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单词 all
释义

alladj.pron.n.adv.conj.

Brit. /ɔːl/, U.S. /ɔl/, /ɑl/
Forms:

α. early Old English ael- (in compounds), Old English æal (rare), Old English æl- (in compounds), Old English æle- (in compounds, rare), Old English æll- (in compounds, rare), Old English eale- (in compounds, rare), Old English ell (rare), Old English gel (perhaps transmission error), Old English hæl- (in compounds, rare), Old English heall (rare), Old English early Middle English eeal (probably transmission error), Old English (rare) Middle English (in copy of Old English charter) aell- (inflected form), Old English (rare)–early Middle English aall- (inflected form), Old English (rare)–early Middle English æl, Old English–early Middle English eal, Old English–early Middle English eall, Old English (chiefly Kentish)–early Middle English el- (in compounds), Old English–1600s al, Old English– all, late Old English agealra (genitive plural, transmission error), late Old English eæl, late Old English eæll, late Old English ealle- (in compounds), late Old English geal (rare), late Old English iall, late Old English–early Middle English æall, late Old English–early Middle English æll, late Old English (rare)–early Middle English geall- (inflected form), early Middle English eælle (plural, perhaps transmission error), early Middle English hal, Middle English ale, Middle English aull, Middle English awll, Middle English awlle, Middle English hall, Middle English hawlle, Middle English–1500s halle, Middle English–1700s alle; English regional 1800s awal (Yorkshire), 1800s– aal (south-western), 1800s– ael (south-western), 1800s– ahl (west midlands), 1800s– awl (northern), 1800s– oal (Cornwall); Scottish pre-1700 al, pre-1700 ale, pre-1700 alle, pre-1700 awl, pre-1700 1700s– all, 1900s– aal; Irish English 1800s aul (Wexford).

β. Middle English a (perhaps transmission error), Middle English au (east midlands); Scottish pre-1700 awe, pre-1700 1700s– a, pre-1700 1700s– a' Brit. /ɔː/, U.S. /ɔ/, Scottish English /ɔ/, pre-1700 1700s– aw, 1900s– aa; English regional (chiefly northern) 1600s– aw (northern and north-west midlands), 1800s aa, 1800s o, 1800s– a' (northern), 1800s– au (Yorkshire), 1800s– o'; Irish English 1800s– a', 1900s– aw (northern).

See also orl adv. and adj.
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).
(a) Preceding the noun without determiner or other modifying word. Usually referring to geographical areas.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [adjective]
alleOE
altogetherOE
allOE
wholea1325
halea1400
altogethers1569
orl1898
eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 886 Ęlfred cyning..him all Angelcyn to cirde þæt buton deniscra monna hæftniede was.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) i. 185 Of ðam wearð eft gestaðelad eal middaneard.
OE Laws of Æðelred II (Nero) v. xvi. 240 Sancte Eadwerdes mæssedæg witan habbað gecoren, þæt man freolsian sceal ofer eal Englaland on xv kalendas Aprilis.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2894 Wenden ȝe mid fehten to fellen uren leoden & beon eow seluen riche and welden al Rome?
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) l. 610 He shal hauen in his hand A [read Al] denemark and engeland.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (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 Warkworth's Chron. (1839) 3 And so Kynge Edward was possessed of alle Englonde.
1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 231 Godiue..naked throughout all Couentree, The tolles sore and seruage agayn right To redeme hole of her femynitee.
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 135 And thus was all Ireland Cantonized among tenne persons of the English Nation.
1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. iii. 116 Harfleur was the chiefest Port Town of all Normandy.
1707 W. Funnell Voy. round World v. 113 The biggest and best traded City in all America.
1750 J. Huxham Ess. Fevers (ed. 2) ii. 20 The catarrhal Fever..spread through all Europe.
1817 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire III. Pref. p. vii The near completion of my large and minute Mineral Map of all Derbyshire.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 576 At Exeter all Devonshire had been gathered together to welcome him.
1949 J. Mockford Golden Land 267 The Mother City and the mountains and the clouds, and all South Africa, grow misty before my eyes.
1978 Rugby World Apr. 4/1 The Irish side had given all Wales a fright by pegging the score back to 13–13.
1992 Economist 10 Oct. (Suppl.) 3/2 The capitalist government..claims still to be the legal government of all China.
(b) Preceding a determiner, possessive, or other word modifying the noun. Also occasionally (usually poetic) following the noun.
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eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 855 Þy ilcan geare gebocude Ęþelwulf cyning teoþan dęl his londes ofer al his rice Go[de] to lofe.
eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 860 Her Ęþelbald cyng forþferde..& feng Ęþelbryht to allum þam rice his broþur.
eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 870 Þa Deniscan sige namon & þone cyning ofslogon & þæt lond all geeodon.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 283 (MED) For þat dede al þe cherche sownede for joye, and þe street grucched.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 1336 The Regioun aw.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 136 Al the roialme thanne rumourt and lothit for that rousty Synne.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 291 The French king should clerely geue vnto him all the Duchy of Guyan.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 139 All the world's a stage.
1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India 144 The Canara-Language, which is the vulgar in Ikkeri and all that State.
1700 in Jrnl. Cork Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. (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 Extract Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Jrnl. (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 Poems (new ed.) 97 And all the world is still.
1938 A. de Blacam Black North (1943) x. 279 That enormous building could house the Government..of all a mighty commonwealth.
1985 M. Monroe Upper Room 110 You so big and fat you take up all the room, Mama Ruby.
1993 J. K. Hall tr. T. Terzani Goodnight, Mister Lenin (1994) iv. 65 In all the Soviet Union there are more than 150 ‘nationalities’.
(c) Following the. Apparently only in referring to the whole world. archaic and rare after 17th cent.At all times much less common than sense A. 1a(b) (all the world) and whole adj. 8a(a) (the whole world).
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c1425 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Harl.) 367 Þer nas prince in þe al worlde [c1325 Calig. al þe world] of so noble fame.
1583 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) II. 2027/1 That the all world might see what he coulde do in his office.
1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα Embleme Trees sig. *2v One among all Churches in the all world.
a1686 T. Watson Body Pract. Divinity (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 Masonic Rev. 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 Faith & Philos. Islam 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.
(a) Preceding the noun without determiner or other modifying word. Chiefly with nouns denoting large bodies of human beings, such as humankind, Christendom, etc., and others modelled on them.
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OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) i. 185 Þa behet god þæt he nolde næfre eft eal mancyn mid wætere acwellan.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 17 He..þrouwede deð for al moncun.
a1425 (c1300) Assumption of Virgin (BL Add.) (1901) l. 425 I hadde reuþe on al mankyne, That alle went to helle pyne.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (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 Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. xlviii. 134 Sith al Christendom is one Corps.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1939/1 None that had not cleane exiled all humanitie.
1625 T. Godwin Moses & Aaron i. v. 26 All Israel could not stand by, for the narrownesse of the place.
1729 C. Cibber Rival Queans iii. i. 23 So will thy Tongue out-scold all Womankind.
a1832 J. Bentham Anarchical Fallacies in Wks. (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 Edward I iii. 50 All Christendom was terribly moved by the assassination.
1924 Palestine Weekly 24 Oct. 362/2 The goodwill of all Arabdom.
1992 Utne Reader Mar. 91/1 The idea of original sin—that all humanity is fallen because of the first sin of Adam and Eve.
(b) Preceding a determiner, possessive, or other word modifying the noun.
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OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 242 Eall ure folc mid fleame ætwand buton we feowertig.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (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 Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 91 And al þis compaygnie I-burede weren in Coloyne in one Nonnerie.
c1490 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 206 (MED) O loode sterre..Ageyne all such pereyles lette þi lyght a-dawe On all thy peple.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 202v All a company is cumbrit for a cursed shrewe.
1632 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) II. 197 Nutt the pirate..with all his gang of varlets.
1682 J. Dryden Medall 19 Frogs and Toads, and all the Tadpole Train.
1749 J. Ray Compl. Hist. Rebell. 331 She got together all her Clan, and marched at their Head.
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV lxxxv. 113 As for the figuranti, they are like The rest of all that tribe.
1919 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 4 Dec. (1993) III. 136 You're like a lamb thats left behind. When all the flock has pattered away.
1981 J. May Many-colored Land i. i. 18 In honor of the maying, the betrothed Princess Bonne and all her retinue were dressed in malachite-green silk.
2003 Gay Times Feb. 123/1 All Poland's once substantial Jewish population.
(c) Immediately following the noun or separated from the noun by a copular or an auxiliary verb (only when the noun phrase is the subject of the clause).
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1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. i. 5 Our Ship was staunch, and our Crew all in good Health.
1809 tr. G. B. Guarini Il Pastor Fido i. iii. 32 Mankind all Should supplicate the favour of the gods In times of need, and pray with hope sincere.
1892 ‘G. Travers’ Mona Maclean I. vi. 57 Humanity will all be uniformly, hideously, commonplacely yellow!
2002 Independent 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.
(a) Preceding the noun without determiner or other modifying word.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [adjective]
alleOE
altogetherOE
allOE
wholea1325
halea1400
altogethers1569
orl1898
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xl. 341 He [sc. Christ] is sylf soð wisdom, and eal wisdom is of him.
OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) ix. 15 Ic beo gemyndig mines weddes wið eow, ðæt heononforð ne byð flod to adylgienne eall flæsc [L. universam carnem].
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxviii. 18 Al power is ȝouun to me, in heuene and in erthe.
c1450 ( J. Lydgate Select. Minor Poems (1840) 11 Gramer..Cheeff ffounderesse and roote of alle connyng.
1579 in J. G. Nichols Narr. Reformation (1859) (Camden) 34 He sayd his stomache was gonne from all meate excepte it wer a warden pye.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Pet. i. 24 All flesh is as grasse. View more context for this quotation
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 144 Concluding that all Matter and Substance as such, hath Life and Perception.
1752 D. Hume Polit. Disc. (ed. 2) v. 83 All water, wherever it communicates, remains always at a level.
1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith ii. ii. 117 All matter is only localised and partial force.
1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. 207 That indefinable malaise, that terrible blight which killed all sweetness.
1997 T. Pynchon Mason & Dixon 232 All light from the outside vanishes, as something fills the Doorway.
(b) Preceding a determiner, possessive, or other word modifying the noun.
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OE Ælfric tr. Basil Admonitio ad Filium Spiritualem 52 Ðis is seo geendung ealles þæs wlites and þæs lichaman fægernysse.
lOE St. Nicholas (Corpus Cambr.) (1997) 95 Se Godes mann wearð gefrefrod mid þæs halgan gastes gife & ealle his wræððe þærrihtes niðer alegde.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6048 All hiss lufe & all hiss lusst Iss naȝȝledd upp inn heoffne.
?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 95 Of al þis ioi þer nis non end.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 2758 Al hir sorowe was holp and remedyed.
1521 T. More Let. 21 Sept. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. 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 Comedye of Acolastus sig. Qiij If we..bring out of (the buttery) or spence all the meate that is left.
1668 A. Marvell Let. 28 Jan. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 256 We are, as for all other your kindnesse, obliged to you.
1702 R. Steele Funeral ii. 35 We..have nothing at all, of all this High-Flown-Fury!
1759 Ann. Reg. 1758 85/1 They..stove all the beer in the cellar.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. ii. 54 The sun appeared in all his glory..vivifying every colour of the landscape.
1807 tr. in A. Wilson App. Naval Hist. U.K. 207 All his presence of mind, and all the coolness he may have occasion for.
1876 R. Routledge Discov. & Inventions 19th Cent. 33 The puddler is able to collect all the metal at the end of an iron rod into a spongy mass.
1997 Sunday Post (Glasgow) 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 Period Living & Trad. Homes Apr. 35/1 The clay roof tiles and all the wood have been reclaimed from other local buildings.
(c) Immediately following the noun or separated from the noun by a copular or an auxiliary verb. Only when the noun phrase is the subject of the clause.
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1623 Managing Tobacco Contract in S. M. Kingsbury Rec. Virginia Company (1935) IV. 31 The Sumer Islandes tobacco..shall be all sould..by the candle.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xi. 315 I observed their Cloath to be all of..equal fineness; but 'tis stubborn when new.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World 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 Knaresborough Workhouse Daybk. (2003) 201 You put that Money all in your pockit.
1844 G. P. R. James Rose d'Albret 151/2 The cheese was all eaten up.
1886 G. Allen For Maimie's Sake xviii The fine of the day will all be gone by that time.
1889 A. E. Barr Feet of Clay xii. 236 The devil's corn all goes to bran.
1913 W. Cather O Pioneers! iii. ii. 203 Her training had all been toward the end of making her proficient in what she had undertaken to do.
1997 N.Y. Times 11 Apr. c13/5 The money all went into a giant ‘honey pot’.
d. With abstract nouns: everything that is possible, the greatest possible. Usually following a preposition and immediately preceding the noun without determiner or other modifying word.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > greatest in quantity, amount, or degree > greatest possible
allOE
possible1488
OE tr. Gospel of Nicodemus (Cambr.) xvii. §1. 197 Uton we gan and cuman to heom myd eallum wurðmynte [L. cum omni honore].
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (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 Nun's Priest's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 187 In alle haste com to me.
1443 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (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 New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. iiiv Wherfore in all haste he sent downe gyuyng strayte commaundement yt they shuld cease of yt ryot.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III 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 Seuen Champions i. xv. 160 Therevpon he stepped to the Orchard doore, and with all expedition locked it.
1665 A. Marvell Let. 2 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 41 I..beseech God to continue you in all health and well fare.
1728 Stamford Mercury 11 Jan. 12 Orders were come there for fitting out, with all Expedition, some Men of War and two Bomb Galliots.
1778 F. Burney Evelina 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 Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. vi. 460 Gazetteers, who would earn their wages..had to watch with all eagerness the movements of King August.
1879 Wild Life in S.C. 258 A weasel..makes all speed into the fern.
1909 Chatterbox 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 Richard II (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.
(a) Preceding the noun without determiner or other modifying word.
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OE Paris Psalter (1932) lv. 9 Ic ealne dæg ecne drihten wordum weorðige.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1104 He wass all daȝȝ Vnnclene anan till efenn.
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 50 For hire loue al nyht ich wake; for hire loue mournyng y make more þen eny mon.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 779 In longyng al nyȝt he lengeȝ.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges xix. 13 Tarye at Gibea or at Ramah allnight.
1581 N. Woodes Conflict of Conscience iv. i. sig. Fiiv Let him go Hypocrisie, stand not all day dodging.
1600 A. Munday et al. First Pt. True Hist. Sir I. Old-castle sig. F2 Sirrha, no more adoe, come, come, giue me the mony you have, dispatch, I cannot stand all day.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. i. 90 Nay, Ile fit you, And not be all day neither. View more context for this quotation
1706 S. Centlivre Basset-table v. 59 Come, come, Sir, we cann't wait all Day.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 82 It rain'd all Night and all Day,..during which time the Ship broke in Pieces.
1770 I. Bickerstaff 'Tis Well it's no Worse ii. i. 39 Beat.: Lazarillo, I say, will you be all day? Laz.: Coming, Mrs. Beatrice, coming.
1775 J. Nourse in Jrnl. Amer. Hist. (1925) 19 351 Water enough for Cattle may be kept all year here for pasture grounds.
1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles Prelim. Ess. ii. 11 This speaking is diffused over all time.
1865 ‘L. Carroll’ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ix. 142 Drive on, old fellow! Don't be all day about it!
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xii. 271 Ain't you got nothing to do but..stand a Poll Parroting all night?
1894 J. B. Salmond My Man Sandy (rev. ed.) 93 But a' forenicht I hard Sandy wirrin' awa' till himsel'.
1907 E. M. Forster Longest Journey iv. 63 He muddles all day with poetry and old dead people, and then tries to bring it into life.
1958 J. Yaffe Nothing but Night 63 You know, I haven't got all morning, I've got a business to get to.
1983 T. Pratchett Colour of Magic 135 It is allowable to issue a challenge by proxy... It shows intelligence. Don't take all day about it.
1985 Telegraph (Austral.) (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 Swing Hammer Swing! xxix. 260 ‘For any favour, do hurry along,’ she commanded, ‘We haven't got all day.’
2006 New Woman 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.
(b) Preceding a determiner or other modifying word.
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OE Acct. Voy. Ohthere & Wulfstan in tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. i. 16 Ealle ða hwile he sceal seglian be lande.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3192 Moni bisi kempen, Þeo fihten wið þone duke al þene dæi longe.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 671 And songen al the roundel lustily.
c1425 in E. Edwards Liber Monasterii de Hyda (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 Golden Legende f. cccixv/2 For to adaunte & subdue my prowde flesshe I rose at mydnyght alle the weke long.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ciii. 124 They helde the Englysshe archers well aworke all the day.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 170 You haue but mistooke me al this while. View more context for this quotation
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 106 The King..kept Triumphes of Iusting and Tourney during all that Moneth.
1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode i. i. 2 They're ever poaching after Whores all the Morning.
1720 W. R. Chetwood Voy. Capt. R. Falconer i. 64 It shak'd its Tail to and fro..all the while it felt the Water.
1768 J. Wesley Let. 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 Hist. Marten & Two Little Scholars (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 Royal Bk. of Sports (March's Penny Libr.) Come Jenny, don't be all the day.
1934 A. L. Rowse Diary 5 Mar. (2003) 81 All that weekend I was in a dazed condition, not knowing what to do with myself.
1974 A. Pierrepoint Executioner i. 24 We spent all the day at the Crystal Palace in peace and quiet.
2000 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) 17 Jan. 38/3 (heading) All this week at 8 p.m., the History Channel presents ‘History's Mysteries: Conspiracy Theories’.
2008 C. Gleason When Twilight Burns xii. 157 Now, spit it out, my lady's not got all the day to wait for ye to figger out what t'say.
(c) spec. Followed by a. Compare a adj. 1b(a). Now somewhat archaic.Replaced by a whole in standard English.
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?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (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 Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 221 (MED) Here ȝe habbez al a ȝer meteles i-beo.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2215 (MED) Þei trauailed al a niȝt.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (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 Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 640 She wepeth, wayleth, al a day or two.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 3010 A malady..lastand alle a yhere.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. liv. 75 Ther was one [assault] endured al a day.
1534 J. Heywood Play of Loue 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 Maister-peece lxix. 334 Rope his legge all a day with wet hay-ropes, and hee will be sound.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 449 To lament his fate In amorous dittyes all a Summers day. View more context for this quotation
a1718 T. Parnell Posthumous Wks. (1758) 273 Where Wretched Love endur'd a world of woe, For all a Winter's length of night below.
a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (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 Corr. L. Hunt (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 Poems (new ed.) 207 Children..Have known thee watching, all an April day.
1903 M. Dods et al. Expos. Bible 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 Lonely Dancer 119 Each petal fleeting as a wing, All a May morning blows and blows.
2006 J. T. Kirby Mockingbird Song 146 He and his two local guides traveled all a July day on foot.
f. With an anaphoric pronoun, as it, this, that.
(a) Preceding the pronoun (obsolete with it).
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OE Seven Sleepers (Julius) (1994) 41 Eall hit wæs heom uncuð, ac hit wæs Gode ful cuð.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (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 Legends Holy Rood (1871) 18 Al [h]it com of one more.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (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) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 411 With thare hemmyd shoyn; All this must be done.
1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance ii. xxi. f. clxiiiiv What is hys owne irrefragable reason that he layth agaynst all this?
1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. D3 Wel maister, al this is from the bias, do you remember the ship.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iv. 197 All this would not ingratiate this Usurper with them.
1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxi. 123 Ads-dines, Madam, said he, what of all that!
1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer v. 97 And is it to you, you graceless varlet, I owe all this.
1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 28 247 All this is by the way.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 323 He and he alone has done all this.
1924 A. D. Sedgwick Little French Girl i. vii. 69 It was strange to her, as she spoke, to feel how deeply she knew all this about Giles.
1992 Duluth (Minnesota) News-Tribune 23 Aug. b6/5 They lost all that.
(b) Following the pronoun.
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OE Dream of Rood 58 Ic þæt eall beheold.
OE Vercelli Homilies (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) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 434 Heo hit al weldeð.
c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 57 Þe fend hyt was þat schente hyt al Myd gyle and hys abette.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (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 Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 146 Keip this all secreit gentill brothir.
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe i. sig. Bv And you will stay till to morrow you shall haue it all in new soueraignes.
1666 Earl of Arlington Let. 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 Life Robinson Crusoe 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 Sisters II. vii. 190 Think of the excess of my passion for you—oh lay it all to your heart.
1842 J. F. Cooper Wing-and-wing II. i. 10 The Queen of the Fleet—our Lady Admiraless, had it all to herself.
1891 Tablet 12 Sept. 415 You will not get it all in the study-halls and in the class-halls.
1922 ‘K. Mansfield’ Jrnl. 14 Oct. (1954) 334 This all sounds very strenuous and serious.
1992 Independent 14 Aug. 4/7 We took in this man and gave him a chance. He threw it all back in our faces.
(c) Separated from the pronoun by a copular or auxiliary verb.
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c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4046 Hit wes al isomned and [read at] þere sereuunge.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 190 He ne hedde bote þri pans, uor say[n]t germayn hit hedde al yeue to pouren.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 1545 Ay biholdand þe honde til hit hade al graven And rasped on þe roȝ woȝe runisch sauez.
1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. iv. ix. f. 122v It might al be perboyled out by the fire of long tribulation.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 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 True Relation Voy. George Waymouth 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 Seuen Deadly Sinnes London iv. sig. E3 It is all sluttishly ouergrowne with Mosse on the out-side.
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxxvi. 234 It may be..beflaked or flayed that it may all go one way.
1700 W. Congreve Way of World V. i. 74 If it must all come out, why let 'em know it.
1726 I. Newton Let. 25 June in Corr. (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 Cecilia 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 Pride & Prejudice I. v. 38 It may all come to nothing.
1851 E. E. Stuart Let. 27 Dec. in R. Stuart et al. Stuart Lett. (1961) I. 248 It will all eventuate most to the glory of God.
1872 T. Wright Grainger's Thorn 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 Sons & Lovers xi. 280 It would all come right if they tried.
1979 A. Ayckbourn Relatively Speaking ii. i. 54 It was all rather pathetic.
2009 V. Coren For Richer for Poorer ix. 118 It will all raise money for an important charity! Purrfect.
g. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). With a singular count noun (rarely a pronoun), preceding the: the only.
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1825 T. D. Lauder Lochandhu 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 Bible Doctr. 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 Golden Hours Apr. 179/2 This is all the coat I have in the world, and I thank God for it.
1911 H. K. Job Blue Goose Chase 91 That's all the car there is, except one for colored people. The rest of the train is freight cars.
1976 Jet 4 Mar. 4/2 He is all the man I'll ever need in my lifetime.
2009 C. Orzel How to teach Physics to your Dog 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.
(a) Preceding a noun or noun phrase, without determiner or possessive.
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OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) clxvii. 210 Wið ealle wundela genim þas wyrte zamalentition.
?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1135 Þa þestrede þe dæi ouer al landes.
a1250 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Titus) (1940) 36 Ha..is as in syon þe hehe tur of hevene, freo ouer alle fram alle worldliche weanen.
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 431 (MED) Wanne snov liþ þicke & wide An alle wiȝtes habbeþ sorȝe, Þu singest from eue fort amorȝe.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (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 Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 444 All people sholde be at his castell the fifth day aftir.
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 46v Marke all aiges.
1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xxix. 54/1 In all places of India, where the Portingales inhabite.
1604 W. Tooker Of Fabrique of Church 13 All trees are not of one growth or proceritie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (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 Answer Dissenter 37 So Comprehensional a Charity, that All Christians..may go to Heaven, Hand in Hand.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 57. ⁋2 All Mankind are indifferently liable to adverse Strokes of Fortune.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 19 All men think all men Mortal, but themselves.
1786 J. H. Tooke Επεα Πτεροεντα ii. 57 The right use, significancy, and force of all words except the names of Ideas.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. Introd. p. xiv All plants that bear flowers have spiral vessels, and are therefore Vascular.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 30 Pleasure the most fleeting of all things.
1907 Illustr. London News 4 May 672/1 Nearly all Englishmen are either Shakesperians or Miltonians... Each represents something in the make-up of England.
1979 ‘A. Blaisdell’ No Villain need Be iii. 49 He reflected that even detectives come in all shapes and sizes.
1995 Daily Tel. 17 Jan. 18/7 The enormous satisfaction reported by virtually all women following breast enlargement.
(b) Preceding a personal pronoun.Now typically an object personal pronoun, which is often used as the clause subject (although this use is nonstandard and often deprecated), probably arising from the ellipsis of of in all of them, all of us, etc. (cf. sense B. 4a). With subject personal pronouns, now usually regional or archaic (cf. all-you n. at Compounds 2d).
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OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (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 Institutes of Polity (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 Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 171 Alle hi sculen cumen þider.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (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 Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) III. 1196 All they were arayed in whyght velvet.
1496 Rote or Myrour Consolacyon & Conforte (de Worde) sig. Evi All you the whiche are faythfull soules and byleue the promysse of god.
1546 J. Bale First Examinacyon A. Askewe Pref. sig. ♣iiijv I answere them, that all they are of no soche autoryte.
1560 Bible (Geneva) Isa. xxiii. 9 To bring to contempt [1611 into contempt] all them that be glorious in the earth.
1605 A. Munday tr. G. Affinati Dumbe Divine Speaker xxv. 275 All we are brethren, trauailing from this earth to heauen.
1645 Narr. State of Bristoll in Prince Rupert Declar. 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 Piccolomini iii. iii. 146 So will he, falling, draw down..All us, who're fix'd and mortic'd to his fortune.
1809 R. Adam Relig. World Displayed 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 Poems & Ballads 17 I will scatter all them that have sinned.
1907 H. Pyle Stories of Sir Launcelot 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 Harper's Monthly Mag. May 832/2 All them are dead and gone.
1993 Toronto Life July 28/3 They probably would have won awards, although not all them were strategically on-target.
2001 N. Hornby How to be Good vii. 108 I'm like one of those American comic-book guys. Spiderman and all them.
(c) Preceding a numeral (greater than two).Compare the note at the head of sense A. 2.
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OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (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 Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 242 Hi þa ealle feowertig ætforan him stodon.
c1325 in T. Wright Specimens Lyric Poetry (1842) 105 Alle thre shule ben aleyd, with huere foule crokes.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) f. 53 To godhed goþ þre & god is alle þre.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) ix. 222 Bayarde, whiche shall maye bere vs all four at a nede.
1558 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 17 He will..make waiste, sucke the Quene, or pynche the poore or all thre.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvi. xxxvii. 485 The third that is smallest of all three, is the French Willow.
1678 T. D'Urfey Trick for Trick iv. i. 39 The Sisters of St. Albans—what all five?—ha, ha, that Boy, that's my own Boy.
1787 Ann. Reg. 1784–5 Chron. 183/2 They were all five in Spanish dresses..of white crape spangled with gold.
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. xii. 209 All five, to-day, have suffered death.
1940 Amer. Boy Feb. 7/1 This school won all eight of its games.
2007 N.Y. Times Mag. 7 Oct. 82/1 All three immediately agreed.
(d) Modifying an anaphoric pronoun or possessive.
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OE Homily: De Temporibus Anticristi (Corpus Cambr. 419) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (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) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig. A.xi) (1887) l. 9204 Alle þes were aȝen þe kinge as veruorþ [v.r. verþuorþ] as hii couþe.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 183 Pulueris pigre, turbit electi..pulpe coloquintide..grynde all þese & sarce hem.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) l. 1583 (MED) Behynde all these was worshipfull Beede.
?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Bv If thou haue all these, thou mayst grathly carpe.
1581 W. Blandie Castle f. 26v All these are through long triall and experience ripe, most fitt to doe their countrye seruice.
1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus 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 Paradise Regain'd ii. 376 All these are Spirits of Air, and Woods, and Springs.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 285 All those..who were sent for, appeared punctually at the hour that was assigned them.
1778 Town & Country Mag. 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 Ocean & Desert 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 Good Housek. 20 Feb. 246/1 All these are desirable, and should be sought after and prized.
1929 A. Huxley Let. 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 Racing & Sports Car Chassis Design v. 43 All these, plus the single transverse torsion bar and the telescopic dampers, pick up on the rear bulkhead of the monocoque.
2001 Times 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.
b. Preceding a determiner, possessive, or other word modifying the noun.
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OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) i. 180 Þa wearð he & ealle [a1225 Vesp. A.xxii halle] his geferan forcuþran & wyrsan þonne ænig oðer gesceaft.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxvi. 35 Gelice þam cwædon ealle ða oþre leorningcnihtas.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 5093 Luces þe king..lond þer-to leide & sette þer-on Godes frið & freoden alle þe chirchen.
?a1300 Iacob & Iosep (Bodl.) (1916) l. 418 (MED) Alle þese ten breþren turneþ hem aȝein Mid reuþfule wepe & mid dreri drem.
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. Prol. l. 55 (MED) I Font þere Freres, all þe Foure Ordres.
a1450 St. Katherine (Richardson 44) (1884) 13 He..loueth hir chastite a monge alle þe virgyns in erthe.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (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 Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxiii. 623 We would impute al those interruptions and chaunges, to the nature of nature it self.
1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 91 He form'd a Law, which all the old men follow'd.
1671 Philos. Trans. 1670 (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. Wks. (1718) 61 To all you Ladies now on Land..with a Fa, la, la, la, la.
1741 Gentleman's Mag. 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 Hist. Eng. I. 171 They had watched all his motions, and lectured him on all his youthful follies.
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 198 The numberless Jewish equipages with all those insolent-looking Hebrew women of the Leopoldstadt.
1913 Southern Planter Mar. 358/1 Keep enclosed all your chicks not poisoned.
1960 Woman's Illustr. 16 July 51 When you have discovered all seven answers, list them neatly on a postcard.
2002 D. Hemans River Woman 33 All them criminals they have down here lock up in jail doing nothin' but just eatin' food and gettin' fat.
2006 Prediction June 35/2 All the cards, apart from one, are from the suits of Pentacles and Cups.
c. Immediately following the noun or pronoun.
(a) With a noun.Now usually where the noun is the subject of the verb; otherwise only in occasional, typically poetic, use.
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eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 878 He gerad to Ecgbryhtes stane.., & him to coman þær ongen Sumorsæte alle & Wilsætan.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) 11781 If he no war god of might, vr goddes alle had standen up right.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (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 Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 187 Thy people all beholding: Who deere their deaths dost weigh.
1610 H. Broughton Reuelation Holy Apocalyps (new ed.) xiii. 179 Scholars all should haue a voice in Bishopps proceedings.
1642 Second Famous Victorie 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 Pharsalia v. 1029 If some rushing Storm the Journey cross, The wingy Leaders all are at a loss.
1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 114 The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all.
1815 W. Burney Falconer's Dict. Marine To cheer, to salute a ship en passant, by the people all coming upon deck and huzzaing three times, called three cheers.
1868 Putnam's Mag. Feb. 149/1 Her servants all were in livery, from the big-breasted butler down to the ebon page.
1915 F. H. Burnett Lost Prince vi. 60 The Squad all began to jabber at once.
1928 Oxf. Poetry 39 The others all Were giggling blond bathingbelles.
2002 Eastern Eye 26 July 18/1 The panellists all head to the Green Room for refreshments and mutual back slapping.
(b) With a pronoun. Cf. we-all pron., you-all pron.
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OE Vercelli Homilies (1992) xi. 225 Se God us to ðam gefultumige þe ofer us ealle liofað & rixað.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (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 Ælfric's Lives of Saints (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 Old Eng. Homilies (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 Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (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 Anglia (1907) 30 236 (MED) Go we alle in þilke paþ, & he us wule bringe..biuore þe heuenkinge.
c1300 Havelok (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 Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 34 Lowe we all god, my breþir dere, þat has ws send a gud gestenere.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue ii. ix. sig. Lii Euery man for hym selfe, and god for vs all.
1557 T. More Hist. Edward V (1641) 15 The place that they al preach of.
1611 Troublesome Raigne Iohn (new ed.) i. sig. E4 We all are vndone, And brought to discredence.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (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 Oroonoko 99 They all, with one Accord, assur'd him, they cou'd not suffer enough, when it was for his Repose and Safety.
1709 London Gaz. 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 Lyrical Ballads 22 And they all dead did lie!
1815 ‘J. Mathers’ Hist. Mr. John Decastro & Brother Bat II. xi. 237 Not a man of them all will come within an acre's length of you.
1828 London Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 1 632/1 There are men, we all know, who would kill, but not butcher.
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxii. 192 They all come riding in..looking just like a gang of real sure-enough queens.
1924 R. Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 166 'E 'ad us all screened in over in a cuttin' on a little spur-line.
1995 Daily Mail 16 Dec. 5/1 This, they all agreed, was a red letter day in Euroland.
d. Separated from the noun or pronoun by a copular verb or an auxiliary. Also occasionally (poetic) following the predicate or complement of the verb.Unlike corresponding use with a singular noun or pronoun, not normally ambiguous with adverbial use (see discussion at sense C. 1). Sometimes overlapping in form, however, with adverbial use; cf., e.g., quot. 1797 and sense C. 3.
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OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1050 Heom com þa strang wind to, swa þæt hi wæron ealle forfarene buton feower.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1085 Hi wæron ealle þæs cynges clerecas.
c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 1081 (MED) Tho other men were alle aslepe..He ros him up and bihuld on than ymage anheȝ.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig. A.xi) (1887) l. 527 Þe geans were alle aslawe þat þer ne bileuede na mo.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (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 Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 50v They of the counceyll were all of the oppynyon that Iupiter shold goo in to Crete.
1542 T. Becon Newe Pathway vnto Praier 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 Thersytes sig. C.iiii Seinge we be mortall all Let not our wroth be immortall.
1616 T. Adams Divine Herball i. 16 They were all lifting at a feather, and could not stirre it.
1675 P. Bellon Mock-duellist v. iv. 59 Though distinct Couples, we can all agree.
1696 T. Brookhouse Temple Opened 8 The whole Race of Mankind are All concluded under Death.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 55 If we had kept on board, we had been all safe.
1738 J. Swift Treat. Polite Conversat. ii. 182 My lord, we must all die.
1768 Ann. Reg. 1767 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 Lamia & Other Poems 88 They are all here to-night.
1890 M. Oliphant Kirsteen III. iii. 42 The windows were all closed and curtained shutting out the lingering light of day.
1918 F. A. Swinnerton Shops & Houses i. xiii. 198 Ach! They're all alike. All these Hughes girls.
1962 T. G. Hiebert Abbrev. Basic Med. Physiol. (ed. 4) ii. ix. 168 [The] combination stimulates further production of antibodies with this structure, even after the antigens have all been destroyed.
1994 Rolling Stone 16 June 32/1 The heart, soul and breathtaking guitar technique were all Clapton's.
2002 Times 13 Mar. (T2 section) 28/2 The rescue team are all volunteers.
3. Designating each and every member of a set, or example of a distinct category or type, without exception; every; (now frequently in somewhat weakened use) many or most of the specified category. Now Scottish and Caribbean except when modifying nouns denoting category or type, as kind, manner, sort, etc. (see also Phrases 4a).In modern regional (esp. Scottish) use frequently in pronominal and adverbial compounds: see awbody pron., algate adv., all-thing pron. and adv.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > not specified > of every kind > each or every
eacheOE
anyOE
allOE
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ever alla1513
all sundry1562
OE Blickling Homilies 115 Þa he [sc. the world] ærest gesceapen wæs, þa wæs he ealre fægernesse full.
OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (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 Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 68 Heo sona wurdon hale fram al untrumnesse for his scæde repunge.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 17 To huam alle triacle went in to venym.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1605 (MED) Plente of alle purueaunce.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (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 Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 10 Of alman but offens.
1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay sig. Ciii He luffis thayme notht as hime self in al maner.
1556 W. Lauder Compend. Tractate Dewtie of Kyngis sig. A4v Ȝour..dewtie..That ȝe aucht tyll all Creature.
1558 Q. Kennedy Compendius Tractiue xviii. sig. Hvi Lat all christiane man (quhilk is in dout) haue refuge to the iuge.
1658 R. Brathwait Age of Apes in Honest Ghost 171 Observations of all sort.
1768 N.Y. Gaz. 4 July 3/2 (advt.) Jams and Hearth Pieces of all Kind.
1886 W. Newton Secrets Tramp Life Revealed 8 Posh..money of all kind.
1898 W. J. Knowles in Eng. Dial. Dict. I. 38/2 [Ulster] Is that generally believed?—It is, by a' man.
1943 L. Lenski Bayou Suzette xi. 164 Plenty animal come too—deer, muskrat, coon, opossum,..all kind.
1973 M. P. Jones Pan Beat 125 They were there already, all man jack with a paint brush, painting hell out of the front wall.
1994 I. J. Boodhoo Between Two Seasons 29 Man, everybody left every kind of work: teachin', clerkin', burnin' coals. All man goin' for dollars.
2010 M. Warshaw Hist. Surfing ii. 76/1 Trophies and championships—the staff of life to sportsmen of all kind.
4. Any whatever. In early use usually following without (in Old English †bout). Now usually following beyond (as beyond all question, beyond all doubt, etc.), or modifying a noun which is the object of a verb expressing exclusion, as deny, disclaim, renounce, etc. Cf. alwise adv. [With without all compare classical Latin sine omnī.]
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the world > relative properties > quantity > [adjective] > some or any
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eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (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) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 746 He ansuerede..þat he ne kepte bote hire [sc. Cordelia] one wiþ oute alle oþer þinge.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xxii. 28 Whether [is he] a vessel withoute al voluptuouste [L. absque omni voluptate]?
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Heb. vii. B Now is it so without all naysayenge that the lesse receaueth blessynge of ye better.
1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 370 A thing sa far beyond all measour that [etc.].
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 51/1 in Chron. I Certaine garrisons of Romaine souldiers..whom they slewe downe right without al mercie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. ii. 13 Things without all remedie Should be without regard. View more context for this quotation
1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 75 The Carthaginians enjoyed the command of the Sea without all Controversie.
1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §10 An undoubted truth, which they can demonstrate beyond all exception.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 249 Upon this the bishop and the clerk usually disclaim all title.
1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London III. i. 39 ‘This is Francis's writing beyond all question,’ said the signora.
1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline i. iii. 10 Without all guile or Suspicion..was he.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 382 He disclaimed all intention of attacking the memory of Lord Russell.
1907 Yale Law Jrnl. 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’ Hours before Dawn i. 7 Soon he would be yelling beyond all hope of control.
1992 N.Y. Times 16 Aug. iv. 3/2 Republican eagerness to disclaim all responsibility for growing inequality.
2009 ‘R. Keeland’ tr. S. Larsson Girl who played with Fire xviii. 303 It proved beyond all doubt that Salander had done a hostile takeover—her term—of his computer.
5. Preceding (or occasionally in early use following) a plural possessive adjective: of or belonging to every one of the people indicated; of all of us, them, etc. See also alther adj. Cf. allers adj.A parallel construction with the genitive of a personal pronoun and the inflected form of all existed in Old English, and this sense probably arose in Middle English as an alternative to the surviving uses of the earlier construction (with the adjectival genitive reanalysed as a separate adjective): see alther adj.Usually with the noun modified in the singular, but in later, now typically colloquial use, also with the noun pluralized; cf. both adj. 4. In use with a singular noun, now somewhat archaic.
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?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 109 Maid bere heuen King Þat is al ure creatoure.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9709 Wit-vten vr al [a1400 Gött. all vre] comun a-sent.
1459 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (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 Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 1083 You..ar all oure ledar and all oure worship.
1548 T. Cranmer Catechismus (new ed.) f. clxviii A most assured trust in God (who is all oure father) that we shall lacke nothinge.
1643 W. Slatyer Compl. Christian iv. v. 547 Of all our Father we aske all our bread.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 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 Agnes III. xv. 226 It's all our duties to save the master.
1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell ii. i Mine and all their free and sovereign king.
1979 D. Mitchell Souls of Lambs i. 2 Nature, who is all our mother, is not easily predicted.
1986 W. W. Katz Sun God, Moon Witch 150 She is your mother, Thorny! She is all our mothers! And in the end she abandons us all.
2006 P. L. Gaus Prayer for Night 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.
a. As the antecedent to a relative clause introduced by that, what (now nonstandard), or zero relative pronoun: every one of the things or people specified; all the parts or elements of the specified thing; everything or everyone. Usually with singular agreement except when referring to people.In Old English with the simple demonstrative in relative function (of which Old English þæt is an inflected form; cf. discussion at that pron.2), with relative particle (see the pron.1), or with a combination of the two.
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eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 827 Þy ilcan geare geeode Ecgbryht cyning Miercna rice & al þæt be suþan Humbre wæs.
eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 874 He gearo wære mid him selfum & on allum þam þe him læstan woldon to þæs heres þearfe.
OE Stowe Psalter 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 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1104 Ealle þe hit gesawon wundredon.
c1175 Ormulum (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 Middle Eng. Humorous Tales (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) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11722 Þai fell in suun al þat þar war.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiv. 172 Lord, it is sothe all that we say.
1531 W. Tyndale Expos. Fyrste Epist. St. Jhon 15 All that lyue in ignoraunce are called darknesse.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. i. 9 Yee Rivers, and all that euer is.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. ii. 35 To haue his pompe, and all what state compounds. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 569 To tell thee all What thou commandst. View more context for this quotation
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion 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 Refl. Revol. in France 44 To derive all we possess as an inheritance from our forefathers. View more context for this quotation
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) I. 136 Is there some one humorific point common to all that can be called humourous?
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam 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 China II. iii. 133 All that we spoke to were civil and respectful.
1925 O. R. Cohen Bigger & Blacker iii. 78 An' that's all what you says?
1953 Trans. Philol. Soc. 84 All that we have..are certain asterisked allophones.
2006 F. Chalk It's your Time you're Wasting (2009) 30 I cannot hear all that they are shouting.
b. With limiting sense: the full extent or amount; the only thing; the most. In later use also ironically: absolutely not the thing; the last thing (cf. (that's) all one needs at need v.2 Phrases 3).
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1605 A. Munday tr. G. Affinati Dumbe Divine Speaker Ep. Ded. sig. A2 And if the world giue me good words, tis all I aske of it.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iv. 30 This is all could be inferr'd from the Notion of a God.
1826 T. Wilson Pitman's Pay i, in Newcastle Mag. Oct. 465 For she gets a' her heart can wish In strang-lyced tea and singin' hinnies.
1859 Harper's Mag. 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 Cloven Foot xxxviii That's a kind of thing we never tell. We got the straight tip; that's all you need know.
1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xv. 235 All I ask is to be left alone to moulder away in solitude.
1928 R. Langer tr. S. Zweig Ben Jonson's Volpone 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 Compl. Wks. V. 528 All that we can ever get rid of are purposive ideas that are known to us.
1985 J. Adams Good Intentions x. 82 That's all you need, messing around with some cokehead's woman.
2007 J. Baggini Welcome to Everytown iv. 114 All she was saying was that she was grateful to have the option to do something else.
2.
a. With singular agreement. Everything; all necessary, relevant, or important things; the whole scene or situation.Frequently following a preposition in adverbial phrases with the implication ‘everything else, everything to the contrary’, as above, after, before, beyond, for, mid all: see the first element. See also overall adv., withal adv.In Old English it is not always possible to distinguish eall (neuter singular) from the homographic neuter plural form.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > the generality > everything
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eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) i. xvi. 80 Eall bið clæne clænum [L. omnia munda mundis]: þæm besmitenum & ungeleafsumum noht bið clæne.
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) ii. xii. 142 Se mon wæs þurh eall [L. per omnia] se cristenesta & se gelæredesta.
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 18 God is æghwær eall.
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 130 Man ahrærde cyrcan on his rice geond eall.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) 19887 All iss sett i cristess dom Þatt æfre iss don onn erþe.
a1250 Wohunge ure Lauerd in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 271 (MED) Al is tin, mi sweting, and al þu wilt ȝiue me ȝif i þe riht luuie.
c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) l. 2269 (MED) Al is pes þar ichaue went, Saue in þe lond of Dabilent.
c1400 J. Gower Eng. Wks. (1901) II. 489 Here fame abit, bot al is vanite.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 388 But in God is all.
1533 J. Heywood Play of Wether sig. Ciiv For spryngynge and plumpyng..corne yet muste ye haue water or all is forlorne.
1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet sig. B4 Alls as it is taken; marie the diuell take al.
1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 125 Love hath given all in grosse, and therefore can reteyne nothing in retayle.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 106 What though the field be lost? All is not lost.
1713 J. Addison Cato ii. i Something whispers me All is not right.
1785 G. Crabbe News-paper 15 Something to all men, and to some men all.
1814 Intrigues of Day i. i, in New Brit. Theatre I. 76 That may soon be washed away. Only a little milk of roses, or violet soap, and all will be well.
1855 Harper's Mag. 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 Waves 34 All here is false; all is meretricious.
1986 S. Penman Here be Dragons (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 On Beauty 233 All was good with the world.
b. In predicative use: the full extent of the matter or question; the sum total of what there is to be said about something. Usually in that's all. See also is all at be v. Phrases 2h.
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a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (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 Wks. I Meere Essaists! a few loose sentences, and that's all.
1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 186 He, at the sight of supper, wont to fall A yawning, gapes and gapes, and that is all.
1739 Ld. Chesterfield Lett. (1932) (modernized text) II. 398 He [sc. an ignorant man] can just be said to live, and that is all.
1774 L. Carter Diary (1965) II. 915 What has this author done in this contest? Shot his bolt and that is all.
1836 F. Marryat Snarleyyow xxiv, in Metropolitan Nov. 231 Look out for squalls, that's all.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 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 Captains Courageous x. 221 I'm not stuck on myself any just now—that's all.
1927 C. Porter Compl. Lyrics (1983) 98 It's sex appeal, it's sex appeal, it's sex appeal, that's all.
1990 A. L. Kennedy Night Geom. & Garscadden Trains 94 She'd known she was getting on a wee bit and splashed out, that was all.
2009 D. Nicholls One Day (2010) vi. 124 It's just a silly, late-night programme, that's all. It's post-pub.
c. In predicative use: the sum total of a person's needs or desires; the entirety of what matters. Frequently with to. colloquial in later use. Cf. everything pron. and n. 1c.
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1609 B. Jonson Case is Alterd 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 Revenge ii. i. 20 What costs you Nothing, yet is All to him.
1852 United Presbyterian Mag. 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 University Mag. & Free Rev. 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 All that Matters 7 ‘All That Matters’ is dedicated to my wife who is all to me.
1973 Holland (Mich.) Evening Sentinel 10 Aug. 5/6 Jesus is all to me.
2004 M. Nathan Waitress (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.
3. With plural agreement. All people; everybody, everyone.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > the generality > everyone
allOE
to wifeOE
everya1250
young and olda1400
everybodyc1405
all hands1655
tout le monde1825
OE West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) xiii. 37 Soðlice þæt ic eow secge eallum [c1200 Hatton eallen, OE Lindisf. allum], ic hit secge, waciað.
OE Paris Psalter (1932) lii. 3 Þa of heofenum beseah halig drihten ofer manna bearn, hwæðer his mihta ða andgyt ænig ealra hæfde.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 47 Þes þe god seolf seide bi þis deorewurðe saȝe king & prophete icured of alle.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 427 (MED) Haue he þe malisun to-day Of alle þat eure speken may!
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (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 Hist. Coll. Citizen London (1876) 230 Docter Ive..radde many fulle nobylle lessonnys to preve that Cryste was lorde of alle.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (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 Byrth of Mankynde Prol. sig. B.viiiv The beneuolencie and wyllyng fauour of all.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 156 Some poisoned by their wiues, some sleeping kild, All murthered.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Tim. iv. 15 That thy profiting may appeare to all . View more context for this quotation
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 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 Spectator No. 122. ¶2 Beloved and esteemed by all about him.
1721 E. Ward Merry Trav. (1729) i. 29 Here all are welcome to repair Their aching Limbs or damag'd Ware.
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 5 Nature, a mother kind alike to all.
1812 S. Randall Miser iv. 40 All must die!!
1889 Harper's Mag. 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 Ulysses ii. 326 Bye bye all, says Martin.
1996 National Geographic 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.
a. With a plural or collective noun or pronoun: each and every one; every individual; all the members, examples, or instances.
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OE Ælfric Homily (Corpus Cambr. 188) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 279 Eac þæra gedwolmanna..ealle heo oferswiðde mid soðum geleafan.]
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 370 (MED) He so grette alle of his compers þat he knew.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xi. 21 Alle of foulys þat gooþ on foure feet shal been abhomynable to ȝow.
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 119 Take summe or alle of þe colde herbis bifore rehersid of ech an handful.
a1500 (?a1475) Guy of Warwick (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 Trewnesse Christian Relig. 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 World Encompassed by Sir F. Drake 8 All of these trees were euen laden with fruit.
1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. vii. 188 How their Kings..have all of them, in all ages, affronted and curbed the Roman Court.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 93. ¶1 We all of us complain of the Shortness of Time.
1778 J. Cook Jrnl. 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 Pride & Prejudice I. vii. 62 As it happens, they are all of them very clever. View more context for this quotation
1892 G. Saintsbury in Macmillan's Mag. June 107 Telegrams, postcards, correspondence-cards, letter-cards,—all of these things the truly good and wise detest.
1903 T. B. Aldrich Ponkapog Papers (1904) 169 All of Herrick's geese were swans.
1983 N.Y. Times 19 June x. 26/6 Virtually all of the fares have contractural riders of one sort or another.
2011 N.Y. Times Mag. 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.
b. With an expression of quantity: fully. Now frequently ironically: no more than.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > a great quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > so great a quantity or amount
so micklec888
so mucha1225
all1614
1614 J. Cooke Greenes Tu Quoque sig. E2 Yes this is the first game, but by the crosse of this siluer heere's all of fiue pounds.
1771 J. Shebbeare Authentic Narr. Oppress. Islanders Jersey 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 Writings (1834) II. 57 Miss Cross, who was all of six feet high.
1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xviii. 220 It must have been all of fifteen minutes..of dull, homesick silence.
1944 ‘G. Graham’ Earth & High Heaven i. iii. 65 He was all of thirty-three, solitary and unsure of himself.
1992 London Rev. Bks. 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 Run for Home (2005) 5 All of two miles he'd managed, two friggin' miles.
2010 Daily Tel. 5 Apr. 26/3 It took him all of 14 years.
c. With a singular noun or pronoun: the entire amount, every part, the whole.
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OE Ælfric Homily (Vitell. C.v) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1968) II. 567 Ða ferde he geond eall þære foresædan scire.]
1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. 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 Nat. Hist. Staffs. iv. 168 It being all of it good weatherstone, but not enduring the fire.
1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 7 Of Turpentines, Gums, and all of that Tribe.
1808 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. I. 133 The House Wren inhabits the whole of the United States, in all of which it is migratory.
1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia x. 81 The Sadducees held that all of human existence was bounded between birth and death.
1932 J. H. Frederick Devel. Amer. Commerce vii. 77 There were insufficient American vessels to handle all of the traffic.
1999 M. Pendergrast Uncommon Grounds iv. xvii. 351 All of it was gone, along with his house, beneficio, and personal possessions.
5. Each and every one of the things specified or implied in the context; every individual or example of the specified kind or group. Cf. sense B. 4a.
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1670 R. T. Opinion Witchcraft Vindicated 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 Let. 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’ New Purchase II. l. 171 So nut-shelly had all books and subjects become, that all could be even cracked and devoured in infant schools!
1882 Cent. Mag. June 202/1 Even among first-rate tenors not all can easily compass this beautiful air.
1904 L. Steffens Shame of Cities 68 They did these things that they planned—all and more.
1967 D. Baxter Will Somebody please say Something? i. 33 She had ten dolls, all made in the images of ten different men.
2006 T. Anderson Riding Magic Carpet (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.
a. Everything that one possesses or in which one has a stake or interest; a person's entire possessions, property, or interest. Now frequently in extended use: one's full efforts or concern, esp. in to give (it) one's all. Usually with possessive adjective.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > a person's collective property or substance > the whole of one's property or possessions
all1340
(to lose) stock and block1675
maul and wedges1872
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
all1340
(to lose) stock and block1675
1340 Ayenbite (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 Cymbeline (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 Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxxi. sig. O2v Hee shall not command the All of an honest man.
1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 235 Those matters..which concern our All.
1707 J. Addison Present State War 242 Our All is at stake.
1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature viii. 157 When two persons throw their all into one stock as joint-traders for life.
1794 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 221 We are, as I think, fighting for our all.
1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles 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 Carthage 259 They had ventured their all, or nearly their all, on this one throw.
1917 S. Aumonier Just Outside 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 Sorts 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 And Ass saw Angel i. x. 62 Whereupon he proceeded to extravasate them mercilessly for their all.
1992 Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times 28 Feb. 17/2 I'm just going to give it my all.
2009 Daily Tel. 10 June 19/3 After giving our all for half a century or more, we entered what we call ‘The blessed state of Emeritude’.
b. Modified by little, somewhat depreciatively. One's meagre possessions or effort. Also in extended use.
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1599 S. Daniel Musophilus in Poet. Ess. 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 Microcosmos 29 Myne active Loue, My little All doth..imploy For thee.
1631 F. Quarles Hist. Samson 71 That little all Was left, was all corrupt.
1738 S. Johnson London 189 [You] leave your little all to flames a prey.
1744 J. Wesley in J. Wesley & C. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) i. 421 My little All I give to Thee.
1755 S. Johnson Let. 7 Feb. (1992) I. 95 No Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
1797 Anti-Jacobin 27 Nov. 15/2 Or roguish Lawyer made you lose your little All in a law-suit.
1833 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. 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 Verses & Transl. (ed. 2) 64 I..Place 'neath my head the havre-sac Which I have stowed my little all in.
1912 National Rotarian Aug. 21 We are ambitious and wish to do our little all!
2008 Caribbean Rev. Bks. May 14/2 The island speaker has a too-late impulse to give his little all..to the emigrant.
c. In plural. One's possessions. Usually in to pack up one's alls. Now regional and rare.A comparable use is found in Old English (in the inflected form ealle) only in an isolated attestation in an interlinear gloss rendering Latin omnia (neuter plural): see quot. OE. [In to pack up one's alls probably a punning alteration of to pack up one's awls (see awl n. 2c).]
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OE tr. Defensor Liber Scintillarum (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 Old New True Blew Protestant-plot (single sheet) Now Oats for Pegs, may pack up his All's, And there inform his Master.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones 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 Love in Village 44 So pack up your alls, and be trudging away.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas 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 Southern Tour I. 153 I shall not go without you, so pack up your alls and be ready.
1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (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 Fortuna Chance 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.
a. The universe, the macrocosm; the whole of nature or existence.
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the world > the universe > [noun]
kindlOE
worldc1175
framea1325
creaturec1384
universityc1450
engine?1510
universal1569
universality1577
mass1587
universe1589
all1598
cosmosie1600
macrocosm1602
existence1610
system1610
megacosm1617
cosmos1650
materialism1817
world-all1847
panarchy1848
multiverse1895
metaverse1994
1598 J. Bastard in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (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 Juvenilia (1633) 298 Living in any corner of this All.
1623 W. Drummond Flowres of Sion 11 Come see that King which all this All commands.
1729 B. Mandeville Fable Bees 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 Festus (ed. 3) 329 The atom and the all Commune and know each other.
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets 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 Spiritual Life 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 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 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.
b. With of. The whole being or existence of something; the entirety, the totality; (also) a whole, a totality.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun]
everydeala1300
universityc1384
universal?c1400
the whole ofc1450
alpha and omega1526
entire1597
be-alla1616
all1619
totalitya1631
all-hood1722
entirety1856
totalnessc1864
1619 A. Gorges tr. F. Bacon Wisedome Ancients 22 Pan..represents and lays open the All of things or Nature.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 145 The laws of motion, in the round All of bodies.
a1761 W. Law Comfort Weary Pilgrim (1809) 86 This pure love introduces the creature into the all of God.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. xvii. 172 An All of rotten Formulas.
1918 Christian Sci. Jrnl. 18 Aug. 251/2 The all of mortal belief comprises much more than appears on the surface.
1990 A. Duff Once were Warriors (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.
(a) With a physical object or abstract entity as the subject of the verb. In later use frequently with it or a demonstrative pronoun used to refer generally to a situation, state of affairs, etc.Frequently overlapping with adjectival use: see note at the head of sense C. 1, and cf. sense A. 1f(c).
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OE Genesis B 756 Hit is nu Adame eall forgolden.
OE Seven Sleepers (Julius) (1994) 50 Ne we nellað þe ameldian, ac hit eall stille lætan.
lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. xxvii. 299 Þeah se leasa wena..tiohhie þæt se anweald sie þæt hehste good, ac hit bið eall oðer.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9579 Issraæleþeod. tatt wass. All wesste. & all forrworrpenn.
a1250 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Titus) (1940) 308 Ah al is meidenes song unilich þeose.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3881 Þe tur wes al ȝaru.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xii. 3 The roote of riȝtwis men shal not ben al moued.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (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 Miscellanea Scotica (1818) II. 26 (MED) Withe hookid ynstrumentes of yryne, fuyre hote all red glowyng, thay pynchid and twynched his theghis.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. B.iijv It [sc. Asparagus] maye be called in englishe pricky Sperage, because it is all full of pryckes.
1611 Bible (King James) 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 Hesperides sig. L8 Lips she has, all Rubie red.
1671 in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decisions Court of Session (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 Virgin Queen iii. i. 33 Her dim Eyes rolling round, Now clos'd in Death, her faded Lips all white!
1737 H. Baker tr. Virgil in Medulla Poetarum Romanorum II. 239 His Eyes are all inflam'd.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. iii. 274 His long skinny arms all covered with anchors and arrows and letters.
1883 Cent. Mag. Feb. 586/1 Her feet are all banged up.
1921 M. E. Stone Fifty Years Journalist vii. 355 To me it seemed all wrong.
1960 Guardian 8 Nov. 1/6 The two men, shaved and rested and all duded up.
2003 W. J. Mann Where Boys Are (2004) 155 ‘Jeff,’ he whispers, his face all red and shiny from the cold.
(b) With a person, animal, or something personified as the subject of the verb. Frequently with alone.
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lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno ?1130 For þet he wes all forswoorn.
a1200 (?OE) MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 191 Þurch onde com deað in to þe worelde al umbegonge.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10609 Al wæs þe king abolȝen swa bið þe wilde bar.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. 280 Þe kyng was alle affraied.
c1450 (?c1425) St. Christina in Anglia (1885) 8 122 (MED) Þey, alle-astonyed, sawe the womman byfore hem in verrey body.
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) xxx. 53 The lady wente oute of her wytte, and was al demonyak.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xv. 52 The duke Eneas and Dydo fleynge the wedrynge, shalle rendre hemself bothe togydre alle alone.
1534 J. Fewterer tr. U. Pinder Myrrour Christes Passion 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 Faerie Queene iii. iii. sig. Ee The doubtfull Mayd..Was all abasht, and her pure yuory Into a cleare Carnation suddeine dyde.
1595 E. Spenser Amoretti lxxxii. sig. F2 I..shall all be spent, In setting your immortall prayses forth.
1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iv. v. 105 Her husband hath beaten her that she is all Blacke and blew.
1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §75. 97 When through impatience he had got some violent astringer..he was all torn in his Limbs.
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 76 I was a Dreamed that I sat all alone. View more context for this quotation
1713 J. Addison Cato iv. iii. 48 He was all made up of Love and Charms.
1757 S. Foote Author 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 Iliad & Odyssey II. ix. 217 Some aspiring mountain-crag..standing all alone.
1812 S. H. Burney Traits of Nature I. vi. 97 Will you make little Missy not stand here, and get all wet and cold?
1814 Ld. Byron Corsair iii. xv. 85 I am not all deserted on the main.
1847 J. Halliday Rustic Bard 343 I felt all sad, surrounded By scenes of early joy.
1880 R. Browning Clive 28 All-agog to have me trespass.
1923 Glasgow Herald 10 May 9 He was all confused when taken to the presence of Her Majesty by a camerlengo.
1935 D. Thomas Let. 14 Aug. (1987) 197 I'm writing by candlelight all alone in a cottage facing the Atlantic.
1983 N.Y. Times 14 Sept. d22/5 John Emmerling..was all abubble with new-business news yesterday.
2010 A. R. Hawkins Year Money grew on Trees 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.
(a) With a noun phrase as the subject of the verb.to be all ears, eyes, mouth, smiles, etc.: see the nouns.
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OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) vii. 237 He [sc. se ælmihtiga scyppend] ne forestihte nænne to yfelnysse, for þan ðe he sylf is eall godnyss.
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 35 (MED) Þanne cumþ ðe hali gast ðe is all fier barnende.
a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe i. 42 Þe Holy Gost meuyth neuyr a þing a-geyn charite..for he is al charite.
1485 Croniclis of Englonde (St. Albans) iii. sig. fiij He wos all a tyrend.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. 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 Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 102 The Elme..(as it is al hart) it maketh good tymber.
1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell ii. sig. C4v The Colonel soone inrag'd, (As hee's all touch-wood).
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. 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 Trav. into Levant i. 72 They..ram down a sizable Bullet with the Scowring-stick, which is all Iron.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory 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 False Friend 1 She's all Divinity.
1775 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 23 July (1778) I have given him the rips, instead of the best team, and he is all submission.
1785 J. Trusler Mod. Times 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 Pride & Prejudice 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 Vivian Grey V. vii. viii. 93 His Royal Highness was all smiles, and his Consort all diamonds.
1850 T. T. Lynch Memorials Theophilus Trinal xi. 224 Another is all frivolity.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 569 Dutch fabric carpets, all wool, and..warp made from silk noils.
1861 Gospel Herald 30 235/1 Young converts..are apt to think that the Christian's path is all sunshine to their glorious home above.
1928 Daily Express 8 May 11/2 The modern woman is all eyes, mouth, and a neat silhouette of hair.
1974 Guardian 23 Mar. 14/4 I was..enchanted by the dining car, all wood panelling and twiddly bits.
1992 B. Sewall Habit of Lifetime vi. 75 We were all ineptitude and incapacity.
2001 A. Hawes Extra Virgin (2002) 115 His office is all leather Chesterfields, mahogany desks, and carved cigar boxes.
2003 R. Lacey Street Bible 46 He's all charm now, but what if he's bluffing?
(b) With it or a demonstrative pronoun as the subject of the verb, esp. used to refer generally to a situation, state of affairs, etc.Frequently overlapping with adjectival and pronominal use: see note at the head of sense C. 1, and cf. sense A. 1f(c).all the go, all the rage: see go n.1 3c, rage n. 5g.
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a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (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 Ayenbite (1866) 143 Him hit þingþ þet hit is al wynd and metinge and lyeȝynge.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 270 But if it be in children..it is al traueile in idil.
a1500 (?a1400) Tale King Edward & Shepherd (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 Border Papers (1894) I. 305 But it is all dissemblacion, and that wee shall find if wee trust to them.
1641 R. Baillie Parallel Compar. Liturgie with Masse-bk. Pref. sig. A2v This is all the labour of his hypocritish emissary.
1703 M. Chudleigh Poems Several Occasions 3 The past was all a Dream.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey 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 Match for Widow 52 This is all Cherokee to me—I don't understand a word of your simile.
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park III. xv. 282 It might be all a lie, he acknowledged. View more context for this quotation
1936 N. Coward Astonished Heart iii It was all a trick—I planned it.
1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After (1957) 32 Bernie had said it was all balls.
1989 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (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.
c. colloquial. Modifying a complement of to go: absolutely, completely, intensely; spec. characteristically, archetypally. Cf. all of a at Phrases 20.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adverb] > characteristically or in terms of specific qualities
distinctively1610
characteristicallya1622
specifically1624
distinguishingly1649
all1881
1881 Leeds Loiners' Comic Olmenac 24 I went all wimley-wamley e me head.
1922 E. von Arnim Enchanted April (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 Cold Comfort Farm v. 71 She will..go all arty-and-crafty.
1935 Punch 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 Close Quarters 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 Heaven on Wheels (1992) vii. 91 So I went all English and said, ‘I wouldn't dream of bothering you; please carry on.’
2001 Touch Dec. 107/2 It's [his] voice that makes me go all silly.
d. colloquial (originally U.S.). Modifying a complement of to be (also to go) which expresses or describes reported speech or action, as an intensifier or filler. Also with like. Cf. be v. 21, to be like at like adj., adv., conj., and prep. Phrases 8.
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1982 D. M. Alford Not Just Words 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 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 12 May Some men are all like—‘We're all powerful, women are just meek and humble.’
1996 V. Walters Rude Girls 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 Hundred Little Hitlers 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 Take Two 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?
2. Modifying adverbs, adverbial phrases, verbs, and attributive adjectives: wholly, completely, entirely; altogether, quite. Now frequently with by oneself, on one's own.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adverb] > entirely, altogether, or completely
righteOE
allingOE
outlyOE
allOE
throughoutlyc1175
allingsa1225
throughouta1225
thoroughc1225
albedenec1300
outc1300
quitelyc1330
all-whollya1375
most widelya1382
all wholea1393
all-thinga1398
algate?a1400
algatesc1405
thoroughly1442
mainly1550
outrighta1560
outrightly1642
solely1710
teetotally1832
bodaciously1833
teetotaciously1833
orl1864
OE Wulfstan Baptism (Hatton 113) (1957) 179 Ðonne þis gedon bið eal fullice wel swa to ðære cristnunge gebyreð, þonne is..to efstanne wið fontbæðes.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15214 All þuss wass iohaness fulluhht.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 89 Nou ich þe habbe al uolliche ysseawed þet ich leue.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (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 Minor Poems (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 Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 286 That she ne myght al abate his pris.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 342 He thocht that it was all in fyr.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 392 All othir contenance had he.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) vi. 169 Hir childe il al suddandly Trawalit hir sa angrely.
1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. i. xiii. f. lv His exposycyon flytteth all fro the poynte.
1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xi. f. 20v But it succeded all other wise.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 11 Doubtlesse thee gods al greatlye doe tender Thy state, neere Tyrian citty so lucklye to iumble.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xi. 337 None have their eyes all of one color.
1693 tr. J. Le Clerc Mem. Count Teckely i. 57 They endeavour all anew to put those..in a state uncapable.
1707 C. Cibber School-boy i. 21 He..has prickled my Face till my Eyes are all of a Water.
1793 R. Southey Triumph of Woman 63, in Wks. II. 7 All hopelessly our years of sorrow flow.
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 36 Gazing o'er thee I all Forget the bounds of being.
1857 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 308 Mr. C. dines all by himself at present, I merely looking on.
1889 Harper's Mag. Aug. 415/2 The deception I had all innocently practised.
1951 N. Pevsner Middlesex (Buildings of Eng.) 38 So the church lies now all on its own.
1990 M. Martin Keys of this Blood i. v. 144 Technically, it was—perhaps all unconsciously—an act of misfeasance in high office.
2004 T. Wolfe I am Charlotte Simmons ix. 185 Nike all by itself had a $200 billion advertising budget.
3. With adverbs of degree, esp. too: altogether, quite.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [adverb] > in every respect
allOE
altogetherlOE
altogethersa1225
all over?c1225
alwisea1425
OE Royal Charter: Æðelred II to Christ Church, Canterbury (Sawyer 914) in J. M. Kemble Codex Diplomaticus (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 Old Eng. Homilies (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 Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 113 (MED) Swuche prelatus al-to fewe beoth nouþe In office i-do!
a1400 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 250 (MED) Wonne..þin teth ratilet..and þi þrote ruteletz, Al to late..þen is te wayn atte yate.
c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 288 Dido..That loued alto sone a gest.
a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (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 Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II The King..did send foorth (but all too late) Andrew Wood.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 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 Wks. 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 Ode to Queen iv Me all too mean for such a Task I weet.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian III. ix. 320 The colours were all too fresh and garish for the meek dejection of her eye.
1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. xvii. 350 Give me the boy..he travels all too slow.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. xii, in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 193/2 Thy all-too Irish mirth and madness.
1840 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) V. 191 War is all soon enough when it cannot be helped.
1921 J. Joyce Lett. (1957) 160 The last word (human all-too-human) is left to Penelope.
1987 N. Spinrad Little Heroes 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 Just Law (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.
a. With verbs formed with to- prefix2. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > utterly
allOE
allOE
outlyOE
thwert-outc1175
skerea1225
thoroughc1225
downrightc1275
purec1300
purelyc1300
faira1325
finelyc1330
quitec1330
quitelyc1330
utterlyc1374
outerlya1382
plainlya1382
straighta1387
allutterly1389
starkc1390
oultrelya1393
plata1393
barec1400
outrightc1400
incomparablyc1422
absolutely?a1425
simpliciter?a1425
staringa1425
quitementa1450
properlyc1450
directly1455
merec1475
incomparable1482
preciselyc1503
clean?1515
cleara1522
plain1535
merely1546
stark1553
perfectly1555
right-down1566
simply1574
flat1577
flatly1577
skire1581
plumb1588
dead?1589
rankly1590
stark1593
sheera1600
start1599
handsmooth1600
peremptory1601
sheerly1601
rank1602
utter1619
point-blank1624
proofa1625
peremptorily1626
downrightly1632
right-down1646
solid1651
clever1664
just1668
hollow1671
entirely1673
blank1677
even down1677
cleverly1696
uncomparatively1702
subtly1733
point1762
cussed1779
regularly1789
unqualifiedly1789
irredeemably1790
positively1800
cussedly1802
heart1812
proper1816
slick1818
blankly1822
bang1828
smack1828
pluperfectly1831
unmitigatedly1832
bodaciously1833
unredeemedly1835
out of sight1839
bodacious1845
regular1846
thoroughly1846
ingrainedly1869
muckinga1880
fucking1893
motherless1898
self1907
stone1928
sideways1956
terminally1974
OE Ælfric Homily (Vitell. C.v) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1968) II. 577 He eaþelice tobræc þa isenan racenteaga, & þa fotcopsas eall tocwysde [OE Cambr. Gg.3.28 ealle tocwysde].
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iii. xvi. 213 He sceolde beon eall tosliten for þam clifstanum.
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 113 (MED) Ure helende brac þo þe irene herre and alto shiurede þe giaten.
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 4843 Þat he tok he al torof.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 484 That her ordre schulde be alto broke.
c1450 (?a1400) Sege Melayne (1880) l. 262 Riche hawberkes were all to-rent.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccxxxvj/1 They..were alle to cutte with the stones.
?1534 Remors of Conscyence (de Worde) (new ed.) sig. B.iv With thy tongue thou me all to terest.
1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Diijv Beyng all to laught to scorne.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1631/2 Which the Scots in tymes paste haue all to broken.
1611 Bible (King James) 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 Wks. (1853) I. 698 This was it, that all to-brake his heart.
b. With verbs formed with be- prefix.Now much more commonly found modifying the past participles of established verbs formed with the prefix, as begrimed, bespattered, besmirched, etc.; in this use indistinguishable from sense C. 1.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > utterly
allOE
allOE
outlyOE
thwert-outc1175
skerea1225
thoroughc1225
downrightc1275
purec1300
purelyc1300
faira1325
finelyc1330
quitec1330
quitelyc1330
utterlyc1374
outerlya1382
plainlya1382
straighta1387
allutterly1389
starkc1390
oultrelya1393
plata1393
barec1400
outrightc1400
incomparablyc1422
absolutely?a1425
simpliciter?a1425
staringa1425
quitementa1450
properlyc1450
directly1455
merec1475
incomparable1482
preciselyc1503
clean?1515
cleara1522
plain1535
merely1546
stark1553
perfectly1555
right-down1566
simply1574
flat1577
flatly1577
skire1581
plumb1588
dead?1589
rankly1590
stark1593
sheera1600
start1599
handsmooth1600
peremptory1601
sheerly1601
rank1602
utter1619
point-blank1624
proofa1625
peremptorily1626
downrightly1632
right-down1646
solid1651
clever1664
just1668
hollow1671
entirely1673
blank1677
even down1677
cleverly1696
uncomparatively1702
subtly1733
point1762
cussed1779
regularly1789
unqualifiedly1789
irredeemably1790
positively1800
cussedly1802
heart1812
proper1816
slick1818
blankly1822
bang1828
smack1828
pluperfectly1831
unmitigatedly1832
bodaciously1833
unredeemedly1835
out of sight1839
bodacious1845
regular1846
thoroughly1846
ingrainedly1869
muckinga1880
fucking1893
motherless1898
self1907
stone1928
sideways1956
terminally1974
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 468 Seo ealde cyrce wæs eall behangen mid criccum, and mid creopera sceamelum, fram ende oð oþerne on ægðrum wage.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2832 Himm wass hiss spæche..Þurrh drihhtin all biræfedd.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 11146 Arðures men weoren mid wepnen al bi-þehte.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 661 (MED) Al bi-weped for wo.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 76 Al bismotered with his haubergeoun.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitae Patrum (1495) i. xxxv. f. xxx/1 Saynt Anthonye..wepte and alle bywette his face wyth teeres.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin (1899) x. 165 His swerde, all be-soyled with blode of men and of horse.
1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis ii. f. 12v All beevenymd was her toong.
1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood xxiii. 29 Drinke with his dart hath all bestabbed mee.
1660 T. Hall Funebria Floræ Verses sig. G2 In bowers of May-sprigs gaily built With Flowers and Garlands all bedilt.
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy 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 Monthly Mag. 4 134 Lordlings all begarter'd and bestarr'd.
1810 W. Combe Schoolmaster's Tour in Poet. Mag. Nov. 3 The cot, that's all bewhiten'd o'er.
1882 S. M. Heckford Lady Trader in Transvaal 302 Fine-looking Kaffirs, all be-cat-tailed.
1999 New Yorker 20 Sept. 76/2 Her upper body is all besuited business.
5. With a preposition referring to a point of space, esp. to: entirely, completely. In later use only in figurative and extended use, typically in phrases denoting utter destruction or ruin, as all to naught, all to pot (see pot n.1 Phrases 3), etc. Cf. (all) to cock at cock n.1 and int. Phrases 6, all to nothing at nothing pron., n., adv., and int. Phrases 12a.to call all to naught: to vilify (obsolete).In quot. eOE the form ealle could show either the neuter instrumental singular, used as adverb, or the feminine nominative plural, as predicative adjective agreeing with the (implicit) subject and the verb. Likewise, in quots. OE1, OE2 the forms eall, eal could show, respectively, feminine and neuter singular forms of the predicative adjective agreeing with the singular subject. See discussion in etymology.
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eOE Metres of Boethius (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 Angelsächsische Homilien u. Heiligenleben (1889) 74 Ge beoð geunrotsode, ac eower unrotnys bið witodlice awænd eow eall to blisse.
OE Wulfstan Institutes of Polity (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 Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 35 (MED) Þu forwurðest..al to nohte.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 278 [He] tuki ham alto wunder.
c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 22 The Princes douȝter..that hire hurte al upe him caste.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (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 Two Bks. Homilies (1859) i. 134 David, when Semei did call him all to naught, did not chide again.
1594 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis (new ed.) sig. Gv It was not she that cald him all to nought.
a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Epist. First Chapter Paul to Ephesians (1618) xi. 258 Hee..doth giue his son all to death.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §540 The sap is not so frank as to rise all to the boughs.
1739 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 37 [The Duchess of Portland]..calls herself all to nought for having been so long in her debt.
1828 J. K. Paulding New Mirror for Travellers 174 The citizen geese will call us all to nought, and choose other wise geese in our stead.
1866 ‘O. Optic’ Yankee Middy xviii. 214 Dat schooner down dar got a big gun; blow de steamer all to squash.
1912 Baily's Mag. Dec. 445/2 If it be your drive that has gone all to the dogs, you call upon god.
1999 P. Jackson Retake Please! 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.
a. With prepositions: all the way; fully.
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the world > space > extension in space > [adverb] > as far as or all the way
alleOE
right1770
eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 904 Þa for Eadweard cyning æfter..& oferhergade eall hira land betwuh dicum & Wusan, eall oð ða fennas norð.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (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 Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 77 (MED) Þat holie bodi..al along þe rewe þoruȝ þe queor he gan i-wiende.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (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 Theatre Worldlings sig. C.vv He shed a water, whose outgushing streame Ran flowing all along the creekie shoare.
1610 G. Markham Maister-peece i. ciii. 205 Feele all downe the strunte of his taile with your hand.
1676 J. Beaumont Let. 7 Apr. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1986) XII. 243 From ye sharpe toppe there grows thinne flatt cells,..one close to ye other, all round ye stone.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xiv. 392 The Fruit grows in Clusters, all about the body of the Tree.
1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 150 All along the Banks grow abundance of Mangroves and Sarzaparilla.
1795 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 11 The wind all round the compass.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 455 All down the Rhine, from Carlsruhe to Cologne.
1875 T. W. Higginson Young Folks' Hist. U.S. xxvi. 264 This made a great excitement all over the country.
1943 National Geographic Mag. 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 Lyrics 1962–85 (1987) 252 All along the watchtower, princes kept the view.
1990 New Eng. Living Aug. 15/1 All across the Northeast, beer enthusiasts are opening micro-breweries and pubs.
b. With adverbs of place or position: in all directions, in every part; throughout the whole area or period. Cf. all along adv., all out adv., n., and adj., all over adv. and prep., all round adv., adj., prep., and n., all up at up adv.2 12e, (also) alone adj., adv., and n., altogether adj., n., and adv.
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OE Homily: De Sancto Iohanne (Corpus Cambr. 198) in Englische Studien (1885) 8 478 Fugelas manige, eall embuton efne ferdon ufene and neoþone and on ælce healfe.
c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 2141 And crope ek as emeten alaboute.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 13 Britayne is al aboute eyȝte and [fourty] siþe seuenty þowsand paas.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (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 Animaduersions (1875) App. i. 82 With a blak fryng hemyd al about.
1595 E. Spenser Epithalamion in Amoretti & Epithalamion viii. sig. G7v The people standing all about..doe thereto applaud.
1609 J. Davies Holy Roode sig. D2v As Thornes did his Head, conuulnerate: So, Rods all round did Him excoriate.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (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 Odyssey II. vii. 145 Th' allotted space of ground, Fenc'd with a green enclosure all around.
1800 W. Hunter in Asiatick Researches 6 75 All around is a wide verandah, containing ranges of cells.
1804 Naval Chron. 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 Nature 26 Jan. 291/2 There is a strong inflow of the air along the surface of the ground all round.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xxviii. 122 He sat with his feet like ice, his fingers numb and heavy, and all around was the sickly odour of pomatum.
1992 Amer. Film Jan. 48/3 All throughout, cinematographer Alfredo Mayo's saturated colors..leap from shadows.
2001 T. Winton Dirt Music (2003) 224 A carton of Victoria Bitter has burst and cans lie all about.
7.
a. Preceding the (the adv. 1a) and a comparative adjective or adverb to form an adverbial phrase, as all the better, all the more, etc., emphasizing the extent or degree of the change or effect described.In Old English alles adv. is more common in this sense; cf. variant reading in quot. OE.
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OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (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) Wynnere & Wastoure (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 Lyf St. Katherin of Senis (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 As you like It (1623) i. ii. 92 All the better: we shalbe the more Marketable. View more context for this quotation
a1732 T. Boston View this & Other World (1775) v. 259 He..could not miss to catch scathe if all the better care was not taken to prevent it.
1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 182 By choosing an advantageous exposition, they can raise all the more hardy esculent plants.
1840 C. Dickens Master Humphrey's Clock 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 Holy Grail 180 He was all the more resolved to go.
1924 N.Y. Herald-Tribune 28 Oct. 19/2 Professional baseball might be all the better if the athletes would..make a few of the ‘old college trys’.
1968 Listener 13 June 774/1 There was a rock band that whooped it up all the louder, to drown the inevitable news.
1999 Independent on Sunday 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.
b. U.S. regional and nonstandard. With comparative or (occasionally) positive adjective or adverb as complement: as —— as.
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1869 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Mar. 315/1 ‘Further’, in an improper connection, for ‘as far as’—‘This is all the further the lesson goes.’
1891 Amer. Notes & Queries 19 Dec. 75/2 That's all the high (or higher) he can jump.
1910 San Antonio (Texas) Light & Gaz. 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 Better Speech i. 18 This is as fast as we can go. Not This is all the faster we can go.
1934 Boys' Life May 9/2 That's all the further Streak gets.
2003 P. Berg And then he kissed Me 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.
a. Modifying adverbs, adverbial phrases, and conjunctions. Now archaic except with because. Cf. also adv. 1a, 2.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [adverb] > exactly so, just
rightOE
evenOE
alrightOE
allOE
evenlya1375
preciselyc1443
very1530
meet1543
on the spot1884
(right) on the button1925
spot on2009
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1013 Þa he æl þus [lOE Laud eall þus] gefaren hæfde, wende þa norþweard to his scypum.
OE Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti (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 Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. lvii. 345 He forðferde, & eall he wæs swa bebyrged, swa ic ær sæde.
c1175 Ormulum (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 Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 272 He tolde him clanliche al-hou it was.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 121 (MED) Þan..he..Clede him all as a clerke & his croune shauys.
1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (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 D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 195 Al bicause he would not acknowledge the presence of Christ.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island v. lxviii. 63 All so who strives..To bring his dead soul to the joyfull skie.
1720 J. Gay Poems Several Occasions II. 405 All in the Downs the fleet was moored.
1808 W. Scott Marmion i. xi. 32 He..Gave them a chain of twelve marks weight, All as he lighted down.
1897 A. Lang in Longman's Mag. 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 Northern Numbers 35 I heard a maiden sing, All in the lee-lone Sabbath morn.
2004 Media Week 4 May 41/1 And all because none of you can afford to live any closer to the office than Suffolk.
b. Preceding to or for to and an infinitive. Now regional and nonstandard, esp. in the words of ballads or folk songs.
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the mind > will > intention > [phrase] > with the intention or object of
allc1300
because1480
in the way of1548
in order for1610
with a (also the) view of1692
with a view to1692
out of a view to1719
c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 99 Gilbert..ȝeode and tolde everechdel, red alto afonge.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 25435 (MED) Adam rap him in a res Thoru an apul þat eue him ches Vs all for to spill.
c1475 Babees Bk. (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) Play Sacrament 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 Wks. (1620) II. 249 The Spirit of God came..all to shew how these men were inabled of God.
1730 C. Coffey Female Parson i. iii. 16 Six score and forty Cows, Sheep were slaughter'd, And all for to make us a Feast in one Day.
a1838 Bushes & Briers (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 Phi Gamma Delta (1908) 31 227 I walked out in the country ‘all for to see my lady love’.
1884 New Irish Emigrant (song) in Universal Irish Song Bk. 167 My heart is breaking all for to leave you.
1939 E. St. V. Millay Huntsman, what Quarry 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 New Plays from Abbey Theatre, 1993–1995 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.
9. With reference to a horse's gait: in a regular rhythm, without deviation or interruption. Cf. altogether adv. 3. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [adverb] > without deviation
altogether1649
all1652
1652 Perfect Diurnall No. 144. 2160 (advt.) On Munday night..there was lost a Sorrel Gelding..the Gelding trots all.
1705 London Gaz. No. 4155/4 Trots and gallops all.
1705 London Gaz. No. 4159/4 Stolen..a black Gelding..trots all, except forced, and then paces a little.
1705 London Gaz. No. 4178/4 Paces all.
1782 in B. Franklin Papers (2003) XXXVII. 196 (advt.) A stocky well set Horse..trots all.
10. In competitive sports and games, used after a number or other score, e.g. love all, one all, to indicate that both sides have scored that number of points, goals, etc.: each, apiece. Cf. all square at square adj. 7c.
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1742 E. Hoyle Short Treat. Whist xi. 25 Suppose the Game to be Nine all.
a1769 E. Hoyle Games (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 First Impressions Hindostan I. 252 In the fourth 20, they were even; 67 all.
1883 Nat. Hist. Jrnl. & School Reporter 7 155 Up to within ten minutes when time was called the score was one goal all.
1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 242/1 The marker's..duty is to call the game..from the start at ‘love all’.
1929 M. C. Work Compl. Contract Bridge p. xv Any advice given for bidding, raising, etc., applies when the score is ‘love-all’.
1992 Tennis Apr. 33/2 At 5-all in the third set, 40-all, Johnstone laid down a chase the line.
2004 A. Buzo Legends Baggy Green ii. 8 The upshot was that the 1962–63 Ashes series went to the fifth and final test in Sydney one-all.
D. conj.
Preceding a verb in the subjunctive mood and the subject of the verb in inverted order: although, even though. Usually, and now only, in formations which are analogous to albeit (albeit conj.), as all be he, all be they, etc. Cf. Phrases 13, Phrases 12, albe conj. rare after mid 17th cent.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > on condition that [conjunction] > although
thoughc888
thoughc1050
allc1225
when1297
how so?c1330
althougha1350
ifa1400
if alla1400
though all?a1400
andc1400
suppose1400
albeit?a1425
albec1450
wella1470
even though1697
c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 632 [Pride] bihalt eche wununge alle hire modres, al beon ha meidnes.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (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 Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 734 Al speke he neuer so rudeliche and large.
c1430 (c1370) G. Chaucer A.B.C. (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 House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 1820 Al be ther in me no Iustice Me lyst not doo hyt nowe.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. (1557) 385/2 All were he neuer so olde eare he were baptysed.
1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. iii. i. 51 All could he further then Earths center go.
1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xi. x. 418 All were hee a bungler, and had no skill.
1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence 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 Rakings over Many Seasons 4 All be they worthless, yet will I..rake things up.
1999 K. Comer Landscapes New West p. x With our two (all be they beautiful) boys.

Phrases

P1. in all thing: in every way; in all things. Cf. all-thing pron. and adv. Obsolete.
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eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. ii. 158 Ond he se cyning his monungum..lustlice in eallum þingum [L. in omnibus] hyrsum wæs.]
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 311 Twa wimmen..beon obedient to hare dame inalle þing.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 3202 (MED) Marke, in al þing Brengwain þanked he.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 2024 A King Wys and honeste in alle thing.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (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 Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 391 Clement..empleysit wele in godis serwice In althing, at al dewise.
c1550 in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 130 Hee is fair, sober and bening, Sweet, meek, and gentle in all thing.
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 21 Good order in all thyng.
P2. all one. In predicative use. Cf. alone adj., adv., and n.
a. One and the same; all the same thing. Cf. all a case at case n.1 Phrases 12, all of a piece at piece n. Phrases 8b.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [adjective] > identical
oneOE
all oneOE
alikea1393
all like1477
indifferent1530
selfsame1582
identical1601
same1621
identitial1635
identica1657
indistinguishable1658
identifical1673
undistinguishable1679
tautological1689
indistinctible1781
the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [adverb] > all one or quite the same
all oneOE
OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) ii. i. 62 Gyf hyt byð embolismaris oððe embolismus (þæt ys eall an).
lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. xxxiii. 315 Swiðe wunderlic is þæt gecynd þines godes forþam ðe hit is eall an, þu & þin godnes.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3090 Þatt wass inoh all an wiþþ þatt Þatt godess enngell seȝȝde.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (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 Instr. Parish Priests (Claud.) (1974) 372 Vsure and okere þat beth al on.
1546 Wycklyffes Wycket sig. A.iiii It is..all one to denye Christes wordes for Heresye and Christe for an heretyke.
1636 King & Queenes Entertainement Richmond 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 Coll. Eng. Words 154 As for the vulgar and illiterate it is all one to them.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 62 It was all one, he could not sleep.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. 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 Guy Mannering II. 273 It's a' ane to Dandie.
1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet II. iii. 51 A well-dressed woman and a draggletail are all one to them.
1930 C. Williams War in Heaven iii. 35 I gather it's all one to you whether we take it or leave it?
1981 S. McAughtry Belfast Stories i. 11 Interviews could come and interviews could go: it was all one to the punters.
b. In a single body or group; all together; united. Obsolete.
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c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14512 Þa weoren heo al an.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (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 Paston Lett. & Papers (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.
a. As an intensive modifier of a superlative adjective. Cf. alder- prefix 1b.
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OE Judgement Day II 297 Heo let þurh þa scenan scinendan ricu, gebletsodost ealra, þæs breman fæder..rice rædwitan.]
c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) l. 526 (MED) He, kempene king, haueð to dei ouercumen helles bule belial, baldest of alle.
c1300 Vision St. Paul (Laud) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1874) 52 35 (MED) Seue dawes aren þat men callez þe sonenday is best of alle.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. l. 1206 (MED) He which goth the pass Defyed best of alle was.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 1v First of al was Ipocras, which, as it is radde in introductorio medicine, ouercome alle.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xvi. 186 Hayll, the worthyest of all! To the must I bow.
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 4th Serm. sig. Mviiv He by vnrepentaunce fel from euyll to worse, and from worse, to worste of al.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (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 Corr. (1975) X. 478 Considering ye Annual as, by much, the most praedominant of all.
1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. iii. i. 181 The best joke of all was, I did not know my master's name.
1816 J. Austen Emma 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 Our Native Trees 356 Lateral lobes are obovate,..the middle ones usually the largest of all.
1943 N.Y. Times 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 Make a Skyf, Man! x. 99 Van Wuurwapen's evidence on the use of this vehicle was the most puzzling of all.
b. Used as an intensive modifier of a superlative adverb to form adverbial phrases, as best of all, first of all, most of all, etc. Cf. alder- prefix 1a.
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OE Paris Psalter (1932) cviii. 28 Him si abrogden swa of brechrægle hiora sylfra sceamu swyþust ealra.]
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. l. 775 Wherof thei merveile everychon, Bot Elda wondreth most of alle.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. iii. 147 And, first of all, the mannakillis and hard bandis Chargit he lows of this ilk mannis handis.
a1652 S. Foster Elliptical Horologiography (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 Spectator No. 135. ¶4 First of all by its abounding in Monosyllables.
1792 E. Burke Corr. (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 Guesses at Truth 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 Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iv. iii. 407 ‘Genius’..means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
1933 D. Thomas Let. 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 Plains of Camdeboo viii. 141 Of all our vanished creatures we mourn these quaggas most of all.
2011 Independent 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.
c. With ellipsis of the superlative: most of all; above all. Obsolete.
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a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. H3 Vilde wretch, and why hast thou of all vnkinde, Borne armes against thy brother?
1605 L. Andrewes Serm. (1841) II. 158 From each part;—but of all, from the last part.
1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 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.
a. With a singular noun, as all kind of, all manner of, all sort of, etc. Cf. alkin adj.
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c1300 St. Barnabas (Laud) l. 82 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 29 (MED) Alle manere turmenz huy him duden.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 140 Spices & all manere of marchandises.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (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 Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Pref. 14 Void of almaner parcialitie of affection.
1583 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1882) IV. 277 Yorkschyre clayth, cairsayes, and all sort of schrynking clayth.
1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K3v All kinde of arguments.
c1680 W. Beveridge Serm. (1729) II. 21 Avoid all manner of evil.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 32. ⁋2 I shall be quite out of all manner of Shape.
1799 J. Duncan Libertine & Infidel led to Refl. (new ed.) v. 332 The germination of all manner wickedness and depravity continues still to shoot forth.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. iv. 437 Orders which might be construed all manner of ways.
1878 A. Trollope Is he Popenjoy? I. xiii. 174 I hate all kind of strictness and duty and self-denying.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 137 Our galleys,..laden with all manner merchandise furrow the waters of the known globe.
1979 J. Muirden Sidgwick's Amateur Astronomer's Handbk. (ed. 4) xxi. 387 This affects all type of cell.
2002 Eastern Eye 26 July (Classifieds section) Helping and guiding people of all nations with all kind of social and psychological problems.
b. With a plural noun, as all kinds of, all sorts of, etc.
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (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 Hist. Jason (1913) 127 She was all expert in alle maners of enchantemens & of sorceries.
a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 125 Alle kyndes of presoynes, of peynes of jayles and of jebbet.
?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xxx. f. xliv Iugurth..anone prepared the greattest army that he coude of all sortes of people.
1529 J. Frith Pistle Christen Reader 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 Ess. 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 England's Improvem. 185 The Wyer must be..drawn and made sizeable and fit to make all sorts of Pins.
1713 Boston News-let. 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 Ess. & Notes Husbandry xvi. 211 It is a rule applicable to all sorts of livestock.
1849 Southern Literary Messenger 15 626/1 Toryism, feudalism, medievalism, all manners of retrogradism and rottenness in opinion.
1900 G. Patten Rockspur Nine 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 Henry & Cato i. 18 There are all kinds of growing up and getting educated which are not academic kinds.
2011 Independent 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.
]
(a) The sum total, the whole, everything. Also as an adverbial phrase: fully, entirely; in every respect. Obsolete (rare after 16th cent.).
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c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) l. 231 (MED) Tel me nou, alle & some, In what message artou come?
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 169 (MED) Þe tale ys wrytyn, al and sum, In a boke of ‘Vitas Patrum’.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Ellesmere) (1872) Prol. l. 91 This is al and som [v.rr. sum, some, somme].
c1485 (?a1400) Child Bristow l. 338 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 319 By that the fourtenyght was come, His gold was gon, al & some.
a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) cvi. 103 Hens fourth, my Poynz, this shalbe all and some.
1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne Pref. sig. B.iv Herein resteth all and some concerning these matters.
1753 True Briton 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 Poems by Way (1892) 100 The lord that owneth all and some Would send his men to fetch us home.
(b) One and all; every one.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > the generality > each and every one thing
each oneOE
everya1250
still and boldc1300
all and somea1350
all and somea1350
one and all (also all and one)a1400
all and sundry1428
all the sort of1535
every or each several?a1562
first and last1582
each and singular1668
all and singular1669
every man jack1807
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 42 (MED) Þis oþer [read oþes] swore alle ant some..þat so nes hit nout ryht.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1329 Thise lordes alle and some Been on the Sonday to the Citee come.
a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (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 Early Eng. Misc. (1855) 51 The boy pypyd throwȝ the town; The bestes hym foloyd alle and some.
?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 402 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 70 Whyle they were all togethere and sum..Comedite Corpus meum.
a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 43v Tese be our menstrualles all and some.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvii. xiii. 637 e To endeavour and strain themselves, both all and some [L. singulis universisque].
1682 N. Tate & J. Dryden 2nd Pt. Absalom & Achitophel 14 Now stop your noses Readers, all and some.
1849 Dublin Univ. Mag. July 103 We [were]..Enjoined perpetually, all and some, Sub prohibitione superum.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 478 Two hours after midnight all and some Into the hall to wait his word should come.
1919 J. L. Lowes Convent. & Revolt in Poetry iii. 103 The balade could cry peccavi to these stern indictments all and some.
2010 D. Meier Season Second Chances 223 Did you just leave my bag here for all and some to take?
b. Originally Scottish. all and sundry.
(a) In adjectival use: every one of, all. Formerly also occasionally †all sundry.In quot. OE probably showing the compound adjective eallsyndrig entirely separate, used as a noun.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > not specified > of every kind > each or every
eacheOE
anyOE
allOE
everyOE
ilkc1175
ilkac1175
ilkinc1175
all and sundry1389
ever alla1513
all sundry1562
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke 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 Memorials Family Wemyss (1888) II. 24 Til there thyngys al and syndry lelily and fermly to be fulfyllyt and yhemmyt.
1480 in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1886) IX. 120 (note) All and sendri oure liegis and subditis.
1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. Pref. (heading) Till all & sindry Personis.
1562 A. Scott Poems (1896) i. 95 To ceis all sindrye sectis of hereseis.
1597 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 303/2 Togidder with all and sindrie the teindscheves.
1621 First & Second Bk. Discipline (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 London Gaz. No. 1682/1 To have forfault..all and sundry his Lands, Heretages, Liffrents, and Rents.
1707 J. Spotiswood Introd. Knowl. Stile Writs Scotl. 157 With all and sundry other Commodities, Liberties, Privileges, Easements, and righteous Pertinents whatsoever.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 137 All and sundry his moveable goods and gear..inbrought to his Majesty's use.
1926 Melody Maker Aug. 35 One arranged..in such a manner that it can be played by all and sundry combinations.
1990 N. Payne Grenadian Childhood 40 His dog Nero chased all and sundry intruders with such vigour that people were always scattering..at terrific speeds.
(b) In pronominal use: every single one, one and all; everybody of all classes. Formerly also occasionally †all and sundries. [Compare post-classical Latin omnes et singuli (see all and singular at Phrases 5f).]
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > the generality > each and every one thing
each oneOE
everya1250
still and boldc1300
all and somea1350
all and somea1350
one and all (also all and one)a1400
all and sundry1428
all the sort of1535
every or each several?a1562
first and last1582
each and singular1668
all and singular1669
every man jack1807
1428 in C. Innes Liber Sancte Marie de Melros (1837) 519 Till all & syndry to quham þe knawlage of þir presentz lettris sall to cum.
1442 in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 63/2 Till al and sindri that thir presentez lettrez sall here or see.
1550 J. Knox Let. Mary Dowagire 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 Decisions Lords of Council & Session (1683) In time coming, no Charges, nor Letters of Horning shall be direct Generally, against all and sundrie.
1783 W. Gordon tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 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 Tales of my Landlord 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 Twice-told Tales (1837) 202 I cry aloud to all and sundry, in my plainest accents.
1901 Scotsman 13 Mar. 12/2 The city must advertise for estimates from all and sundry.
1967 F. Hardy Billy Borker yarns Again 135 Some half-shrewd mug, usually a barber, would set himself up to advise all and sundry.
2005 Cycling Plus Apr. 24/3 There was no way I would leave my road bike outside for all and sundry to dismantle!
c. one and all: see one adj., n., and pron. Phrases 3b.
d. all and each: see each adj. and pron. Phrases 4.
e. all and every: see every adj. and pron. Phrases 2.
f. all and singular. [Compare post-classical Latin omnes et singuli (5th cent. in Augustine).]
(a) In adjectival use: every one of, all. In later use chiefly in the context of the law of property.
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1472 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 17 To..fulfille all & singuler my..willes & ordenaunces herevnder wreten.
1535–6 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 42 §1 The tenthe of all and singuler dignyties.
1549 Forme & Maner consecratyng Archebishoppes sig. C.iijv All and synguler actes & Statutes.
1583 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 360–1 Summa Totallis of..all & singuler the paimentes.
1622 R. Sanderson Two Serm. Boston i. 48 All and singuler the 39. Articles.
1696 tr. G. Croese Gen. Hist. Quakers i. 95 Judging, Condemning, Sadding, and Cursing of all and singular Persons, who did not agree with them in their matters.
1739 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) IV. 346 Inviolably observed in all and singular the parts thereof.
1781 Articles of Confederation U.S. §13 Each and every of the said Articles.., and all and singular the matters..therein contained.
1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 558 All and singular the felonies,..and all and singular other the premises.
1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 558 The truth..of all and singular articles and circumstances.
1910 C. A. Hawkins Legal Counselor & Form Bk. (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 Express (Port-of-Spain) 16 Dec. 19 All and singular those two pieces or parcels of land.
(b) In pronominal use: every single one, one and all; everybody. Now rare.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > the generality > each and every one thing
each oneOE
everya1250
still and boldc1300
all and somea1350
all and somea1350
one and all (also all and one)a1400
all and sundry1428
all the sort of1535
every or each several?a1562
first and last1582
each and singular1668
all and singular1669
every man jack1807
1669 King Charles II Let. in E. Ashmole Inst. Order of Garter (1672) viii. 244 To all and singular to whom these presents shall come Greeting.
1767 W. Dodd Poems 163 To all and singular each one, To whom these presents shall be known.
1843 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) I. 123 To say to all and singular, ‘Swallow my opinions and you shall be whole’.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xiv. 152 The common concordant and unanimous consent of all and singular.
1900 Academy 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.
g. all and odd: every single one, one and all; everybody.
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1556 W. Lauder Compend. Tractate Dewtie of Kyngis 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.
a. With all preceding and whole following a determiner or (formerly) possessive, esp. as all the whole. Also occasionally with whole following the modified noun.
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a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 184 (MED) & al his hole meyne.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxvii. 1369 Al þe hole worlde haþ a round schap.
1448 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) i. 63 (MED) The Mayer and all the hole Communalte of Excetre recommaunded tham unto his gode and gracious lordship.
c1450 ( G. Chaucer Bk. Duchess (Fairf. 16) (1871) l. 554 I wol do alle my power hool.
1530 R. Whitford Werke for Housholders (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 Inst. Christian Relig. i. xi. 26 b The fountaine of al this whole mischiefe is an vnorderly counterfaiting.
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 154 All the whole vpper house is manifestly contrarie vnto it.
1641 Plymouth Col. Rec. (1855) I. 169 The Court hath graunted vnto Willm Thomas..all that whole neck of vpland.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner i. iii. 77 As for the Fruits that are for the spending both during the End of Autumn, and all the whole Winter.
1766 Compl. Farmer at Surveying Then may you measure all the whole chains by your regulated chain.
a1771 T. Gray tr. Dante in Wks. (1884) I. 159 All that whole Day, or the succeeding Night.
1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen 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 Speaking for Themselves (1999) iii. 50 Of course all the whole route I was cheered and in places booed vigorously.
1984 A. Copland & V. Perlis Copland: 1900–1942 xv. 339 All this whole section sounds like warmed-over Scriabin.
1991 P. O'Brian Nutmeg of Consol. (1993) x. 313 In all the whole class of..mammalia.
b. all and whole (also hale). Cf. Phrases 5.
(a) Originally and chiefly Scottish. As an adjectival phrase: the whole of. Chiefly, and now only, Scots Law.
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1438 in R. W. Cochran-Patrick Charters of Friars Preachers of Ayr (1881) 48 Al and hale the ta halfe of the tenement.
1493 in W. Fraser Lennox (1874) II. 149 All and hall the lafe of the Iandis.
1563 L. Humphrey Nobles or of Nobilitye 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 Papers Sir William Fraser (1924) 225 Quhare the said maister Thomas hes lyt..all and haill the auchtene parte of landis.
1611 in C. C. Harvey Cal. Writs Yester House (1930) 300 All and whole that salmon fishing and tugnet.
1641 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (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 Famous Tryal between T. Neale & Lady Ivy 7 To have and to hold all and whole the said Wharf.
1713 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1908) IV. 511 All and haill the milners service.
1773 Edinb. Evening Courant 18 Jan. All and whole these two Husband Lands and Half a Husband Land in Newton.
1803 in C. D. Bentinck Dornoch Cathedral & Parish (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 Session Cases (1948) 95 We as trustees foresaid dispone to the said company and their assignees heritably and irredeemably All and Whole the subject.
a1912 in Scots Law Times (1913) I. 62/2 All and Whole my whole heritable and moveable Estate.
2010 Session Cases 733 The Pursuers validly exercised their Option to purchase all and whole that area of ground known as Dalgig Plantation.
(b) As a pronominal phrase: everything; the whole of. Formerly also occasionally used adverbially: †entirely, wholly (obsolete). Now rare (Scottish in later use).
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1565 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) vii. sig. W.iiii He is all and whole, the rest but part.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xiii. xxv. 402 The lower sort of these trees the floud covereth all and whole.
1696 G. Keith Exact Narr. Proc. Turners-Hall 26 Neither W. Burnet, nor no Baptist, place the all and whole of our Justification on Christ's outward Sufferings.
a1752 R. Erskine Script. Songs (1754) iii. xxi. 139 Their righteousness Is all and whole of me.
1938 Scotsman 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.
a. all both: both. In later use U.S. (in African-American usage).Now chiefly in the areas of South Carolina where Gullah is spoken.
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a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 851 (MED) Gon þan to þat gome a god pas al boþe.
a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 3567 Þey weron as bleynd alle bothe y-wys As euer was ony stok or stone.
1533 J. Heywood Play of Wether sig. Civv Ye passe them all both in your owne conceyt and myne.
1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste 129 Yet would he retain with hym still Silan and Sasilas, all both Lacedemonians.
1927 E. C. L. Adams Congaree Sketches v. 10 He sho' is wase' up a lot of hell fire on all both un 'em.
1967 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (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.
b. Chiefly U.S. (esp. in African-American usage) and Caribbean. all two: both. Also with further addition of both, as all two both, both all two (cf. Phrases 7a). [Probably reflecting a variety of different foreign-language models: compare French tous les deux, German alle beide. With African-American and Caribbean usage compare also similar constructions in several West African languages, e.g. Yoruba méjèèjì ( < an extended form with the sense ‘all together’ of ma-, prefix forming certain numerals + éjì, -èjì two), Twi abien nyinaa ( < abien pair, two (not human) + nyinaa all, entire).]
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1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia I. x. 120 He left all two of them alone till the Child was grown up.
1838 C. Gilman Recoll. Southern Matron xiv. 94 Sister Nelly begin for sing till Maus Ben and him fell asleep, all two.
1888 C. C. Jones Negro Myths Georgia Coast vii. 17 Buh Wolf an Buh Rabbit all two bin a spark at um an a cote um.
1904 Penny Cuts (Trinidad) 19 Nov. Miss Janie Zingar is a ooman way cud feed oll two ah dem.
1925 G. Stratton-Porter Keeper of Bees 239 Both all two of 'em make me sick!
1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling 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 In Castle of my Skin iii. 51 But there it wus, all two both lost.
1975 T. Callender It so Happen 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 Coffin Dancer 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.
a. In affirmative use: in every way; altogether, wholly; (later also) only, solely. Now U.S. regional and Irish English.In later, regional use esp. after a superlative; cf. of all at Phrases 3.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > altogether, entirely, or completely
bedenec1175
all outc1300
downrightc1330
downrightsc1330
at alla1375
whole together1551
in all sorts1559
right out1578
clear1600
neck and heels1647
to rights1663
head over ears1774
neck and crop1791
fair and square1870
in total1965
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 283 I þe coniure & comande att alle.
c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Durh.) (1961) v. l. 272 Myrre declareth vnto us at all Of his manhode that he was mortell.
a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. Prol. 31 My waverand wyt, my cunnyng febill at all.
a1555 H. Latimer 27 Serm. (1562) ii. f. 133 They were carelesse at all, they thought all things were cocksure.
1898 G. M. Hopkins in Eng. Dial. Dict. I. 86/2 [Ireland] It's the greatest fun at all.
1906 Watson's Mag. May 418/1 I think it the best time at all.
1916 Dial. Notes 4 302 He is the greatest man at all.
1976 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1985) I. 103/2 Use one statement at all.
b. In negative or conditional use: in any way; to any degree; in the least; whatsoever.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > degree or relative amount of a quality, action, etc. > [adverb] > in any degree or at all
anythingeOE
aughteOE
oughtsOE
anywisea1225
anyc1300
anywaya1400
at all1476
ever1548
anywhat1576
anyways1673
earthly1833
aughtways1878
the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [phrase] > nothing, no one, not any > not at all
na whonc1275
at all1476
no point1542
like hell1776
not‥a speck1843
not‥a hang1861
my fanny1935
1476 B. Burgh tr. Cato's Distichs (Caxton) i Ayenst woordy folk ay ful of wynde Stryve not at al It may not the profite.
1515 Everyman sig. C3 Game lyketh me not at all.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. vi. 14 Sayenge: peace, peace, when there is no peace at all.
1611 Bible (King James) 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 Corr. (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 Cosmol. Sacra 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 Orators (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 Humphry Clinker 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 Leg. & Stor. Irel. 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 Hist. Eng. II. 557 If he refuses to govern us at all, we are not bound to remain..without a government.
1897 A. Barrass Pitman's Social Neet 18 Me mother's ne nusence at a'.
1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey i. viii There are rules of the game which must be observed, if society is to function at all.
1954 Harder Coll. in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1985) I. 102/2 Them chillern ain't a'tall good.
1971 J. Updike Rabbit Redux i. 50 You're nice to put up with us at all.
1975 Rev. in Amer. Hist. 3 320 I have no problem at all with that.
1996 R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage 23/2 [Guyana] If you bother me at all at all today, you go nowhere.
2006 Wall St. Jrnl. 17 Mar. (Central ed.) w9/6 He's not much of an actor and can't dance at all.
c. In interrogative use.
(a) Modifying the verb: in any way, to any extent; under any circumstances, for any reason; in the least.
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1566 T. Becon New Postil ii. f. 125v For what power can it haue on you at all?
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. i. sig. Oiiv But shall I not vse Tabacco at all ? View more context for this quotation
1683 C. Wase tr. Cicero Five Days Deb. Tusculum v. xxxii. 325 What great need hath he for Money, or rather why should he at all regard it?
1730 Let. to Sir W. Strickland relating to Coal Trade 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 John Gilpin 167 Say why bareheaded you are come, Or why you come at all?
1810 I. Harby Gordian Knot 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 Cultiv. & Manuf. Tea (1878) xxiv. 108 Why wither at all?
1912 Outlook 19 Oct. 356/1 How do they even manage to ‘hold down’ the job of writing about the Olympic Games at all?
2008 Esquire Sept. 150/1 Why should people care about football at all?
(b) Frequently Irish English and Caribbean. Modifying the question: in any event, indeed; ‘may I ask?’, ‘would you say?’. Cf. anyway adv. 2b.
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1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xxii And what was it at all? an upset, was it?
1894 H. Caine Manxman 56 Is the woman mad at all?
1895 J. Barlow Strangers at Lisconnel 262 And what at all have you got there?
1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 154 ‘Is he a priest at all?’ ‘Mmmyes, I believe so.’
1964 I. Khan Obeah Man 37 What happen to you at all?
1992 P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 104 How is he at all at all? Oh he's the best, I said, never better.
2002 J. Mercurio Bodies (2003) 201 The niece says, ‘Can we see him at all?’
P9. all's well that ends well: see well adj. and n.3 Phrases 2.
P10. to be all things to all men and variants: to please everyone, typically by fitting in with their needs or expectations.Before the 19th cent. usually with reference or allusion to 1 Corinthians 9:22.
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the world > action or operation > ability > be able to [verb (intransitive)] > be versatile
to be all things to all menc1384
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. ix. 22 To alle men I am maad alle thingis.
a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 112 Poule studied to plese all men in oure lorde, & was made all þinges to all men.
1611 Bible (King James) 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 Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 59 To become all things to all men, with the Doctor of the Gentiles, that Omniformist.
1763 C. Churchill Prophecy of Famine 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 Let. 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 Stud. Greek Poets iii. 89 Theognis bids his friend (Cyrnus) be as much as possible all things to all men.
1907 E. Charteris in D. Elcho Short Acct. Affairs Scotl. 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 Quick Service 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 Test of Time 125 Our increasing geographical homogeneity makes it easier for a book to be all things to all men.
P11.
a. in all.
(a) In total, in sum, all together.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > that is all or the whole [phrase] > in all or altogether
by numbera1375
in numbera1375
in allc1380
first and lastc1390
all wholea1393
in companya1393
in sum1399
full and whole1402
in great1421
whole and somec1425
in (the) whole1432
one with another1436
in (the) hale1437
all in great1533
up and down1562
one and other1569
in (the) aggregate1644
all told1814
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 4387 V. hundred knyȝtis in al þay wore.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 363 He lived in alle þre and sixti ȝere.
1442 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 387 xvj Skaynys of grete packethrede..at ob a pec; in al viij d.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccxiiiv Ther be in al .ii. sacrifices of christ.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Chron. ii. 6 Fiue of them in all . View more context for this quotation
1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester 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 Sel. Trans. Soc. Improvers Knowl. Agric. Scotl. 32 The Infield is divided into three Shots or Parts, much about eighteen Acres in all.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 137 The fawns continue to follow the deer eight or nine months in all.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. i. 370 There will not have arrived, at the set day, Three thousand of them in all.
1897 Epicure 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 N.Y. Times 27 Aug. 3/1 Capt. Sycamore kept the crew busy setting jib topsails. Five in all were set.
1993 R. Rao On Ganga Ghat ix. 93 His much-holed mattress of sorts, and his tattered blankets three in all.
(b) In the whole (as opposed to the part).
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1423 in J. B. Paul Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1882) II. 31/2 Nothir in al na in part.
1512 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 365/2 The landis..in all or part.
1639 R. Gentilis tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Inquisition 64 It is received either in part, or in all, or in part, or in all laid aside.
1795 Ship Owner's Man. (ed. 7) 45 The master, or owner, who undertakes to let out to freight the ship or vessel in all, or in part.
1853 Rep. Supreme Court Texas 8 326 This judgment could not be the ground, in all nor in part, of the plaintiff's right of action.
2010 L. Athens Building Emerald City iii. 43 The innovation may be rejected in all or in part.
b. all in all.
(a) All things in all respects; all things altogether in one; everything.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > absolutely all
all in allc1475
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
through all thingeOE
at all pointsa1375
from point to pointa1393
at all rightsc1405
in high and lowc1405
in generala1413
every incha1450
all in allc1475
at all sorts1612
all round1867
c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) l. 754 (MED) Cum slepers, Rekleshede and Idyllnes, All in all, Surfet and Gredynes.
1494 W. Hilton Scala Perfeccionis (de Worde) ii. iv. sig. i.vv Thenne shall Ihesu bothe god and man be all in all.
1539 Bible (Great) 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 Christs Teares 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 Remaines (rev. ed.) 44 Will you haue all in all for Prose and verse?
1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World 309 Every man cast in his mind, that Eumenes would be all in all.
1718 M. Prior Alma i, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 320 The Mind,..Throughout the Body squat or tall Is, bonâ fide, All in All.
1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. i. 27 Mirth and diversion are all in all.
1824 T. Campbell Lines on receiving Seal in Theodoric 77 The all-in-all of life—Content!
1832 Ld. Tennyson New Year's Eve vi, in Poems (new ed.) 97 Their Flemish go-between And all-in-all.
1922 Q. Jrnl. University North Dakota 12 177 Value, distinction, artistry, quality, do not count, while mere quantitative production is made the all in all.
1998 B. J. Nelson Keepers 197 She knew at a certain level I had excluded her, that she'd never been my all-in-all.
(b) As an adverbial phrase: when everything is considered; in summation, in total; on the whole. Also occasionally: entirely, absolutely.
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1826 T. Flint Francis Berrian II. i. 5 He was, all in all, singular in character, and as singular in fortune.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 114 And trust me not at all or all in all.
1938 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth Man. Radioactivity (ed. 2) xxv. i. 265 All in all, the correct application of the method..entails the careful selection of well-preserved minerals.
1948 Life 23 Aug. 107 Many others who, all in all, have won 17 Pulitzer prizes.
1954 N. Tomalin in Granta 6 Nov. 23/2 All in all the most amazing thing about the show is the preponderance of lavatory jokes.
1989 Baby Winter 55/1 All-in-all, it was a pretty inelegant way of capturing action on film.
2001 Observer 15 July (Food Monthly Suppl.) 53/1 The empenadas were made the night before and took about four hours all in all.
c. when all comes to all and variants: when all is said and done; when everything has been looked at or cleared up. Formerly also †(let) all go to all: let what happens pass; let events take their course (obsolete).
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1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xi. f. 123 Whan it cometh all to all.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?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 Liues 179 When all came to all, nothing was done.
1607 T. Middleton Michaelmas Terme 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 Diary 19 Aug. (1976) IX. 283 When all came to all, a fit of jealousy about Tom.
1690 J. Clark Serm. Kirk of Auldhamstocks 6 Let all go to all, let Gods Honour still be minded.
1733 London Mag. June 277/2 When all comes to all, it is no more than a second Part of the Putney-Bridge Plot.
1794 Kentish Reg. Sept. 344/1 Bishops and parsons.., when all comes to all, are the sole object of his malice.
1832 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 596 Do they ken who, when all comes to all, is master o' the house?
1862 Illustr. Dublin Jrnl. 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’ Deadham Hard vi. 270 When all came to all, this was hardly good enough.
2007 M. Frazer Play of Lords 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.
a. all be it: see albeit conj.
b. all be it so: = albeit conj. 1. Also (in past tense) all were it so (cf. Phrases 12c). Obsolete.
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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 2920 (MED) Many a swevene hath be certein, Al be it so that som men sein [etc.].
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (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 De Consol. Philos. (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 Merchant's Tale (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 De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 89 Now vnderstond: all were it so..Þat goodes whiche þat fortune haþ bestowen [etc.].
1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters 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.
(a) Even though it were; although it were. Cf. albeit conj. 2. Also (Scottish) all was it. Obsolete.
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c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale (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 Romaunt Rose (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. Cordyal (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 True Copies Lett. sig. G.i We broughte more then ye were able to answere, all were it not Scriptures, nor doctours, nor Councelles.
1567 T. Stapleton Counterblast 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. Bk. Alexander (1921) II. ii. 4167 All was it maugre thairis baith.
(b) Though it were true that; although. Frequently with that. Cf. albeit conj. 1. Obsolete.
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c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (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 Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 16 He clepede grace dieu with an haunteyn vois, al were it she was not fer.
1580 J. Stow Chrons. of Eng. 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.
a. all if (also if all): even given the possibility that, even though, although. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > on condition that [conjunction] > although
thoughc888
thoughc1050
allc1225
when1297
how so?c1330
althougha1350
ifa1400
if alla1400
though all?a1400
andc1400
suppose1400
albeit?a1425
albec1450
wella1470
even though1697
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 1991 Al if [a1400 Vesp. And þof, a1400 Gött. And if] na rayne on erþ felle.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 3045 Þe saul, al-if it haf na body.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 8 Ȝif all it be so þat men seyn þat this croune is of thornes.
1446 in L. Morsbach Mittelengl. Originalurkunden (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 Three Treat. J. Wycklyffe (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 Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth Prol. f. iiiiv All if he haue power so to do.
c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Kij All yf I woulde it were but shame.
b. though all: even though, although. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > on condition that [conjunction] > although
thoughc888
thoughc1050
allc1225
when1297
how so?c1330
althougha1350
ifa1400
if alla1400
though all?a1400
andc1400
suppose1400
albeit?a1425
albec1450
wella1470
even though1697
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 37 (MED) Þof alle Edgar þe gate, Estrild þi moder ware.
c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 495 Þouȝ al þer be difference in accidentals.
1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. ii. f. cxviv Thus maye these. iij. bokes be knowne dyuerse..though all they procede out of one only argument of Englysh votaryes.
P14. all-to: (modifying a verb, esp. a past participle) completely, utterly, quite. Cf. sense C. 4. Obsolete.Originally arising from the use of all to emphasize the verb prefix to- (see sense C. 4a), with the use extended to a range of verbs to which the meaning of the prefix would not be strictly applicable. Over time the prefix came to be analysed as being attached to all rather than to the verb and the resulting combination commonly used as an emphatic modifier of verbs formed with the prefix be- (cf. sense C. 4b), as all-to-bedeck, all-to-befool, all-to-bespangle.
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c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 2235 Thane þe Romayns releuyde, þat are ware rebuykkyde, And all torattys oure men with theire riste horsses.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xi. sig. P.ii She fell in hand with him..& al to rated him.
1538 H. Latimer Let. 25 June in Serm. & Remains (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 Popish Kingdome iv. f. 54v Poore knaue into some ryuer than, they cast him cruellie, And all to souse him in the streame.
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. H2v Her cheekes all to be blubbered with her iealous teares.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Papilloteux, All-to-bespangled..set thicke with spangles.
1637 J. Milton Comus 14 Her wings..Were all to ruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd.
1647 J. Cleveland Char. London-diurnall 3 I wonder my Lord..is not once more all-to-be-traytor'd.
1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin i. 314 Him too the bounteous Dean All-to-be-Blesses.
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 48 She all-to-be-fooled me. View more context for this quotation
P15. and all.
a. And everything else; and all connected or additional things.boots, the devil, one, warts and all: see the first element.and all that: see that pron.1, adj.1, adv., and n. Phrases 1c(b).
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?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 125 (MED) Take ȝonge swalowys owte of þe neste and putte hem, fediris and all, in-to þe potte.
c1535 W. Tyndale in Wks. (1849) II. 11 He will save Devils and all.
a1554 J. Croke tr. Thirteen Psalms (1844) li. 18 The walles, and all, shalbe made newe.
1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme iii. x. 130 Down came John, Pipe and all.
1681 Arraignm.,Tryal & Condemnation S. Colledge 29 Jeff. Who were the All? Dugdale. King and Clergy-men and all.
1702 J. Savage Compl. Hist. Germany 479 He fell Horse and all into the Ditch.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 328 After furrowing up the sand, it hides itself under it, horns and all.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth v, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 133 With smithy, bellows, tongs, anvil, and all.
1892 H. E. Wright Handy Bk. Brewers 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 Murder must Advertise x. 182 My dear! and got up regardless..fish-net stockings and all.
1989 T. Parker Place called Bird xvi. 186 House moving is just what it says, moving people's houses for them: the whole house, contents and all.
2004 Sunday Times Trav. Feb. 39/1 I clocked the room prices. How reasonable, I mused—fluffy robes, giant beds and all.
b. colloquial and regional (chiefly Scottish). Used at the end of a sentence, clause, etc., for emphasis: ‘also’, ‘too’, ‘as well’. Also used adverbially: ‘really’, ‘truly’, ‘indeed’.Often written elliptically or as one word, as an a, an aw, anaw, an all, anall, enal, etc.
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?1750 Tom-tit 8/2 Was not she very well off, That was Woo'd and Married and a.
1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song 108 The red, red rose is dawning and a'.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Northern Farmer: Old Style xi, in Enoch Arden, etc. 133 I..runn'd plow thruff it an' all.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire ‘Th' Tories binna gotten in, bin they?’ ‘They bin, an aw.’
1899 Angler's Rec. Oct. 21/1 Mr Gallon shouted... ‘At him, good dogs!’ And they did an' all.
1945 M. James Cherokee Strip 4 You know what a claim-jumper a cowbird is—laying its eggs in other birds' nests and all.
1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill ii. 55 I've enjoyed myself an' all.
1977 Sniffin' Glue Apr. 11/1 Yeah, I thought that enal.
2010 J. McGregor Even Dogs (2011) ii. 20 A pigeon..settled on the edge of the bin... You can fuck off an all, Sammy said.
P16. once for all, once and for all: see once adv., conj., adj., and n. Phrases 3.
P17. for good and all: see for good and all at good adj., n., adv., and int. Phrases 3a(b).
P18.
a. all at once.
(a) With everything happening in one go or simultaneously; at one and the same time; all together.
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?1499 J. Skelton Bowge of Courte (de Worde) sig. Bvv Thenne I astonyed of that sodeyne fraye Sterte all at ones.
1531 G. Joye tr. Prophete Isaye 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 Bible (Rheims) 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 Educ. Children 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 Comm. Ephes. (1643) i. 334 Not all at once, but by ounces, as we say.
1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §82. 109 She..popt it into her mouth, and swallowed it all at once.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (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 Idler 21 Apr. 121 She must not rid herself of them all at once.
1827 J. Farey Treat. Steam Engine 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 Trad. Games I. 66 You throw down the cubes all at once, then toss the ball.
1930 Lancet 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 Daily Mirror 23 Feb. 6/4 Transfer of other powers to the new Assembly likely to be phased in rather than introduced all at once.
(b) Suddenly; all of a sudden.
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1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas 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 City of Plague ii. iii. 108 All at once the hurricano ceased.
1883 Harper's Mag. June 131/2 All at once something seemed to sift away from before my eyes.
1906 U. Sinclair Jungle vii. 91 At last he fell to pieces, all at once and in a heap.
1945 I. Gershwin All At Once (song) in Compl. Lyrics (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 Eng. Passengers (2001) v. 125 All at once the captain strode back on to the platform looking fierce.
b.
all-at-onceness n. the fact of happening all at once; the experiencing of a number of things at the same time, or (esp. through electronic media) of events while or immediately after they occur; simultaneity, immediacy.
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1913 P. H. Wicksteed Dante & Aquinas ix. 263 It is in this eternal life of all-at-onceness..that Dante and Aquinas alike find heaven.
1967 Spectator 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 Cyberspace (1993) 69 The temporal simultaneity, the all-at-once-ness of God's knowledge.
2003 C. Lienhardt et al. in M. Gandy & A. Zumla Return of White Plague xi. 203 The ‘all-at-onceness’ of social context can make it difficult to grasp in applied research.
P19. all yours: (a) wholly devoted, dedicated, or attentive to you, and you alone; chiefly in I'm all yours; (b) ready or available for you (used esp. when the speaker has finished with the person or thing in question); chiefly in it's all yours; (c) (as int.) ‘your turn’; ‘go ahead’; ‘over to you!’
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1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (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. Eastward Hoe i. sig. B2 Sir, I am all yours:..to your wisedome I wholy dispose my selfe.
1661 R. Flecknoe Erminia v. xii. 95 Cy. I shall alwayes claim a friends part in her. Cle. She is all yours Madam.
1702 W. Burnaby Modish Husband v. 61 A little Air, my dear, will recover me, and then I'll be all yours.
1851 Internat. Mag. Sept. 204/2 ‘I ask your friendship.’ ‘It is all yours,’ said the Count.
1895 Atlantic Monthly 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 Birthday Party ii. 34 Goldberg: Now, Mrs Boles, it's all yours. Meg.: I don't know what to say.
1972 A. Ross London Assignment 17 ‘Go ahead, old boy,’ he said plummily, ‘He's all yours.’
1983 M. Magorian Goodnight Mister Tom (BNC) 136 Tom climbed down the ladder. ‘All yours,’ he said.
2002 E. Wooff Mud Puppy 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.
a. With reference to physical condition or appearance: entirely covered in; consisting wholly of; completely characterized by. Now colloquial.In early use sometimes with all in other positions typical of its use as an adjective (or, by ellipsis, pronoun); cf., e.g., quot. 1668 and sense A. 2b.
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1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde 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 Lectures (new ed.) 92 Before their eyes all was of a smoake and burning fire.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Britain i. 66 Whiles Commodus was Emperour, Britannie, was all of a Garboile.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures v. 12 The masts and sail yards were all of a flame.
1668 Duchess of Newcastle Descr. New World (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 New Voy. around World xv. 414 The Sea seemed all of a Fire about us.
1707 Boston News-let. 20 Oct. 2/2 The House was all of a smoke, and a very strong smell of Brimstone.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 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 Art of Cookery xvi. 147 Mill the Cream till it is all of a thick Froth.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. ix. 83 She observed, that..she was all of a muck of sweat.
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey IV. vi. i. 10 The poor man, Sir, was all of an ague.
1830 F. Marryat King's Own II. vi. 90 The master..finds one day that his sextant case is all of a smudge.
1884 S. W. Linc. Gloss. (at cited word) The corn had grown that length, and was all of a cot.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage civ. 547 The sweat stood in heavy beads on her painted face. ‘Look at me,’ she said. ‘I'm all of a perspiration.’
1938 Sun (Baltimore) 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 Weeping Ash 85 She is all of a sweat, it will do her good to walk her for a mile, till she dries off.
b. colloquial. With nouns denoting a personal, usually temporary, condition of agitation, confusion, or nervous excitement or anticipation: entirely overtaken by; completely succumbing to.all of a dither, doodah, mizmaze, quiver, tremble, etc.: see the nouns.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > be in a specific state or condition [phrase] > in a temporary state or condition
all of a1744
1744 M. Collyer Lett. Felicia to Charlotte 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 Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 11 I am all of a tremble.
1802 G. Colman Poor Gentleman (new ed.) i. i. 5 If I ben't all of a twitter to see my old John Harrowby again!
1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. iv. 57 In the Tower Victory sets, all of a fluster.
1895 Cassell's Family Mag. Apr. 336/2 I can't wittle a bit o' stick but mai hed is all of a muzz.
1898 S. J. Weyman Castle Inn v. 42 Oh Lord, I have such a head this morning!.. I am all of a twitter.
1918 Chambers's Jrnl. May 299/1 I feel all of a doo-dah, all of a wonk.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 387 Bless me, I'm all of a wibblywobbly.
1996 J. Trollope Next of Kin xv. 193 Velma's just been in, all of a tizz.
2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 302 He's got me all of a wag, narmean?
P21. colloquial. all for: strongly in favour of, fully on the side of. Cf. for prep. 7a.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > [adjective]
goodeOE
agreeable1448
approbatory1548
better1566
favouring1586
approbative1611
applausive1628
pro1650
pleasing1652
favourable1655
approving1702
enthusiastic1777
all for1864
1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night sig. Eiij The diuell..hath left forme and is all for matter.
1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight iv. sig. G3 The Queene is all for reuelles, her light heart..Bestowes it self vpon delightfulnesse.
1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 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 Fables 249 The wight..Who true to Love, was all for Recreation, And minded not the Work of Propagation.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1775 I. 467 Mrs. Thrale was all for..according to the vulgar phrase, making the best of a bad bargain.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I iv. 5 The Prince is all for the land-service, Forgetting Duncan, Nelson, Howe, and Jervis.
1864 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? I. xix. 150 I am all for Mr. Cheesacre..I can't abide anything that's poor.
1919 C. Dawson Test of Scarlet v. 49 In watching him they will feel a thrill of excitement; they, too, will become ‘all for it’.
1934 D. L. Sayers Nine Tailors 105 I'm all for a treasure-hunt.
1945 J. B. Priestley Three Men in New Suits iii. 38 ‘You've got to..see that the country's run properly.’ ‘I'm all for that,’ said Herbert.
2004 K. Gregory Winning Clients in Wired World ii. 32 I'm all for delegating; but abdicating is a different story.
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all of all n. (frequently with capital initial, with the, †thou) God, viewed as the macrocosm, encompassing all of existence. Also in extended use. Cf. sense B. 7a.
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1598 J. Marston Metamorph. Pigmalions Image To Good Opinion sig. A3 Sole Regent of Affection, perpetuall Ruler of Iudgement,..the All of all.
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila viii. li. 115 In God, the All of All, we see.
1866 E. E. Salisbury tr. Sulaiman First Ripe Fruit in Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 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 Wisdom & Love of God i. 84 From Him are all things, because He is All of All.
1993 N. W. Smith Greek & Interbehavioral Psychol. (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.
a. As an adverbial phrase: almost, very nearly, well-nigh.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adverb] > almost or nearly
nigheOE
well-nigheOE
forneanc1000
well-nearc1175
almostc1261
nighwhatc1300
nearhandc1350
nigh handa1375
nigh handsa1375
as good asc1390
into (right) littlea1413
unto litea1420
nigh byc1430
nearbyc1485
near handsa1500
as near as1517
mosta1538
next door1542
wellmost1548
all but1590
anewst1590
uneath1590
next to1611
nearlya1616
thereaboutsa1616
welly1615
thereabout1664
within (an) ames-ace ofa1670
anear1675
pretty much1682
three parts1711
newsta1728
only not1779
partly1781
in all but name1824
just about1836
nentes1854
near1855
nar1859
just1860
not-quite1870
nearabouta1878
effectively1884
nigh on1887
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene 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 Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) II. 306 Man..All but resembleth God, all but his glasse, All but the picture of his maiestie.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (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 Wks. (1776) III. 412 Society is all but rude To this delicious solitude.
1772 ‘Junius’ Let. 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 Diary 11 Apr. (1929) IV. 189 Mr. Thorne..dressed my Ancle, pronouncing it to be now all but well.
1810 M. L. Weems Let. in Ford's M. L. Weems: Wks & Ways (1929) III. 14 Doctor Fendall..sold 60 doll[ar]s all but.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 203 The best and all-but-sufficing answer.
1941 G. de Poncins & L. Galantière Kabloona (1942) i. iv. 101 You were assailed by a warm stink that all but strangled you.
1996 High Country News 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.
b. As an adjectival phrase: almost complete or entire.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > approximate quantity or amount > [adjective] > almost complete or entire
all but1816
1816 J. K. Tuckey Narr. Exped. River Zaire (1818) i. 18 Negro washerwomen, whose state of all but nudity.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. ii. 33/2 The all but omnipotence of early culture.
1881 W. S. Gilbert Patience 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’ Christianity & Christ 43 Until the great all-but-men brought forth true men.
1935 W. Empson Poems 3 Our all-but freedom.
1999 S. M. Novick in J. R. Bradley Henry James & Homo-erotic Desire i. 13 The subordinate halves of these couples are often financially dependent on their all-but-spouses.
P24. all for one and one for all (also one for all and all for one) [compare post-classical Latin unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno (1575 or earlier)] : used to express unity and loyalty amongst group members, esp. in defence of a common cause.In later use particularly associated with the musketeers in Alexandre Dumas père's novel Les Trois Mousquetaires (1844); cf. quot. 1846.
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1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece 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 Surueyors Dialogue i. 34 All for one, and one for all, should seke, examine and declare the vttermost truth of euerything.
1798 tr. F. Kratter Natalia & Menzikof iii. x. 129 Blood and life, one for all, and all for one!
1831 Amer. Ann. Educ. & Instr. 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 Three Musketeers ix. 34/1 All for one, and one for all [Fr. tous pour un, un pour tous]; that's our maxim, I believe?
1921 McClure's Mag. Aug. 14/1 We'll give a fine exhibition of a happy family, one for all and all for one!
1958 Jet 16 Oct. 17 In our squadron we're all for one and one for all.
2010 G. Obama & D. Lewis Homeland xvi. 202 All for one and one for all. No one fucks with the Huruma brothers and gets away with it.
P25.
a. all or nothing: everything or nothing, when presented as the only available or permitted choices or possible outcomes. Cf. all-or-nothing adj. 2.
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1614 E. Grimeston tr. P. Matthieu Hist. Lewis XI vii. 226 Hee would not haue been satisfied with halfe Europe. All or nothing.
1649 S. Richardson Divine Consol. 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 Life William III (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 Lett. Concert Princes 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 Jrnl. 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 Introd. Human Physiol. iii. 90All or nothing’ is the motto of the heart's contraction under these circumstances.
1922 Encycl. Brit. 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 Test. Social Sci. 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 Beverly Press 4 July 17 Why is it all-or-nothing?
b. all or none: = all or nothing at Phrases 25a. In early use chiefly with reference to God or Christ. Cf. all-or-none adj., dictum of all and none n. at dictum n. 3a.
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1656 J. Beadle Jrnl. Thankful Christian iv. 77 Christ will admit of no corrivals, he will be all or none.
1721 Henry's Expos. Epist. New Test. (Rom. i. 19–32) 6/1 God will be all or none.
1856 T. H. Benton Thirty Years' View II. 672/2 They turn upon the principle of all or none!
1889 J. Le Conte Evol. & its Relation to Relig. Thought iii. vi. 317 Mind is either all or none; so also mechanics is all or none.
1912 E. H. Starling Princ. Human Physiol. v. 230 The rule of ‘all or none’..was first enunciated for heart muscle.
1934 Theosophist Jan. 374 My remark..was based upon the rule of ‘all or none’.
2003 E. D. Schlenker in S. R. Williams & E. D. Schlenker Essent. Nutrition & Diet Therapy (ed. 8) v. 98/1 If one [sc. amino acid] is missing, the protein is not formed—the law of ‘all or none’.
P26. it is all (that) one can do: (with infinitive as complement) it is the best one can do or the most one can achieve in the circumstances.
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a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 14 It was all that both the watches could do together to tacke about the sailes.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 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 J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (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 Vanity Fair (1848) xxi. 181 It was all I could do to prevent myself from throwing the sofa cushion at her.
1901 W. Hargreaves Lost & Found! v. 32 As for saving, it is all I can do to..make ends meet.
1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 213 The colt was missing and it was all he could do to get the frantic mare into the lot.
2003 F. Shaw Sweetest Thing 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.
a. all very well: fine or acceptable as far as it goes or up to a point (with the implication that the thing under discussion may be considered unsatisfactory when viewed in a different context or from another perspective). Frequently used in criticizing or rejecting a remark, observation, etc.Sometimes, e.g. in quot. 1898, with the sense of approbation further attenuated by the addition of in his (her, their, etc.) way; cf. way n.1 and int.1 Phrases 6c(b).
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1702 Plain Man's Relig. 12 Now this is all very well..but alack! We see it turned to no account.
1779 J. Warner in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) IV. 283 It is all very well, sir; I know what you will say—that you [etc.].
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 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 Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. 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 Villette 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’ Roden's Corner xxvii. 288 Mr. Cornish is all very well in his way. But we're not fools.
1961 Ess. & Stud. 21 It is all very well to scoff at H. G. Wells because much of his writing betrays a perky mediocrity.
1985 New Yorker 19 Aug. 27/2 One has heard of holiday romances, which are all very well, but really, in one's own home!
2010 Church Times 29 Oct. 24/5 Debating was all very well 20 months ago; now it is time for action.
b. all very fine (and large): = all very well at Phrases 27a. Also attributive designating the feeling that something is fine only up to a point. Cf. fine adj. 7c.In use with large, now somewhat archaic.
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1819 J. Poole Short Reign & Merry One 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 La Beata I. iv. 74 It is all very fine, but one must live.
1887 Referee 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 Ital. Visit iii. 34 Terribly apt to ask what Our all-very-fine sensations were in aid of.
2003 M. Amis Yellow Dog 160 That's all very fine and large. Because the wound's in you, my son.
2003 Daily Tel. 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.
P28. Five (also Four) Alls: the five (or occasionally four) social groups or classes into which society can be notionally divided, from the monarchy to the poor countryman; an image or representation of these, esp. on an inn sign (see quot. 1788). Hence: (the name given to) any of various public houses having this sign.
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1718 England's Witty & Ingenious Jester (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 Gazetteer & London Daily Advertiser 13 Apr. Let them with Chearfulness repair to the Four-Alls..near Tower-Hill.
1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (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’ Swell's Night Guide (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 Birmingham Weekly Post 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 Introd. Inn Signs 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 Parallels 56 The elderly couple at the Five Alls were friendly with my parents and the place itself used to fascinate me.
P29. all the same: see same adv. 2, same adj. 8.
P30. colloquial. to be all oneself: to be in one's normal condition of body or mind; to be in one's accustomed state; frequently with again.
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1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. liii. 339 He took his seat..and was all Himself, the most graceful and obliging of men.
1787 World & Fashionable Advertiser 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 Hist. Eng. I. v. 644 The chief justice was all himself. His spirits rose higher and higher as the work went on.
1884 Daily News 23 May 5/3 Mr. Grace was all himself [at cricket].
1923 Quiver Sept. 1037/1 He was all himself again now, except that he felt horribly sick, and his feet hurt terribly.
1992 Hudson Rev. 45 226 He looked up at me, all himself again, and smiled.
P31. all boys (or lads, etc.) together: applied to a situation or group in which only boys or men are present; frequently attributive, denoting a spirit of male camaraderie, solidarity, and cooperation; cf. (all) girls together at girl n. Phrases 2e.
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1833 J. D. Hopkins Addr. Members of Cumberland Bar 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 Look to Lady xxvi. 270 All boys together. What delightful neighbours we are.
1962 R. Jeffries Exhibit No. Thirteen vii. 70 A matey all-boys-together laugh.
1992 Today (BNC) The muck-and-bullets, all lads together wartime analogy that continues to dominate our sporting thinking.
2004 N. Puwar Space Invaders v. 85 As men move between various male spaces..an ‘all boys together’ atmosphere is forged.
P32. U.S. regional (chiefly north-eastern). to be all day with (also for) (someone): to be all over or finished for (someone); to be a hopeless situation (now rare).
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1836 Knickerbocker 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 Up North Branch 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 Youth's Compan. 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 Boys' Life July 6/1 Them keys look pretty much all alike, an' once you lose your bearin's it's all day with you.
P33. regional (chiefly U.S.). all to once: = all at once at Phrases 18a.
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1837 J. T. Irving Hawk Chief 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 Dartmoor Idylls vii. 178 All to once her'll smell a snitch o' sage and ingins.
1921 Overland Monthly May 10/1 ‘Do you like the lines? Do they begin too pathetic all to once?’ asked the bard.
1950 Boston Sunday Globe 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 Pig Iron Trucker 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.
P34. In various formations modelled on damn all (see damn all n.), in which damn is replaced with other swear words, oaths, and expletives, or occasionally with a euphemism: nothing at all. Also as adj.: absolutely no, not any.bugger, eff-, fuck-, naff-, sod all: see the first element.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > nothing > nothing at all
noughtOE
neither tip nor toe1610
nix1781
damn the haet1787
no nothing1815
zero1823
all1842
neither hide nor hair1857
zip1900
nixie1906
damn all1910
fuck-all1916
Fanny Adams1919
bugger-all1921
S.F.A.1933
not a sausage1938
shit1949
zilch1956
eff-all1958
sod all1958
diddly-squat1963
diddly1964
jack-all1965
niente1969
zippo1973
feck-all1975
hee-haw1975
naff all1977
jack squat1986
1842 Sporting Mag. June 97 Dang all about twittering!
1939 J. Mulgan Man Alone iii. 31 There's —— all grows up here.
1948 P. Larkin Let. 9 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 150 I have had cock-all holiday so far & find myself getting edgy & nervy.
1984 G. Seymour In Honour Bound 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 Sky High 90 She can't see shit-all without her glasses.
1998 A. Campbell Diary 11 Sept. in Blair Years (2007) 323 [He] was smart but knew jack all about the economy.
2003 P. Kay et al. Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights: Scripts 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!
P35. Originally U.S. for all of: as far as (a person) is concerned; as regards the interest or opinion of (a person). Cf. for prep. 25b and sense B. 4.
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1848 J. E. Jones Young Abolitionists 39 Stalk still I'd stand, and they might do their own work for all of me.
1854 M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine xix. 124 No;—he may have her and go to the old boy for all of Josh.
1911 H. S. Harrison Queed xvii. 209 Thus they parted, almost precipitately, and, for all of him, might never have met again in this world.
1951 G. Heyer Quiet Gentleman iv. 60 I told him to his head his lady might go hang for all of me!
2010 K. Koja Under the Poppy 171 It can't be soon enough for all of me.
P36. to be (not) all there: see there adv., n., and int. Phrases 2b.
P37. all told: see tell v. Phrases 11.
P38. all on: (in fox hunting) an exclamation used to signal that all the dogs are present or accounted for.
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1892 E. P. Elmhirst Fox-hound, Forest & Prairie 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 ABC of Fox-hunting 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 Fox-Hunting App. 207 A pack is said to be ‘all on’ when all the hounds are there.
2006 H. J. Robards Foxhunting (2011) ii. 36 As he passes the whipper-in, he hears, ‘All on, sir.’
P39. colloquial. all things ——: anything or everything relating to the specified subject.
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1918 Moving Picture Weekly 17 Aug. 19/1 Bluebird has rescued from the oblivion which perforce overtakes all things cinema, another excellent photoplay.
1968 Direction 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.
P40. (and) that's all she wrote: see write v. Phrases 3c.
P41. colloquial (originally U.S.). all-singing, all-dancing (also all singing and dancing): (esp. of a device) possessing or equipped with a large number and variety of appealing or impressive features, functions, etc. (occasionally implying that their usefulness or effectiveness is exaggerated).From the use of the phrase in the billing given to stage or film musical productions: see quots. 1929, 1953.
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1929 Lima (Ohio) News 5 Apr. 28/6 (advt.) You'll hear and see the first all singing—all dancing—all talking Broadway jazz revue.
1953 M. Renault Charioteer v. 106 The film of the evening was all singing, all dancing, and in technicolour.]
1968 Flying Sept. 54/2 [The plane] came equipped with the all-singing, all-dancing Piper Altimatic III autopilot.
1978 Science 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 Independent 24 Apr. 16/7 ‘Multimedia software’—that all-singing all-dancing program whose aim is to excite and entertain.
2007 K. Wharton How to Have Baby on Ebay ii. 55 An all-singing all-dancing model [of child car seat] which may only last a few months.
P42. to be all that: see that pron.1, adj.1, adv., and n. Phrases 1c(d).

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.).
a. In parasynthetic adjectives, as all-hued, all-shaped, all-sized, etc. See also all-aged adj., all-coloured adj. 1, all-sided adj. Frequently poetic.Typically with the stress on the first syllable.
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1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. i. sig. Oiiv Come on Signior, now prepare to Court this All-witted Ladie. View more context for this quotation
1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 61/2 Al-shaped Proteus.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 396 Persons of all sized apprehensions.
1850 P. J. Bailey Angel World 9 The bowery coverture of woods, Ancient and dense, laced with all-tinted flowers.
1882 E. Doyle Cagliostro v. 124 Tossing her green arms from her all-hued eyes.
1907 Freethinker 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. Restoring Diversity iii. 54 (table) Populations not all-sized or all-aged at any spatial scale at one point in time.
b. With abstract nouns, with the sense ‘universal, absolute’, esp. denoting attributes of God, as all-love, all-presence, all-wisdom, etc. Cf. all-might n., all-power n.
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1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. II. xxx. 607 From his all Wisdom nothing but good, common, and regular proceeds.
1827 Edinb. Rev. 46 320 Here it has assumed..a sort of all-wisdom.
1877 F. H. Hedge Ways of Spirit (1878) x. 283 The more profound our consciousness of God and the sense of his all-presence.
1928 E. Blunden Japanese Garland 37 Blind eyes and feeling hands, that take me for all-surety and all-love.
1949 Eng. Stud. 2 53 God in his all-experience might choose to know suffering in his own person.
1983 P. de Man Rhetoric of Romanticism (1984) 26 This mingling signifies the all-presence, the parousia, of quietude.
2005 A. Bancroft tr. C. Marmion Christ 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.
(a) With the name of the country, state, area, etc., as all-England, all-India, etc.
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1837 New Sporting Mag. 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 Missionary Rev. of World Feb. 154/1 In the latter part of October an All-India Epworth League Convention was held at Calcutta.
1904 Independent (U.S.) 27 Oct. 951/1 The selection of ‘All-America’ teams seems to have become a mania.
1906 Dublin Rev. Oct. 332 We are forced onwards to the necessity of an all-world State if we would escape an all-world anarchy.
1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 28 Sept. 242/3 The all-India leaders.
1937 Ann. Reg. 1936 ii. 133 The All-Africa Convention.
1952 C. P. Blacker Eugenics: Galton & After viii. 160 In 1926..there took place..the first All-Union [i.e. the U.S.S.R.] census of population.
1990 Planet 82 Aug. 100 The all-Wales approach to economic planning..lent credibility to these demands.
2008 R. L. Hardgrave & S. E. Kochanek India (ed. 7) iii. 108 They also fear that local candidates may fail in an all-India competition.
(b) With an adjective derived from the name of the country, state, area, etc., as all-European, all-Russian. See also Compounds 2b(d) and compare note at Compounds 2.Recorded earliest in all-American adj.
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1888 Outing 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 Refl. Russ. Statesman 49 It is terrible to think of our condition if destiny had sent us the fatal gift—an All-Russian Parliament!
1920 B. Russell Pract. & Theory Bolshevism v. 76 The All-Russian Soviet, which is constitutionally the supreme body.
1939 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 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 Mod. China's Foreign Policy 353 At the All-Asian Conference in Delhi..this rivalry became clear.
1957 Economist 28 Sept. 1003/1 The process..would close when the promised elections set up an all-Korean government.
1992 R. Fritsch-Bournazel Europe & German Unification ii. 52 An all-European institution to guarantee human rights.
2001 P. P. Read Alice in Exile (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’.
(a) With the second element a noun in singular.Recorded earliest in all-purpose adj.
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1867 6th Ann. Session of Indiana State Hort. Soc. 56 Dr. A. Furnas... Considers Wilson's Albany the all purpose berry.
1933 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 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 Discovery Feb. 44/2 An alternative [television] set incorporating an 8-valve all-wave sound receiver.
1955 W. W. Denlinger Compl. Boston i. 159 The dog..was many times Best Dog in Show at all-breed shows.
1996 Sunday Tel. 4 Feb. (Review section) 3/2 Their class was all-ability and they came from every social background.
(b) With the second element a noun in plural.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > affecting all indiscriminately
unexcepting1716
unexempting1837
all round1867
blanket1886
all1909
1909 Westm. Gaz. 8 Nov. 7/1 The National All-Grades Movement of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants.
1960 Official Rep. Legislative Council Deb. (Colony & Protectorate Kenya) 86 622 The setting up of an all-races Upper House.
1960 Billboard 4 July 19/5 An all-types total of 300,000,000.
1999 K. I. Macdonald & G. M. Macdonald in P. Parsloe Risk Assessm. in Social Care & Social Work i. 38 When we opt for an ‘all outcomes’ definition of risk the complexity escalates.
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all-access adj. designating something which allows or permits full rather than limited access; spec. designating a pass, badge, etc., which allows the bearer unrestricted access to all areas of a venue.
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1956 Constr. Methods & Equipm. May 2/1 (advt.) Three piers for an all access bridge to the intake structure were also formed.
1984 M. Bego On Road with Michael! viii. 94 On Sunday night I watched it from the floor, or orchestra, level, thanks to my all-access press badge.
2003 PC Mag. 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 Wifebeater xvii. 116 I was given a red all-access wristband and sent on my way.
all-court adj. [Compare court n.1 4.] originally and chiefly Tennis (in racket sports) designating a style of play in which the player plays both from the baseline and at the net; (also) designating a player using this type of game.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > lawn tennis > [adjective] > types of play
pat-ball1890
all-court1919
stonewall1932
softballing1940
1919 Times 5 Sept. 5/3 An exponent of the all-court game.
1927 Observer 5 June 21 His main weakness is a preference for the base-line rather than the all-court game.
1996 Age (Melbourne) (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 Lang. Tennis 6 [He] plays an all-court game with a powerful single-handed backhand.
all nations n. slang (now rare) a mixture of alcoholic drinks (esp. spirits), collected from the remnants left in various containers, vessels, etc.; also more fully drink of all nations; cf. allsorts n. 2.It is uncertain whether quot. 1939 belongs at this sense.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > other alcoholic drinks > [noun] > others
stitch-broth1635
Cherellya1640
rug1653
steel-nose1654
pope's-milka1661
Northdown1670
purl royal1675
sweetsa1679
forty-ninea1713
huggle-my-buff1756
slug1756
gunpowder1765
guarapo1772
peachy1781
all nations1785
anti-fogmatic1789
soma1827
ava1831
native1832
tap1832
stone fence1844
slap-bang1845
Angostura1856
jake1910
tepache1926
pruno1936
muratina1968
makkoli1970
alcopop1996
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue 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 Times 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 Found. Death 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 Finnegans Wake i. 11 All spoiled goods go into her nabsack: curtrages and rattlin buttins, nappy spattees and flasks of all nations.]
1993 D. Lambdin Gun Ketch 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.​
All Ordinaries n. Australian Stock Market an index of the relative price of Australian shares based on the current arithmetic average of an agreed list of 245 ordinary shares quoted on the Australian Stock Exchange; frequently attributive, esp. in All Ordinaries Index.
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1959 Financial Times 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 Econ. Rec. 40 304 Nearly 300 stocks were used, representing All Ordinaries, and sub-divided into 15 Groups and 50 Leaders.
1968 Economist 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 Weekend Austral. (Brisbane) 10 June 40/3 Thursday's awful shakedown on the bourse..pushed the All Ordinaries to within an inch of a technical correction.
All Ords n. [shortened < All Ordinaries n. (although first attested earlier)] Australian Stock Market colloquial = All Ordinaries n.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [noun] > index of
index1886
price index1886
retail price index1904
index figure1927
All Ords1958
Nikkei1982
1958 Sydney Morning Herald 16 Dec. 19/4 (table) Share Price Index. Bantes, etc. Other finance. Pastoral. Retailers, etc. Base metal. All ords. Industrials.
1985 Austral. Business 4 Sept. 28/3 Fund manager Ray Greenshield believes the all ords technically is at a mature stage of a bull market.
2000 Canberra Sunday Times 11 June 75/1 The all ords closed up 19.8 points at 3146.5, gaining 5.6 points over the week.
all-parties adj. = all-party adj.
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1909 Centralia (Washington) Daily Chron. 24 Feb. 4 The formation of an all parties cabinet in Belgrade.
1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 23 Nov. 401/3 The all-parties Constitution.
1991 Christian Sci. Monitor 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.
all-party adj. involving or relating to all political parties; (also more generally) involving all the parties who have an interest in a matter.
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1908 P. Mackaye Mater i. 36 You never heard of the all-party mascot?
1935 El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post 18 Dec. 1/3 The Olson supra-party organization is known as the All-Party Union.
1970 Times 4 May 8/2 Mr. Douglas Jay..leads his all-party group of anti-Marketeers.
1998 Victorian Soc. Jrnl. 1997 58/1 The VS was invited to an all-party meeting to discuss the future of this church.
2007 Guardian 19 Oct. 24/1 The all-party foreign affairs committee is to examine long-standing suspicions that the agency [etc.].
all risks adj. (attributive) designating a type of comprehensive insurance policy.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [adjective] > insurance policy types
tontine1790
whole-life1832
term1834
floating1839
all risks1885
third party1901
non-profit1905
knock for knock1906
stamped1913
warehouse to warehouse1922
without-profit(s)1924
with-profit(s)1924
loaded1928
unit-linked1966
no-fault1967
new-for-old1984
critical illness1986
1885 Assoc. Average Adjusters Rep. Gen. Meeting 94 The rights which an assured now possesses against an all risks policy.
1911 Law Times Rep. 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 Law for Consumers 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 Which? 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.
all-season adj. that may be grown, used, done, etc., in all seasons of the year; suitable for or available in all seasons.
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1889 Rep. Lect. & Discuss. Agric. Topics 190 in 5th Ann. Rep. State Board Agric. (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 People 13 May 13/1 (advt.) The entirely new, all-season, all-weather oil.
1960 Burnett Bros. Seed Ann. (N.Y.) 56/2 Oakleaf (Summer Triumph). An all season variety of fine texture and sweet flavor.
1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 652 Open all year, this world-famous resort offers a variety of all-season sports.
1992 Country Homes & Interiors Apr. (Home Values) 32 Drifter Duette and Snuggledown Triple Options are both all-seasons duvets.
2008 Wall St. Jrnl. 17 July d10/1 He wanted to find the lightest possible couture-quality crepe to create all-season clothes for working women.
all-sky adj. Astronomy covering the entire sky (either both hemispheres or just the visible hemisphere).
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the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [adjective] > covering entire sky
all-sky1955
1955 Tellus 7 510/2 An all-sky camera is doubtless an ideal tool for the study of auroral forms and their changes.
1989 Nature 13 July 111/2 The lack of all-sky visibility.
1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 314/1 The first all-sky map of the sky at thermal infrared wavelengths.
2006 G. Basalla Civilized Life in Universe ix. 170 The NASA project initially included an all-sky survey for incoming signals.
all-sky camera n. Astronomy a camera, typically with a wide-angle lens, capable of photographing all or most of the visible hemisphere of the sky in one exposure.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > [noun] > general types of
box camera1828
daguerreotype1839
view camera1851
pistolgraph1859
pinhole camera1861
panoramic camera1862
pantoscopic camera1865
pistolograph1866
pantoscope1879
detective camera1881
filmograph1881
photographometera1884
photochronograph1887
snap-shooter1890
stand camera1890
tele-objective camera1891
film camera1893
magazine camera1893
panoram1893
telephoto1894
mutograph1897
tele-camera1899
telephote1903
press camera1912
reflex1922
candid camera1929
minicam1935
single-lens reflex1936
plate camera1937
magic eye1938
subminiature1947
miniature1952
all-sky camera1955
microfilmer1959
stereo-camera1959
streak camera1962
gallery camera1964
SLR1964
TLR1965
spy-camera1968
pinhole1976
multi-mode1981
digicam1989
point-and-shoot1991
1955 [see all-sky adj.].
1973 C. Sagan Cosmic Connection (1975) vii. 50 (caption) Composite photograph by all-sky cameras of our Milky Way Galaxy.
1996 Q. Jrnl. Royal Astron. Soc. 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 THEMIS Mission 363 These bins on the final image matrix are mapped to the appropriate pixels in the all-sky camera image.
all-slavery adj. Obsolete that opposes the abolition of slavery; cf. pro-slavery adj. at pro- prefix1 2b(a)(i).
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1833 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. 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.
all-wheel adj. Motoring of the driving or braking system of a motor vehicle: operating on all the wheels; cf. four-wheel adj. 2.
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1909 Commerc. Vehicle Sept. 243/2 Properly pegged wheels combined with an all-wheel drive..should give greater adhesive power.
1916 Automotive Industries 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 Listener 15 Sept. 388/3 The cost of all-wheel-control..would be quite prohibitive.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Aug. (Sports section) 11/1 The Turbo X is the first true Saab..with all-wheel drive.
all-year adj. (also all-year round) that is or does something (usually indicated by the following noun) all year round; that operates, occurs, exists, etc., all the year.
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1877 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, & Country Gentleman 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 Motor 17 July 5/3 As an all-year motorist I have..been ‘hit’ by the arrival of summer.
1991 Hair's How No. 34. 809/1 With an all-year-round tan Miss Australia doesn't need foundation.
2005 L. Holford-Strevens Hist. Time 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’.
(i) In occasional formations, as all-able, all-divine, all-eloquent, all-evil, all-full, all-lovely, all-peaceful, all-praiseworthy, all-prolific, all-pure, all-rapacious, all-serious, all-substantial, all-surfy, all-true, all-vast, all-victorious, etc.
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eOE Metres of Boethius (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 Homilies of Ælfric (1968) II. 778 Swylce [getruman] ridendra manna mid swyþe reþum anginne.., mid eallsweartum lichaman [L. nigros et terribiles].
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 191 Þet gernier wes an haste aluol.
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 565 God, who is aliust [Fr. tout iuste], almightie, and algood.
1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. B3v Where shall I finde a safe all-peacefull seat.
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis viii. 166 One who did despise All-able Gods.
a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 201 Earths all-thorny soyle.
a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 204 Of the first World an all-substantial Man.
1654 J. Dury Earnest Plea for Gospel-Communion 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 Complaint ii. 270 As all-rapacious usurers conceal Their doomsday-book from all-consuming heirs.
1792 T. Taylor tr. Hymns Orpheus 158 Sprung from the head of Jove, of splendid mien, Purger of evils, all-victorious queen.
1842 H. E. Manning Serm. xx. 303 Christ..was all-pure.
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 215 Command of mind alone, and of the world Unbodied and all-lovely.
1875 Sunday-school Worker 3 205 First Epistle of the holy and all-praiseworthy Apostle Paul to [the] Corinthians.
a1889 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 179 Thundering all-surfy seas.
1907 H. James Amer. Scene xiv. 424 The all-gregarious and generalized life suffices to every need.
1946 C. Beaton Diary 15 Mar. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xvi. 176 In her all-grey greys she looked like a Mantegna.
1994 Microsoft Developer Network News 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?
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all-beauteous adj.
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1618 J. Vicars Prospectiue Glasse 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 Conquest of Canäan ii. 29 Flowers all-beauteous.
1851 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad iii. 60 She beheld the all-beauteous neck of the goddess.
2009 tr. M.-F. P. Sauka in S. DeCapua Malawi in Pictures (ed. 2) 69 Wood and forest, plains so broad and fair, All-beauteous Malawi.
all-bountiful adj.
ΚΠ
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 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 Pamela II. 388 The All-good, the All-bountiful, the All-mighty, the All-merciful God.
2006 M. Bowen in J. Zajda Society & Environment 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.
all-bright adj.
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OE Christ & Satan 520 Engla drihten..gefatian het englas eallbeorhte andleofan gingran.
1613 S. Hutton tr. J. M. de Franchis Of Most Auspicatious Marriage 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 Poetry (1965) 93 He..survey'd the all-bright mass.
1899 N. Orloff tr. Gen. Menaion xi. 111 The rivers golden-streamed, the all-bright lamps, the champions of the Trinity.
2010 S. Naylor Wedding Flowers 104 Bright roses and blooms are not recommended, even with an all-bright bouquet.
all-central adj.
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1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 328 Round heaven's secret and all-central sun.
1994 R. J. Faley Footpr. on Mountain 111 The more that any human ingredient is exalted in the Christian experience, the less apparent is the all-central power of the cross.
all-complete adj.
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1606 Returne Knight of Poste from Hell sig. F A King of all compleat perfection.
1999 T. E. Pressman Radical Joy 40 There is..only the experience of ongoing Fulfillment, ever-present and all-complete.
all-essential adj.
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1651 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Signatura Rerum xiv. 168 Now we will shew you, what the Creatures Life and Dominion is in this All essential Being.
1861 W. Gresley Sophron & Neologus 140 It is of that all-essential and vital character.
1989 Sport Dec. 64/3 Sean Higgins will be all-essential.
all-generous adj.
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a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (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 Med. Anecd. 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 Good News of God 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 Stradella 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 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 15 May d3 Nor is the state all-generous when money is less a factor.
all-glorious adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [adjective] > glorious
glorious13..
all-glorious1599
1599 R. Linche Fountaine Anc. Fiction sig. Giiv Three of them beautified his all glorious and far-shining forehead.
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Invisible World (1659) ii. ii. 96 The blisse-making presence of the All-glorious God.
1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey (new ed.) xiii. 182 Yet was Odysseus ever turning his head toward the all-glorious sun.
all-gracious adj.
ΚΠ
1594 J. Sylvester tr. O. de La Noue Profit Imprisonm. sig. D4 He is omnipotent, All gratious, and all good, most iust, and perfit wise.
1994 R. E. Brown Once-and-coming Spirit at Pentecost 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.
all-green adj. [compare Old Icelandic algrœnn]
ΚΠ
OE Andreas (1932) 798 Sceoldon hie þam folce gecyðan hwa æt frumsceafte furðum teode eorðan eallgrene ond upheofon.
1764 G. Edwards Gleanings Nat. Hist. III. 326/1 (table) The round-crested Duck, the greater Dobchick, and the all-green Humming-bird.
1875 Nature 25 Nov. 77/2 Two All-green Tanagers (Chlorophonia viridis ).
1992 When Sat. Comes 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?
all-merciful adj.
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1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xiv. 259 Three persons & one almightie & almerciful God.
1702 Devout Communicant's Compan. 73 This is entirely thy own all-merciful Act.
2010 Ebony Feb. 65/2 There are many names for Allah. They include All-Merciful, the Almighty, Jehovah, Alloheim, All-Knower and the Provider.
all-naked adj.
ΚΠ
OE Genesis A (1931) 871 Ic eom eall eallnacod.
1638 W. Davenant Madagascar 68 Sir, whom I now love more, than did the good Saint Martin, that all-naked-Flesh-and-blood.
1850 Cuba & Cubans v. 144 I see the half-naked women—the all-naked children.
2003 A. Greenwald Nothing feels Good 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.
all-righteous adj.
ΚΠ
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xvii. 171 Ðu [sc. St Jacob] eart eal rihtwis , and nanum ne onbihst.
1543 T. Becon New Yeares Gyfte 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 Let. conc. Origen 75 In the compute and judgment of that all-righteous minde.
1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxiii. 303 Such future scenes th' all-righteous pow'rs display.
1867 N. Brit. Rev. 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 Hell Jesus never Intended 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.
all-various adj.
ΚΠ
1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness 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 Descr. Greece I. 304 He employed all-various purifications.
1889 Bibliotheca Platonica 1 113 The writings of both Homer and Plato demand an all-various examination.
1986 National Assembly Official Rep. (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.
all-worthy adj.
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c1475 Antichrist & Disciples in J. H. Todd Three Treat. J. Wycklyffe (1851) p. cxxxvii Chef bischop & kynges son alworþiest.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (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 Suppl. New Version Psalms (ed. 3) 17 All worthy thou, who hast redeem'd And ransom'd us to God.
1849 J. C. Hare Par. Serm. (1849) II. 112 The one living, eternal, all-worthy Sacrifice.
1997 T. J. Csordas Lang., Charisma, & Creativity 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)).
all-comprehensive adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > condition or state of being inclusive > [adjective] > inclusive or comprehensive
largea1400
wide1534
capable1592
inclusive1604
comprehensive1614
all-comprehensive1650
complexive1654
diffused1658
comprehensional1673
perileptic1678
all-encompassing1805
unexcluding1822
widish1845
all-embracing1847
unexclusive1852
all-inclusive1858
broad1872
embracive1897
periscopic1912
wide-angle1932
umbrella1949
1650 D. Hotham in tr. C. Hotham Introd. Teutonick Philos. 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 Theory of Earth ii. 320 That great all-comprehensive thought.
2005 M. Hiriyanna Essent. Indian Philos. (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.
all-efficient adj.
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1628 J. Fletcher Hist. Perfect-Cursed-Blessed Man 5 A Spirit all-sufficient; All-knowing; all-procuring; all-efficient; Vp-holding all things by his Word and Will.
1836 ‘C. Caustic’ Terrible Tractoration (U.S. ed. 3) i. 19 Our all-efficient verbum sat Will presto raise almighty mobs, Inured to cruel dirty jobs.
1991 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Aug. The myth of an all-efficient secret organisation was fostered to encourage widespread fear.
all-miscreative adj. Obsolete
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1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 41 The all-miscreative brain of Jove.
1891 R. L. O'Malley Wyoming & Indian Melodies 116 Thou blindly wouldst ascend To that all-miscreative tyrant, Jove.
all-perceptive adj.
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1823 S. W. Morton My Mind & its Thoughts 258 Is then that mind, whose all-perceptive eye, Seem'd an imparted light of Deity.
1971 R. Maandell Nazi Olympics (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.
all-perficient adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
a1631 J. Donne Ess. Divinity (1651) 178 So God is also all-perficient: that is, all, and all parts of every work are his intirely.
all-persuasive adj.
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1737 J. Thurston Poems Several Occasions 37 Let me not be by Titles led, Or yield to all persuasive Red.
1998 N.Y. Post (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.
all-potent adj.
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1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 32 The Principall ay, is remanent, That is our Father all Potent.
2007 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 31 Jan. By virtue of their mercantile and financial standing in this country they are exercising an all potent and powerful influence.
all-prepotent adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 75 in Justice Vindicated The good will and pleasure of the All-prepotent God.
1913 D. S. Lamson Hist. Town of Weston, Mass. 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.
all-prevalent adj.
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1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. v. 365 That all-prevalent wisdom which you have establish'd.
1981 A. MacLean River of Death ix. 161 The air was damp and fetid, a miasmic smell all-prevalent.
all-provident adj.
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1619 I. C. Euer-burning Lamps of Pietie li. 130 O All prouident and carefull Creator, which hast giuen charge and influence to the heauenly Powers.
1630 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in Flowres of Sion (rev. ed.) 79 The wise and all prouident Creator.
1995 J. Russell Hamlet & Narcissus ii. 67 The mother will continue to exist in the child's emotional field..as an all-provident purveyor of gratification and support.
all-sufficient adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > all-sufficient
omnisufficient1543
all-sufficient1577
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. 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 Refl. Revol. in France 287 Your all-sufficient legislators..have forgot one thing that seems essential. View more context for this quotation
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar ii. 17 Moral habits are all-sufficient while they last.
2000 P. Gifford in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 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.
(i) In occasional formations (frequently poetic), as all-acting, all-appointing, all-burning, all-confounding, all-defying, all-dimming, all-ending, all-filling, all-living, all-maintaining, all-ordering, all-relieving, all-searching, all-space-filling, all-telling, all-triumphing, all-upholding, all-working, etc.
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OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) x. 84 Cuðberhtus..eallbyrnende hus ana ahredde wið fyres dare mid halgum benum.
OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) xix. 24 God sende to þam burgum ealbyrnendne renscur mid swefle gemencged.
1560 A. L. tr. J. Calvin Serm. Songe Ezechias sig. Aa.4v Thou with allpearcing eye beheldest me, Without regard that sinned in thy sight.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. i. 78 To all posterity, Euen to the generall all-ending day. View more context for this quotation
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ii. i. 21 All telling fame Doth noyse abroad. View more context for this quotation
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. I2v Close his eyes with thy all-dimming hand.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 76 What all-appointing Heauen will.
1623 W. Drummond Flowres of Sion 34 All-acting Vertues of those flaming towres.
a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 129 Thy all-upholding Might her Malice reins.
1650 W. Beech View of Englands Present Distempers 122 Not a hair will fall from our heads, without the All-ordering providence.
1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 133 His Infinite, All-searching Knowledge, which looks through and through the most secret of our Thoughts.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 505 The all-space-filling Mundane soul.
1827 J. Keble Christian Year II. lxxx. 116 An all-defying, dauntless look.
1865 J. Bright Speeches Amer. Question 175 Christian morality, ever widening and all-blessing in its influence.
1900 S. J. Weyman Story Francis Cludde (new ed.) ii. 18 His face, which seemed the paler and grimmer, the more saturnine and all-mastering.
1914 Mother Earth Mar. 14 There rises up an all-silencing rebuke.
1922 J. Masefield Dream 25 I do not know what power led me on Save the all-living joy of what came next.
2002 Burlington Mag. Apr. 255/3 One had the Babel-like sense of industrious workers busily..going about their work on this all-dominating object.
(ii)
all-absorbing adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > of high or great importance
worthlyeOE
mickleeOE
greatc1225
right hand?c1225
solemna1387
materialc1475
superior1526
grand1542
weighty1558
main1581
pregnant1591
pregnate1598
materious1611
moliminous1642
momentous1656
magic1696
all-important1748
big1748
eventful1756
colossal1775
bread and butter1822
bada1825
key1832
all-absorbing1834
earth-moving?1834
earth-shaking1835
earth-shatteringa1859
high-ranking1874
beaucoup1917
major league1951
earth-stopping1956
crucial1957
a1777 F. Fawkes tr. Apollonius Rhodius Argonautics (1780) iv. 251 Safe from Charybdis' gulf the vessel guide; Safe from loud Scylla's all-absorbing tide.
1834 J. S. Mill in Monthly Repos. 8 387 The universal and all-absorbing struggle to be or to appear rich.
1848 A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall 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 Anglo-Saxon Scop 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 Times 6 Mar. (T2 section) 6/4 The VIP is lulled into a sense of intimacy by the journalist's all-absorbing interest.
all-accepting adj.
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1839 New Monthly Mag. 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 Poems (1967) 171 My all-accepting fixèd eye.
1939 R. Campbell Flowering Rifle ii. 66 The former all-accepting soar above To triumph over death and die for love.
2010 New Yorker 29 Mar. 102/2 Mammy melodramas—stories that showcase stereotypically all-accepting, sexless, selfless black women.
all-attracting adj.
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1652 R. Fanshawe tr. Horace in Sel. Parts Horace sig. I5 On whom the All-attracting Gold Could with its Tenters ne'r take hold.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. ii. 9 I mention'd her Neck—Here I dare not trust myself—Inimitable creature! All-attracting loveliness!
1866 C. H. Spurgeon Morning by Morning 69 The superlative beauty of Jesus is all-attracting.
1915 D. H. Conner tr. P. Berger William Blake x. 151 She [sc. Enion] is the generative power in physical life, as distinguished from Vala, who is its all-attracting beauty.
2011 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 9 June We can anchor ourselves in God's infinite, balanced, all-attracting center through prayer.
all-bearing adj.
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1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida 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 Paradise Lost v. 338 Whatever Earth all-bearing Mother yeilds In India East or West. View more context for this quotation
1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 57 All-bearing, All-attempting, till he falls.
1991 tr. H. U. von Balthasar Realm of Metaphysics in Mod. Age v. 283 The ‘Fourth Day’, when every form of kingdom and art is dissolved into the glory of the all-bearing sea.
all-beholding adj.
ΚΠ
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (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 Flowres of Sion (rev. ed.) 48 See..all beholding King.
1819 W. Wordsworth Malham Cove 8 No mightier work had gained the plausive smile Of all-beholding Phoebus!
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. iii. 94 O all-beholding and all-hearing Sun!
1998 M. S. Bhat Vedic Tantrism (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.
all-canning adj. [apparently < all adv. + can v.1 (compare discussion of form history at that entry) + -ing suffix2] Obsolete
ΚΠ
1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 27 You all-canning wits.
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. v. sig. E3 O, brawnie strength is an all-canning charme!
all-cheering adj.
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1583 M. M. S. tr. B. de las Casas Spanish Colonie sig. h3 They founde there good entertaynement, meate, lodging, all cheering, and refreshing.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. i. 131 The alcheering Sunne. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost 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 Poems (new ed.) 83 All-chearing Plenty, with her flowing horn.
2002 Times (Nexis) 26 Jan. In The Corrections, Aslan is an all-cheering Prozac-style drug.
all-commanding adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > power > [adjective] > all-powerful
almightOE
all-wieldingOE
almightendc1250
almightfulc1300
compotent1391
almightyc1405
almightiful?a1475
cunctipotentc1485
omnipotenta1522
all-commanding1596
all-powerful1597
omnivalent1602
super-omnivalent1602
omniprevalenta1661
unzoned1662
omnivalous1773
pantocratic1949
1596 R. Linche Dom Diego in Diella sig. D8 Thus lay Diego tossing in his bed, bound to the will of all commaunding beauty.
1603 T. Dekker et al. Patient Grissill sig. B4v When all commaunding loue your hearts subdue.
1825 R. Southey Tale of Paraguay iv. xix, in Wks. VII. 83 And in their hearts, albe the work was rude, It raised the thought of all-commanding might.
2006 Advertiser (Adelaide) (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.
all-compelling adj.
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1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xix. 159 Know, angry Jove, and all-compelling Fate, With fell Erynnis, urg'd my Wrath that Day.
1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket iii. 24 Jove, and all-compelling Fate, In their high Will determin'd Kent should beat.
1911 E. Goldman Marriage & Love 12 How can such an all-compelling force [sc. love] be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?
2005 Wyoming Tribune-Eagle (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.
all-composing adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1646 R. Crashaw Sospetto d'Herode lxii, in Steps to Temple 71 The sweet peace of all-composing Night.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 131 But Pallas now addrest To break the bands of all-composing rest.
1911 H. Frank Doom of Dogma (ed. 3) xv. 334 The all-composing and sustaining power which builds the worlds of space and guides them in their rhythmic motions.
all-comprehending adj.
ΚΠ
1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. C2 All comprehending Pan was then no where.
1905 Mind 14 266 A universal activity..forms an all-comprehending Lebensraum in which the manifold may meet and enter into relation.
2000 Daily Mail (Nexis) 16 Feb. 12 The dog pays attention as you speak and then reassures you with an all-comprehending wag of his tail.
all-conquering adj.
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1594 S. Daniel Cleopatra ii. in Delia (new ed.) sig. I7v All Egipt yeelds to my all-conquering hand, And all theyr treasure and themselues resigne.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 591 Second of Satan sprung, all conquering Death. View more context for this quotation
1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 1369 An all-conquering conviction of divine vocation and empowerment.
1996 Ice Hockey News Rev. 28 Sept. 4 The ‘Miracle on Ice’ of 1980, when the USA defeated the all-conquering USSR to win Olympic gold at Lake Placid.
all-concerning adj.
ΚΠ
1700 C. Mather Everlasting Gospel i. 4 Now, to set this All-concerning Truth, in a fair View before you all.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 341 This great all-concerning verity.
1984 A. Metcalfe In their Own Right ix. 233 If government stability was a local issue in this campaign, unemployment was the all-concerning national issue.
all-consuming adj.
ΚΠ
1598 H. Petowe 2nd Pt. Hero & Leander sig. Ciii Raine vengeance downe in all consuming showers.
1654 T. Fuller Comment on Ruth 166 in 2 Serm. The Boulimee of all-consuming Time.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 20 As all-rapacious Usurers conceal Their Doomsday book, from all-consuming Heirs.
1880 Harper's Mag. June 76 Every little winged form that scarcely bends the twig has its all-consuming passion.
1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male v. 158 A sudden release which produces local spasms or more extensive or all-consuming convulsions.
2006 Esquire Sept. 76/2 Organic spelt, a low-gluten, high-protein wheat, became his all-consuming preoccupation.
all-containing adj.
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1602 W. Warner Albions Eng. (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 Poet. Wks. (1873) 76/2 Lord! all thy works are lessons,—each contains Some emblem of man's all-containing soul.
1892 W. B. Yeats Countess Kathleen Pref. 8 No dramatic method elastic and all-containing enough.
2005 Building Design (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.
all-creating adj.
ΚΠ
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 31 Eu'n next morne the All-creating Sire Had sent abroad, I know not I, what word.
1623 W. Drummond Flowres of Sion 29 Vncreatde Beautie all-creating Loue.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 47 in Wks. (1721) II. O Self-originated Might, Thou All-creating Infinite.
1999 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 18 Sept. 5 Man's need to assuage his innate insecurities with devotion to an all-creating Higher Power.
all-deciding adj.
ΚΠ
1778 T. Francklin tr. Sophocles Trachinæ ii. v, in tr. Sophocles Tragedies II. 273 Whilst Venus, to her vot'ries near, Wav'd o'er their heads the all-deciding wand.
1808 M. Savory Poet. Tales 60 The all-deciding key was in his hand; The op'ning box obey'd his first command.
2003 N.Y. Post (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.
all-destroying adj.
ΚΠ
1604 T. Dekker Newes from Graues-end sig. E4v Acts we one day may rehearse In marble nombers, that shall stand Aboue Tymes all-destroying hand.
?1790 T. May Poems on Var. Subj. 139 Hence clocks denoting times incessant course, Ballistic torments' all-destroying force.
1932 W. B. Yeats Words for Music 14 All-destroying sword-blade, still Carried by the wandering fool.
2009 Hills Gaz. (Perth, Austral.) (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.
all-devouring adj.
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1592 A. Fraunce 3rd Pt. Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch f. 27v The all-deuowring earth, eating and consuming all earthly bodies.
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iii. sig. C5v A die, a drab, and filthy broking knaues, Are..all deuouring graues.
2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 5 July 40/1 The Construction State has become an all-devouring monster, a Godzilla of development.
all-disposing adj.
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society > authority > control > [adjective]
controlling1564
all-disposing1597
dispositive1613
disposing1628
regiminal1746
1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. 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 Wks. (1620) I. 427 It hath pleased the all-disposing God to remooue you.
1995 M. J. Colacurcio Province of Piety Concl. 490 This single brief quote..is but the projection of an all-disposing narrator.
all-enduring adj.
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1605 S. Daniel Philotas i. in Certaine Small Poems sig. B3v Patience that base property, And silly guift of th' all induring Ass.
1935 New Statesman 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 Getting Rid of Mr Kitchen x. 112 The short Indian waiter stood patiently nearby..with an all-enduring smile on his dark features.
all-engulfing adj.
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1829 R. Southey Scotland in Poet. Wks. 720/1 The all-engulfing stream of years.
1914 E. von Arnim Pastor's Wife i. 7 His all-engulfing mass of correspondence.
2000 N.Y. Times 31 Dec. iv. 4/2 An all-engulfing atmosphere of information.
all-enlightening adj.
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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 483 Th' Eternall Trine-One, spreading euen the Tent Of th' All-enlightning glorious Firmament.
2002 P. Maltby Visionary Moment 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.
all-enveloping adj.
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1787 C. Taylor Surv. Nature I. 162 Apprehension of all-enveloping darkness.
1897 W. James Will to Believe 238 The vague Asiatic profession of belief in an all-enveloping fate.
1940 L. MacNeice Last Ditch 9 Night came down upon the bogland With all-enveloping wings.
2002 National Geographic Feb. 112/2 Meanwhile, the government was encouraging women to shed the all-enveloping chadri.
all-excelling adj.
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1598 J. Marston Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 1 Vnlesse my Mistres all-excelling face, Which giues to beautie, beauties onely grace.
1696 J. Lead Tree of Faith 38 The Seventh [quality of the Tree of Faith] is an All-excelling Goodness.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa 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 Punch 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’ Mirror of Kong Ho 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 As in Mirror ii. 46 For Calvin, the realisation of an all-excelling majesty of God is not theory.
all-explaining adj.
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1817 S. T. Coleridge Let. 28 July (1959) IV. 758 The constituents and explainers of the all-explaining fluids.
1961 T. Woods Poetry & Philos. v. 75 In so far as it [sc. the utilitarian system] claims to be comprehensive and all-explaining.
1987 Los Angeles Times 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 Amer. Woman (2004) 283 Radicalism, Jenny thought sometimes, was like Catholicism, with its..strict liturgy, its all-explaining view of the world, its absolute Satan.
all-governing adj.
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society > authority > rule or government > [adjective] > all-ruling or governing
all-ruling1592
panarchic1612
all-governing1613
1613 S. Jourdan Plain Descr. Barmudas Ep. Ded. sig. A2 Amongst the sensible signes, and euident demonstrations of Gods all-gouerning prouidence, this is not the least.
a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 188 The greatest gift that..The all-governing pow'rs to man can give.
1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield lxi. 604 What were supposed to be the main advantages of this all-governing and universally over-riding system?
2000 E. H. Boone Stories in Red & Black 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.
all-healing adj.
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1606 B. Barnes Foure Bks. Offices 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 Poly-olbion ix. Illustr. 152 The Druids inuocation was to one All-healing or All-sauing power.
1660 J. Evelyn Late News from Bruxels 6 A seasonable and all-healing mercy.
1991 A. R. Hutchens Indian Herbalogy N. Amer. 138 Trading was done in wheat, honey..and ‘Pannag’, or the all-healing Ginseng.
all-hearing adj.
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1595 W. S. Lamentable Trag. Locrine 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 Iliad I. iii. 94 O all-beholding and all-hearing Sun!
2003 D. Lyver & G. Swainson Basics Video Production (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.
all-heeding adj.
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1830 N. Hawthorne in N.-Y. Mirror 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 Toward Philos. of Hist. iii. 103 It is an all-heeding circumspection.
all-including adj.
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1592 A. Fraunce 3rd Pt. Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch f. 32 Things began to come to light..in the darkesome bottome of that all-including Chaos.
1848 L. Hunt Jar of Honey vii. 92 The all-including genius of Shakspeare.
1999 J. Assman in K. van der Toorn et al. Dict. Deities & Demons in Bible (rev. ed.) 457 Isis-Hathor becomes an all-including deity.
all-involving adj.
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1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. v. 367 One vast Burst of all-involving Fate Full o'er your Tow'rs shall fall.
1925 Amer. Mercury Dec. 478/2 The disaster was ruinous, all-involving, complete.
2001 J. Noggle Skeptical Sublime vii. 207 The poem's modernity consists in its portrayal of an all-involving skeptical alienation.
all-loving adj.
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?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter xxxviii. 101 Commit thy way: thy state and stay, to Gods (most strong) all louyng grace.
a1788 J. Wesley & C. Wesley Hymns & Sacred Poems (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 Poems 22 The all-loving Nature Will smile in a factory.
2002 C. Newland Snakeskin ix. 112 This boyfriend of hers..ruined her dad's all-loving media persona.
all-prevailing adj.
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1599 R. Linche Fountaine Anc. Fiction 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 Queen Mab ii. 21 All-prevailing wisdom..o'erbounds Those obstacles, of which an earthly soul Fears to attempt the conquest.
2011 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 22 Feb. 24 An all-prevailing virtue.
all-protecting adj.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > relating to Jupiter
Jovian1530
thunder-darting1602
jovial1604
altitonant1656
thunder-bearing1661
all-protecting1768
1617 J. Vicars tr. F. Herring Mischeefes Mysterie 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 Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 301 Offspring of all-protecting Jove.
1869 Spectator 1 May 532 The impartial, impassive, all-protecting State.
1998 J. McCabe Stickleback 177 A man with an all-protecting, reflecting sunglass aura of confidence.
all-providing adj.
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1604 T. Winter tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Third Dayes Creation 16 Vpon their backs they [sc. fruits] beare Ywritten faire Gods all-prouiding care.
1930 ‘R. Crompton’ William's Happy Days vi. 129 Lounging at his ease—the gracious, generous all-providing male.
2005 Independent 27 Sept. 50/4 Packed lunches from their all-providing employer.
all-quickening adj. poetic (now rare)
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1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. B Time the Sunne by his all-quickning power, Giues life and birth to euery plant and flower.
1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans sig. A3 Some drops of thy all-quickning bloud.
1781 W. Cowper Charity 396 The soul, whose sight all-quickening grace renews, Takes the resemblance of the good she views.
1841 S. Davies Serm. Important Subj. 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 Sunken Bell 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 Theol. of Calvin 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.
all-reaching adj.
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1615 J. Sylvester tr. P. Matthieu Memorials of Mortalitie in 2nd Session Parl. Vertues Reall 149 When All the World fear'd Rome's All-reaching Arms, One vertuous Cato did all Rome dismay.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 99 Motion, which is an all-reaching affection or belonger to each bit of the world.
2011 X. Chen in L. A. Jensen Bridging Cultural & Developmental Approaches to Psychol. v. 92 Hinde..has argued that different levels of social experiences are embedded within an all-reaching cultural system.
all-ruling adj.
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society > authority > rule or government > [adjective] > all-ruling or governing
all-ruling1592
panarchic1612
all-governing1613
1592 A. Fraunce 3rd Pt. Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch f. 13 In his right hand he holdeth an all-ruling scepter, in his left, a sin-correcting lightning.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 212 The will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven. View more context for this quotation
1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) iii. 164 Looking up to an all-ruling Providence.
1854 A. Brown Philos. Physics p. x Called into action by the all-ruling will.
2000 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 11 Sept. 14 Councillors will have the option to vote on transforming Sandwell authority's system into one with an all-ruling mayor.
all-satisfying adj.
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1629 W. Jeffray Picture of Patience 20 Perfection, which is the All-satisfying obiect of mans boundlesse desire.
1855 Harper's Mag. June 102/2 One infinite and unapproachable Wisdom—one all-satisfying and all-perfect Love.
1907 W. James Meaning of Truth (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 Shakespeare without Class vi. 137 The female reader, seeking an all-satisfying maternal relationship in the naive heroine's relationship with the dominant male.
all-seeing adj.
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1562 T. Sternhold et al. Whole Bk. Psalmes cxxxix. 354 From sight of thy all seeyng sprite, Lorde whether shall I goo?
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 126 Spiall of Nature, O All-seeing Sunne.
1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 8 He heau'ns al-seeing eye, He earths great Prophet.
1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 376 Our conduct is in view of an all-seeing eye.
2009 Art Q. Summer 57/1 For the Russian peasant, the tsar was all-seeing and divine.
all-shaking adj. poetic
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1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ix. 6 All shaking thunder. View more context for this quotation
a1868 C. Harpur Poet. Wks. (1984) 150 The dread, all-shaking tempest-tramps of Thor.
2007 J. Kavenna Inglorious 223 She darted around a puddle, brushed a hedge, heard the all-shaking thunder burst around the valley again.
all-subduing adj.
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1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iii. cxxx. sig. S2v This all-subduing powre here staid His faultring tongue.
1740 On Resurrection 6 in F. Peck New Mem. Life & Wks. John Milton 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 Falls, Lakes & Mountains N. Wales v. 101 Sheathing his all-subduing sword.
1992 E. Henry Orpheus with his Lute ii. 28 A failure to believe in personal love as an all-subduing absolute.
all-sufficing adj.
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1560 Medit. Penitent Sinner sig. X.iiv, in A. L. tr. J. Calvin Serm. Songe Ezechias From troubled sprite I send confused crye, To craue the crummes of all sufficing grace.
1623 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in Flowres of Sion 66 That all-sufficient and all-suffizing Happinesse.
1993 D. Worster Wealth of Nature xvi. 211 This new world-view of materialism armed itself with an all-sufficing, elegant, self-reliant mode of thought called rationalism.
all-surpassing adj.
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1585 J. Norden Sinfull Mans Solace f. 160 He hath fraught ye same againe, with all surpassing ioye.
1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xx. 115 The all-surpassing Pleasure that fills the worthy Breast.
2010 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 19 Nov. a1 Quick and definitive decision making, crystal-clear goal setting and an all-surpassing attention to the bottom line.
all-surrounding adj.
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1652 E. Benlowes Theophila vii. xl. 100 One Word did th' All-surrounding Skie-roof frame, With all its Starrie sparkling Flame!
1871 W. Whitman Democratic Vistas 58 America demands a Poetry that is bold, modern, and all-surrounding and kosmical, as she is herself.
2004 G. Woodward I'll go to Bed at Noon i. 16 The all-surrounding wall of mourners? In the end she had to close her eyes.
all-sustaining adj.
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a1627 J. Beaumont Bosworth-field (1629) 69 Doth God withdraw his all-sustaining might, And works no more with his faire creature light.
1837 Maine Monthly Mag. June 552 God's all-sustaining power.
2002 Dallas Morning News (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.
all-transcending adj.
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1652 E. Benlowes Theophila vii. xiii. 97 O, Thou all-splendent, all transcending Throne! Compact of High'st Dominion!
2010 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 8 Sept. 16 Today, you don't have an all-transcending goal to keep everyone together.
all-understanding adj.
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1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 41 The all-wise Patron, or all-understanding Justice of the Peace.
2010 R. A. Hinde Why Gods Persist (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.
(i) As all-accomplished, all-admired, all-appalled, all-honoured, all-licensed, all-praised, all-seen, all-shunned, etc. Sometimes passing into an instrumental sense ‘by all’.Recorded earliest in all-written adj. at Compounds 2d.Potentially overlapping with Compounds 1a in cases where the second element might be formed on a homographic noun, as all-starred, all-watched.
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c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) 4151 Æfre he beoþ An allfullfremedd hellpe Till alle þa þatt cwemmdenn himm.
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 145 (MED) Swa þu dedest ðe al-fo[r]gelte þieue þe heng on þire swiþere.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xxxv. 15 The auter of þe all brennt sacrifice, & þe brasen gredyrne of it.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 140 This gallant Hotspur, this all praised knight. View more context for this quotation
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 195 This, your all-licenc'd foole.
c1612 J. Sylvester Lacrymæ Lacrymarum in Poems (1633) 1149 O, All-admired, Benign and Bountious! O All-desired (right) Panaretos!
?1614 W. Drummond Sonnet: O Wofull life! in Poems False Delights..My all-appalled Minde so doe affraye.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. 0. 38 The wearie and all-watched Night. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vi. 16 All-honor'd, honest, Romaine Brutus. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. ii. 14 His disease, of all shunn'd pouerty. View more context for this quotation
1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans IV. xxxiii. 184 Where the modest, and all-accomplished landlady, Mrs. Rogers, was..invited to sit down.
1865 G. M. Hopkins Poems (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 Look! We have come Through! 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. Home Owner Man. (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)
all-dreaded adj. Obsolete
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 272 Th'all-dreaded Thunderstone. View more context for this quotation
1923 D. A. Mackenzie Myths China & Japan xv. 296 The unceasing conflict against the all-dreaded enemy of mankind, the God of Death.
all-enlightened adj.
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1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiii. 484 Oh all-enlighten'd mind! Inform him.
1841 Bentley's Misc. 9 313 The Chinese..always represent their country as an all-enlightened land.
1987 C. Humphreys Wisdom of Buddhism (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.
all-worshipped adj.
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1637 J. Milton Comus 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 Wks. (1883) III. 167 As when the all-worshipped moon attracts the eye, The river, hill, stems, foliage are obscure.
2009 W. Stinson Between Grief & Nothing 173 These young beauties..waiting for a desperate American man to..provide them with..the all worshipped green card.
(d) With adverbs, esp. where derived from the adjectives in Compounds 2a(a) and Compounds 2a(b), as all-conqueringly, all-embracingly, all-sufficiently, etc. See also all along adv., all out adv., all up at up adv.2 12e, all-wholly adv. [With Old English ealltǣwlīce completely, perfectly, in quot. eOE compare ealltǣwe entirely sound, true (see etymological note at Compounds 2). Old English ealltela entirely happily, in quot. OE, has sometimes alternatively been interpreted as showing a collocation of eall all adv. and tela prosperously, happily, well (compare Old English til good: see till prep., conj., and adv.), rather than a compound.]
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > all-sufficiently
all-sufficiently1649
eOE Prose Charm: Against Elf-Sickness (Royal 12 D.xvii) in G. Storms Anglo-Saxon Magic (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 Genesis A (1931) 1904 Unc gemæne ne sceal elles awiht, nymþe ealltela lufu langsumu.
1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 308 How..all-sufficiently able God is, in performing of his Promises.
1769 London Mag. Nov. 587/1 A gleam of hope all-graciously disclose.
1889 Harper's Mag. July 217/2 Life..was all so cosmopolitan and all-embracingly sympathetic.
1903 ‘M. Twain’ My Début as Literary Person 175 Then all-sorrowfully he made his last dispositions.
1919 Outing 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 Plains of Cement xxi. 169 Wondering what it was, breathing in the air, which made it so overpoweringly, all-permeatingly Sunday.
2005 Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 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)).
all-efficiency n.
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1654 J. Norton Orthodox Evangelist v. 114 The All-efficiency of the first cause.
1839 Evangelical Reg. Mar. 103 The all-efficiency of His justice and truth.
1992 K. K. Chaudhuri tr. A. Bhattacharya Lore of Mahabharata i. 4 We are overwhelmed by the all-efficiency of a dramatist of the first order.
all-potency n.
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society > authority > power > [noun] > infinite power
almightinesslOE
almightiheada1425
omnipotencea1460
omnipotencya1525
omnipotency1604
omnivalence1607
all-powerfulness1614
all-potency1642
almightyship1663
omnipotentness1727
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. F8 What thing not done by his all-potencie?
1986 B. Huyghe in M. L. Foster & R. A. Rubinstein Peace & War iii. 43 Those who give the orders can indulge in fantasies of destruction and all-potency.
all-prevalency n. Obsolete rare
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1826 E. Irving Babylon II. vii. 235 The doctrine of Christ, and the all-prevalency of his kingdom.
all-sufficience n. Obsolete
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > all-sufficiency
omnisufficiency1577
all-sufficiency1581
omnisufficience1660
all-sufficiencea1711
a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 48 in Wks. (1721) II. Thou boundless All-sufficience art.
a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) III. i. 16 The Duke of Bedford..reflected on Pitt's all-sufficience.
1913 J. Edgerton Brook by Way 189 Be to them their all-sufficience, Is the burden of our prayer!
all-sufficiency n.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > all-sufficiency
omnisufficiency1577
all-sufficiency1581
omnisufficience1660
all-sufficiencea1711
1581 W. Charke Replie to Censure sig. Aiii The alsufficiencie and entier vertue of Christs sacrifice offered vp once for euer.
1619 J. Sempill Sacrilege Sacredly Handled 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 Glory Christ Unveil'd xx. 404 The All-sufficiency lay in the Responsibleness of the Person.
1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 108 The all-sufficiency of the Intercession of our Divine Redeemer.
2001 A. Peacocke in R. T. Pennock Intelligent Design Creationism & its Critics 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.
(ii) In derivatives of the adjectives in Compounds 2a(b), as all-absorbingness, all-prevailingness, all-seeingness, etc.
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1654 E. Johnson Hist. New-Eng. 56 The honour of his All-seeingness.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) App. Omnipercipience, an all-perceivingness.
1830 Fraser's Mag. Mar. 231/2 The all-lovingness of God.
1865 S. Neil Epoch Men 52 The successful all-prevailingness of its schemes.
1945 Scrutiny 13 131 The all-absorbingness of the purpose.
1969 R. A. Nisbet Social Change & Hist. iii. 108 Belief in, dedication to, and a sense of the all-sufficingness of scientific and philosophical knowledge.
2006 V. Koperski in R. Bieringer Corinthian Corr. 377 Paul speaks unambiguously of the all-surpassingness of ‘the knowledge of Christ Jesus’.
(iii) In derivatives of adjectives in Compounds 2a(a), as all-comprehensiveness, all-fullness, all-persuasiveness, all-wiseness, etc. See also almightiness n.
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lOE King Ælfred tr. St. Augustine Soliloquies (Vitell.) (1922) ii. 59 Ne getweoge ic nawuht be Godes æcnesse and be hys ælmihtihnesse.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (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 Mixture Scholasticall Divinity That all-fulnesse which dwelleth in Christ.
1817 J. Bentham Papers Codification & Public Instr. IV. Suppl. v. 100/1 Completeness, or say all-comprehensiveness, in respect of its extent.
1824 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) I. 52 It would be disparaging his own all-wiseness.
1889 Chautauquan Feb. 288/2 Such pervading all-persuasiveness.
1927 A. Huxley Proper Stud. 13 Helvétius's doctrine of the all-effectiveness of nurture.
1981 C. Cosman tr. J.-P. Sartre Family Idiot 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.
all-alikeness n. Obsolete
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1876 T. P. Kirkman Philos. without Assumptions xiii. 292 Evolution is a change from a nohowish untalkaboutable all-alikeness, to a somehowish..not-all-alikeness.
1921 D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia v. 164 Save us from proletarian homogeneity and khaki all-alikeness.
all-aloneness n.
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1864 J. Brown Jeems 19 Its calm, restful summit, the hush of silence there, the all-alone-ness of the place and hour.
1924 Glasgow Herald 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 Paths to God (paperback ed.) ix. 194 There begins to be a flickering recognition of that ‘all aloneness’.
all-wrongness n.
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1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 194 He must be able to bear the all-wrongness.
1989 B. J. Brothers in E. M. Stern Psychotherapy & Self-contained Patient 237 Left in the Emptiness, the all-wrongness—the travesty and injustice is all contained within that small body/soul/mind.
(f) With transitive verbs, typically as back-formations from adjectives formed with present participles (see Compounds 2a(b)), as all-encompass. rare.
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1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 131 Whether the sun all-light thee, or the moon.
1858 Institute 3 311 Thine arms did all-encompass me.
1874 Med. Press & Circular 25 Mar. 253/2 There are not many things which do all-pervade the body.
1902 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 514 The cramped space of some mountain hotel that he all-pervades.
1993 Washington Post 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’.
(i) With adjectives denoting the material substance, as all-leathern, all-silken, all-wooden, all-woollen, etc.
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eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xxii. 169 Wyrc feower hringas ælgyldene [L. aureos], & ahoh hie suiðe fæste on ða feower hyrnan ðære earce.
OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 148 Scetra, ealleþern scyldas [L. scutum loreum sine ligno].
OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 348 Oloscericis [vestibus] : ealseolcenum uel sydenum.
1866 W. Smith Rambles about Morley ii. 60 The difference between the all-woollen and the mixed fabric of a similar kind.
1893 J. B. Johnson et al. Theory & Pract. Mod. Framed Struct. i. 6 This is probably the most scientific design for an all-wooden bridge ever invented.
1958 House & Garden Apr. 7/3 (advt.) Stockwell [carpet]... All-woollen pile. Mitin-processed; guaranteed mothproof for life.
1993 Canad. Forest Industries Mar. 19/3 The all-wooden crib is built from pressure treated 8-by-8 jack pine.
(ii) With nouns denoting the material or substance, used attributively as adjectives, as all-aluminium, all-carbon, all-metal, all-silk, all-steel, all-wool, etc.
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1838 Brit. Farmer's Mag. July 218 The more wealthy brides have all silk gowns laid by for great occasions.
1859 Harper's Mag. Feb. 344/2 They were dressed very neatly; the girls in fawn-colored all-wool mousselines.
1882 Daily News 4 Mar. The demand is most apparent in all-wool dress goods.
1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 41/1 (advt.) Novo Trench Pump Outfits. On skids or all-steel trucks.
1933 Discovery Oct. 325/2 An all-aluminium train was exhibited for the first time at the Chicago World's Fair this year.
1951 J. Cornish Provincials 128 ‘Hiccups gone,’ Matt growled at the modernistic all-glass doors of the Queen Mary Club.
1977 Bon Appétit May 52/1 The best for-the-home buys are flokati , all-wool rugs with thick, loose pile.
1991 Sci. News 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 Home Comforts lvii. 680/1 Resin-treated all-cotton sheets have varying degrees of resistance to wrinkling.
2009 New Yorker 31 Aug. 50/2 In 1963, the French tennis player and fashion icon René Lacoste created the first successful all-metal racquet.
(b) With the sense ‘making use of or featuring only the specified type’. See also all-star adj.
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1929 Punch's Almanack 1930 4 Nov. p. xxxv The All-Mains set draws its power from the house electrical supply.
1941 G. Stapledon in H. J. Massingham Eng. & Farmer vii. 148 To the holders of these all-grass farms I would address myself.
1960 N.Y. Times 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 Farm Planning & Control ii. 40 The introduction of a sheep flock on an all-arable farm should..increase the value of those by-products.
1983 Listener 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 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Oct. 22/2 Variants of plug-in hybrids and all-battery cars have been promised by major auto producers.
2011 East Bay Express (Calif.) (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.
all-rail adj.
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1860 Rep. Stock & Bond Holders Sandunsky Dayton & Cincinnati Rail Road Company 7 The contract for opening the Delaware route, constituting it the all-rail route to and from the East.
1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 3 Dec. The first all-rail shipment of lumber.
1918 E. R. Johnson & G. G. Huebner Princ. Ocean Transportation iii. xx. 309 The granting of in-transit privileges on all-rail routes.
2001 Age (Melbourne) 12 July 9 This was cheaper and quicker than all rail options.
all-sea adj.
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1878 J. L. Tait Six Months Explor. Texas 2 Where money is an object and also time, the all sea route will of course be selected.
1890 Rev. of Reviews 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 Agric. & Pastoral Societies in Anc. & Classical Hist. 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).
(i) With the sense ‘consisting entirely of persons or things from one area or country; done or made by, or belonging to, one particular area or country’. Cf. all-American adj. 3.
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1881 Deb. Senate (Canada) 8 Feb. 229/1 The abandonment of the all-Canadian route.
1937 G. Frankau More of Us xii. 125 Was this The ruleress of the waves, R.N., all-British, Who stopped to plant the Cytherean Kiss?
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 8 Mar. 47 (advt.) These quality built all-British harvesting machines.
1990 Sci. Amer. 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.
(ii) With the sense ‘idealistically or quintessentially characteristic of a specified country, place, etc.’.Recorded earliest in, and subsequent use usually modelled on, all-American adj. 4.
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1919 Packages 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 Bulletin (Sydney) 22 July 54/1 The traditional, standard all-Australian hotel whose primary function has been to serve beer.
2007 D. Porter & D. Prince Caribbean for Dummies (ed. 4) xiii. 323 A mixture of an English pub and an all-Jamaican jerk pork pit.
2009 T. F. Pawlick War in Country 32 There was the all-Canadian game of hockey.
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(i) With adjectives denoting an aspect of the identity of a person or thing, with the sense ‘consisting or composed entirely of or intended exclusively for persons or things of the type specified’, as all-Catholic, all-gay, all-Whig, etc. Cf. all-coloured adj. 2, all-white adj. 2, all-red adj. at Compounds 2d.
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1898 J. R. Joy Twenty Cent. Eng. Hist. xiv. 271 In 1693 he made up an all-Whig cabinet.
1938 Life 7 Feb. 17/3 (caption) Spirit of Youth was the first all-Negro movie ever shown in Washington.
1941 Christian Cent. 19 Nov. 1430/1 A pastoral letter..urging the election of an all-Catholic school board in Cleveland.
1963 Realist Sept. 16/2 But would it be possible to have an all-gay staff? I mean are there gay janitors, for example?
1979 Feminist Rev. 2 41 An all-woman show would invite speculations as to gender-determined characteristics shared by the women exhibitors.
1991 ABA Jrnl. 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 Sarajevo ii. 41 The People's Assembly met for the first time on June 5. Originally it was an all-Muslim body.
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all-female adj.
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1885 W. G. Ritch Illustr. New Mexico (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 National Observer (U.S.) 21 Feb. 4/2 Complaints about the all-female shoeshine parlors in Salt Lake City may diminish.
1991 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. 15/5 It already has the world's first exclusively non-white, all female, non-smoking, homosexual power structure.
2010 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Mar. 52/1 Walt Disney hired an all-female battalion of white-gloved inkers and painters.
all-Jewish adj.
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1906 Outlook 8 Dec. 893/2 The All-Jewish Labour League..is indeed a formidable organization.
1917 Reform Advocate 17 Nov. 358/3 It requires some courage to undertake to manage an all-Jewish Regiment.
1949 Billboard 5 Feb. 44/3 Davis is operating now with an all-Jewish show policy.
2004 Jewish Chron. 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.
all-male adj.
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1885 J. C. Ridpath Cycl. Universal Hist. 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 So what else is New? 130 [She] looked so hurt in her skin-tight dress the all-male jury awarded her $5,500.
1988 P. Manuel Pop. Musics Non-Western World (1990) iii. 109 A night-long competition with other groups in the all-male hostels.
2005 Daily Tel. 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).
(a) With nouns, with the sense ‘of all, universal’, as all-monarch, all-parent, all-soul, etc. Cf. All-Father n. See also sense A. 5.
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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 76 Th' All-Monarch's bounteous Maiestie.
1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Metamorphosis 184 The all-powerful and all-parent Syrian goddess.
1879 W. D. Whitney Sanskrit Gram. Introd. 20 The emancipation of the soul, and its unification with the All-soul.
1923 D. A. Mackenzie Myths China & Japan xiii. 243 It likewise brought luck, being an object that radiated the influence of the All-Mother.
1988 B. Lewis Polit. Lang. Islam (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.).
all-commander n. Obsolete
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1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood sig. D The All-commaunder saith, Thou shalt not lie.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. i. i. 535 That mischieuous all commander of the earth.
1880 P. Greg Across Zodiac II. xxviii. 232 What is youth or sex or beauty in the All-Commander's sight?
all-creator n.
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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 378 The Arches starrie seeld, Where th' All-Creator hath disposed well The Sunne and Moone.
1707 J. Dunton Athenian Sport lxxvii. 355 To the making of this All-Theater, Nothing but Nothing had the All-Creator.
2011 B. Litfin Gift ii. vii. 178 I knew Deu is the All-Creator and that he has high demands for his followers.
all-destroyer n.
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1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus ii. v. 135 With Pranks like these they pass away their Prime, And thus destroy that All-destroyer Time.
1832 T. Carlyle Misc. Ess. (1847) III. 19 The all-destroyer Time.
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. 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 Theatre of Naturalism vii. 47 The worst fears and prophecies of the (early) Marx about ‘the world turned upside down’ of money, the all destroyer, all-leveller.
all-disposer n.
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1618 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. 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 Conjuror's Mag. 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 Iliad II. xiii. 13 Saturn's son, The all-disposer.
1985 J. Miller Vision of Cosmic Order in Vedas v. 105 The all-disposer of justice to whom the sinner turns in repentance.
all-encompasser n. rare
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1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings i. 26 The invisible shrine of the All-encompasser,—the All-sustainer.
1990 L. Dobrez Parnassus Mad Ward iii. 79 The poetic all-encompasser.
all-giver n.
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1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 99 Thus Ioy, and Hope, were by th'all Giver giv'n As sweete Conductors to his sweetest Sweete.
1637 J. Milton Comus 25 Th'all-giver would be unthank't, would be unprais'd.
a1770 C. Talbot Ess. Var. Subj. (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 Poems (new ed.) I. 163 Zeus, the all-giver.
2008 W. Shullenberger Lady in Labyrinth v. 182 The sexual destiny preferred and proffered by the All-Giver of the Reformation is chaste companionate marriage.
all-knower n.
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1614 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Little Bartas in tr. J. Bertaut Parl. Vertues Royal 227 O! Thou All-knower! Nothing more hath thrust Proud Man from Thee, then This Ambitious lust.
1825 C. Lamb in E. V. Lucas Bernard Barton (1893) vi. 100 The All-knower..knows before what we will do.
1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience vi. 138 Only by an All-knower can we finally be judged.
2010 Ebony Feb. 65/2 There are many names for Allah. They include All-Merciful, the Almighty, Jehovah, Alloheim, All-Knower and the Provider.
all-maker n.
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1609 T. Dekker Foure Birds Noahs Arke 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 Dove sig. B To this All-makers prayses sing.
2010 M. E. Snodgrass Encycl. Lit. Empire 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.
all-seer n.
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1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III 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 French Jrnls. Mrs. Thrale & Dr. Johnson (1932) 157 A Sin against the Allseer who knows our Hearts ought to be avoided.
1997 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 12 Dec. l9 Even people as saturated with wisdom as the all-seers at the Fed have to admit when they are wrong.
all-sustainer n.
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1823 F. L. Gower tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust 205 The All-creator, The All-sustainer, Does he not uphold Thyself, and me, and all?
1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings i. 26 The invisible shrine of the All-encompasser,—the All-sustainer.
2002 J. Cashford Moon 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.
all-cure n. a remedy which cures all ailments; a panacea; frequently attributive; cf. cure-all n. a.
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1867 ‘T. Lackland’ Homespun 105 For childish low spirits or moodiness she was an all-cure.
1909 Weston Gaz. 19 Feb. 2/3 The bare effrontery of the all-cure patented quack medicine.
2004 Z. Fabris Last Diary Session 35 Chow garlic, it's the all cure all fix remedy even on rainy days.
all-hold n. Obsolete that which holds everything or everyone; cf. much later holdall n.
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1493 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (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 Poems 44 Heart, O heart! Thou wilt part From the All-hold on thee, and lose thy way, Never, never.
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all-acoustic adj. entirely acoustic; spec. designating a musical group, performance, or recording that uses only acoustic instruments instead of electric ones; cf. unplugged adj. 2b.
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1947 H. F. Olson Elements of Acoustical Engin. (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 Chicago Tribune 9 July ii. 22/7 The Pentangle, an all-acoustic folk-revival quintet from England.
2011 T. Harrison Music of 1980s 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.
all-action adj. (of a narrative, production, etc.) full of action, energy, or exciting events.
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1906 Publishers' Weekly 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 Guardian 10 Sept. (Guide Suppl.) 81/3 This all-action four-part drama series concerning London's Helicopter Emergency Medical Service..takes to the skies.
all-armed adj. literary Obsolete fully equipped and ready for battle; fully armed; cf. alarmed adj.1 1.
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1630 M. Drayton David & Goliah in Muses Elizium 204 How this vnarmed Youth himselfe would beare Against th' all-armed Giant (which they feare).
1842 Ld. Tennyson Sir Galahad vii, in Poems (new ed.) II. 178 All-arm'd I ride, whate'er betide, Until I find the holy Grail.
1889 W. Morris Tale House of Wolfings xxx. 191 Through it came all-armed warriors bearing another bier.
all-big-gun adj. Navy now historical (of a battleship) having a main armament consisting entirely of big guns of one calibre; cf. dreadnought n. 1b.
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1906 Daily Chron. 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 Life 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 Oxf. Hist. Royal Navy 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.
all-boys adj. (also all-boy, all-boys') (esp. of a school) attended by or consisting of only boys.
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1910 G. C. Strachan Equal Pay for Equal Work iii. 53 It is true that it has not appointed a woman as principal of an all-boys' school.
1971 Jet 24 June 18 (caption) Teaching her general science class in the all-boy Hamilton Technical School in Victoria, Australia.
2012 Newmarket Jrnl. (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.
all-cargo that carries only cargo and no passengers; of or relating to such transport; cf. all-freight adj.
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1942 Washington Post 1 Nov. iii. 7/4 The outlook for the all-cargo plane program improved.
1961 Aeroplane 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 Flight Internat. (Nexis) 16 Nov. The two airlines appear to have co-ordinated the hand-over of all-cargo routes from Ladeco.
2003 Airline Business (Nexis) 1 July 86 The parcel companies demonstrated that a massive all-cargo operation could be profitable.
all-digital adj. using or composed of only digital technology, systems, graphics, etc.
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1954 Automatic Control Oct. 30/1 Electronic Counter... Frequency division is all-digital, using 11 special plug-in decade scalers. No frequency adjustments required.
1994 InfoWorld 28 Nov. 32/2 Video-production software with all-digital editing for Windows.
2012 S. Prince Digital Visual Effects in Cinema iii. 115 A subsequent transformation scene in the film..is all-digital, executed without prosthetic makeup.
all-electric adj. using only electric power.
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1903 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 29 Nov. 5/4 It is to be an all-electric plant.
1924 S. R. Roget Dict. Electr. Terms 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 Homage to Clio 25 This all-electric room Where ghosts would feel uneasy.
2010 New Yorker 22 Mar. 52/3 In 2011, Ford plans to sell an all-electric version of the Focus.
all-electronic adj. using or composed of only electronic devices, components, or communication.
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1938 Times 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 Radio Corp. Amer. Rev. 10 523 The all-electronic color television system described is a fully compatible system.
1990 FineScale Modeler Feb. 13/2 The cockpit represents the all-electronic look of the original.
2003 Philadelphia Inquirer 30 May c8/2 The International Securities Exchange, an all-electronic trading system.
all-expense adj. (of a holiday or trip) (a) U.S. that has a fixed single charge which covers all costs (rare); (b) that has all the expenses covered by a donor, a company or organization, etc.; = all-expenses-paid adj.
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1904 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 4 Apr. 8/2 A personally conducted all-expense tour taking in Albuquerque, Grand Canyon..and Denver.
1930 Science 19 Sept. 290/2 There will be a nine-day, all-expense tour to Mexico..for association members and their families.
1952 N.Y. Herald Tribune 14 Apr. 6 (advt.) Unique, new, all-expense fishing ‘package’ trips.
1977 Newsweek (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 Bath Chron. (Electronic ed.) 24 Oct. The winner will receive an all expense trip to London.
all-expense-paid adj. originally and chiefly U.S. = all-expenses-paid adj.
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1913 Atlanta Constit. 28 Jan. 10/3 All expense paid trip of six days.
1976 New Yorker 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 Arizona Republic (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.
all-expenses adj. (of a holiday or trip) that has all the expenses covered; = all-expenses-paid adj.
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1935 Salt Lake Tribune 5 Jan. 25/8 All expenses tour March 20 to June 1.
1988 S. Gray Time of our Darkness xv. 223 Convent girls..entered the Listermint Sloosh Competition for an all-expenses holiday for two in Gay Paree.
2000 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 2 Sept. She won an all expenses trip to Disneyworld.
all-expenses-paid adj. (of a holiday or trip) that has all the expenses paid by the donor, a company or organization, etc.; esp. provided completely free as a gift or competition prize; (also used adverbially) with all the costs covered.
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1907 Sunset Mag. Nov. 3/2 The San Francisco school officials were summoned to Washington and had a pleasant visit of the all-expenses-paid variety.
1939 Public Opinion Q. 3 701/1 The usual prize..is an all-expenses-paid trip to the World's Fair.
1968 Guardian 15 June 8/2 Would he like to go to London, all expenses paid?..Of course he would.
1976 N.Y. Times 29 Feb. v. 4/3 The grand prize..was a one-week, all-expenses-paid trip to the Soviet Union.
2006 Chess 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.
all-fair adj. (and n.) surpassingly or sublimely beautiful; (also occasionally as n.) that which is surpassingly or sublimely beautiful.
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1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 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 Eudosia v. 113 The order, the all fair design, Which guards our Earth and her companion spheres.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 15 This monument of my despair Build I to the All-Good, All-Fair.
1851 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad v. 91 His step-mother, all-fair Eëribæa.
1997 J. Saward Beauty of Holiness & Holiness of Beauty i. 54 The Father sent His eternal Son, His radiant Image to take flesh from the all-fair Virgin of Nazareth.
all-fire adj. Obsolete (a) poetic fiery; (b) Metallurgy designating a form of fire assay for gold in which scorification is repeated a number of times (historical in later use).
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1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland xxiii, in Poems (1967) 59 To bathe in his fall-gold mercies, to breathe in his all-fire glances.
1895 Chem. News & Jrnl. Industr. Sci. 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 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 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.
all-girl adj. (also all-girls, all-girls') (esp. of a school or pop group) attended by or consisting of only girls or (young) women.
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1886 N.Y. Tribune 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 Equal Pay for Equal Work 231 A principal or an assistant to principal of an all girls' school.
1970 Billboard 8 Aug. 22/3 The Sek's Generation, an all-girl group, signed with Goliath Records.
2012 Frederick (Maryland) News-Post (Nexis) 30 Mar. Scott also serves as president of an all-girl high school organization called Women Excelling Beyond.
all-gone adj. North American colloquial used to describe a sudden feeling of queasiness or weakness (cf. all in adv. 1b).
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1848 Daily Sentinel & Gaz. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory) 31 Mar. (advt.) A sinking or all-gone feeling at the stomach.
1922 Leatherneck 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 Race for Real Sailors 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.
all-heart n. Obsolete the elm tree.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > elms > [noun]
wycheOE
elmc1000
ulm-treec1000
witch hazela1400
all-heart1567
ulme1567
white elm1580
wych elm1582
witchen1594
weeping elm1606
trench-elm1676
smooth-leaved elm1731
witch elm1731
water elm1733
slippery elm1748
Scotch elm1769
wahoo1770
American elm1771
red elm1805
witches' elm1808
moose elm1810
cork-elm1813
rock elm1817
swamp elm1817
planer tree1819
Jersey elm1838
winged elm1858
sand elm1878
Exeter-elm1882
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 41v The Elme..is called of some All heart.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 52/1 The Elme Tree is of some called All-Heart.
all-independent adj. (a) fully or wholly independent; (b) designating a type of vehicle suspension in which each wheel is supported independently; cf. independent suspension at independent adj. 3b.
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1845 J. Shakespear Introd. Hindustani Lang. 532 May the all-independent creator increase his life.
1936 Observer 5 Apr. 26/4 The most interesting part of the chassis is the all-independent suspension.
2008 G. Robson Inside BMW Factories vii. 80/2 Suspension would be all-independent (with that characteristic semi-trailing layout at the rear).
2009 E. Walton in J. A. Conger Boardroom Realities xii. 360 It is unclear..whether an all-independent director board does a better job on corporate governance or overall firm performance.
all-instrumental adj. (of music) composed for or performed on one or more instruments, with no vocal element.
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1928 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 4 Mar. 6 s/2 Tonight's dinner concert by the trio, which is to be an all-instrumental program.
1976 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 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 Lonesome Roads & Streets of Dreams ii. 91 The Barnet band recorded an all-instrumental version of Osborne and Rodgers's ‘Pompton Turnpike’.
all-just adj. (and n.) (esp. as an attribute of God) completely and incorruptibly just; (also occasionally as n.) God, as characterized by this attribute.
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1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 574 He must bee all-good, al-iust, and almightie.
a1634 R. Chapman Hallelu-jah (1635) 167 See the all-just God, justly punishing Vladislaus a Christian King of Poland and Hungarie.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc vi. 68 For Heaven all-just Hath seen our sufferings and decreed their end.
1843 D. Shea & A. Troyer tr. Dabistan III. ix. 37 Zeal, love, and knowledge of the All-Just.
1993 B. Williams in D. Statman Moral Luck 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’.
all-league adj. Sport (originally and chiefly North American) designating a team consisting of the players considered to be the best in their positions in a particular league; (also) designating a player selected for such a team; cf. all-star adj. 2, all-Pro adj. and n.
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1898 San Francisco Chron. 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 Jet 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 State of Grace vi. 52 In 1959 he led the Chiefs to the Pop Warner Junior League championship game and was named All-League quarterback.
all-mine adj. now historical (of pig iron) smelted from ore only, with no admixture of foundry waste or scrap.
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1852 Liverpool Mercury 22 Oct. 4/6 Hot-blast pigs, all mine, sold at £4.
1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron iv. 56 Cinder-pig in contradistinction to all mine pig—i.e., pig smelted entirely from ore or mine.
1907 A. McWilliam & P. Longmuir Gen. Foundry Pract. 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 Amer. Iron 1607–1900 vi. 170 British engineers, suspicious of cinder iron, began to specify all-mine iron when they wanted a quality product.
all-movable adj. Aeronautics = all-moving adj.
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1943 Wartime Rep. No. 496 (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 Engin. Anal. Flight Vehicles 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 Marine Rudders & Control Surfaces 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.
all-moving adj. Aeronautics designating a control surface of an aircraft which is moved as a single structure (such as a fin or a rudder).
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1950 Brit. Patent 639,596 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 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 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 RCM & E (Radio Control Models & Electronics) Mar. 77/1 The all-moving rudder..uses strip hinges for security.
all-natural adj. wholly natural; spec. (of food) containing no artificial colourings, flavourings, or preservatives.
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1843 Brit. Mag. Aug. 152 To destroy, as far as may be, the all-natural tradition.
1942 Billboard 4 Apr. 70/2 It's a hard choice for companies which pride themselves on the all-natural contents of their products.
2004 Canad. Living 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.
all-new adj. completely new; (in later use) having or comprising entirely new features, attributes, or elements; esp. designating an innovative product, or an updated version of an existing one.
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OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Judges (Laud) xvi. 11 in S. J. Crawford Old Eng. Version of Heptateuch (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 Leechdoms, Wortcunning, & Starcraft (1866) III. 292 Eallniwne croccan, sy asett on eorþan oþ brerd, & þas wyrta sy..gedon innan þam croccan.
a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) l. 50 He..Falleð in ðat welle grund, Ðer he wurðeð [MS wurdeð] heil & sund & cumeð ut al newe.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 7164 Þere was ostel lyuerynge, Of al newe byggeynge.]
a1732 T. Boston View Covenant Grace (1734) 186 The Man is not only a spiritually living Creature, but an all-new Creature, sanctified wholly..after the Image of God.
1873 Folio 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 Monotype Apr. 60/1 The all-new type forms require from 25 to 50 per cent less make-ready.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 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 Encycl. Pop Culture 361/1 He hired an all-new staff.
2010 N.Y. Times Mag. 10 Oct. 5 (advt.) We gave the all-new Regal an interior full of advanced technology... including a 6-speed automatic transmission.
all-organic adj. entirely organic; spec. (of a method of farming or gardening) using no chemical fertilizers, pesticides, etc.; = organic adj. 8b.
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the world > food and drink > farming > [adjective] > types of farming
all-organic1917
subsistent1934
organic1942
agribusiness1957
dry-land farm1976
1917 Covina (Calif.) Argus 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 New Scientist 15 Nov. 402/1 Dr Hopkins describes the all-organic method [of farming] being investigated at Haughley as cumbersome and costly.
1995 M. Schwartz Brazing 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 North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries 94 His farm is all-organic, which poses its own problems. Hops are susceptible to common garden pests and mildew.
all-perfect adj. (and n.) (esp. as an attribute of God) completely and flawlessly perfect; (also as n.) God, as characterized by this attribute (now rare).
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a1618 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Bethulians Rescue iii. 134 in All Small Workes (1620) Strive not with th'All-Perfect; but depend On God alone.
a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Iob Triumphant iv. 97 in All Small Workes (1620) Wondrous works of the All-perfect Knower.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 30 We judge of the All-perfect by ourselves.
1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. iii. 229 The soul is united to an all-perfect Being.
1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. xi. 157 She took to writing sensation stories—for..even all-perfect America read rubbish.
1999 M. D. Wilson Ideas & Mechanism xxvii. 412 Leibniz holds..that there can be no contradiction in the notion of an all-perfect being.
all-Pro adj. and n. American Football (a) adj. designating, relating to, or consisting of the professional players considered to be the best in their positions, usually as determined by a vote of sportswriters, esp. designating a (notional) team made of up such players; (b) n. an all-Pro player.
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1922 Washington Post 12 Oct. 12/6 Copley, captain and tackle, named on both the 1920 and 1921 all-pro elevens.
1968 J. Kramer & D. Schaap Instant Replay iii. 30 Some of our all-Pros last year look like hell.
1976 D. Klein Game of their Lives 38 I never picked myself for the all-Pro team; other people did that.
1979 Internat. Herald Tribune 29 May 23/2 Dick Vermell, the coach of the Philadelphia Eagles,... is convinced his protege will become an all-pro.
1982 Sports Illustr. 18 Oct. 45/1 He was in his late 30s then and had been an all-Pro center half a dozen times.
2006 Indianapolis Star 24 Feb. (State ed.) d2/4 Hutchinson, an All-Pro left guard for Seattle.
all-rag adj. (of paper, card, etc.) made entirely from rag; cf. rag n.2 5.
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1868 Rep. Special Commissioner of Revenue in Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (40th Congress, 2nd Sess.) IX. No. 81. 27 Paper. Printing, all rag, per lb.
1963 ALA Bull. 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 Encaustic Art iii. 70 For best results, use a thicker paper, such as heavy watercolor or printmaking paper or white, all-rag, museum matboard.
all-red adj. now historical designating a telegraph line, a route of trade or travel, etc., lying entirely within British territory; cf. red n. 1d.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [adjective] > of or relating to an empire > belonging to former British Empire
all-red1894
1894 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 86 696/1 The ‘all-red line’ was the line for us.
1898 J. G. Ward in N.Z. Parl. Deb. 101 344/2 What further steps have been taken to have an ‘all red’ cable laid across the Pacific?
1902 Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 5/2 An ‘all-red line’ from Great Britain through Canada to Australia.
1985 K. M. Wilson Policy of Entente i. 10 An empire..that would break at right-angles the all-red route from the Cape to Cairo.
all-sayer n. Obsolete rare a person who speaks constantly and hypocritically about faith and righteousness; cf. Pharisee n. 2.
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1624 I. Bargrave Serm. against Selfe Policy 21 Our Saviour..found some all-sayers and no-doers, so others that would outdoe all faith.
all-slimed adj. Mining (now rare) (of gold ore) pulverized and converted to mud (cf. slime n. 4a).
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1908 R. S. G. Stokes Mines & Minerals Brit. Empire 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 Brit. S. Afr. Ann. 1934–35 103/2 Two or three-stage grinding..reduces all the ore to an all-slimed product.
all-sliming n. Mining (chiefly attributive) (in gold extraction) the process of pulverizing the ore entirely and converting it to mud (cf. sliming n. 2).
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [adjective] > dressing or dressed ore
trunked1828
all-sliming1905
society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > excavating or dressing ore > dressing ore > specific methods or minerals
spalling1758
tozing1789
concentration1835
trunking1838
concentrating1872
all-sliming1905
stampage1910
sliming1920
1905 Mining Mag. 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 Gloss. Mining & Mineral Industry 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 Times 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 Chem. Gold Extraction (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.
all-state adj. U.S. Sport selected (usually by nomination or vote) to represent one's state in a match or competition; cf. all-star adj. 2, all-American adj. 1.
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1901 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Sunday Republican 8 Dec. 1/1 The Iowan also pick an all-state team.
1943 H. W. Malloch Fellows All 99 Christesen is a University ‘blue’ and State and all-State champion athlete and footballer.
1992 N. Ryan & J. Jenkins Miracle Man 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 Wifebeater 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.
all stater n. U.S. Sport (chiefly in plural) a member of an all-state team; an all-state player or sportsperson.
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1923 Salt Lake Tribune 7 Nov. 12/5 (heading) Callies to play two tough games..Will meet..All-Staters November 17.
1969 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 6 Aug. a6/1 The former Lane high All-Stater was used as a replacement for either of the Browns' starting offensive guards.
1991 Athlon's Eastern Football Ann. 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 Chicago Tribune (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.
all-suite adj. originally U.S. (a) adj. designating a hotel or hotel-style accommodation where, as well as a bedroom and bathroom, a separate living room, cooking facilities, etc., are provided; (b) n. this type of hotel or accommodation.
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1980 Washington Post 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 Forbes 6 May 83/2 The all-suites devote less space to restaurants and ballrooms.
1990 Sunday Express Mag. 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 Sunday Times (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.
all-talk adj. entirely focused on talking; (originally) that discusses rather than acts; (now usually, of a radio station) featuring exclusively programmes based around conversation, interviews, and other spoken material, rather than music.
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1863 W. Phillips Speeches iii. 50 The all-talk party.
1982 Economist 25 Sept. 36 Britain's first all talk station.
1994 Washington Post Mag. 3 July 23/1 Americans..spout off on the nation's 900 all-talk radio stations.
all-through adj. (a) designating a journey by train, etc., which is completed without requiring passengers to change transport (cf. through adj. 2b); (b) British, (of a school) admitting pupils throughout the period of secondary education (typically from the ages of 11 to 18) without the need for a separate sixth-form college or similar institution.
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1912 M. C. Fraser Further Reminisc. i. 10 After an all-through journey from Rome, our train crawled into the Gare de Lyons.
1965 S. Maclure Comprehensive Planning 5 The article..describes a comprehensive scheme on classic lines—‘all through’ comprehensive schools taking pupils from the age of 11 to 19.
1973 Times 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 Sc. Educ. (ed. 2) iv. 37 Some 95% of Scottish pupils receive their secondary education in all-through comprehensive schools.
all-ticket adj. designating or relating to an event (esp. a sporting event) to which admission is only by tickets bought in advance.
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1935 Times 4 May 5/3 The match..is not an all-ticket affair.
1976 Glasgow Herald 26 Nov. 28/2 The match has been limited to a 10,000 all-ticket crowd.
2001 Western Daily Press (Bristol) (Electronic ed.) 27 Mar. The Pirates are reminding fans that next Tuesday's Bristol derby at the Memorial Stadium is all ticket.
all-volunteer adj. consisting wholly of volunteers; run entirely by volunteers.
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1922 F. D. Watson Charity Organization Movement in U.S. iii. 90 This swing from an all-volunteer service to a non-volunteer service was fraught with equally serious consequences.
1972 Foreign Affairs 50 440 The all-volunteer armed force faces a dilemma in the next steps of its redeployment.
2012 J. A. Jance Left for Dead xxxviii. 198 Annie Davis—who was head volunteer in the all-volunteer town library—jumped into the conversation.
all-welded adj. having all the joins welded (as opposed to riveted or fastened together in some other way).
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1908 Iron Trade Rev. 5 Mar. 474/3 All-welded steel cylinder work will be done.
1936 Economist 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 Shooting Sports Oct. 78/3 All are made of 2mm steel plate and have an all-welded construction.
all-wing n. and adj. (a) n. an aeroplane in which the entire structure forms a single wing (without a fuselage or empennage); (b) adj. designating such an aeroplane.The adjectival use is much more common.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [adjective] > having specific type or position of wings
multiplane1897
monoplane1907
all-wing1919
mid-wing1934
delta-winged1950
tilt-wing1953
stub-winged1957
wet wing1961
1919 Pop. Sci. Monthly 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 Flight 25 Sept. 970a/1 The ideal all-wing type of airplane would incorporate only wing formation, utilising all power output for lifting purposes.
1949 Boys' Life Aug. 5 Sleekest new ship in the air is the test proven Northrop jet-powered all-wing plane.
1998 D. Ford Glen Edwards 177 The B-2 is an all-wing.
2002 M. J. Abzug & E. E. Larrabee Airplane Stability & Control (ed. 2) xvi. 251 Another NASA design research contract..is for a flying model of a 400-foot-span all-wing supersonic transport.
all-written adj. [after post-classical Latin holographus holograph adj.] Obsolete rare (of a deed or document) entirely written by the person in whose name it appears; = holograph adj.
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society > communication > writing > written text > [adjective] > in own hand
all-writteneOE
autographical1616
holographical1656
autographal1715
holographic1728
autograph1735
holograph1753
autographic1809
eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 348 Olagraphum testamentum est, eallwritene yrfebec.
all-you n. regional (Caribbean) (in singular or plural) you, all of you; you and people of your kind; cf. you-all pron.
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1942 L. Bennett Jamaica Dial. Verses 11 Gwan, all yuh should'n walk a day, You clothes fava black-out.
1960 W. Harris Palace of Peacock iv. 39 They done know all-you rise bodily from the grave.
1995 M. Collins Colour of Forgetting 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 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 28 Aug. a4/2 All yuh know fi do is eat.
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