 1934 D. L. Sayers 105 I'm all for a treasure-hunt. 1945 J. B. Priestley iii. 38 ‘You've got to..see that the country's run properly.’ ‘I'm all for that,’ said Herbert. 2004 K. Gregory ii. 32 I'm all for delegating; but abdicating is a different story. P22. 1598 J. Marston To Good Opinion sig. A3 Sole Regent of Affection, perpetuall Ruler of Iudgement,..the All of all. 1652 E. Benlowes viii. li. 115 In God, the All of All, we see. 1866 E. E. Salisbury tr. Sulaiman First Ripe Fruit in 8 282 Thy face is my Kiblah, towards which, from every quarter, I direct my prayer, O thou all of all. 1914 A. H. Stroh & F. Sewall tr. E. Swedenborg i. 84 From Him are all things, because He is All of All. 1993 N. W. Smith (rev. ed.) iii. 78 He is the source of all living beings, all the gods, all the universe, the All of all. P23. all but. Cf. all-but n.the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adverb] > almost or nearly 1590 E. Spenser iii. i. sig. Cc3v All were faire knights, and goodly well beseene, But to faire Britomart they all but shadowes beene. 1598 J. Bastard in E. Farr (1845) II. 306 Man..All but resembleth God, all but his glasse, All but the picture of his maiestie. 1612 F. Bacon (new ed.) 235 Walled Towns,..Masse of treasure, Number in Armies.., are all but a Sheep in a Lions skin, except the..disposition of the people be militarie. a1678 A. Marvell Poems in (1776) III. 412 Society is all but rude To this delicious solitude. 1772 ‘Junius’ 21 Jan. (1772) II. 313 He is no longer that all-but-convicted felon..who by law is not bailable at all. 1795 J. Woodforde 11 Apr. (1929) IV. 189 Mr. Thorne..dressed my Ancle, pronouncing it to be now all but well. 1810 M. L. Weems Let. in (1929) III. 14 Doctor Fendall..sold 60 doll[ar]s all but. 1878 R. B. Smith 203 The best and all-but-sufficing answer. 1941 G. de Poncins & L. Galantière (1942) i. iv. 101 You were assailed by a warm stink that all but strangled you. 1996 15 Apr. 5/1 The purpose was..to scour out backwater areas critical to wildlife habitat, especially that of the all but extinct humpback chub. the world > relative properties > quantity > approximate quantity or amount > [adjective] > almost complete or entire 1816 J. K. Tuckey (1818) i. 18 Negro washerwomen, whose state of all but nudity. 1834 T. Carlyle ii. ii. 33/2 The all but omnipotence of early culture. 1881 W. S. Gilbert ii. 31 Col. (apologetically). I'm afraid we're not quite right. Ang. Not supremely, perhaps, but, oh so all-but! Oh, Saphir, are they not quite too all-but? 1920 ‘W. S. Palmer’ 43 Until the great all-but-men brought forth true men. 1935 W. Empson 3 Our all-but freedom. 1999 S. M. Novick in J. R. Bradley i. 13 The subordinate halves of these couples are often financially dependent on their all-but-spouses. 1594 W. Shakespeare sig. B4v In this ayme there is such thwarting strife, That one for all, or all for one we gage. View more context for this quotation 1607 J. Norden i. 34 All for one, and one for all, should seke, examine and declare the vttermost truth of euerything. 1798 tr. F. Kratter iii. x. 129 Blood and life, one for all, and all for one! 1831 1 242 The welfare and misfortune of each teacher became the welfare or misfortune of the whole, in the spirit of that beautiful maxim; ‘All for one and one for all’. 1846 W. Barrow tr. A. Dumas ix. 34/1 All for one, and one for all [Fr. tous pour un, un pour tous]; that's our maxim, I believe? 1921 Aug. 14/1 We'll give a fine exhibition of a happy family, one for all and all for one! 1958 16 Oct. 17 In our squadron we're all for one and one for all. 2010 G. Obama & D. Lewis xvi. 202 All for one and one for all. No one fucks with the Huruma brothers and gets away with it. P25. 1614 E. Grimeston tr. P. Matthieu vii. 226 Hee would not haue been satisfied with halfe Europe. All or nothing. 1649 S. Richardson 87 To be saved by Christ, and to be saved by works, are contrary, the one excludes the other, Christ will be all, or nothing. 1703 (new ed.) 39 His natural fury and Ambition sparred him to gain all or nothing, which did not end well with him. 1793 B. Vaughan Pref. p. xxii. Liberty will no longer seek to build its temple upon the sands of democracy; nor ambition pursue that deep game, of all or nothing. 1862 R. W. Emerson Jan. (1914) IX. 361 My estimate of my own mental means and resources is all or nothing; in happy hours, life..infinitely rich, and sterile at others. 1891 A. D. Waller iii. 90 ‘All or nothing’ is the motto of the heart's contraction under these circumstances. 1922 XXXII. 104/2 In the case of the heart muscle, this fact has long been known and was given the name of the ‘law of all-or-nothing’... This law has now been shown to hold for voluntary muscle and for nerve. 1950 B. Wootton iii. 49 Questions which (like nearly all the significant issues in life) cannot but be matters of more or less are constantly answered in terms of yes or no, all or nothing. 1996 4 July 17 Why is it all-or-nothing? 1656 J. Beadle iv. 77 Christ will admit of no corrivals, he will be all or none. 1721 (Rom. i. 19–32) 6/1 God will be all or none. 1856 T. H. Benton II. 672/2 They turn upon the principle of all or none! 1889 J. Le Conte iii. vi. 317 Mind is either all or none; so also mechanics is all or none. 1912 E. H. Starling v. 230 The rule of ‘all or none’..was first enunciated for heart muscle. 1934 Jan. 374 My remark..was based upon the rule of ‘all or none’. 2003 E. D. Schlenker in S. R. Williams & E. D. Schlenker (ed. 8) v. 98/1 If one [sc. amino acid] is missing, the protein is not formed—the law of ‘all or none’. a1665 K. Digby (1868) 14 It was all that both the watches could do together to tacke about the sailes. 1711 J. Swift 25 Dec. (1948) II. 446 Making honourable mention of her; which is all I can do to serve her memory. 1719 G. London & H. Wise (ed. 7) 44 So great a quantity of Fruit..that 'twill be all we can do to spend them before the Rottenness..surprizes them. 1847 W. M. Thackeray (1848) xxi. 181 It was all I could do to prevent myself from throwing the sofa cushion at her. 1901 W. Hargreaves v. 32 As for saving, it is all I can do to..make ends meet. 1942 W. Faulkner 213 The colt was missing and it was all he could do to get the frantic mare into the lot. 2003 F. Shaw 312 The snow was falling so hard,..it was all I could do to see my way round past the station and on to The Mount. P27. 1702 12 Now this is all very well..but alack! We see it turned to no account. 1779 J. Warner in J. H. Jesse (1844) IV. 283 It is all very well, sir; I know what you will say—that you [etc.]. 1836 C. Dickens 1st Ser. I. 16 As to the curate, he was all very well; but..the curate wasn't a novelty, and the other clergyman was. 1837 C. F. Partington III. 746/2 As a curiosity the black swan is all very well..but it has none of the beauty and grace of the white swan. 1853 C. Brontë II. xx. 67 This would have been all very well, if he had not added to such kindly and unobtrusive evidence a certain wilfulness in discharging what he called debts. 1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ xxvii. 288 Mr. Cornish is all very well in his way. But we're not fools. 1961 21 It is all very well to scoff at H. G. Wells because much of his writing betrays a perky mediocrity. 1985 19 Aug. 27/2 One has heard of holiday romances, which are all very well, but really, in one's own home! 2010 29 Oct. 24/5 Debating was all very well 20 months ago; now it is time for action. 1819 J. Poole ii. iii. 49 That may be all very fine; but don't think I'm to be done out of my estate. 1861 T. A. Trollope I. iv. 74 It is all very fine, but one must live. 1887 7 Aug. 2/4 How many people passed the turnstiles at the Alexandra Palace I am not in a position to say, but that the attendance was all very fine and large is beyond dispute. 1953 C. Day Lewis iii. 34 Terribly apt to ask what Our all-very-fine sensations were in aid of. 2003 M. Amis 160 That's all very fine and large. Because the wound's in you, my son. 2003 17 Mar. 15/4 This is all very fine, except that even, [his] best friends could not, hand on heart, argue that his performance has been much cop. 1718 (ed. 17) i. 28 What do you mean by these five Alls?.. I will tell you: The first All is, the Country hath sent All, the City hath lent All, the Court hath spent All; so if we don't mend All, it will be the worse for All. 1764 13 Apr. Let them with Chearfulness repair to the Four-Alls..near Tower-Hill. 1788 F. Grose (ed. 2) at Alls The five alls is a country sign, representing five human figures, each having a motto under him. The first is a king in his regalia; his motto, I govern all: the second a bishop in pontificals; motto, I pray for all: third, a lawyer in his gown; motto, I plead for all: fourth, a soldier in his regimentals, fully accoutred; fifth, a poor countryman with his scythe and rake; motto, I pay for all. 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ (new ed.) 109/1 The Five Alls is a country sign representing five human figures, 1st., a king with a regalia, motto ‘I govern all’; 2nd., a bishop in pontificals, motto ‘I pray for all’; 3rd., a lawyer, motto ‘I plead for all’; 4th., a soldier, motto ‘I fight for all’; 5th., a poor countryman with his scythe and rake, ‘I pay for all’. 1878 2 Feb. An inn in Marlborough has the sign ‘The Five Alls.’ They are—a king, with the motto, ‘I govern all;’ a bishop, with ‘I pray for all;’ a lawyer, ‘I plead for all;’ a soldier, ‘I fight for all;’ a labourer, ‘I pay for all.’ 1969 E. R. Delderfield i. 34 George VI appears on the Five Alls sign, Cheltenham (Glos), as does our present queen on a similar sign of the Four Alls, Ovington (Yorks). 2010 D. Cockrill 56 The elderly couple at the Five Alls were friendly with my parents and the place itself used to fascinate me. 1753 S. Richardson VI. liii. 339 He took his seat..and was all Himself, the most graceful and obliging of men. 1787 16 Apr. In the first part of the play, the Siddons found not scope for her great abilities; but whenever any energy..and marked expression brought her forth, she was there again all herself. 1849 T. B. Macaulay I. v. 644 The chief justice was all himself. His spirits rose higher and higher as the work went on. 1884 23 May 5/3 Mr. Grace was all himself [at cricket]. 1923 Sept. 1037/1 He was all himself again now, except that he felt horribly sick, and his feet hurt terribly. 1992 45 226 He looked up at me, all himself again, and smiled. 1833 J. D. Hopkins 53 The boy stopped, and..began to make his excuses. Run on, you rogue, said Mr. Parsons, never mind me—we are all boys together now. 1931 M. Allingham xxvi. 270 All boys together. What delightful neighbours we are. 1962 R. Jeffries vii. 70 A matey all-boys-together laugh. 1992 (BNC) The muck-and-bullets, all lads together wartime analogy that continues to dominate our sporting thinking. 2004 N. Puwar v. 85 As men move between various male spaces..an ‘all boys together’ atmosphere is forged. 1836 Aug. 205 Marlinspike now swore that it was all day with him; and as it was no use to veer or haul any longer, he might as well content himself. 1889 C. A. J. Farrar ix. 127 Some drift stuff had lodged a little way below where we were, and I knew if they went among that it was all day for me. 1912 9 May 249/3 She'll hold the rail if any is to be found; if not, it's all day for me and her. 1931 July 6/1 Them keys look pretty much all alike, an' once you lose your bearin's it's all day with you. 1837 J. T. Irving II. x. 121 I've got a carackter for shooting; and I don't want to lose it, all to once. 1896 S. Baring-Gould vii. 178 All to once her'll smell a snitch o' sage and ingins. 1921 May 10/1 ‘Do you like the lines? Do they begin too pathetic all to once?’ asked the bard. 1950 19 Nov. 18 a/6 Seems likely it would be easier takin' her time than tryin' to do it all to once. 2011 T. F. Platt viii. 102 We'd like to see a clean sweep of Rose, Maxine, Jo, Wynona, and Dosia, getting the business [sc. pregnancy] on the road all to once, you see. the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > nothing > nothing at all 1842 June 97 Dang all about twittering! 1939 J. Mulgan iii. 31 There's —— all grows up here. 1948 P. Larkin Let. 9 Sept. in (1992) 150 I have had cock-all holiday so far & find myself getting edgy & nervy. 1984 G. Seymour x.139 ‘You don't have a lot of chance to talk.’ ‘Here? I've shit all chance to talk.’ 1988 R. Hillis in G. Ursell 90 She can't see shit-all without her glasses. 1998 A. Campbell Diary 11 Sept. in (2007) 323 [He] was smart but knew jack all about the economy. 2003 P. Kay et al. 1st Ser. Episode 3. 193/1 Well, someone's got to do your job: you've done piss all, that's what you've done! 1848 J. E. Jones 39 Stalk still I'd stand, and they might do their own work for all of me. 1854 M. J. Holmes xix. 124 No;—he may have her and go to the old boy for all of Josh. 1911 H. S. Harrison xvii. 209 Thus they parted, almost precipitately, and, for all of him, might never have met again in this world. 1951 G. Heyer iv. 60 I told him to his head his lady might go hang for all of me! 2010 K. Koja 171 It can't be soon enough for all of me. 1892 E. P. Elmhirst 280 Foxes have no manners; foxhounds no courtesy—and neither one nor the other have the grace to wait till ‘All On’ announces the muster roll. 1936 D. W. E. Brock 231 The whipper-in who, on counting the Pack finds that every hound is present, reports to his huntsman: ‘All on, sir!’ 1980 Duke of Beaufort App. 207 A pack is said to be ‘all on’ when all the hounds are there. 2006 H. J. Robards (2011) ii. 36 As he passes the whipper-in, he hears, ‘All on, sir.’ 1918 17 Aug. 19/1 Bluebird has rescued from the oblivion which perforce overtakes all things cinema, another excellent photoplay. 1968 Dec. 2/2 To be totally professional, a PAO [sc. public affairs officer] must keep pace with all things public affairs and all things Navy. 2022 macclesfield-express.co.uk (Nexis) 4 May May 4 has in recent years become the day to celebrate all things Star Wars, with people marking the day with the phrase May the 4th be with you. 1929 5 Apr. 28/6 (advt.) You'll hear and see the first all singing—all dancing—all talking Broadway jazz revue. 1953 M. Renault v. 106 The film of the evening was all singing, all dancing, and in technicolour.] 1968 Sept. 54/2 [The plane] came equipped with the all-singing, all-dancing Piper Altimatic III autopilot. 1978 14 July 136/3 ‘It [sc. a tank] was an all singing, all dancing, thing... but far..too complicated for any crew to handle,’ said one NATO observer. 1995 24 Apr. 16/7 ‘Multimedia software’—that all-singing all-dancing program whose aim is to excite and entertain. 2007 K. Wharton ii. 55 An all-singing all-dancing model [of child car seat] which may only last a few months. Compounds C1. Compounds of the adjective. Not all the items listed in this section correspond to compounds found for a typical adjective. In those covered at Compounds 1b and Compounds 1c, all resembles a combining form: see the note at Compounds 2.The earliest combinations of the adjective are all-might (cf. Compounds 1b) and a number of adverbs (e.g. algate adv., alway adv., always adv.), formed in Old and early Middle English. Thereafter formations are very rare until the end of the 16th cent. and only become common once all has begun to combine in a syntactically freer manner.In contrast to compounds of the adverb or pronoun, compounds of the adjective often have the stress on all from Old English (e.g. alway adv.) to the present day (e.g. allsorts n.).1600 B. Jonson v. i. sig. Oiiv Come on Signior, now prepare to Court this All-witted Ladie. View more context for this quotation 1630 J. Taylor ii. 61/2 Al-shaped Proteus. a1774 A. Tucker (1777) III. iii. 396 Persons of all sized apprehensions. 1850 P. J. Bailey 9 The bowery coverture of woods, Ancient and dense, laced with all-tinted flowers. 1882 E. Doyle v. 124 Tossing her green arms from her all-hued eyes. 1907 15 Sept. 581/1 An all-shaped triangle, an all-hued tint, A solid surface, an unfeatured face. 1996 P. S. White in D. A. Falk et al. iii. 54 (table) Populations not all-sized or all-aged at any spatial scale at one point in time. 1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne II. xxx. 607 From his all Wisdom nothing but good, common, and regular proceeds. 1827 46 320 Here it has assumed..a sort of all-wisdom. 1877 F. H. Hedge (1878) x. 283 The more profound our consciousness of God and the sense of his all-presence. 1928 E. Blunden 37 Blind eyes and feeling hands, that take me for all-surety and all-love. 1949 2 53 God in his all-experience might choose to know suffering in his own person. 1983 P. de Man (1984) 26 This mingling signifies the all-presence, the parousia, of quietude. 2005 A. Bancroft tr. C. Marmion i. 14 His All-Wisdom shows Him His own essence as the supreme norm of all activity. c. In adjectives with the sense ‘representative of or relating to the whole of a specified country, state, area, etc., as distinguished from any particular part’. Cf. pan- comb. form 2a. 1837 Oct. 256 The All England eleven were picked by Mr. Aislabie. 1878 (title) Laws of Lawn-Tennis, as adopted by The Marylebone Cricket Club, and The All England Croquet and Lawn-Tennis Club. 1898 Feb. 154/1 In the latter part of October an All-India Epworth League Convention was held at Calcutta. 1904 27 Oct. 951/1 The selection of ‘All-America’ teams seems to have become a mania. 1906 Oct. 332 We are forced onwards to the necessity of an all-world State if we would escape an all-world anarchy. 1928 28 Sept. 242/3 The all-India leaders. 1937 ii. 133 The All-Africa Convention. 1952 C. P. Blacker viii. 160 In 1926..there took place..the first All-Union [i.e. the U.S.S.R.] census of population. 1990 Aug. 100 The all-Wales approach to economic planning..lent credibility to these demands. 2008 R. L. Hardgrave & S. E. Kochanek (ed. 7) iii. 108 They also fear that local candidates may fail in an all-India competition. 1888 Nov. 166/2 The All-American team..is composed of men picked from the ranks of the representative ball teams of America. 1898 R. C. Long tr. K. P. Pobyedonostseff 49 It is terrible to think of our condition if destiny had sent us the fatal gift—an All-Russian Parliament! 1920 B. Russell v. 76 The All-Russian Soviet, which is constitutionally the supreme body. 1939 11 124 He is skeptical of the success of an all-Indian army and feels that there are large areas in India where it would be difficult to raise a soldier worth his pay and rations. 1953 W. Levi 353 At the All-Asian Conference in Delhi..this rivalry became clear. 1957 28 Sept. 1003/1 The process..would close when the promised elections set up an all-Korean government. 1992 R. Fritsch-Bournazel ii. 52 An all-European institution to guarantee human rights. 2001 P. P. Read (2002) iv. i. 308 Lenin has founded a Bolshevik Okhrana, called the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Struggle against Counter-Revolution and Sabotage. d. In adjectives with the sense ‘concerning or including all the people, things, etc., expressed by the second element’. 1867 56 Dr. A. Furnas... Considers Wilson's Albany the all purpose berry. 1933 37 2 In Europe our aerodromes, being surfaced with excellent turf, are available for landing in every direction. In other words, they are ‘all way’ fields and the envy of the Americans. 1937 Feb. 44/2 An alternative [television] set incorporating an 8-valve all-wave sound receiver. 1955 W. W. Denlinger i. 159 The dog..was many times Best Dog in Show at all-breed shows. 1996 4 Feb. (Review section) 3/2 Their class was all-ability and they came from every social background. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > affecting all indiscriminately 1909 8 Nov. 7/1 The National All-Grades Movement of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. 1960 (Colony & Protectorate Kenya) 86 622 The setting up of an all-races Upper House. 1960 4 July 19/5 An all-types total of 300,000,000. 1999 K. I. Macdonald & G. M. Macdonald in P. Parsloe i. 38 When we opt for an ‘all outcomes’ definition of risk the complexity escalates. e. 1956 May 2/1 (advt.) Three piers for an all access bridge to the intake structure were also formed. 1984 M. Bego viii. 94 On Sunday night I watched it from the floor, or orchestra, level, thanks to my all-access press badge. 2003 5 Aug. 139/3 RealOne Rhapsody 2.1 offers two monthly payment plans: a $4.95 radio-only plan and a $9.95 all-access plan. 2005 M. M. Frisby xvii. 116 I was given a red all-access wristband and sent on my way. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [adjective] > types of play 1919 5 Sept. 5/3 An exponent of the all-court game. 1927 5 June 21 His main weakness is a preference for the base-line rather than the all-court game. 1996 (Nexis) 27 Jan. 35 He's a very, very talented player, an all-court player and quite capable of beating all of us. 2003 O. Shine 6 [He] plays an all-court game with a powerful single-handed backhand. the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > other alcoholic drinks > [noun] > others 1785 F. Grose All Nations, a composition of all the different spirits sold in a dram shop, collected in a vessel, into which the drainings of the bottles and quartern pots are emptied. 1866 28 Aug. 7/5 They give him a drink called ‘all nations’, and after that they will knock any one down. 1884 A. C. J. Gustafson iv. 50 At present [‘curious old brown sherry’ is] termed by publicans the drink of all nations, and not limited to wines by any means. 1939 J. Joyce i. 11 All spoiled goods go into her nabsack: curtrages and rattlin buttins, nappy spattees and flasks of all nations.] 1993 D. Lambdin v. ii. 171 Had but the one packet ship, and a used-goods chandlery... Inn, chandlery, an ‘all-nations’ dram shop... Sold slop goods and shoddy not fit for anyone but slaves and the idle poor... Condemned salt meats, weevily flour, gin, rum and ratafia brandy. 1959 24 Nov. 3/5 (heading) All Ordinary Industrial Index... [Note] The new Sydney Industrial index given above covers all Ordinary shares and gives a more complete picture of the market than the index given previously.] 1964 40 304 Nearly 300 stocks were used, representing All Ordinaries, and sub-divided into 15 Groups and 50 Leaders. 1968 15 June 75/1 In the five years from the end of 1962 to the end of 1967..the all-ordinaries index rose by 62%. 2006 10 June 40/3 Thursday's awful shakedown on the bourse..pushed the All Ordinaries to within an inch of a technical correction. society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [noun] > index of 1958 16 Dec. 19/4 (table) Share Price Index. Bantes, etc. Other finance. Pastoral. Retailers, etc. Base metal. All ords. Industrials. 1985 4 Sept. 28/3 Fund manager Ray Greenshield believes the all ords technically is at a mature stage of a bull market. 2000 11 June 75/1 The all ords closed up 19.8 points at 3146.5, gaining 5.6 points over the week. 1909 24 Feb. 4 The formation of an all parties cabinet in Belgrade. 1928 23 Nov. 401/3 The all-parties Constitution. 1991 21 Oct. 2/2 The tenuous middle ground between Israel's insistence on bilateral negotiations and Arab demands for an all-parties peace conference under UN auspices. 1908 P. Mackaye i. 36 You never heard of the all-party mascot? 1935 18 Dec. 1/3 The Olson supra-party organization is known as the All-Party Union. 1970 4 May 8/2 Mr. Douglas Jay..leads his all-party group of anti-Marketeers. 1998 58/1 The VS was invited to an all-party meeting to discuss the future of this church. 2007 19 Oct. 24/1 The all-party foreign affairs committee is to examine long-standing suspicions that the agency [etc.]. society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [adjective] > insurance policy types 1885 94 The rights which an assured now possesses against an all risks policy. 1911 105 413/2 The insurance is to be a complete insurance against all risks..an insurance which would be known as an all risks insurance. 1962 D. Tench vi. 74 It is a mistake to imagine that a comprehensive policy covers the consumer against every conceivable happening... Even an ‘All Risks’ policy does not cover you against all risks. 1998 Aug. 53/3 If you want to insure items that you take outside your home—a camera or bicycle, for example—you'll need extra cover. This is called personal possessions or ‘all risks’ cover. 1889 Rep. Lect. & Discuss. Agric. Topics 190 in (1890) (State Rhode Island & Providence Plantations) Q. Why is it the regular seedsman puts down both All Season and Summer varieties? A. So that he can sell more cabbage seed, I suppose. 1956 13 May 13/1 (advt.) The entirely new, all-season, all-weather oil. 1960 56/2 Oakleaf (Summer Triumph). An all season variety of fine texture and sweet flavor. 1979 (Penguin Travel Guides) 652 Open all year, this world-famous resort offers a variety of all-season sports. 1992 Apr. (Home Values) 32 Drifter Duette and Snuggledown Triple Options are both all-seasons duvets. 2008 17 July d10/1 He wanted to find the lightest possible couture-quality crepe to create all-season clothes for working women. the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [adjective] > covering entire sky 1955 7 510/2 An all-sky camera is doubtless an ideal tool for the study of auroral forms and their changes. 1989 13 July 111/2 The lack of all-sky visibility. 1992 S. P. Maran 314/1 The first all-sky map of the sky at thermal infrared wavelengths. 2006 G. Basalla ix. 170 The NASA project initially included an all-sky survey for incoming signals. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > [noun] > general types of 1955 [see all-sky adj.]. 1973 C. Sagan (1975) vii. 50 (caption) Composite photograph by all-sky cameras of our Milky Way Galaxy. 1996 37 614 P.N. Smith..presented details of a sensitive new all-sky camera combining fast ‘telecentric’ optics and state-of-the-art intensifier technology. 2009 S. B. Mende et al. in J. L. Birch & V. Angelopoulos 363 These bins on the final image matrix are mapped to the appropriate pixels in the all-sky camera image. 1833 T. P. Thompson in Oct. 329 The ‘all slavery’ party in England,—who wherever two or three were gathered together to oppress, were there in the midst of them. 1909 Sept. 243/2 Properly pegged wheels combined with an all-wheel drive..should give greater adhesive power. 1916 30 Nov. 930/2 Two-wheel brakes..will give all the retardation that it is safe to use. This is not, of course, the only reason why all-wheel brakes have not been adopted generally. 1966 15 Sept. 388/3 The cost of all-wheel-control..would be quite prohibitive. 2008 (National ed.) 3 Aug. (Sports section) 11/1 The Turbo X is the first true Saab..with all-wheel drive. 1877 22 Mar. 224/2 An ‘all-year-round layer’ is as common as a never-sleeping servant. It is against nature for a fowl to lay all the year round. 1965 17 July 5/3 As an all-year motorist I have..been ‘hit’ by the arrival of summer. 1991 No. 34. 809/1 With an all-year-round tan Miss Australia doesn't need foundation. 2005 L. Holford-Strevens i. 16 An all-year BST, renamed ‘British Standard Time’, was enacted in 1968. C2. Compounds of the adverb or pronoun. Adjectival compounds of the adverb are widely attested in Old English, e.g. all-bright adj. at Compounds 2a(a)(ii), all-green adj. at Compounds 2a(a)(ii), all-holy adj., almighty adj., all-white adj., but formations in Middle English are very rare. From the middle of the 16th cent. formations are found again and by the 17th cent. have become almost unlimited in number, esp. where the second element is a present participle (all-wielding adj. is an earlier, Old English formation of this type). In compounds of this type, it is frequently impossible strictly to separate examples where all is adverbial, modifying a participial adjective, and those which are objective compounds, where all is the pronoun (e.g. all-destroying adj., all-enveloping adj., etc.). Over the 18th and esp. 19th and 20th centuries, the range of compounds formed with all grew, often resulting in further syntactic ambiguities involving not only the pronoun and adverb, but also the adjective. For example, all-defiance (apparently an ad hoc formation of Thomas Carlyle's: see all-defiance n. at all-defiant adj. Derivatives) could be interpreted as a compound of the adjective (cf. Compounds 1b), an objective compound of the pronoun (cf. Compounds 2c(a)), or as a derivative of the compound of the adverb, all-defiant (cf. Compounds 2a(e)(i)). The combining uses of all hence replicate the ambiguities found in the simple uses (see note at sense C. 1) with the result that the syntactic behaviour of all- is more characteristic of, and in some cases better viewed as, that of a combining form.The stress of compounds of the adverb or pronoun falls typically in the second element (compare the variation found in compounds of the adjective: see the note at Compounds 1). [Found in Old English as first element in a large number of adjectives, such as (in sense Compounds 2a) eallbeorht (see all-bright adj. at Compounds 2a(a)(ii)), eallgearo (compare yare adj.), eallgelēaflic (compare yleve n., -ly suffix1), eallgrēne all-green adj. at Compounds 2a(a)(ii), eallhālig all-holy adj., eallhwīt all-white adj., eallīsig (compare icy adj.), eallmihtig almighty adj., eallnacod all-naked adj. at Compounds 2a(a)(ii), eallnīwe all-new adj. at Compounds 2d, ealltǣwe entirely sound, true (compare taw v.1), and (in sense Compounds 2b) eallgylden (compare gilden adj.), eallīren (compare iron adj.), eallseolcen all-silken at Compounds 2b(a)(i). Compare also (with sense of the first element shading into objective use of the pronoun) (weak) eallwealda omnipotent (see all-wielding adj.) and combinations with present participles, as eallbyrnende (compare burning adj.), eallwealdende all-wielding adj. (see Compounds 2a(b)). Of these probably only all-holy adj., almighty adj., and all-wielding adj. survived into Middle English, while others (e.g. all-good adj.) were re-formed in early modern English. Apparently Middle English formations are all-witty adj., all-worthy adj. at Compounds 2a(a)(ii), while formations such as all-wise adj. and all-merciful adj. at Compounds 2a(a)(ii), all-just adj. at Compounds 2d date to the early modern period. Since c1600, the number of these has been enormously extended, all- having become a possible prefix, in poetry at least, to almost any adjective denoting a quality (see Compounds 2a(a)).] a. Adverbially, with the sense ‘wholly, completely; altogether, quite’. Cf. sense C. 2. (a) With adjectives. In later use frequently with the more general intensive sense ‘very’. eOE (2009) xxiv. 19 Meahtest ðe full recen on ðæm rodere ufan siððan weorðan, and ðonne..æt ðæm ælcealdan anum steorran..ðone Saturnus sundbuende hatað..; he is se cealda eallisig tungl [lOE Bodl. se is eallisig]. OE Ælfric Homily (Vitell. C.v) in J. C. Pope (1968) II. 778 Swylce [getruman] ridendra manna mid swyþe reþum anginne.., mid eallsweartum lichaman [L. nigros et terribiles]. 1340 (1866) 191 Þet gernier wes an haste aluol. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye II. 565 God, who is aliust [Fr. tout iuste], almightie, and algood. 1600 C. Tourneur sig. B3v Where shall I finde a safe all-peacefull seat. 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid viii. 166 One who did despise All-able Gods. a1649 W. Drummond (1656) 201 Earths all-thorny soyle. a1649 W. Drummond (1656) 204 Of the first World an all-substantial Man. 1654 J. Dury 22 He is the onely true God alone; in Being infinite,..all-knowing, all-wise, all-free, all-just, all-holy, all-mighty, all-perfect, all-happy, all-good, all-true, all-faithful, and full of mercy and compassion. 1742 E. Young ii. 270 As all-rapacious usurers conceal Their doomsday-book from all-consuming heirs. 1792 T. Taylor tr. 158 Sprung from the head of Jove, of splendid mien, Purger of evils, all-victorious queen. 1842 H. E. Manning xx. 303 Christ..was all-pure. 1845 P. J. Bailey (ed. 2) 215 Command of mind alone, and of the world Unbodied and all-lovely. 1875 3 205 First Epistle of the holy and all-praiseworthy Apostle Paul to [the] Corinthians. a1889 G. M. Hopkins (1967) 179 Thundering all-surfy seas. 1907 H. James xiv. 424 The all-gregarious and generalized life suffices to every need. 1946 C. Beaton Diary 15 Mar. in (1979) xvi. 176 In her all-grey greys she looked like a Mantegna. 1994 July 2/2 A new breed of holier-than-thou, no-frills, all-serious yuppos who think humor and high-tech computing do not go hand in hand? (ii) 1618 J. Vicars sig. D2 All the Saints of this blest race, Shall see th' all-beautious, Light-bright shining face Of that Arch-Essence of eternitie. 1785 T. Dwight ii. 29 Flowers all-beauteous. 1851 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer iii. 60 She beheld the all-beauteous neck of the goddess. 2009 tr. M.-F. P. Sauka in S. DeCapua (ed. 2) 69 Wood and forest, plains so broad and fair, All-beauteous Malawi. 1670 J. Eachard 16 To complement, and invite inferiour Peoples Children to the University, and there pretend to make such an all-bountiful provision for them. 1740 S. Richardson II. 388 The All-good, the All-bountiful, the All-mighty, the All-merciful God. 2006 M. Bowen in J. Zajda iv. 50 This marks a decided break from the dominant world view that saw man (or at least some men) mastering an all-bountiful nature. OE 520 Engla drihten..gefatian het englas eallbeorhte andleofan gingran. 1613 S. Hutton tr. J. M. de Franchis ii. xxv. 29 The Sun and stars lightning this worlds huge ball, Are all but shadows of his all-bright feature. 1795 W. Blake Bk. of Los iv, in (1965) 93 He..survey'd the all-bright mass. 1899 N. Orloff tr. xi. 111 The rivers golden-streamed, the all-bright lamps, the champions of the Trinity. 2010 S. Naylor 104 Bright roses and blooms are not recommended, even with an all-bright bouquet. 1848 P. J. Bailey (ed. 3) 328 Round heaven's secret and all-central sun. 1994 R. J. Faley 111 The more that any human ingredient is exalted in the Christian experience, the less apparent is the all-central power of the cross. 1606 sig. F A King of all compleat perfection. 1999 T. E. Pressman 40 There is..only the experience of ongoing Fulfillment, ever-present and all-complete. 1651 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme xiv. 168 Now we will shew you, what the Creatures Life and Dominion is in this All essential Being. 1861 W. Gresley 140 It is of that all-essential and vital character. 1989 Dec. 64/3 Sean Higgins will be all-essential. a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy (1647) i. iii. 70 Your all-generous soule granted me secretly a favour, which was not permitted to be asked you. 1781 B. di Dominiceti 518 Could attacks like these be refuted?.. All-generous as he was, my friend suffered them to operate upon his easy mind. 1859 C. Kingsley xiii. 135 He is the Spirit of the all-generous Father and of the all-generous Son, and has given, and gives now. 1909 F. M. Crawford xii. 209 Neither of them had expected such rare beauty; and with the added illusion of the gold-shot veil and the all-generous sunshine, it was nothing less than transcendent. 2002 (Nexis) 15 May d3 Nor is the state all-generous when money is less a factor. the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [adjective] > glorious 1599 R. Linche sig. Giiv Three of them beautified his all glorious and far-shining forehead. a1656 Bp. J. Hall (1659) ii. ii. 96 The blisse-making presence of the All-glorious God. 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer (new ed.) xiii. 182 Yet was Odysseus ever turning his head toward the all-glorious sun. 1594 J. Sylvester tr. O. de La Noue sig. D4 He is omnipotent, All gratious, and all good, most iust, and perfit wise. 1994 R. E. Brown iii. 58 They have their own struggle with light and darkness, and their salvation is entrusted to the all-gracious God whose ultimate goal is salvific. OE (1932) 798 Sceoldon hie þam folce gecyðan hwa æt frumsceafte furðum teode eorðan eallgrene ond upheofon. 1764 G. Edwards III. 326/1 (table) The round-crested Duck, the greater Dobchick, and the all-green Humming-bird. 1875 25 Nov. 77/2 Two All-green Tanagers (Chlorophonia viridis ). 1992 Apr. 30/4 Can it be only coincidence that Liverpool's fall from football ascendancy has coincided with their adoption of that charming all-green away strip? 1585 Abp. E. Sandys xiv. 259 Three persons & one almightie & almerciful God. 1702 73 This is entirely thy own all-merciful Act. 2010 Feb. 65/2 There are many names for Allah. They include All-Merciful, the Almighty, Jehovah, Alloheim, All-Knower and the Provider. OE (1931) 871 Ic eom eall eallnacod. 1638 W. Davenant 68 Sir, whom I now love more, than did the good Saint Martin, that all-naked-Flesh-and-blood. 1850 v. 144 I see the half-naked women—the all-naked children. 2003 A. Greenwald ii. vii. 92 Instead of showing up for school in your tidy-whities, you end up at an all-naked party in your Levi's. OE Ælfric (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xvii. 171 Ðu [sc. St Jacob] eart eal rihtwis , and nanum ne onbihst. 1543 T. Becon sig. M.vv I am the God almyghty, omnisufficient, all good, all holy, all righteous, all wyse, all liberal, al plenteous, all mercyfull. 1661 G. Rust 75 In the compute and judgment of that all-righteous minde. 1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer V. xxiii. 303 Such future scenes th' all-righteous pow'rs display. 1867 Sept. 23/2 If we can regard the abstract moral law of ethical science as absorbed into the All-righteous, All-loving Personal Will which Christianity reveals. 2004 K. Wright iii. 66 The objective of Jesus' birth, life,..death, and resurrection is to draw us back to God rather than to pay off a wrathful ruler or an all-righteous judge. 1660 H. More iii. i. 58 All-various Godhead, Bacchus, glorious Jove, Or whate're else thou 'rt styl'd, my vows approve. 1794 T. Taylor tr. Pausanias I. 304 He employed all-various purifications. 1889 1 113 The writings of both Homer and Plato demand an all-various examination. 1986 (Republic of Kenya) 70 565 It is not possible to encourage the young people of this country unless we give them some skills..in the all various aspects of our lives in this country. c1475 Antichrist & Disciples in J. H. Todd (1851) p. cxxxvii Chef bischop & kynges son alworþiest. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. v. 95 Pis. Oh, my all-worthy Lord. Clo. All-worthy Villaine, Discouer where thy Mistris is, at once. View more context for this quotation 1702 (ed. 3) 17 All worthy thou, who hast redeem'd And ransom'd us to God. 1849 J. C. Hare (1849) II. 112 The one living, eternal, all-worthy Sacrifice. 1997 T. J. Csordas vi. 196 The ultimate form of prayer to an all-worthy God. (iii) With adjectives in -ent and -ive, deriving from Latin adjectives and participles and typically paralleled by an adjective formed with an English present participle, as all-pervasive and all-pervading, all-sufficient and all-sufficing, etc. (see Compounds 2a(b)). the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > condition or state of being inclusive > [adjective] > inclusive or comprehensive 1650 D. Hotham in tr. C. Hotham To Author sig. A5v So all-comprehensive and omniscient is every present age of all truth, dividing it from falshood to a haire in their grave Councels. 1684 T. Burnet ii. 320 That great all-comprehensive thought. 2005 M. Hiriyanna (new ed.) i. 28 According to others like Bhartṛprapañca, it is a condition in which only the sense of diversity as ultimate disappears and an all-comprehensive reality is experienced. 1628 J. Fletcher 5 A Spirit all-sufficient; All-knowing; all-procuring; all-efficient; Vp-holding all things by his Word and Will. 1836 ‘C. Caustic’ (U.S. ed. 3) i. 19 Our all-efficient verbum sat Will presto raise almighty mobs, Inured to cruel dirty jobs. 1991 (Nexis) 20 Aug. The myth of an all-efficient secret organisation was fostered to encourage widespread fear. 1820 P. B. Shelley i. i. 41 The all-miscreative brain of Jove. 1891 R. L. O'Malley 116 Thou blindly wouldst ascend To that all-miscreative tyrant, Jove. 1823 S. W. Morton 258 Is then that mind, whose all-perceptive eye, Seem'd an imparted light of Deity. 1971 R. Maandell (1987) ii. 55 It seems as though the viewer is given an all-perceptive, grandly manipulable, invisible spot that he can move at will forward or back in space. a1631 J. Donne (1651) 178 So God is also all-perficient: that is, all, and all parts of every work are his intirely. 1737 J. Thurston 37 Let me not be by Titles led, Or yield to all persuasive Red. 1998 (Nexis) 28 Nov. 19 If there is a single, unavoidable contribution that the Age of Clinton has made to American jurisprudence, it is an all-persuasive cynicism. 1578 J. Rolland 32 The Principall ay, is remanent, That is our Father all Potent. 2007 (Nexis) 31 Jan. By virtue of their mercantile and financial standing in this country they are exercising an all potent and powerful influence. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 75 in The good will and pleasure of the All-prepotent God. 1913 D. S. Lamson xiii. 180 For more details as to the protests of the Baptists against paying money to support the all-prepotent Puritan, or First Parish, church in the town, see Chapter VII. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury II. v. 365 That all-prevalent wisdom which you have establish'd. 1981 A. MacLean ix. 161 The air was damp and fetid, a miasmic smell all-prevalent. 1619 I. C. li. 130 O All prouident and carefull Creator, which hast giuen charge and influence to the heauenly Powers. 1630 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in (rev. ed.) 79 The wise and all prouident Creator. 1995 J. Russell ii. 67 The mother will continue to exist in the child's emotional field..as an all-provident purveyor of gratification and support. the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > all-sufficient 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger II. sig. Cccv/1 I will in deede fulfill my promise, and shewe my selfe to be..an all-sufficient or Almightie GOD. 1790 E. Burke 287 Your all-sufficient legislators..have forgot one thing that seems essential. View more context for this quotation 1879 J. A. Froude ii. 17 Moral habits are all-sufficient while they last. 2000 P. Gifford in A. Hastings et al. 256/1 The high view of scripture as all-sufficient and uniquely constitutive of doctrine also has an impeccable pedigree. (b) With present participles (virtually unlimited in number). Sometimes overlapping with the objective use of the pronoun (cf. Compounds 2c). Recorded earliest in Old English in all-burning at Compounds 2a(b)(i) and all-wielding adj., but apparently otherwise unattested until the 16th cent., remaining uncommon until a marked increase in use occurred in Elizabethan poetry.OE Ælfric (Cambr. Gg.3.28) x. 84 Cuðberhtus..eallbyrnende hus ana ahredde wið fyres dare mid halgum benum. OE Ælfric (Claud.) xix. 24 God sende to þam burgum ealbyrnendne renscur mid swefle gemencged. 1560 A. L. tr. J. Calvin sig. Aa.4v Thou with allpearcing eye beheldest me, Without regard that sinned in thy sight. 1597 W. Shakespeare iii. i. 78 To all posterity, Euen to the generall all-ending day. View more context for this quotation 1598 W. Shakespeare ii. i. 21 All telling fame Doth noyse abroad. View more context for this quotation 1598 J. Marston iii. x. sig. I2v Close his eyes with thy all-dimming hand. 1612 M. Drayton v. 76 What all-appointing Heauen will. 1623 W. Drummond 34 All-acting Vertues of those flaming towres. a1649 W. Drummond (1656) 129 Thy all-upholding Might her Malice reins. 1650 W. Beech 122 Not a hair will fall from our heads, without the All-ordering providence. 1694 R. South II. 133 His Infinite, All-searching Knowledge, which looks through and through the most secret of our Thoughts. 1768 A. Tucker II. iii. 505 The all-space-filling Mundane soul. 1827 J. Keble II. lxxx. 116 An all-defying, dauntless look. 1865 J. Bright 175 Christian morality, ever widening and all-blessing in its influence. 1900 S. J. Weyman (new ed.) ii. 18 His face, which seemed the paler and grimmer, the more saturnine and all-mastering. 1914 Mar. 14 There rises up an all-silencing rebuke. 1922 J. Masefield 25 I do not know what power led me on Save the all-living joy of what came next. 2002 Apr. 255/3 One had the Babel-like sense of industrious workers busily..going about their work on this all-dominating object. (ii) the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > of high or great importance a1777 F. Fawkes tr. Apollonius Rhodius (1780) iv. 251 Safe from Charybdis' gulf the vessel guide; Safe from loud Scylla's all-absorbing tide. 1834 J. S. Mill in 8 387 The universal and all-absorbing struggle to be or to appear rich. 1848 A. Brontë II. xviii. 365 I cannot live here, and be for ever silent on the all-absorbing subject of my thoughts and wishes. 1903 L. F. Anderson 36 Personal valour and prowess on the field of battle, courage.., hardihood.., these were the all-absorbing topics of conversation in the mead-hall. 2002 6 Mar. (T2 section) 6/4 The VIP is lulled into a sense of intimacy by the journalist's all-absorbing interest. 1839 Feb. 173 Do we wish for a type—a concentration of the enthusiasm in belief—the all-accepting faith—the questionless devotion of a woman's heart? 1866 G. M. Hopkins (1967) 171 My all-accepting fixèd eye. 1939 R. Campbell ii. 66 The former all-accepting soar above To triumph over death and die for love. 2010 29 Mar. 102/2 Mammy melodramas—stories that showcase stereotypically all-accepting, sexless, selfless black women. 1652 R. Fanshawe tr. Horace in sig. I5 On whom the All-attracting Gold Could with its Tenters ne'r take hold. 1753 S. Richardson I. ii. 9 I mention'd her Neck—Here I dare not trust myself—Inimitable creature! All-attracting loveliness! 1866 C. H. Spurgeon 69 The superlative beauty of Jesus is all-attracting. 1915 D. H. Conner tr. P. Berger x. 151 She [sc. Enion] is the generative power in physical life, as distinguished from Vala, who is its all-attracting beauty. 2011 (Nexis) 9 June We can anchor ourselves in God's infinite, balanced, all-attracting center through prayer. 1602 J. Marston iii. sig. E1v O thou all bearing earth, Which men doe gape for, till thou cramst their mouths, And choakst their throts with dust. 1667 J. Milton v. 338 Whatever Earth all-bearing Mother yeilds In India East or West. View more context for this quotation 1745 E. Young 57 All-bearing, All-attempting, till he falls. 1991 tr. H. U. von Balthasar v. 283 The ‘Fourth Day’, when every form of kingdom and art is dissolved into the glory of the all-bearing sea. a1586 Sir P. Sidney (1590) f. 347 O Phoebus with good cause thy face thou hidest, Rather then haue thy all-beholding eye Fould with this sight. 1630 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in (rev. ed.) 48 See..all beholding King. 1819 W. Wordsworth 8 No mightier work had gained the plausive smile Of all-beholding Phoebus! 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer I. iii. 94 O all-beholding and all-hearing Sun! 1998 M. S. Bhat (new ed.) ii. 31 Its broad contents are: bright rays bear Surya up aloft so that all may look on him and the constellations pass away before the all-beholding sun. 1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in 27 You all-canning wits. 1598 J. Marston ii. v. sig. E3 O, brawnie strength is an all-canning charme! 1583 M. M. S. tr. B. de las Casas sig. h3 They founde there good entertaynement, meate, lodging, all cheering, and refreshing. 1599 W. Shakespeare i. i. 131 The alcheering Sunne. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton iii. 583 They [sc. the Constellations]..towards his all-chearing Lamp Turn swift their various motions. View more context for this quotation 1787 R. Burns (new ed.) 83 All-chearing Plenty, with her flowing horn. 2002 (Nexis) 26 Jan. In The Corrections, Aslan is an all-cheering Prozac-style drug. society > authority > power > [adjective] > all-powerful 1596 R. Linche Dom Diego in sig. D8 Thus lay Diego tossing in his bed, bound to the will of all commaunding beauty. 1603 T. Dekker et al. sig. B4v When all commaunding loue your hearts subdue. 1825 R. Southey Tale of Paraguay iv. xix, in VII. 83 And in their hearts, albe the work was rude, It raised the thought of all-commanding might. 2006 (Nexis) 7 Oct. w22 The allegorical fable continues, dispensing its theme of the need for unity, self-sacrifice and responsibility..but with an all-commanding queen. 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer V. xix. 159 Know, angry Jove, and all-compelling Fate, With fell Erynnis, urg'd my Wrath that Day. 1744 ‘J. Love’ iii. 24 Jove, and all-compelling Fate, In their high Will determin'd Kent should beat. 1911 E. Goldman 12 How can such an all-compelling force [sc. love] be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage? 2005 (Nexis) 21 May b6 The design of an inscrutable wisdom and the work of an all-compelling will have directed and controlled the fortunes of humanity. 1646 R. Crashaw Sospetto d'Herode lxii, in 71 The sweet peace of all-composing Night. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer II. vi. 131 But Pallas now addrest To break the bands of all-composing rest. 1911 H. Frank (ed. 3) xv. 334 The all-composing and sustaining power which builds the worlds of space and guides them in their rhythmic motions. 1606 N. Baxter sig. C2 All comprehending Pan was then no where. 1905 14 266 A universal activity..forms an all-comprehending Lebensraum in which the manifold may meet and enter into relation. 2000 (Nexis) 16 Feb. 12 The dog pays attention as you speak and then reassures you with an all-comprehending wag of his tail. 1594 S. Daniel Cleopatra ii. in (new ed.) sig. I7v All Egipt yeelds to my all-conquering hand, And all theyr treasure and themselues resigne. 1667 J. Milton x. 591 Second of Satan sprung, all conquering Death. View more context for this quotation 1883 P. Schaff et al. II. 1369 An all-conquering conviction of divine vocation and empowerment. 1996 28 Sept. 4 The ‘Miracle on Ice’ of 1980, when the USA defeated the all-conquering USSR to win Olympic gold at Lake Placid. 1700 C. Mather i. 4 Now, to set this All-concerning Truth, in a fair View before you all. 1825 S. T. Coleridge 341 This great all-concerning verity. 1984 A. Metcalfe ix. 233 If government stability was a local issue in this campaign, unemployment was the all-concerning national issue. 1598 H. Petowe sig. Ciii Raine vengeance downe in all consuming showers. 1654 T. Fuller Comment on Ruth 166 in The Boulimee of all-consuming Time. 1742 E. Young 20 As all-rapacious Usurers conceal Their Doomsday book, from all-consuming Heirs. 1880 June 76 Every little winged form that scarcely bends the twig has its all-consuming passion. 1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. v. 158 A sudden release which produces local spasms or more extensive or all-consuming convulsions. 2006 Sept. 76/2 Organic spelt, a low-gluten, high-protein wheat, became his all-consuming preoccupation. 1602 W. Warner (rev. ed.) xiii. lxxix. 327 Vouchsafe by glorifying Thee, Loue, Feare, and Holinesse, Thee, All-containing Selfe-contain'd, we spiritually possesse. 1848 J. R. Lowell Oak 42 in (1873) 76/2 Lord! all thy works are lessons,—each contains Some emblem of man's all-containing soul. 1892 W. B. Yeats Pref. 8 No dramatic method elastic and all-containing enough. 2005 (Nexis) 11 Feb. 24 We were told the uniqueness of an all-containing city centre building, Beijing's Central Chinese Television (CCTV) was only possible in present-day China. 1599 T. Moffett 31 Eu'n next morne the All-creating Sire Had sent abroad, I know not I, what word. 1623 W. Drummond 29 Vncreatde Beautie all-creating Loue. a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 47 in (1721) II. O Self-originated Might, Thou All-creating Infinite. 1999 (Nexis) 18 Sept. 5 Man's need to assuage his innate insecurities with devotion to an all-creating Higher Power. 1778 T. Francklin tr. Sophocles Trachinæ ii. v, in tr. Sophocles II. 273 Whilst Venus, to her vot'ries near, Wav'd o'er their heads the all-deciding wand. 1808 M. Savory 60 The all-deciding key was in his hand; The op'ning box obey'd his first command. 2003 (Nexis) 26 Feb. 25 A high-risk, hell-bent-for-leather dash across the Pacific, in hopes of engaging the Japanese fleet in an all-deciding engagement. 1604 T. Dekker sig. E4v Acts we one day may rehearse In marble nombers, that shall stand Aboue Tymes all-destroying hand. ?1790 T. May 139 Hence clocks denoting times incessant course, Ballistic torments' all-destroying force. 1932 W. B. Yeats 14 All-destroying sword-blade, still Carried by the wandering fool. 2009 (Nexis) 1 Oct. 1 If you had an all-destroying monster of a fire coming towards you and access roads or your cul-de-sac blocked off, a bunker might be a good thing. 1592 A. Fraunce f. 27v The all-deuowring earth, eating and consuming all earthly bodies. 1598 J. Marston i. iii. sig. C5v A die, a drab, and filthy broking knaues, Are..all deuouring graues. 2001 5 July 40/1 The Construction State has become an all-devouring monster, a Godzilla of development. society > authority > control > [adjective] 1597 M. Drayton f. 40 It so long hath beene fore-told by Fate; And by the all-disposing doome of heauen, Before our births, vnto one bed were giuen. 1607 S. Hieron Old-man & New-man in (1620) I. 427 It hath pleased the all-disposing God to remooue you. 1995 M. J. Colacurcio Concl. 490 This single brief quote..is but the projection of an all-disposing narrator. 1605 S. Daniel Philotas i. in sig. B3v Patience that base property, And silly guift of th' all induring Ass. 1935 8 June 857/1 The old noli-me-tangere John Bull has disappeared, and his place has been taken by the all-enduring Little Man. 1996 C. Higson x. 112 The short Indian waiter stood patiently nearby..with an all-enduring smile on his dark features. 1829 R. Southey Scotland in 720/1 The all-engulfing stream of years. 1914 E. von Arnim i. 7 His all-engulfing mass of correspondence. 2000 31 Dec. iv. 4/2 An all-engulfing atmosphere of information. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas ii. ii. 483 Th' Eternall Trine-One, spreading euen the Tent Of th' All-enlightning glorious Firmament. 2002 P. Maltby 29 Within the terms of the novel's postmodern epistemology, the cry cannot be uttered because an all-enlightening ‘Word’ is judged to be inconceivable. 1787 C. Taylor I. 162 Apprehension of all-enveloping darkness. 1897 W. James 238 The vague Asiatic profession of belief in an all-enveloping fate. 1940 L. MacNeice 9 Night came down upon the bogland With all-enveloping wings. 2002 Feb. 112/2 Meanwhile, the government was encouraging women to shed the all-enveloping chadri. 1598 J. Marston 1 Vnlesse my Mistres all-excelling face, Which giues to beautie, beauties onely grace. 1696 J. Lead 38 The Seventh [quality of the Tree of Faith] is an All-excelling Goodness. 1747 S. Richardson I. xv. 88 What a sweet revenge will she take,..if she can procure her rival and all-excelling sister to be married to the man that sister hates. 1859 9 July 11/1 The dress most fit for Volunteers is one that should be fashioned on the model which the Horse Guards has, in its all-excelling wisdom, invented for the ‘regulars’. 1905 ‘E. Bramah’ vi. 98 The agreeable person said that the pleasure he derived from meeting me was all-excelling. 2005 D. Mader tr. C. van der Kooi ii. 46 For Calvin, the realisation of an all-excelling majesty of God is not theory. 1817 S. T. Coleridge 28 July (1959) IV. 758 The constituents and explainers of the all-explaining fluids. 1961 T. Woods v. 75 In so far as it [sc. the utilitarian system] claims to be comprehensive and all-explaining. 1987 25 Jan. (Bk. Review section) 8/2 I find it hard to believe in an ‘all-knowing God’ or an ‘all-explaining, ultimate’ scientific system, and thus cannot accept this excuse. 2003 S. Choi (2004) 283 Radicalism, Jenny thought sometimes, was like Catholicism, with its..strict liturgy, its all-explaining view of the world, its absolute Satan. society > authority > rule or government > [adjective] > all-ruling or governing 1613 S. Jourdan Ep. Ded. sig. A2 Amongst the sensible signes, and euident demonstrations of Gods all-gouerning prouidence, this is not the least. a1649 W. Drummond (1656) 188 The greatest gift that..The all-governing pow'rs to man can give. 1850 C. Dickens lxi. 604 What were supposed to be the main advantages of this all-governing and universally over-riding system? 2000 E. H. Boone 81/1 Geography is the all-governing factor, for all the events have to be adjusted to fit visually in the space left available by the features of the map. 1606 B. Barnes iii. 139 God; the blessed and all-healing fountaine of whose knowledge he with ineffable grace and diuine beneficence openeth to them all that are studious of righteousnesse. 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton ix. Illustr. 152 The Druids inuocation was to one All-healing or All-sauing power. 1660 J. Evelyn 6 A seasonable and all-healing mercy. 1991 A. R. Hutchens 138 Trading was done in wheat, honey..and ‘Pannag’, or the all-healing Ginseng. 1595 W. S. v. iii. sig. I3 Enter the clouds vnto the throne of Ioue, And beare my praiers to his all hearing eares. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer I. iii. 94 O all-beholding and all-hearing Sun! 2003 D. Lyver & G. Swainson (ed. 2) 12 The Director doesn't operate anything, but must have an all-seeing eye, an all-hearing ear, an anticipation of everything before it happens, and the ability to make clear decisions instantly. 1830 N. Hawthorne in 23 Oct. 133/2 On the verge of the harbour, formed by its extremity, is a town; and over it am I, a watchman, all-heeding and unheeded. 1941 H. Weyl tr. J. Ortega y Gasset iii. 103 It is an all-heeding circumspection. 1592 A. Fraunce f. 32 Things began to come to light..in the darkesome bottome of that all-including Chaos. 1848 L. Hunt vii. 92 The all-including genius of Shakspeare. 1999 J. Assman in K. van der Toorn et al. (rev. ed.) 457 Isis-Hathor becomes an all-including deity. 1716 A. Pope tr. Homer II. v. 367 One vast Burst of all-involving Fate Full o'er your Tow'rs shall fall. 1925 Dec. 478/2 The disaster was ruinous, all-involving, complete. 2001 J. Noggle vii. 207 The poem's modernity consists in its portrayal of an all-involving skeptical alienation. ?1567 M. Parker xxxviii. 101 Commit thy way: thy state and stay, to Gods (most strong) all louyng grace. a1788 J. Wesley & C. Wesley (1868) I. ii. 298 Our all-loving Saviour Hath pacified God, And paid for His favour The price of His blood. 1847 R. W. Emerson 22 The all-loving Nature Will smile in a factory. 2002 C. Newland ix. 112 This boyfriend of hers..ruined her dad's all-loving media persona. 1599 R. Linche sig. Aaij Only this sence they haue, for e're to hold Their high-pil'd heapes of all-preuailing gold. 1813 P. B. Shelley ii. 21 All-prevailing wisdom..o'erbounds Those obstacles, of which an earthly soul Fears to attempt the conquest. 2011 (Nexis) 22 Feb. 24 An all-prevailing virtue. the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > relating to Jupiter 1617 J. Vicars tr. F. Herring 34 Thus the Lord in's all protecting grace..Ordain'd, that one of that most trayterous race, Did meet the Lord Mounteagles Seruing-man. 1768 A. Tucker II. iii. 301 Offspring of all-protecting Jove. 1869 1 May 532 The impartial, impassive, all-protecting State. 1998 J. McCabe 177 A man with an all-protecting, reflecting sunglass aura of confidence. 1604 T. Winter tr. G. de S. Du Bartas 16 Vpon their backs they [sc. fruits] beare Ywritten faire Gods all-prouiding care. 1930 ‘R. Crompton’ vi. 129 Lounging at his ease—the gracious, generous all-providing male. 2005 27 Sept. 50/4 Packed lunches from their all-providing employer. 1604 M. Drayton sig. B Time the Sunne by his all-quickning power, Giues life and birth to euery plant and flower. 1650 H. Vaughan sig. A3 Some drops of thy all-quickning bloud. 1781 W. Cowper 396 The soul, whose sight all-quickening grace renews, Takes the resemblance of the good she views. 1841 S. Davies I. v. 102 The all-quickening spirit of God had determined to exert more of his energy, and work more effectually upon you. 1919 C. H. Meltzer tr. G. Hauptmann iii. 69 How, in a moment, has the grace of God, With but a puff of His all-quickening breath, Helped you to spring from your sick-bed to life! 1956 H. Knight tr. W. Niesel iii. 37 Just because the concern of Holy Scripture is not with doctrine but with the all-quickening Word of God, we must confess that we are unable to grasp its meaning by our unaided reason and ability. 1615 J. Sylvester tr. P. Matthieu Memorials of Mortalitie in 149 When All the World fear'd Rome's All-reaching Arms, One vertuous Cato did all Rome dismay. 1674 N. Fairfax 99 Motion, which is an all-reaching affection or belonger to each bit of the world. 2011 X. Chen in L. A. Jensen v. 92 Hinde..has argued that different levels of social experiences are embedded within an all-reaching cultural system. society > authority > rule or government > [adjective] > all-ruling or governing 1592 A. Fraunce f. 13 In his right hand he holdeth an all-ruling scepter, in his left, a sin-correcting lightning. 1667 J. Milton i. 212 The will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven. View more context for this quotation 1768 J. Boswell (ed. 2) iii. 164 Looking up to an all-ruling Providence. 1854 A. Brown p. x Called into action by the all-ruling will. 2000 (Nexis) 11 Sept. 14 Councillors will have the option to vote on transforming Sandwell authority's system into one with an all-ruling mayor. 1629 W. Jeffray 20 Perfection, which is the All-satisfying obiect of mans boundlesse desire. 1855 June 102/2 One infinite and unapproachable Wisdom—one all-satisfying and all-perfect Love. 1907 W. James (1909) vi. 157 We get nearer and nearer to realities, we approximate more and more to the all-satisfying limit. 2000 L. Osborne in D. Hedrick & B. Reynolds vi. 137 The female reader, seeking an all-satisfying maternal relationship in the naive heroine's relationship with the dominant male. 1562 T. Sternhold et al. cxxxix. 354 From sight of thy all seeyng sprite, Lorde whether shall I goo? 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas (new ed.) ii. iii. 126 Spiall of Nature, O All-seeing Sunne. 1610 G. Fletcher 8 He heau'ns al-seeing eye, He earths great Prophet. 1710 S. Palmer 376 Our conduct is in view of an all-seeing eye. 2009 Summer 57/1 For the Russian peasant, the tsar was all-seeing and divine. 1608 W. Shakespeare ix. 6 All shaking thunder. View more context for this quotation a1868 C. Harpur (1984) 150 The dread, all-shaking tempest-tramps of Thor. 2007 J. Kavenna 223 She darted around a puddle, brushed a hedge, heard the all-shaking thunder burst around the valley again. 1595 S. Daniel iii. cxxx. sig. S2v This all-subduing powre here staid His faultring tongue. 1740 On Resurrection 6 in F. Peck sig. 2N2v Thy all subduing arm Hath burst the mighty prison hold of Death, And op'd the golden portals of bright heav'n To all believers! 1845 L. S. Costello v. 101 Sheathing his all-subduing sword. 1992 E. Henry ii. 28 A failure to believe in personal love as an all-subduing absolute. 1560 Medit. Penitent Sinner sig. X.iiv, in A. L. tr. J. Calvin From troubled sprite I send confused crye, To craue the crummes of all sufficing grace. 1623 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in 66 That all-sufficient and all-suffizing Happinesse. 1993 D. Worster xvi. 211 This new world-view of materialism armed itself with an all-sufficing, elegant, self-reliant mode of thought called rationalism. 1585 J. Norden f. 160 He hath fraught ye same againe, with all surpassing ioye. 1741 S. Richardson III. xx. 115 The all-surpassing Pleasure that fills the worthy Breast. 2010 (Nexis) 19 Nov. a1 Quick and definitive decision making, crystal-clear goal setting and an all-surpassing attention to the bottom line. 1652 E. Benlowes vii. xl. 100 One Word did th' All-surrounding Skie-roof frame, With all its Starrie sparkling Flame! 1871 W. Whitman 58 America demands a Poetry that is bold, modern, and all-surrounding and kosmical, as she is herself. 2004 G. Woodward i. 16 The all-surrounding wall of mourners? In the end she had to close her eyes. a1627 J. Beaumont (1629) 69 Doth God withdraw his all-sustaining might, And works no more with his faire creature light. 1837 June 552 God's all-sustaining power. 2002 (Nexis) 23 Feb. 1 a They are combining their message of faith in an all-sustaining God with one of self-empowerment and self-help. 1652 E. Benlowes vii. xiii. 97 O, Thou all-splendent, all transcending Throne! Compact of High'st Dominion! 2010 (Nexis) 8 Sept. 16 Today, you don't have an all-transcending goal to keep everyone together. 1670 J. Eachard 41 The all-wise Patron, or all-understanding Justice of the Peace. 2010 R. A. Hinde (new ed.) vi. 97 Many religious people find it deeply satisfying to mull over recent happenings in supposed communion with an all-understanding being. (c) With past participles. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) 4151 Æfre he beoþ An allfullfremedd hellpe Till alle þa þatt cwemmdenn himm. a1225 (c1200) (1888) 145 (MED) Swa þu dedest ðe al-fo[r]gelte þieue þe heng on þire swiþere. a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xxxv. 15 The auter of þe all brennt sacrifice, & þe brasen gredyrne of it. 1598 W. Shakespeare iii. ii. 140 This gallant Hotspur, this all praised knight. View more context for this quotation 1608 W. Shakespeare iv. 195 This, your all-licenc'd foole. c1612 J. Sylvester Lacrymæ Lacrymarum in (1633) 1149 O, All-admired, Benign and Bountious! O All-desired (right) Panaretos! ?1614 W. Drummond Sonnet: O Wofull life! in False Delights..My all-appalled Minde so doe affraye. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. 0. 38 The wearie and all-watched Night. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. vi. 16 All-honor'd, honest, Romaine Brutus. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. ii. 14 His disease, of all shunn'd pouerty. View more context for this quotation 1756 W. Toldervy IV. xxxiii. 184 Where the modest, and all-accomplished landlady, Mrs. Rogers, was..invited to sit down. 1865 G. M. Hopkins (1967) 146 And I must have the centre in my heart To spread the compass on the all-starr'd sky. 1917 D. H. Lawrence 101 There, sure in sinless being, All-seen, and then all-seeing..We might have lain. 1986 F. Guillou & C. Gray in A. Limon et al. (ed. 2) v. v. 785 Lampholders used in bathrooms must be of the all-insulated type, and must be fitted with a protective skirt. (ii) a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. ii. 272 Th'all-dreaded Thunderstone. View more context for this quotation 1923 D. A. Mackenzie xv. 296 The unceasing conflict against the all-dreaded enemy of mankind, the God of Death. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer III. xiii. 484 Oh all-enlighten'd mind! Inform him. 1841 9 313 The Chinese..always represent their country as an all-enlightened land. 1987 C. Humphreys (1990) 16 The peace of heart which comes to those who follow in the footsteps of that mighty mind, the All- Enlightened One, the All-Compassionate One. 1637 J. Milton 25 In her owne loyns She hutch't th'all worshipt ore, and precious gems To store her children with. 1847 R. W. Emerson Musketaquid in (1883) III. 167 As when the all-worshipped moon attracts the eye, The river, hill, stems, foliage are obscure. 2009 W. Stinson 173 These young beauties..waiting for a desperate American man to..provide them with..the all worshipped green card. the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > all-sufficiently eOE Prose Charm: Against Elf-Sickness (Royal 12 D.xvii) in G. Storms (1948) 226 Gif hit biþ wæpnedman..and se andwlita biþ geolwe blac, þone mon þu meaht gelacnian æltæwlice, gif he ne biþ þæron to lange. OE (1931) 1904 Unc gemæne ne sceal elles awiht, nymþe ealltela lufu langsumu. 1649 F. Roberts (ed. 2) 308 How..all-sufficiently able God is, in performing of his Promises. 1769 Nov. 587/1 A gleam of hope all-graciously disclose. 1889 July 217/2 Life..was all so cosmopolitan and all-embracingly sympathetic. 1903 ‘M. Twain’ 175 Then all-sorrowfully he made his last dispositions. 1919 Mar. 300/1 He never lost an opportunity to demonstrate the fighting efficiency of this equipment which was mainly and all-sufficingly tail—and such a facile tail! 1934 P. Hamilton xxi. 169 Wondering what it was, breathing in the air, which made it so overpoweringly, all-permeatingly Sunday. 2005 4 Feb. (Friday Suppl.) 6 It's an all-conqueringly funny and blastingly energised family comedy. (e) With nouns. (i) With nouns derived from Latin, on the model of adjectives at Compounds 2a(b)(ii). In some examples overlapping with compounds of the adjective with abstract nouns: cf. Compounds 1b. Nouns relating to the adjectives in -ive at Compounds 2a(b)(ii) are more usually formed with English suffixes, e.g. all-comprehensiveness, all-persuasiveness (see Compounds 2a(e)(iii)).1654 J. Norton v. 114 The All-efficiency of the first cause. 1839 Mar. 103 The all-efficiency of His justice and truth. 1992 K. K. Chaudhuri tr. A. Bhattacharya i. 4 We are overwhelmed by the all-efficiency of a dramatist of the first order. society > authority > power > [noun] > infinite power 1642 H. More sig. F8 What thing not done by his all-potencie? 1986 B. Huyghe in M. L. Foster & R. A. Rubinstein iii. 43 Those who give the orders can indulge in fantasies of destruction and all-potency. 1826 E. Irving II. vii. 235 The doctrine of Christ, and the all-prevalency of his kingdom. the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > all-sufficiency a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 48 in (1721) II. Thou boundless All-sufficience art. a1797 H. Walpole (1847) III. i. 16 The Duke of Bedford..reflected on Pitt's all-sufficience. 1913 J. Edgerton 189 Be to them their all-sufficience, Is the burden of our prayer! the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > all-sufficiency 1581 W. Charke sig. Aiii The alsufficiencie and entier vertue of Christs sacrifice offered vp once for euer. 1619 J. Sempill vii. 79 Hee vseth Tithing, as a chiefe argument to confirme them in the Al-sufficiencie and Eternitie of Christs Priest-hood. 1706 J. Hussey xx. 404 The All-sufficiency lay in the Responsibleness of the Person. 1865 E. B. Pusey 108 The all-sufficiency of the Intercession of our Divine Redeemer. 2001 A. Peacocke in R. T. Pennock xix. 474 At one end of the spectrum authors like Richard Dawkins argue cogently for the all-sufficiency of natural selection in explaining the course of biological evolution. 1654 E. Johnson 56 The honour of his All-seeingness. 1678 E. Phillips (new ed.) App. Omnipercipience, an all-perceivingness. 1830 Mar. 231/2 The all-lovingness of God. 1865 S. Neil 52 The successful all-prevailingness of its schemes. 1945 13 131 The all-absorbingness of the purpose. 1969 R. A. Nisbet iii. 108 Belief in, dedication to, and a sense of the all-sufficingness of scientific and philosophical knowledge. 2006 V. Koperski in R. Bieringer 377 Paul speaks unambiguously of the all-surpassingness of ‘the knowledge of Christ Jesus’. lOE King Ælfred tr. St. Augustine (Vitell.) (1922) ii. 59 Ne getweoge ic nawuht be Godes æcnesse and be hys ælmihtihnesse. c1449 R. Pecock (1860) 313 Ech preest which schulde folewe thilk ensaumpling thoruȝ the al fulnes and likenes of it. 1656 H. Jeanes Treat. Fulnesse of Christ 382 in That all-fulnesse which dwelleth in Christ. 1817 J. Bentham IV. Suppl. v. 100/1 Completeness, or say all-comprehensiveness, in respect of its extent. 1824 R. Southey (1831) I. 52 It would be disparaging his own all-wiseness. 1889 Feb. 288/2 Such pervading all-persuasiveness. 1927 A. Huxley 13 Helvétius's doctrine of the all-effectiveness of nurture. 1981 C. Cosman tr. J.-P. Sartre I. vi. 237 The Creator..has made him incapable of loving his all-bountifulness. (iv) In parasynthetic nouns formed from the adverb, a predicative adjective it commonly intensifies, and the suffix -ness. 1876 T. P. Kirkman xiii. 292 Evolution is a change from a nohowish untalkaboutable all-alikeness, to a somehowish..not-all-alikeness. 1921 D. H. Lawrence v. 164 Save us from proletarian homogeneity and khaki all-alikeness. 1864 J. Brown 19 Its calm, restful summit, the hush of silence there, the all-alone-ness of the place and hour. 1924 17 July 9 London's vastness..[is] yet capable of baffling him and impressing him with a feeling of strangeness and ‘all-alone-ness’. 2005 R. Dass (paperback ed.) ix. 194 There begins to be a flickering recognition of that ‘all aloneness’. 1860 J. Ruskin V. 194 He must be able to bear the all-wrongness. 1989 B. J. Brothers in E. M. Stern 237 Left in the Emptiness, the all-wrongness—the travesty and injustice is all contained within that small body/soul/mind. 1845 P. J. Bailey (ed. 2) 131 Whether the sun all-light thee, or the moon. 1858 3 311 Thine arms did all-encompass me. 1874 25 Mar. 253/2 There are not many things which do all-pervade the body. 1902 Nov. 514 The cramped space of some mountain hotel that he all-pervades. 1993 9 May a18/3 He would stand in a corner and ‘all-encompass them’..and just totally take over the conversation. b. Adverbially, with the sense ‘entirely, exclusively’. (a) With the sense ‘made entirely of the specified material or substance’. eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory (Hatton) (1871) xxii. 169 Wyrc feower hringas ælgyldene [L. aureos], & ahoh hie suiðe fæste on ða feower hyrnan ðære earce. OE (1955) 148 Scetra, ealleþern scyldas [L. scutum loreum sine ligno]. OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens (1974) 348 Oloscericis [vestibus] : ealseolcenum uel sydenum. 1866 W. Smith ii. 60 The difference between the all-woollen and the mixed fabric of a similar kind. 1893 J. B. Johnson et al. i. 6 This is probably the most scientific design for an all-wooden bridge ever invented. 1958 Apr. 7/3 (advt.) Stockwell [carpet]... All-woollen pile. Mitin-processed; guaranteed mothproof for life. 1993 Mar. 19/3 The all-wooden crib is built from pressure treated 8-by-8 jack pine. 1838 July 218 The more wealthy brides have all silk gowns laid by for great occasions. 1859 Feb. 344/2 They were dressed very neatly; the girls in fawn-colored all-wool mousselines. 1882 4 Mar. The demand is most apparent in all-wool dress goods. 1913 22 Feb. 41/1 (advt.) Novo Trench Pump Outfits. On skids or all-steel trucks. 1933 Oct. 325/2 An all-aluminium train was exhibited for the first time at the Chicago World's Fair this year. 1951 J. Cornish 128 ‘Hiccups gone,’ Matt growled at the modernistic all-glass doors of the Queen Mary Club. 1977 May 52/1 The best for-the-home buys are flokati , all-wool rugs with thick, loose pile. 1991 14 Dec. 391/1 Several research groups report that they have inserted up to four metal atoms into these cage-like, all-carbon molecules, paving the way for a new class of fullerene materials. 1999 C. Mendelson lvii. 680/1 Resin-treated all-cotton sheets have varying degrees of resistance to wrinkling. 2009 31 Aug. 50/2 In 1963, the French tennis player and fashion icon René Lacoste created the first successful all-metal racquet. 1929 4 Nov. p. xxxv The All-Mains set draws its power from the house electrical supply. 1941 G. Stapledon in H. J. Massingham vii. 148 To the holders of these all-grass farms I would address myself. 1960 17 May 75/5 Radio station KFAX went on the air today as an ‘all news’ station..devoting its programing entirely to current events, background material and editorials. 1973 C. S. Barnard & J. S. Nix ii. 40 The introduction of a sheep flock on an all-arable farm should..increase the value of those by-products. 1983 27 Jan. 5/2 Radio 1 was created as a placebo for those millions of listeners who, by tuning into the pirate stations, were voting in favour of all-pop programming. 2008 (U.K. ed.) Oct. 22/2 Variants of plug-in hybrids and all-battery cars have been promised by major auto producers. 2011 (Nexis) 18 May The Bay Area is fortunate to have one of the few remaining all-jazz stations in the country at 91.1 FM. (c) With nouns in adjectives designating a route, journey, etc., made wholly or exclusively by a particular mode of transport. 1860 7 The contract for opening the Delaware route, constituting it the all-rail route to and from the East. 1879 3 Dec. The first all-rail shipment of lumber. 1918 E. R. Johnson & G. G. Huebner iii. xx. 309 The granting of in-transit privileges on all-rail routes. 2001 12 July 9 This was cheaper and quicker than all rail options. 1878 J. L. Tait 2 Where money is an object and also time, the all sea route will of course be selected. 1890 Nov. 443/2 Parliament having sanctioned the principle of a cheap ‘all-sea service’ viâ the Straits of Gibraltar, it follows that an ‘all-sea’ letter can only be charged 1½d. 2001 L. N. Shaffer in M. Adas ix. 311 Indian traders and shippers and Malay sailors were also responsible for opening up an all-sea route to China. (d) With adjectives derived from the names of countries, states, areas, etc. See also Compounds 1c(b). 1881 8 Feb. 229/1 The abandonment of the all-Canadian route. 1937 G. Frankau xii. 125 Was this The ruleress of the waves, R.N., all-British, Who stopped to plant the Cytherean Kiss? 1960 8 Mar. 47 (advt.) These quality built all-British harvesting machines. 1990 Jan. (Italy Suppl.) 25/1 Its best known product is Adriamycin (Doxorubicin), an all-Italian discovery that today is the most widely sold drug for cancer chemotherapy throughout the world. 1919 Jan. 60/3 Miss Kenyon has painted what many of her admirers will say is her masterpiece. In its appealing ideality she has typified the all-American girl. 1972 22 July 54/1 The traditional, standard all-Australian hotel whose primary function has been to serve beer. 2007 D. Porter & D. Prince (ed. 4) xiii. 323 A mixture of an English pub and an all-Jamaican jerk pork pit. 2009 T. F. Pawlick 32 There was the all-Canadian game of hockey. (e) 1898 J. R. Joy xiv. 271 In 1693 he made up an all-Whig cabinet. 1938 7 Feb. 17/3 (caption) Spirit of Youth was the first all-Negro movie ever shown in Washington. 1941 19 Nov. 1430/1 A pastoral letter..urging the election of an all-Catholic school board in Cleveland. 1963 Sept. 16/2 But would it be possible to have an all-gay staff? I mean are there gay janitors, for example? 1979 2 41 An all-woman show would invite speculations as to gender-determined characteristics shared by the women exhibitors. 1991 May 76/1 An all-conservative panel might well not even perceive the merit in the claims of the poor and the weak. 2006 R. J. Donia ii. 41 The People's Assembly met for the first time on June 5. Originally it was an all-Muslim body. (ii) 1885 W. G. Ritch (ed. 5) 57 I have seen..nothing attempting to set forth the difference in profits between starting with an all female herd or with a mixed lot of cattle. 1976 21 Feb. 4/2 Complaints about the all-female shoeshine parlors in Salt Lake City may diminish. 1991 5 Jan. 15/5 It already has the world's first exclusively non-white, all female, non-smoking, homosexual power structure. 2010 Mar. 52/1 Walt Disney hired an all-female battalion of white-gloved inkers and painters. 1906 8 Dec. 893/2 The All-Jewish Labour League..is indeed a formidable organization. 1917 17 Nov. 358/3 It requires some courage to undertake to manage an all-Jewish Regiment. 1949 5 Feb. 44/3 Davis is operating now with an all-Jewish show policy. 2004 26 Mar. 43/1 I've been lucky enough to be part of an all-Jewish all-women's discussion group for about 12 years now. 1885 J. C. Ridpath II. vi. 518/2 The claims..were united by this marriage with the claims of the fifth son through an all-male line. 1959 H. Gardner 130 [She] looked so hurt in her skin-tight dress the all-male jury awarded her $5,500. 1988 P. Manuel (1990) iii. 109 A night-long competition with other groups in the all-male hostels. 2005 21 Oct. 3/6 It is an all-male world, by ancient tradition. c. Objective compounds of the pronoun. Adjectival compounds of this type, typically formed with present participles, are common, but overlap with and are not clearly distinguishable from compounds formed using the adverb: see Compounds 2a(b).1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas i. iii. 76 Th' All-Monarch's bounteous Maiestie. 1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius 184 The all-powerful and all-parent Syrian goddess. 1879 W. D. Whitney Introd. 20 The emancipation of the soul, and its unification with the All-soul. 1923 D. A. Mackenzie xiii. 243 It likewise brought luck, being an object that radiated the influence of the All-Mother. 1988 B. Lewis (1991) iii. 46 An Islamic equivalent of the Hellenistic and Hellenistic-Christian idea of the pan-basileus, the ‘all-king’. (b) With agent nouns, typically where modelled on adjectives formed with present participles (see Compounds 2a(b)). Attested earlier (in Old English) with agent nouns in formations other than with -er suffix1, as Old English eallwealda the ruler of all, the Almighty, and Old English eallwealdend (early Middle English alwealdend), in the same sense (see all-wielding adj.).1600 S. Rowlands sig. D The All-commaunder saith, Thou shalt not lie. 1621 R. Burton iii. ii. i. i. 535 That mischieuous all commander of the earth. 1880 P. Greg II. xxviii. 232 What is youth or sex or beauty in the All-Commander's sight? 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas ii. i. 378 The Arches starrie seeld, Where th' All-Creator hath disposed well The Sunne and Moone. 1707 J. Dunton lxxvii. 355 To the making of this All-Theater, Nothing but Nothing had the All-Creator. 2011 B. Litfin ii. vii. 178 I knew Deu is the All-Creator and that he has high demands for his followers. 1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind ii. v. 135 With Pranks like these they pass away their Prime, And thus destroy that All-destroyer Time. 1832 T. Carlyle (1847) III. 19 The all-destroyer Time. 1890 W. James I. x. 362 These declarations on Kant's part of the utter barrenness of the consciousness of the pure self, and of the consequent impossibility of any deductive or ‘rational’ psychology, are what, more than anything else, earned for him the title of the ‘all-destroyer’. 2011 P. Beitchman vii. 47 The worst fears and prophecies of the (early) Marx about ‘the world turned upside down’ of money, the all destroyer, all-leveller. 1618 S. Daniel 126 Louys..was more likely to haue established himselfe, and made a Conquest of this Kingdome..had not the All-disposer otherwise diuerted it. 1791 Nov. 121/2 It was the will of the all disposer of things to set the sympathetic property aside for that time. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer II. xiii. 13 Saturn's son, The all-disposer. 1985 J. Miller v. 105 The all-disposer of justice to whom the sinner turns in repentance. 1870 H. Macmillan i. 26 The invisible shrine of the All-encompasser,—the All-sustainer. 1990 L. Dobrez iii. 79 The poetic all-encompasser. 1603 J. Davies 99 Thus Ioy, and Hope, were by th'all Giver giv'n As sweete Conductors to his sweetest Sweete. 1637 J. Milton 25 Th'all-giver would be unthank't, would be unprais'd. a1770 C. Talbot (1772) I. 144 It teaches us to look upon our Friends, as Blessings indulged to us, by the All-Giver. 1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in (new ed.) I. 163 Zeus, the all-giver. 2008 W. Shullenberger v. 182 The sexual destiny preferred and proffered by the All-Giver of the Reformation is chaste companionate marriage. 1614 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Little Bartas in tr. J. Bertaut 227 O! Thou All-knower! Nothing more hath thrust Proud Man from Thee, then This Ambitious lust. 1825 C. Lamb in E. V. Lucas (1893) vi. 100 The All-knower..knows before what we will do. 1902 W. James vi. 138 Only by an All-knower can we finally be judged. 2010 Feb. 65/2 There are many names for Allah. They include All-Merciful, the Almighty, Jehovah, Alloheim, All-Knower and the Provider. 1609 T. Dekker 1 O God all-maker, keeper, & guider; Inurement of thy rare-seen, vnused, and seld-heard-of goodnesse..breeds now this boldnesse. 1613 R. Zouche sig. B To this All-makers prayses sing. 2010 M. E. Snodgrass 52/1 The narrative [sc. the Rig Veda] legitimizes numerous myths of creation, including a cosmic conflict and a divine separation of earth from heaven by the All-Maker. 1597 W. Shakespeare v. i. 20 That high al-seer, that I dallied with. View more context for this quotation 1775 Mrs. Thrale Jrnl. 6 Nov. in H. Guppy & M. Tyson (1932) 157 A Sin against the Allseer who knows our Hearts ought to be avoided. 1997 (Nexis) 12 Dec. l9 Even people as saturated with wisdom as the all-seers at the Fed have to admit when they are wrong. 1823 F. L. Gower tr. J. W. von Goethe 205 The All-creator, The All-sustainer, Does he not uphold Thyself, and me, and all? 1870 H. Macmillan i. 26 The invisible shrine of the All-encompasser,—the All-sustainer. 2002 J. Cashford vi. 145 After 700 years she [sc. the Mother Goddess in the Kalevala] still cannot give birth and she calls to Ukko, the All-Sustainer, to help her. (c) With verbs (compare parallel formations with the verb as the first element and all as the second). See also allheal n.1867 ‘T. Lackland’ 105 For childish low spirits or moodiness she was an all-cure. 1909 19 Feb. 2/3 The bare effrontery of the all-cure patented quack medicine. 2004 Z. Fabris 35 Chow garlic, it's the all cure all fix remedy even on rainy days. 1493 (c1410) (Pynson) i. xxxiv. sig. eii/2 Setting of mete or drynk by nighte on the benche, to fede Al holde, or gobelyn. 1887 J. V. Blake 44 Heart, O heart! Thou wilt part From the All-hold on thee, and lose thy way, Never, never. d. 1947 H. F. Olson (ed. 2) xii. 497 The results of the all-acoustic frequency range preference are at variance with similar tests employing reproduced sound as described. 1969 9 July ii. 22/7 The Pentangle, an all-acoustic folk-revival quintet from England. 2011 T. Harrison ii. 50 Tesla was the first rock group to release an all-acoustic album, titled Five Man Acoustical Jam, a few years before any alternative artist did an unplugged album. 1906 26 May 1443 (advt.) An all action sea tale of the first-class. 1989 Q Dec. 165/3 Jerry Lee's all-action show was a consistent money-spinner. 2005 10 Sept. (Guide Suppl.) 81/3 This all-action four-part drama series concerning London's Helicopter Emergency Medical Service..takes to the skies. 1630 M. Drayton David & Goliah in 204 How this vnarmed Youth himselfe would beare Against th' all-armed Giant (which they feare). 1842 Ld. Tennyson Sir Galahad vii, in (new ed.) II. 178 All-arm'd I ride, whate'er betide, Until I find the holy Grail. 1889 W. Morris xxx. 191 Through it came all-armed warriors bearing another bier. 1906 15 Oct. 5/5 The all-big-gun battleship was first conceived in Italy, and both the United States and Japan designed such vessels before we did. 1947 17 Nov. 87/2 (caption) This 17,900-ton watchdog for Britain's wide-flung empire [sc. the ‘Dreadnought’] was the first all big-gun battleship. She had 10 12-inchers. 1995 J. Goldrick in J. R. Hill x. 283 Fisher took the fast armoured cruiser a step further when he conceived the idea of marrying to it an all-big-gun armament. 1910 G. C. Strachan iii. 53 It is true that it has not appointed a woman as principal of an all-boys' school. 1971 24 June 18 (caption) Teaching her general science class in the all-boy Hamilton Technical School in Victoria, Australia. 2012 (Nexis) 10 May Playing against all-boys teams, they lost to the North and Eastern, but caused a shock when Ford's equaliser shared the spoils with the South. 1942 1 Nov. iii. 7/4 The outlook for the all-cargo plane program improved. 1961 100 761/2 Since the passenger carriers..‘top-off’ with cargo, it..seems fair and reasonable to permit the all-cargo carriers to carry cargo and to ‘top-off’ with passengers. 1994 (Nexis) 16 Nov. The two airlines appear to have co-ordinated the hand-over of all-cargo routes from Ladeco. 2003 (Nexis) 1 July 86 The parcel companies demonstrated that a massive all-cargo operation could be profitable. 1954 Oct. 30/1 Electronic Counter... Frequency division is all-digital, using 11 special plug-in decade scalers. No frequency adjustments required. 1994 28 Nov. 32/2 Video-production software with all-digital editing for Windows. 2012 S. Prince iii. 115 A subsequent transformation scene in the film..is all-digital, executed without prosthetic makeup. the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > [adjective] 1903 29 Nov. 5/4 It is to be an all-electric plant. 1924 S. R. Roget 4/2 All-electric Signalling, automatic or other railway signalling in which the signals are actuated as well as controlled electrically. 1960 W. H. Auden 25 This all-electric room Where ghosts would feel uneasy. 2010 22 Mar. 52/3 In 2011, Ford plans to sell an all-electric version of the Focus. 1938 7 June 20/2 The American engineers, like their English colleagues, have discarded the older mechanical television systems and use what may be called an all-electronic system. 1949 10 523 The all-electronic color television system described is a fully compatible system. 1990 Feb. 13/2 The cockpit represents the all-electronic look of the original. 2003 30 May c8/2 The International Securities Exchange, an all-electronic trading system. 1904 4 Apr. 8/2 A personally conducted all-expense tour taking in Albuquerque, Grand Canyon..and Denver. 1930 19 Sept. 290/2 There will be a nine-day, all-expense tour to Mexico..for association members and their families. 1952 14 Apr. 6 (advt.) Unique, new, all-expense fishing ‘package’ trips. 1977 (Nexis) 31 Jan. 54 I resent the innuendo that it is improper to go to Taiwan.., but that it is perfectly all right to go on an all-expense trip to the People's Republic of China. 2000 (Electronic ed.) 24 Oct. The winner will receive an all expense trip to London. 1913 28 Jan. 10/3 All expense paid trip of six days. 1976 5 Jan. 20/3 The winner of a Hudson Valley Railroad society fund-raising raffle..won an all-expense-paid Amtrak trip to Montreal. 2000 (Electronic ed.) 20 Dec. Regional winners are eligible to compete for the national award, which is $5,000 and an all-expense-paid trip to the awards ceremony. 1935 5 Jan. 25/8 All expenses tour March 20 to June 1. 1988 S. Gray xv. 223 Convent girls..entered the Listermint Sloosh Competition for an all-expenses holiday for two in Gay Paree. 2000 (Electronic ed.) 2 Sept. She won an all expenses trip to Disneyworld. 1907 Nov. 3/2 The San Francisco school officials were summoned to Washington and had a pleasant visit of the all-expenses-paid variety. 1939 3 701/1 The usual prize..is an all-expenses-paid trip to the World's Fair. 1968 15 June 8/2 Would he like to go to London, all expenses paid?..Of course he would. 1976 29 Feb. v. 4/3 The grand prize..was a one-week, all-expenses-paid trip to the Soviet Union. 2006 Dec. 13/1 The Appeals Committee... has been a junket for FIDE Officials for years and comes with a nice stipend and all expenses paid. 1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in 123 The four and twentith day In pleasants month of all faire Vernas pride, To Chocherell ward we light into the way. 1781 C. Lofft v. 113 The order, the all fair design, Which guards our Earth and her companion spheres. 1847 R. W. Emerson 15 This monument of my despair Build I to the All-Good, All-Fair. 1851 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer v. 91 His step-mother, all-fair Eëribæa. 1997 J. Saward i. 54 The Father sent His eternal Son, His radiant Image to take flesh from the all-fair Virgin of Nazareth. 1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland xxiii, in (1967) 59 To bathe in his fall-gold mercies, to breathe in his all-fire glances. 1895 16 Aug. 76/1 The rest of the process is conducted as for gold. In the West, the ‘all-fire’ method of assay is employed almost exclusively. 1919 22 Feb. 359/1 Much difficulty was formerly encountered in obtaining concordant results for silver and gold in the assay of the same sample of copper-anode residues by the all-fire method. 1886 29 Aug. 12/1 The young lady guests have been trying to induce her to play tennis, promising her an ‘all girls game’ if she would do so. 1910 G. C. Strachan 231 A principal or an assistant to principal of an all girls' school. 1970 8 Aug. 22/3 The Sek's Generation, an all-girl group, signed with Goliath Records. 2012 (Nexis) 30 Mar. Scott also serves as president of an all-girl high school organization called Women Excelling Beyond. 1848 31 Mar. (advt.) A sinking or all-gone feeling at the stomach. 1922 4 Nov. 3/2 When Marabelle smiled it gave a lot of guys that ‘all gone’ feeling that no bottle of Hood's Sarsparilla could cure. 2006 K. McLaren v. 79 Observers aboard the steamer Lady Laurier felt the Nova Scotian had been caught napping and began to experience that unpleasant ‘all gone’ sensation. the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > elms > [noun] 1567 J. Maplet f. 41v The Elme..is called of some All heart. 1688 R. Holme ii. 52/1 The Elme Tree is of some called All-Heart. 1845 J. Shakespear 532 May the all-independent creator increase his life. 1936 5 Apr. 26/4 The most interesting part of the chassis is the all-independent suspension. 2008 G. Robson vii. 80/2 Suspension would be all-independent (with that characteristic semi-trailing layout at the rear). 2009 E. Walton in J. A. Conger xii. 360 It is unclear..whether an all-independent director board does a better job on corporate governance or overall firm performance. 1928 4 Mar. 6 s/2 Tonight's dinner concert by the trio, which is to be an all-instrumental program. 1976 89 509 We are fortunate to have an all-instrumental album by fiddler Lyman Enloe, ably accompanied by the Bluegrass Association. 2012 A. S. Berish ii. 91 The Barnet band recorded an all-instrumental version of Osborne and Rodgers's ‘Pompton Turnpike’. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye II. 574 He must bee all-good, al-iust, and almightie. a1634 R. Chapman (1635) 167 See the all-just God, justly punishing Vladislaus a Christian King of Poland and Hungarie. 1796 R. Southey vi. 68 For Heaven all-just Hath seen our sufferings and decreed their end. 1843 D. Shea & A. Troyer tr. III. ix. 37 Zeal, love, and knowledge of the All-Just. 1993 B. Williams in D. Statman ix. 254 She says that even an atheist who does not believe in an all-just, omniscient, judge ‘can ask what such a judge would do’. 1898 12 Nov. 7/5 Plans are already being talked of for forming an all-league baseball team, which is to contain the pick of the league's best players. 1953 12 Mar. 52 Young Franklin was also named to the all-league team selected to play as the Colorado Springs Sky Hawks in the national peewee hockey tournament at St. Paul, Minn. 2004 R. Timberg vi. 52 In 1959 he led the Chiefs to the Pop Warner Junior League championship game and was named All-League quarterback. 1852 22 Oct. 4/6 Hot-blast pigs, all mine, sold at £4. 1884 W. H. Greenwood iv. 56 Cinder-pig in contradistinction to all mine pig—i.e., pig smelted entirely from ore or mine. 1907 A. McWilliam & P. Longmuir xxvi. 217 The phosphorus in Staffordshire All Mine pig (that is all ore, no admixture of puddler's cinder in the iron producing part of the burden) is about 0·6 per cent. 1996 R. B. Gordon vi. 170 British engineers, suspicious of cinder iron, began to specify all-mine iron when they wanted a quality product. 1943 (National Advisory Committee Aeronaut.) 1 An all-moveable tail surface of the type used on gliders..permits a close degree of balance. 1974 H. Ashley i. 4 At high speeds, rolling moment may be exerted simply by differential rotation of two all-movable stabilizers. 2007 A. F. Molland & S. R. Turnock ii. 17 Aerofoil sections tend to be used for hydroplanes which will be all-movable or with a fixed skeg of 20–30° of chord. 1950 1/2 The disadvantageous conditions at low speed have been found to disappear when the conventional type of flapped control surface towards the wing tip is replaced by the all-moving wing tip. 1983 6 June 16 ACX has a cranked delta wing and is fitted with an all-moving canard mounted forward of and above the wing. 2001 (Radio Control Models & Electronics) Mar. 77/1 The all-moving rudder..uses strip hinges for security. 1843 Aug. 152 To destroy, as far as may be, the all-natural tradition. 1942 4 Apr. 70/2 It's a hard choice for companies which pride themselves on the all-natural contents of their products. 2004 Oct. 26/2 Visitors will remember the dazzling tastes: Scoops of all-natural Slickers Ice Cream in vibrant local flavours, sparkling cider, lamb sausage, poutine, squeaky Cheddar curds. OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Judges (Laud) xvi. 11 in S. J. Crawford (1922) 413 He wearð eft gebunden mid eallniwum rapum & he þa tobræc swa swa þa oðre. lOE Recipe (Faust. A.x) in T. O. Cockayne (1866) III. 292 Eallniwne croccan, sy asett on eorþan oþ brerd, & þas wyrta sy..gedon innan þam croccan. a1300 (c1275) (1991) l. 50 He..Falleð in ðat welle grund, Ðer he wurðeð [MS wurdeð] heil & sund & cumeð ut al newe. c1400 (?a1300) (Laud) (1952) l. 7164 Þere was ostel lyuerynge, Of al newe byggeynge.] a1732 T. Boston (1734) 186 The Man is not only a spiritually living Creature, but an all-new Creature, sanctified wholly..after the Image of God. 1873 Mar. 69/1 Every few days they promise an ‘all new’ programme, and the public gets it, and the management gets a full house. 1919 Apr. 60/1 The all-new type forms require from 25 to 50 per cent less make-ready. 1960 15 Mar. 103 This all-new British-built baler offers performance and reliability unmatched by any machine in its class. 1992 J. Stern & M. Stern 361/1 He hired an all-new staff. 2010 10 Oct. 5 (advt.) We gave the all-new Regal an interior full of advanced technology... including a 6-speed automatic transmission. the world > food and drink > farming > [adjective] > types of farming 1917 16 Feb. (advt.) Not only can you get the units of plant food required at very low prices but they come in an all organic and vegetable product, having a permanently good upbuilding effect on your land. 1962 15 Nov. 402/1 Dr Hopkins describes the all-organic method [of farming] being investigated at Haughley as cumbersome and costly. 1995 M. Schwartz vi. 317 After the acid treatment, the aluminium is rinsed in distilled water. It is then immersed in an all-organic solvent miscible with water, such as acetone, to remove all water from the surfaces. 2012 E. L. Myers 94 His farm is all-organic, which poses its own problems. Hops are susceptible to common garden pests and mildew. a1618 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Bethulians Rescue iii. 134 in (1620) Strive not with th'All-Perfect; but depend On God alone. a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Iob Triumphant iv. 97 in (1620) Wondrous works of the All-perfect Knower. 1768 A. Tucker II. iii. 30 We judge of the All-perfect by ourselves. 1839 H. Hallam IV. iii. 229 The soul is united to an all-perfect Being. 1869 L. M. Alcott II. xi. 157 She took to writing sensation stories—for..even all-perfect America read rubbish. 1999 M. D. Wilson xxvii. 412 Leibniz holds..that there can be no contradiction in the notion of an all-perfect being. 1922 12 Oct. 12/6 Copley, captain and tackle, named on both the 1920 and 1921 all-pro elevens. 1968 J. Kramer & D. Schaap iii. 30 Some of our all-Pros last year look like hell. 1976 D. Klein 38 I never picked myself for the all-Pro team; other people did that. 1979 29 May 23/2 Dick Vermell, the coach of the Philadelphia Eagles,... is convinced his protege will become an all-pro. 1982 18 Oct. 45/1 He was in his late 30s then and had been an all-Pro center half a dozen times. 2006 24 Feb. (State ed.) d2/4 Hutchinson, an All-Pro left guard for Seattle. 1868 Rep. Special Commissioner of Revenue in (40th Congress, 2nd Sess.) IX. No. 81. 27 Paper. Printing, all rag, per lb. 1963 57 848/1 The Library of Congress selected an all-rag book paper made by one of the oldest and most respected paper manufacturers in the country. 2010 L. Rankin iii. 70 For best results, use a thicker paper, such as heavy watercolor or printmaking paper or white, all-rag, museum matboard. society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [adjective] > of or relating to an empire > belonging to former British Empire 1894 86 696/1 The ‘all-red line’ was the line for us. 1898 J. G. Ward in 101 344/2 What further steps have been taken to have an ‘all red’ cable laid across the Pacific? 1902 11 Sept. 5/2 An ‘all-red line’ from Great Britain through Canada to Australia. 1985 K. M. Wilson i. 10 An empire..that would break at right-angles the all-red route from the Cape to Cairo. 1624 I. Bargrave 21 Our Saviour..found some all-sayers and no-doers, so others that would outdoe all faith. 1908 R. S. G. Stokes xviii. 175 The finally reduced or ‘all-slimed’ pulp (90 to 95 per cent. of which is minus 150 mesh) passes to the settlers and then to the agitation vats. 1934 103/2 Two or three-stage grinding..reduces all the ore to an all-slimed product. society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [adjective] > dressing or dressed ore society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > excavating or dressing ore > dressing ore > specific methods or minerals 1905 12 175/1 Automatic agitation of the whole pulp in cyanide solution, in specially designed plant requiring no inter-pumping, making thereby practically an all-sliming process. 1920 A. H. Fay 26/2 All-sliming, crushing all the ore in a mill to so fine a state of subdivision that only a small percentage will fail to pass through a 200-mesh screen. 1955 20 May 19/1 The reduction plant has been converted to operate on an all-sliming basis, and it is expected that this modification will result in small improvements in reduction costs and gold residue values. 2006 J. O. Marsden & C. I. House (ed. 2) i. 9 By 1946, 53 large plants were operating on the Witwatersrand, of which 29 practiced all-sliming and 24 operated sand and slime plants. 1901 8 Dec. 1/1 The Iowan also pick an all-state team. 1943 H. W. Malloch 99 Christesen is a University ‘blue’ and State and all-State champion athlete and footballer. 1992 N. Ryan & J. Jenkins iv. 55 I always hit third or fourth in the lineup,..but it was my pitching that set me apart. I was 20–4 as a senior and was All-State. 2005 M. M. Frisby xv. 95 He was an all-state running back with potential to play Division One ball until he dropped out of school to pursue his music. 1923 7 Nov. 12/5 (heading) Callies to play two tough games..Will meet..All-Staters November 17. 1969 6 Aug. a6/1 The former Lane high All-Stater was used as a replacement for either of the Browns' starting offensive guards. 1991 158/3 The other all-staters were center Adam Gussen (6-4, 275).., tight end Alcides Catanho (6-5, 210)..and defensive tackle Dave Sanders (6-2, 275). 2003 (Midwest ed.) 13 June iv. 13/5 Two-way pitching and position-playing standouts include first-team All-Staters Ryan Campbell..at third base and Brian Shust..in the outfield. 1980 27 Oct. (Washington Business section) 1/1 Guest Quarters Inc. wants to give its customers all the comforts of home—and more so—at its growing chain of all-suite hotels. 1985 6 May 83/2 The all-suites devote less space to restaurants and ballrooms. 1990 7 Jan. 43/2 The all-suite hotel is a good idea—and it's something fairly new in Britain... It provides the service of a four-star hotel. 2011 (Nexis) 7 Aug. (Travel section) 23 The five-star, all-suite resort has two golf courses, a new kids' club and a 3,200 sq metre spa. 1863 W. Phillips iii. 50 The all-talk party. 1982 25 Sept. 36 Britain's first all talk station. 1994 3 July 23/1 Americans..spout off on the nation's 900 all-talk radio stations. 1912 M. C. Fraser i. 10 After an all-through journey from Rome, our train crawled into the Gare de Lyons. 1965 S. Maclure 5 The article..describes a comprehensive scheme on classic lines—‘all through’ comprehensive schools taking pupils from the age of 11 to 19. 1973 26 Nov. 3/8 In theory the all-through 11 to 18 comprehensive will remain the normal type of school. 2003 T. G. K. Bryce & W. M. Humes (ed. 2) iv. 37 Some 95% of Scottish pupils receive their secondary education in all-through comprehensive schools. 1935 4 May 5/3 The match..is not an all-ticket affair. 1976 26 Nov. 28/2 The match has been limited to a 10,000 all-ticket crowd. 2001 (Electronic ed.) 27 Mar. The Pirates are reminding fans that next Tuesday's Bristol derby at the Memorial Stadium is all ticket. 1922 F. D. Watson iii. 90 This swing from an all-volunteer service to a non-volunteer service was fraught with equally serious consequences. 1972 50 440 The all-volunteer armed force faces a dilemma in the next steps of its redeployment. 2012 J. A. Jance xxxviii. 198 Annie Davis—who was head volunteer in the all-volunteer town library—jumped into the conversation. 1908 5 Mar. 474/3 All-welded steel cylinder work will be done. 1936 18 Jan. 150/2 The first all-welded spiral guide~frames gasholder to be built in this country is now in course of erection at Newhaven. 2004 Oct. 78/3 All are made of 2mm steel plate and have an all-welded construction. society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [adjective] > having specific type or position of wings 1919 June 78/1 The first airplanes were ‘all wings’... Today, the body—the fuselage—is the most essential part of the whole design, since the genius of Nieuport has shown that the time-honored belief that an airplane's wing surface increases only as the square and its weight as the cube of the linear dimensions holds true only for the antiquated ‘all-wing’ type. 1931 25 Sept. 970a/1 The ideal all-wing type of airplane would incorporate only wing formation, utilising all power output for lifting purposes. 1949 Aug. 5 Sleekest new ship in the air is the test proven Northrop jet-powered all-wing plane. 1998 D. Ford 177 The B-2 is an all-wing. 2002 M. J. Abzug & E. E. Larrabee (ed. 2) xvi. 251 Another NASA design research contract..is for a flying model of a 400-foot-span all-wing supersonic transport. society > communication > writing > written text > [adjective] > in own hand eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 348 Olagraphum testamentum est, eallwritene yrfebec. 1942 L. Bennett 11 Gwan, all yuh should'n walk a day, You clothes fava black-out. 1960 W. Harris iv. 39 They done know all-you rise bodily from the grave. 1995 M. Collins 75 Woy! Mamag good eh! All-you don't hear Mamag quote scripture? She quote the Bible flush, you know! All-you don't hear? 2008 28 Aug. a4/2 All yuh know fi do is eat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2022). < adj.pron.n.adv.conj.eOE |