all aroundadv.prep.adj.

c1390 Roberd of Cisyle (Vernon) (1930) l. 171 (MED) He heet a barbur him bifore, Þat as a fool he schulde be schore Al around, lich a frere, An honde-brede boue eiþer ere, And on his croune make a crois.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. 17 And eke the Graces..dauncing all around.

1613 H. Peacham Period of Mourning (new ed.) sig. G First, Neptune, mounted on a Grampas crown'd With Roses, calm'd the Ocean all around.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 53 Sprinkle sordid Ashes all around . View more context for this quotation

1714 Guardian 2 304 The Pow'r of Pluto stretches all around Uncircumscrib'd by Nature's utmost Bound.

1788 M. W. Sacred Outcry iii. ii. 203 Like a huge Polyphemus, it [sc. Monarchy] stalked through the Nations all around.

1809 A. Wilson Foresters in Port Folio 1 541 Hunks of bacon all around were spread.

1896 H. A. Bryden Tales S. Afr. 75 The camel-thorn trees grew pretty thickly all around.

1906 C. de L. Canfield Diary of Forty-Niner ix. 83 Of course, it was drinks all around; you can't do anything in this country without setting 'em up first.

1995 Washington Post 5 May c6/1 It was a good day all around for Baltimore Orioles relief pitchers.

2007 R. Millward Apples ix. 97 The darkness was huge all around.

1628 W. Mure in tr. R. Boyd Spirituall Hymne sig. C2^v All around Thee in a ring Heau'ns hoasts, high Allelujahs sing.

1725 J. Sedgwick New Treat. Liquors xviii. 345 If we examine into Anatomy, we shall find a perfect Environment of Glands..all around the Neck.

1780 J. Wesley Let. 25 Oct. (1931) VII. 36 It was a shame that Keighley Circuit should be without preaching while there were so many local preachers all around it.

1822 London Med. Repository 17 103 All around either kidney, the circumventing texture had lost its cellularity.

1898 Argosy Oct. 398 The ground all around him was covered with a multitude of monster land crabs.

1928 Amer. Mercury Oct. 226/1 Old Jim..had been locked by mistake in the deadhouse icebox, with a hundred corpses hanging by ear clamps all around him.

1977 W. S. Merwin Compass Flower iv. 87 All around the flowing trunk suckers grow.

2006 Independent 12 Apr. 31/2 I can't be arsed to sound off about the beauty myth for much longer when all around me loom eerie bleached grins and immobile brows.

1879 Louisville Med. News 23 Aug. 93/1 Then you have the all-around men; and these gentlemen..are cordially abominated by the radical specialists.

1881 Proc. U.S. Naval Inst. 7 81 A heavy center pivot rifle gives good all-around fire.

1920 Harvey's Weekly 5 June 4/1 Senator Knox is the best-equipped all-around international statesman.

1947 Life 17 Nov. 3/2 (advt.) Doesn't all-around value like this make Plymouth your best buy?

1991 J. Chang Wild Swans (1993) viii. 219 The Party's all-around intrusion into people's lives was the very point of the process known as ‘thought reform.’

2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 23 Considering Charlie's all-around wonderfulness.., why am I so cowardly about popping the question?

1879 Eleusis of Chi Omega 12 382 In short, the attainment of harmonious all-aroundness means concessions, unselfishness, and consideration.

1888 Voice (N.Y.) 6 Sept. The all-aroundness of our chieftain's character.

1929 D. H. Lawrence Paintings sig. E 1^v But intuition needs all-aroundness, and instinct needs insideness.

1986 D. T. Abalos Latinos in U.S. vii. 158 The professional schools in the universities, in order to give a further cover of ‘all-aroundness’, insist on courses in philosophy, ethics, history, and literature.