† feleadv.n.adj.²

Forms: α. Old English–Middle English fela, feola, northern feolu, feolo, Middle English feole, (Middle English feola, fole), Middle English fale, Middle English–1500s feil(l(e, Middle English feel(e, Middle English–1500s fel(e, fell(e. β. (Middle English veale), Middle English vale, ( væle, veole), Middle English vele. Compar. Middle English feler, Middle English felire.

Etymology: Old English feolo, feolu (Mercian and Northumbrian), feola, fela (West Saxon) are respectively the accusative and the oblique case neuter (used adverbially, and hence as quasi-noun) of a Common Germanic adjective, of which the other Germanic languages have in their early forms only the accusative neuter as adverb and quasi-noun: Old Frisian felo, Old Saxon filo, filu (Dutch veel), Old High German filu, filo (Middle High German vil, vile, modern German viel, the latter also inflected as adjective), Old Norse fiǫl (chiefly in combination), Gothic filu < Old Germanic *felu < pre- Germanic *pélu (with ablaut-variant *polú) much; compare Sanskrit purú, Greek πολύς, Old Irish il.

Obsolete.

A. adv. (and n.)

1. To a great extent or degree, much. Also in so, too fele.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb]

stronglyeOE

felec950

strongeOE

highlyOE

highOE

greatlya1200

stourlya1225

greata1325

dreec1330

deeplya1400

mightya1400

dreichlyc1400

mighty?a1425

sorec1440

mainlyc1450

greatumly1456

madc1487

profoundly1489

stronglya1492

muchwhata1513

shrewlya1529

heapa1547

vengeance?1548

sorely1562

smartlyc1580

mightly1582

mightily1587

violently1601

intensively1604

almightily1612

violent1629

seriously1643

intensely1646

importunately1660

shrewdly1664

gey1686

sadly1738

plenty1775

vitally1787

substantively1795

badly1813

far1814

heavily1819

serious1825

measurably1834

dearly1843

bally1939

majorly1955

sizzlingly1956

majorly1978

fecking1983

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke vii. 47 Forðon lufade feolo.

OE Beowulf 1379 Ðær þu findan miht synnigne secg.

c1000 Wife's Compl. (Gr.) 26 Sceal ic..mines fela leofan fæhðu dreogan.

a1250 Prov. Ælfred 196 in Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 114 Ne ilef þu nouht to fele uppe þe see.

c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2442 He bounden him so fele sore.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8991 Thoru wimmen þat he luued sa fele.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 56 Fell awfull in effer.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1884 Syn þe fre is so faire, & so fele vertus.

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 192 The Beere, That they drinken feele too good chepe.

2. quasi-n. Much, a great number or quantity. Chiefly with partitive genitive. Often qualified by how, like, so, too.After the Old English period this use is seldom distinguishable from the adjective; later instances are placed here only when their grammatical character is evidenced by inflection of the following noun.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount

felec825

muchc1230

good wone1297

plentyc1300

bushelc1374

sight1390

mickle-whata1393

forcea1400

manynessa1400

multitudea1400

packc1400

a good dealc1430

greata1450

sackful1484

power1489

horseloadc1500

mile1508

lump1523

a deal?1532

peckc1535

heapa1547

mass1566

mass1569

gallon1575

armful1579

cart-load1587

mickle1599

bushelful1600–12

a load1609

wreck1612

parisha1616

herd1618

fair share1650

heapa1661

muchness1674

reams1681

hantle1693

mort1694

doll?1719

lift1755

acre1759

beaucoup1760

ton1770

boxload1795

boatload1807

lot1811

dollop1819

swag1819

faggald1824

screed1826

Niagara1828

wad1828

lashings1829

butt1831

slew1839

ocean1840

any amount (of)1848

rake1851

slather1857

horde1860

torrent1864

sheaf1865

oodlesa1867

dead load1869

scad1869

stack1870

jorum1872

a heap sight1874

firlot1883

oodlings1886

chunka1889

whips1888

God's quantity1895

streetful1901

bag1917

fid1920

fleetful1923

mob1927

bucketload1930

pisspot1944

shitload1954

megaton1957

mob-o-ton1975

gazillion1978

buttload1988

shit ton1991

c825 Vesp. Psalter lxv[i]. 16 Ic seg[c]o eow alle ða ondredað dryhten hu feolu dyde sawle minre.

a900 Charter in Old Eng. Texts (1885) 444 & swae feola sufla.

OE Beowulf 1060 Fela sceal gebidan leofes ond laþes.

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxvi. 19 Fela ic hæbbe geþolod todæg þurh gesyhðe for hym.

c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 208 Ne forlæt þu þæs blodes to fela on ænne siþ.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 9 Monie and feole oðre godere werke.

a1300 Sinners Beware 87 in Old Eng. Misc. 75 Sunnen seouene þat bringeþ vt of heouene Swiþe vele manne.

B. adj.² (Indeclinable; but as the word after 11th cent. was used all but exclusively of multitude, not of quantity, the final e was probably felt in Middle English as a plural ending. A solitary instance of felen dative plural occurs in the Ayenbite.)

a. With n. in plural. Many. Often preceded by as, how, so; also in many and fele.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective]

feleOE

felefoldc1000

manifoldOE

unfewc1175

mucha1225

many one?a1300

greata1325

manyc1450

numerous1622

maint1706

right smart1825

OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 963 (Laud) Se biscop..bohte þa feola cotlif æt se king.

OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1124 (Laud) Fela soðfeste men sæidon [etc.].

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 117 Fela stuntnesse beoð.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 3067 Suche stones, so grete & so uale.

c1305 Land Cokayne 95 Þer beþ briddes mani and fale.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 5 Þou ne sselt habbe uele godes.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxiv. 22 As feel arm serclis.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18268 Hu fele pines ai sal þou fele.

c1420 Chron. Vilod. 586 Sekemen come þedur mony and ffele.

c1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 1110 He..hadde..of the quene many gyftis fele.

a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 768 Galiot haith chargit hyme to tak Als fell folk.

1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados i. i. 83 Sa fele ȝeris.

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 201 So fele shippes this yeere there ware, That moch losse for vnfreyght they bare.

b. With n. in singular. Much.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > much/a great amount/quantity of

mickleeOE

muchc1200

greata1325

felea1400

muchee1722

queer1865

lotta1870

mucho1870

lotsa1890

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4050 Þat..sufferd sa fele peril.

c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 1392 That so fele folk led obowt.

c1440 Generydes 6701 With kysseng fele.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 54 Feill folk als out of Germania.

2. In predicative use: Much, many, numerous. Also in comparative: More in number, more numerous.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > greater number

moOE

moreOE

fele1340

better than1471

outnumbering1796

1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 528 So fale folewen þe folk.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14079 Þe folk him foluand was ful fell.

a1400–50 Alexander 2084 A pake out of nounbre, Felire þan his folke be full fyue thousand.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1391 I wowche hit saf fynly, þaȝ feler hit were.

a. absol. in plural. Many persons.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun] > a large number or multitude > of individuals, people

un-i-fohOE

felec1175

power1489

camp-royal1593

numbers1597

crowd1654

stock1668

somedeal1851

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 107 He mei findan fele þe beoð bet iþoȝen and istoȝen þene he.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7640 Fele shulenn fallenn. & fele sHulenn risenn upp.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 102 God, þet..yefþ more bleþeliche..to uelen þanne to onen allone.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8495 Þis writte wit fele was red and sene.

a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 522 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 316 Few ar trew, but fele ar [MS and] fals.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 641 In sum bargis sa feill can ga..That thai ourtummyllit.

b. quasi-n. Many of. Cf. A. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun] > a large number or multitude

sandc825

thousandc1000

un-i-rimeOE

legiona1325

fernc1325

multitudec1350

hundred1362

abundancec1384

quantityc1390

sight1390

felec1394

manyheada1400

lastc1405

sortc1475

infinityc1480

multiplie1488

numbers1488

power1489

many1525

flock1535

heapa1547

multitudine1547

sort1548

myriads1555

myriads1559

infinite1563

tot-quot1565

dickera1586

multiplea1595

troop1596

multitudes1598

myriad1611

sea-sands1656

plurality1657

a vast many1695

dozen1734

a good few1756

nation1762

vast1793

a wheen (of)1814

swad1828

lot1833

tribe1833

slew1839

such a many1841

right smart1842

a million and one1856

horde1860

a good several1865

sheaf1865

a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869

immense1872

dunnamuch1875

telephone number1880

umpty1905

dunnamany1906

skit1913

umpteen1919

zillion1922

gang1928

scrillion1935

jillion1942

900 number1977

gazillion1978

fuckload1984

c1394 P. Pl. Crede 547 Fele of þise poyntes.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7012 Fourti thusand of israel, O beniamin negh als fel.

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 522 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 111 Ffeile of ye fals folk yat fled of before.

4. In combination with noun, forming an adjective, as fele-kyn, of many kinds, various; or an adverb, as fele-sith, fele-syss, feltymes many times, often. Also felefold adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective]

sunderlyeOE

manifoldeOE

selcoutha1000

felefoldc1000

mislichOE

alkinOE

manykinOE

fele-kync1175

serekina1300

sundera1325

sundrya1325

serea1340

divers1340

varyingc1340

variantc1380

muchfoldc1384

serelepesa1400

serelepya1400

multifaryc1460

sundryfoldc1460

multiplicate?a1475

variable?a1475

sundrilyc1480

diversea1542

particoloured1591

multifarious1593

Protean1594

daedal1596

choiceful1605

Daedalian1605

multiplex1606

variated1608

diversified1611

multiplicious1617

variousa1634

multivarious1636

mosaic1644

multiple1647

omnigenous1650

chequered1656

plurifarious1656

ununiform1660

variate1677

disuniform1687

Proteusian1689

unsteady1690

unequable1693

inequable1721

variegating1727

varied1733

multitudinous1744

multifold1806

polygeneous1818

unequalized1822

ruleless1836

varicoloured185.

non-uniform1856

omnigener1857

polytypic1858

multiferous1860

variatious1871

variegated1872

polytypical1890

the world > time > frequency > [adverb]

unseldea950

oftOE

thickOE

ylomeOE

oftsithec1175

oftsithesc1175

lomec1200

oftlya1225

oft-stounds1303

continuallyc1305

oftena1325

rifely1357

oft-timesc1384

oft-timec1387

oftentimesa1393

oftentimec1395

fele-sitha1400

lightlya1400

oftentide?a1400

rifea1400

seresitha1400

many a foldc1400

often sithec1405

hauntinglyc1440

by many a foldc1450

fele-syss1489

frequently1531

feltymesc1540

oftens1567

oftenly1574

frequent1614

repeatedlya1647

(as) often as not1723

more often (or oftener) than not1723

not uncommonly1747

not infrequently1779

(at) every whip-stitch1824

oftenwhilesa1850

at short intervals1859

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3573 Hire sune wass himm lic O fele kinne wise.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 860 On feole [c1300 Otho many] kunne wisen.]

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xx. 18 Hou ofte sithes and hou fele shul thei scorne hym?

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 28380 Oure fele-sith haf i ben to spend þe gode wit skil þat godd me send.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1483 Of mony kyndes, of fele-kyn hues.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xx. 225 That ȝhe haf done till me feill sis.

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 651 For fele sys quhen yow art away.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3014 Of hir fairehede feltymes hade þe freike herd.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fele
释义	† feleadj.¹ Forms: Also Middle English felle, Middle English fale, feele, fel, Middle English fall. See also fiel adj. Etymology: Old English fǽle, corresponding to Old High German feili purchasable (modern German feil). Obsolete. a. In Old English: One's own; dear, faithful, good. ΚΠ c1000 Ags. Ps. lxxviii. [lxxix.] 1 Þin fæle hus. c1000 Ags. Ps. cxviii. [cxix.] 105 Þæt is fæle blæcern minum fotum. b. In Middle English: Proper, of the right sort, good. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [adjective] goodOE proper?c1225 felea1250 featc1325 seeming1338 rightful1340 thriftyc1386 sittingc1390 duea1393 truea1398 goodly1398 convenienta1400 wella1400 seemc1400 likelyc1425 fitc1440 tallc1440 befalling1542 fittinga1616 a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1376 Ah schaltu, wrecche, luve tele..vich luve is fele, Bi-tweone wepmon and wimmane? a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 399 As þei God..Made þat lond so feele To be celer of al heele. a1400 Sir Perc. 729 Thou art fele, That thou ne wille away stele. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † feleadv.n.adj.² Forms: α. Old English–Middle English fela, feola, northern feolu, feolo, Middle English feole, (Middle English feola, fole), Middle English fale, Middle English–1500s feil(l(e, Middle English feel(e, Middle English–1500s fel(e, fell(e. β. (Middle English veale), Middle English vale, ( væle, veole), Middle English vele. Compar. Middle English feler, Middle English felire. Etymology: Old English feolo, feolu (Mercian and Northumbrian), feola, fela (West Saxon) are respectively the accusative and the oblique case neuter (used adverbially, and hence as quasi-noun) of a Common Germanic adjective, of which the other Germanic languages have in their early forms only the accusative neuter as adverb and quasi-noun: Old Frisian felo, Old Saxon filo, filu (Dutch veel), Old High German filu, filo (Middle High German vil, vile, modern German viel, the latter also inflected as adjective), Old Norse fiǫl (chiefly in combination), Gothic filu < Old Germanic felu < pre- Germanic pélu (with ablaut-variant polú) much; compare Sanskrit purú, Greek πολύς, Old Irish il. Obsolete. A. adv. (and n.) 1. To a great extent or degree, much. Also in so, too fele. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] stronglyeOE felec950 strongeOE highlyOE highOE greatlya1200 stourlya1225 greata1325 dreec1330 deeplya1400 mightya1400 dreichlyc1400 mighty?a1425 sorec1440 mainlyc1450 greatumly1456 madc1487 profoundly1489 stronglya1492 muchwhata1513 shrewlya1529 heapa1547 vengeance?1548 sorely1562 smartlyc1580 mightly1582 mightily1587 violently1601 intensively1604 almightily1612 violent1629 seriously1643 intensely1646 importunately1660 shrewdly1664 gey1686 sadly1738 plenty1775 vitally1787 substantively1795 badly1813 far1814 heavily1819 serious1825 measurably1834 dearly1843 bally1939 majorly1955 sizzlingly1956 majorly1978 fecking1983 c950 Lindisf. Gosp.* Luke vii. 47 Forðon lufade feolo. OE Beowulf 1379 Ðær þu findan miht synnigne secg. c1000 Wife's Compl. (Gr.) 26 Sceal ic..mines fela leofan fæhðu dreogan. a1250 Prov. Ælfred 196 in Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 114 Ne ilef þu nouht to fele uppe þe see. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2442 He bounden him so fele sore. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8991 Thoru wimmen þat he luued sa fele. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 56 Fell awfull in effer. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1884 Syn þe fre is so faire, & so fele vertus. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 192 The Beere, That they drinken feele too good chepe. 2. quasi-n. Much, a great number or quantity. Chiefly with partitive genitive. Often qualified by how, like, so, too.After the Old English period this use is seldom distinguishable from the adjective; later instances are placed here only when their grammatical character is evidenced by inflection of the following noun. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount felec825 muchc1230 good wone1297 plentyc1300 bushelc1374 sight1390 mickle-whata1393 forcea1400 manynessa1400 multitudea1400 packc1400 a good dealc1430 greata1450 sackful1484 power1489 horseloadc1500 mile1508 lump1523 a deal?1532 peckc1535 heapa1547 mass1566 mass1569 gallon1575 armful1579 cart-load1587 mickle1599 bushelful1600–12 a load1609 wreck1612 parisha1616 herd1618 fair share1650 heapa1661 muchness1674 reams1681 hantle1693 mort1694 doll?1719 lift1755 acre1759 beaucoup1760 ton1770 boxload1795 boatload1807 lot1811 dollop1819 swag1819 faggald1824 screed1826 Niagara1828 wad1828 lashings1829 butt1831 slew1839 ocean1840 any amount (of)1848 rake1851 slather1857 horde1860 torrent1864 sheaf1865 oodlesa1867 dead load1869 scad1869 stack1870 jorum1872 a heap sight1874 firlot1883 oodlings1886 chunka1889 whips1888 God's quantity1895 streetful1901 bag1917 fid1920 fleetful1923 mob1927 bucketload1930 pisspot1944 shitload1954 megaton1957 mob-o-ton1975 gazillion1978 buttload1988 shit ton1991 c825 Vesp. Psalter lxv[i]. 16 Ic seg[c]o eow alle ða ondredað dryhten hu feolu dyde sawle minre. a900 Charter in Old Eng. Texts (1885) 444 & swae feola sufla. OE Beowulf 1060 Fela sceal gebidan leofes ond laþes. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxvi. 19 Fela ic hæbbe geþolod todæg þurh gesyhðe for hym. c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 208 Ne forlæt þu þæs blodes to fela on ænne siþ. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 9 Monie and feole oðre godere werke. a1300 Sinners Beware 87 in Old Eng. Misc. 75 Sunnen seouene þat bringeþ vt of heouene Swiþe vele manne. B. adj.² (Indeclinable; but as the word after 11th cent. was used all but exclusively of multitude, not of quantity, the final e was probably felt in Middle English as a plural ending. A solitary instance of felen dative plural occurs in the Ayenbite.) 1. a. With n. in plural. Many. Often preceded by as, how, so; also in many and fele. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] feleOE felefoldc1000 manifoldOE unfewc1175 mucha1225 many one?a1300 greata1325 manyc1450 numerous1622 maint1706 right smart1825 OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 963 (Laud) Se biscop..bohte þa feola cotlif æt se king. OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1124 (Laud) Fela soðfeste men sæidon [etc.]. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 117 Fela stuntnesse beoð. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 3067 Suche stones, so grete & so uale. c1305 Land Cokayne 95 Þer beþ briddes mani and fale. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 5 Þou ne sselt habbe uele godes. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxiv. 22 As feel arm serclis. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18268 Hu fele pines ai sal þou fele. c1420 Chron. Vilod. 586 Sekemen come þedur mony and ffele. c1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 1110 He..hadde..of the quene many gyftis fele. a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 768 Galiot haith chargit hyme to tak Als fell folk. 1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados i. i. 83 Sa fele ȝeris. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 201 So fele shippes this yeere there ware, That moch losse for vnfreyght they bare. b. With n. in singular. Much. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > much/a great amount/quantity of mickleeOE muchc1200 greata1325 felea1400 muchee1722 queer1865 lotta1870 mucho1870 lotsa1890 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4050 Þat..sufferd sa fele peril. c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 1392 That so fele folk led obowt. c1440 Generydes 6701 With kysseng fele. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 54 Feill folk als out of Germania. 2. In predicative use: Much, many, numerous. Also in comparative: More in number, more numerous. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > greater number moOE moreOE fele1340 better than1471 outnumbering1796 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 528 So fale folewen þe folk. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14079 Þe folk him foluand was ful fell. a1400–50 Alexander 2084 A pake out of nounbre, Felire þan his folke be full fyue thousand. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1391 I wowche hit saf fynly, þaȝ feler hit were. 3. a. absol. in plural. Many persons. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun] > a large number or multitude > of individuals, people un-i-fohOE felec1175 power1489 camp-royal1593 numbers1597 crowd1654 stock1668 somedeal1851 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 107 He mei findan fele þe beoð bet iþoȝen and istoȝen þene he. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7640 Fele shulenn fallenn. & fele sHulenn risenn upp. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 102 God, þet..yefþ more bleþeliche..to uelen þanne to onen allone. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8495 Þis writte wit fele was red and sene. a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 522 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 316 Few ar trew, but fele ar [MS and] fals. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 641 In sum bargis sa feill can ga..That thai ourtummyllit. b. quasi-n. Many of. Cf. A. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun] > a large number or multitude sandc825 thousandc1000 un-i-rimeOE legiona1325 fernc1325 multitudec1350 hundred1362 abundancec1384 quantityc1390 sight1390 felec1394 manyheada1400 lastc1405 sortc1475 infinityc1480 multiplie1488 numbers1488 power1489 many1525 flock1535 heapa1547 multitudine1547 sort1548 myriads1555 myriads1559 infinite1563 tot-quot1565 dickera1586 multiplea1595 troop1596 multitudes1598 myriad1611 sea-sands1656 plurality1657 a vast many1695 dozen1734 a good few1756 nation1762 vast1793 a wheen (of)1814 swad1828 lot1833 tribe1833 slew1839 such a many1841 right smart1842 a million and one1856 horde1860 a good several1865 sheaf1865 a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869 immense1872 dunnamuch1875 telephone number1880 umpty1905 dunnamany1906 skit1913 umpteen1919 zillion1922 gang1928 scrillion1935 jillion1942 900 number1977 gazillion1978 fuckload1984 c1394 P. Pl. Crede 547 Fele of þise poyntes. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7012 Fourti thusand of israel, O beniamin negh als fel. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 522 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 111 Ffeile of ye fals folk yat fled of before. 4. In combination with noun, forming an adjective, as fele-kyn, of many kinds, various; or an adverb, as fele-sith, fele-syss, feltymes many times, often. Also felefold adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] sunderlyeOE manifoldeOE selcoutha1000 felefoldc1000 mislichOE alkinOE manykinOE fele-kync1175 serekina1300 sundera1325 sundrya1325 serea1340 divers1340 varyingc1340 variantc1380 muchfoldc1384 serelepesa1400 serelepya1400 multifaryc1460 sundryfoldc1460 multiplicate?a1475 variable?a1475 sundrilyc1480 diversea1542 particoloured1591 multifarious1593 Protean1594 daedal1596 choiceful1605 Daedalian1605 multiplex1606 variated1608 diversified1611 multiplicious1617 variousa1634 multivarious1636 mosaic1644 multiple1647 omnigenous1650 chequered1656 plurifarious1656 ununiform1660 variate1677 disuniform1687 Proteusian1689 unsteady1690 unequable1693 inequable1721 variegating1727 varied1733 multitudinous1744 multifold1806 polygeneous1818 unequalized1822 ruleless1836 varicoloured185. non-uniform1856 omnigener1857 polytypic1858 multiferous1860 variatious1871 variegated1872 polytypical1890 the world > time > frequency > [adverb] unseldea950 oftOE thickOE ylomeOE oftsithec1175 oftsithesc1175 lomec1200 oftlya1225 oft-stounds1303 continuallyc1305 oftena1325 rifely1357 oft-timesc1384 oft-timec1387 oftentimesa1393 oftentimec1395 fele-sitha1400 lightlya1400 oftentide?a1400 rifea1400 seresitha1400 many a foldc1400 often sithec1405 hauntinglyc1440 by many a foldc1450 fele-syss1489 frequently1531 feltymesc1540 oftens1567 oftenly1574 frequent1614 repeatedlya1647 (as) often as not1723 more often (or oftener) than not1723 not uncommonly1747 not infrequently1779 (at) every whip-stitch1824 oftenwhilesa1850 at short intervals1859 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3573 Hire sune wass himm lic O fele kinne wise. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 860 On feole [c1300 Otho many] kunne wisen.] a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xx. 18 Hou ofte sithes and hou fele shul thei scorne hym? a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 28380 Oure fele-sith haf i ben to spend þe gode wit skil þat godd me send. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1483 Of mony kyndes, of fele-kyn hues. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xx. 225 That ȝhe haf done till me feill sis. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 651 For fele sys quhen yow art away. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3014 Of hir fairehede feltymes hade þe freike herd. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.¹c1000adv.n.adj.²c825
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† feleadj.1

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† feleadv.n.adj.²