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to even up
to even up 1. transitive. To make (something) even or equal; to balance; to compensate. Also intransitive.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > balance
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to even up1863
1863 U.S. Patent 37,927 4/2 Conveying the bristles to the feeding-belts for the assorting devices, preparatory to their being carded and evened up.
1866 H. Bushnell Vicarious Sacrifice Introd. 15 They take..what he [sc. Anselm] says of justice as if he [sc. Christ] were engaged to even up the score of penalty.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 1 Nov. 9/1 When they return to-morrow it is quite possible that those who sold yesterday in order to even up their books may be again purchasers.
1908 Daily Chron. 9 Mar. 3/3 But all things are evened up in every age.
1921 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 Three vii. 87 Fisher evened up and raised again, watching his worried opponent.
1953 P. Adler House is not Home vii. 238 So far as I was concerned this kind deed evened things up and canceled out all the unpleasantness.
2010 K. R. Crippen Orig. Buffalo Bills vi. 74 Buffalo took advantage of a Cleveland fumble to even up the score.
2. intransitive. U.S. colloquial. to even up on: to requite, repay, or make a return to a person; (also) to recoup money at the expense of a person. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > treat one as he has been treated [verb (transitive)] > requite or pay back (a person)
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to quit or yield (one) his whilec1175
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regrate?c1550
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quittance1590
to meet witha1593
to pay (a person) (off) scot and lot1598
meeta1625
retaliate1629
reimburse1644
compensate1804
to even up on1879
1879 Dollar Press (Greencastle, Indiana) 14 May 1/5 The operators cut each other on the contracts, and then try to even up on the miners.
1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends (1893) 88 ‘You and the Cap has done me a good turn’ he says. ‘Some day I'll even up on you.’
1933 Writer's Monthly Mar. 147/2 He may even seem to be evening up on you for the bowing he has had to do in retaining the favor of some of his guild members.
2012 W. W. Johnstone & J. A. Johnstone Hundred Ways to Kill viii. 123 Waco Brindle's making noises about evening up on you two.
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Phrases
P1. even so.
a. In the very same way; likewise, similarly. Also as int., expressing emphatic agreement: ‘exactly so’, ‘yes indeed’. Now archaic.
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OE Crist I 330 Þu eart þæt wealldor, þurh þe waldend frea æne on þas eorðan ut siðade, ond efne swa þec gemette, meahtum gehrodene, clæne ond gecorene, Crist ælmihtig.
OE Guthlac A 592 Him se eadga wer ondswarode, Guðlac..: Doð efne swa.
c1450 (c1415) in W. O. Ross Middle Eng. Serm. (1940) 255 (MED) For lik as oure princes and lordes spoyleth and robbeþ þer suggettus..euen so God suffreþ þe ethen princes to robb and spoile oure lordes.
a1475 ( S. Scrope tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Bodl. 943) (1999) 286 As that the bountee of wisemen euer gothe in a-mendement, euen so the malices of fooles gothe daily in a-peirement.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Aiiii Like as the byrde in a cage..can nat be contented or quyet..Euen so, man in the cage of this worlde..his naturall inclinacion and appetite can neuer be saciat, contented and quieted in this worlde.
1611 Bible (King James) John xvii. 18 Euen so haue I also sent them into the world. View more context for this quotation
1700 W. Congreve Way of World v. 87 Fain. What's here? Damnation! [Reads] A deed of Conveyance... Confusion! Mir. Even so Sir.
1744 G. Berkeley Siris 243 Light and sight..are not the Sun: even so truth and knowledge are not the Good it self, although they approach thereunto.
1828 J. Neal Rachel Dyer 117 You would allow the guilty every possible chance of escape. Even so, judge! every possible chance of escape.
1846 M. Fuller Papers on Lit. & Art i. 76 Like as a fever rages in the blood before we are aware, even so creeps upon the soul this disease.
1892 Pick-me-up 20 Aug. 331/2 Mediæval Monk. And thou lovest him, maiden? Mediæval Maiden. Even so, good father.
1918 A. Hayes Simon de Montfort ii. v. 68 Even so last month those white-browed hills..quaked with some strange seizure.
a1973 J. R. R. Tolkien Silmarillion (1977) xxi. 222 And Níniel sat and shuddered beside the falling water... Even so Brandir found her.
b. In spite of that; nevertheless.
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1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. ii. f. 32v For though it were easy to mocke it out with saying, that here is spoken not of the easinesse and redinesse of obseruation, but of knowledge: yet euen so, peraduenture it would also leaue some doubte.
1637 J. Buck Treat. Beatitudes vi. 123 I am sicke in bed, but even so, seeing that pleaseth God, what should I say else, but that I am well.
1703 P. Motteux et al. tr. M. de Cervantes Hist. Don Quixote IV. lxxiv. 228 Even so said Sampson, honest Sancho has the right Notion of the matter.
1741 J. Wilford Memorials & Characters 649 At last he was free'd from it [sc. employment].., but even so, much Time was spent before he could be settled in it.
1837 M. Edgeworth Tales & Novels XX. 26 There can be nothing, however, but nonsense, Cecilia says; yet even so, love-letters he must know they are.
1860 Monthly Relig. Mag. Mar. 143 Even so, I cannot see what these dogmas all signify to you and me.
1944 G. Myrdal Amer. Dilemma II. xxix. 615 Even so, the very existence of the privilege is a sign of change.
1998 F. Rutledge Bible & N.Y. Times 111 I had only been through town a few times, but even so, I was affected.
2012 Daily Tel. 6 Mar. 20/4 Unemployment, which hit a 16-year-high of 2.67 million last month, is heading for the three million mark. Even so, talk of a double-dip recession is receding.
P2. even now. Also in various Scottish forms, as evenoo, eenoo, etc. In later use chiefly Scottish or (in sense Phrases 2b) somewhat archaic.
a. Very soon, immediately, directly. Cf. just now at just adv. Phrases 1b. Now rare. Sc. National Dict (at Eenoo) records this sense as still in use in Shetland, Banffshire, Aberdeenshire, Angus, and Ayrshire (with the latter marked as obsolescent) in 1951.
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OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Num. (Claud.) xiv. 4 Vton us gesettan efne nu heretogan & uton gecyrran to Egypta lande.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xcvi. f. cxxixv/1 By cause that yu hast axed the medfulnesse of god mekely. thou shalt haue it euyn now.
1586 C. Fetherston tr. F. Hotman Brutish Thunderbolt 186 The Lord Peter said, This our brother desireth to be healed, and..S. Paul answered, He shall be healed euen now.
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 309 A wee gliff o' a bit passing squall that wull be ower ye'vennow.
1898 Shetland News 20 Aug. I'll be in eenoo.
1909 D. Houston 'E Silkie Man 6 'E fleed 'll be doon on's ae noo.
b. At this moment, right now. Cf. just now at just adv. Phrases 1c.In later non-Scottish use, chiefly emphatic and somewhat archaic or formal.
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1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) xcv. sig. Aa.iiiiv Euen nowe I apperceyue it.
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ii. 28 These shanks are to be rivetted (as you were taught even now).
1773 R. Fergusson Poems (1925) 65 There's einow on the earth a set o' men, Wha, if they get their private pouches lin'd, Gie na a winnelstrae for a' mankind.
1790 A. Shirrefs Poems 339 I mauna say you mair e'en-now, As our acquaintance is sae new.
1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage II. xi. 133 They're dong cheap i' the market enoo, so its nae great compliment.
1859 A. Walker Hours Off & On Sentry 39 Our days o' sport when we were weans thegither..are a' risin' up in my mind e'enoo.
1913 Gas Age 15 Mar. 286/2 Hundreds of managers who are even now waiting to see whether a lighting campaign will pay.
1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas xvii. 187 No doubt this fiend in butler's shape was even now on his way east with the stuff in his jeans.
1958 B. Pym Glass of Blessings iii. 38 He was even now preparing them a delicious sole véronique.
1992 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 31 Oct. ‘Ye get on fine ivnoo,’ said Sandy. ‘Aye, bit we're nae merried ivnoo.’
c. Only a very short time ago; in the time immediately preceding the present. Cf. just now at just adv. Phrases 1a.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [adverb]
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newlyeOE
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noweOE
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the other dayc1450
lately?c1475
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1511 H. Watson tr. St. Bernardino Chirche of Euyll Men & Women sig. D.viii There is foure murderers yt euen nowe hathe cut the throte of a marchaunt or twayne.
a1515 A. Williamson in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1874) I. p. xxiii Ewyn now wils I vas vrittyng this copy..ther come a post.
1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 71 As we said euen now.
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ii. 28 These shanks are to be rivetted (as you were taught even now).
1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 100 But even now Thy voice was at sweet tremble in mine ear.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. ix. 210 Was it indeed yourself whom I saw even now?
1898 Weekly Free Press (Aberdeen) 25 June We wis sair needin' a skeely body like you eenoo.
1992 J. J. Graham Strife in Valley xviii. 101 I was oot eenoo for a kishie o paets an as I cam oot benort da hoose I was awaar o [etc.].
P3. even up.
a. Perpendicular, upright. Obsolete.
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1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. i. i. f. 5 Ane biggare can nocht make ane euin vp wal without direction of his lyne.
b. U.S. colloquial. With reference to a bet: at odds which offer an equal chance of winning or losing, with the amount won being the same as the stake; = even money adv.
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1844 Whig Standard (Washington) 10 Sept. 3/1 I am always open for a bet of $5,000, even up, upon the general result.
1895 Magistrate & Constable (Lebanon, Pa.) 21 Mar. 18/2 ‘And you bet him?’ ‘Oh yes. Bet him $20 even up.’
1913 F. W. Becker Home Rule for Eliza vii. 90 What d'ye say, I'll bet you two dollars even up on ‘Shellbark’.
1979 Hawk Eye (Burlington, Iowa) 14 Sept. 13/2 We've got a guy in our backshop willing to bet even-up for Iowa when they take on Oklahoma at Norman Saturday.
2003 S. C. Fedewa & M. H. Fedewa Man in Motion xxvii. 207 Emil had wanted to bet ‘even up’ and put $100 on the table, but Steve wasn't as confident of his team's ability to win outright.
P4. to go even: to agree, accord (with). Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree/be in harmony/be congruous [verb (intransitive)]
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to stand togetherc1449
rhyme?a1475
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reciprocate1574
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symbolize1605
to go even1607
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to fall in1626
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consist1638
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symphonize1661
syncretize1675
chime1690
jibe1813
consone1873
1607 J. Day et al. Trauailes Three Eng. Brothers sig. A2v Nothing I feare so much, Least that the merrit you haue layd on mee Should not go euen with your report.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. iv. 43 I..rather shun'd to go euen with what I heard. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 237 As the rest goes euen . View more context for this quotation
1657 J. H. Two Ess. Love & Marriage 60 His Glass and he are in a deep consultation, how to set his face that it may go even with the times.
P5. Irish English and Scottish. even on: continuously, uninterruptedly.
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1831 M. Edgeworth Let. ?18 May (1971) 543 I read it [sc. the history of the election] even on and understood it perfectly.
1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin iv. 38 When it [sc. the baby] lay still, it did naething but mourn even on.
1897 P. H. Hunter John Armiger's Revenge xvii. 187 On the road hame he begoud to haver, puir lad, an' he's havered even on since syne.
1932 Border Mag. Apr. 60 Ye canna expec' machinery to serve ye even-on if ye dinna respec' it eneuch to pey attention till't.
1988 A. Stewart in R. Leitch Bk. Sandy Stewart iv. 55 We done casual fermwork—no steady even on, but sometimes if the fermer needit us.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 117/1 Even on, (of rain) heavily, continuously.
P6. West African and Caribbean colloquial. even self. Cf.
Brit. 
/ˌiːvn ˈsɛlf/
, /ˌiːvn ˈsɛlf/U.S. /ˌiv(ə)n ˈsɛlf/
, /ˌiv(ə)n ˈsɛlf/West African English /ˌivɔn ˈsɛlf/
, /ˌivɔn ˈsɛlf/Caribbean English /ˌiːvan ˈsɛlf/
self adv. a. In a conditional clause: even if; supposing that.
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1940 ‘The Growler’ Women Diplomacy in W. Indian Rhythm (2006) (CD lyrics booklet) 279 If you're sick, they don't care how you feel You have to bring the money even self you have to steal.
1990 M. Collins Rain Darling 139 All I will ask you is to drop me on the airport please. And even self you don't want to do that, I sure I could find me way.
2014 C. Kato Other People's Children & Other Stories 15 Even self you fit send am message home, e go bring you reply.
b. Nevertheless; even so.
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1980 F. Osofisan Once upon Four Robbers iii. 40 Even self, if we elect Lady President one day, no white man go fit to fuck am.
1986 T. A. Onwueme Cattle Egret versus Nama in Ban Empty Barn 141 Even self, people dey hask me say whether na de baby wey get belle conceive wan born pickin or whether na my woman.
2012 M.-S. I. Dumletam De Blackman's Smile (e-book, accessed 7 Aug. 2017) I no dey know broder, i no dey sabi sista Even self, papa andi mama no concern nam.
c. In negative constructions. Used as an intensifier to emphasize the full extent of the statement.
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1981 L. Valls What a Pistarckle! (at cited word) E ain' even-self tell me.
2000 N. Hopkinson Midnight Robber 42 You ain't even self know if Antonio going to challenge you.
2010 @MZ_AKEILA 30 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) They can't even self get in de blasted yard.
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