notherpron.1adj.1
/ˈnʌðə/, U.S. /ˈnəðər/, Caribbean English /ˈnɑdʌ/, /ˈnʌdʌ/ Now English regional and Caribbean.
A. pron.1† 2.
1. Neither of two persons or things.† a. With preceding genitive or personal pronoun. Obsolete.† b. Without construction. Obsolete.† c. With of. Obsolete.
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eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) li. 399 Ne fornime incer noðer oðer ofer will butan geðafunge.
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 89 (MED) Ne lief þu here noðer.
c1300 St. Scholastica (Laud) 11 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 198 (MED) Ake heore noþer in oþeres Abbeye bi-leue come ne miȝte.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 4884 Hor noþer nadde noþing þat to oþeres wille nas.
c1330 (?c1300) Amis & Amiloun (Auch.) (1937) 852 Y seiȝe it me self..Ȝour noiþer it may forsake.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xi. 273 Here noþer loueþ oþere.
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a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 165 (MED) Nis nower non trewðe, for nis þe gist siker of þe husebonde, ne noðer of oðer.
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) 9297 Þanne nis him noþer [c1275 Calig. neouðer] god, ne þat londne þat flod.
c1330 Sir Orfeo (Auch.) (1966) 324 Ȝern he biheld hir & sche him eke, Ac noiþer to oþer a word [Ashm. neuer a word to oþer] no speke.
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c1300 St. Oswald (Laud) 38 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 46 (MED) Huy ne miȝhten..makie none wonde In noþer of is holie hond.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 8702 (MED) Noþer of is breþeren..Nas nei him.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 3233 (MED) Noiþer of ous nil spare Erl, baroun, no kniȝt.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 18502 (MED) Þe writtes þat þai left þan þar, Noiþer o þam es oþer mare, Ne noght a letter oþer lesse.
c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 516 A prest and eft a dekene come by... Bot noythere of tham myght hele this ilke sore wounded man.
c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 150 (MED) Noþer of hem boþe two Ne myght his purpose hauen.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 65 I may nat graunte you nother of theire hedys with my worship.
1551 W. Turner Herball (1568) i. 93 And nother of bothe grow oute of the grounde.
d. English regional. With on.
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1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 65 I wont ha' nother on 'um.
1885 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) 239 ‘Which on 'em did it?’ ‘Noather on em’.
a. never nother: neither the one nor the other. Also in later use ner nother. Obsolete.
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c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 15391 Nauer neoðer nalde..þat þe king hit wusten.
c1450 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 192 I nam withholden yit with never nother.
1540 R. Morison tr. J. L. Vives Introd. Wysedome (new ed.) C v That god alone aprove our inwarde and outwarde actis, though men alow ner nother.
1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 28v Wherof there is nere nother, commaunded but forbidden.
b. neither nother: neither the one nor the other. Obsolete.
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a1425 Dialogue Reason & Adversity (Cambr.) (1968) 27 (MED) He is no þing suptuouȝs..confecciones & swete wynes, he knoweþ neþur noþur.
c1500 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Trin. Cambr.) (1879) 192 I am wytholde yet with neyther nother.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 155/1 Of which twayne ye woulde in the beginning admit neither nother.
1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Epitome (1843) 48 I wad counsell them, if they wad be ruled bai me, to be nether nother.
1612 T. James Life Father Parsons in Iesuits Downefall 71 I could wish that all such..would consent to beleeue nether nother.
1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty iii. i. 21/1 Let nedder nodder of them my shit Empresse have te plash of ty Captain.
B. adj.1 (determiner).
Neither. Frequently in neither nother (also † never nother, nother nother): †neither one nor the other (obsolete); (hence) neither one nor another, no other. In later use English regional and Caribbean.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [adjective] > no, none, or not any > neither
notherc1325
nouthera1393
neithera1400
nary1746
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 4561 Þer ne bileuede in noþer syde non heymon vnneþe.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 201 (MED) By neuere noþer weie I schal paye þe þat þou axest.
?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. v. met. iii. 52 Who so that sekith sothnesse, he nis in neyther nother habit, for he not nat al, ne he ne hath nat al foryeten.
a1450 in J. Kail 26 Polit. Poems (1904) 68 (MED) And hed were fro þe body stad, Noþer partye were set at nouȝt.
?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye iii. sig. i3v Neither nother texte serveth anie whitte for purgatorye.
1533 T. More Apologye 180 There are fewe or none good in neyther nother parte.
1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden iv. v No sir, we come with no zick intendment on neither nother zide.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Nother-nother There idn nother-nother lemon vor to be had in the town, nit vor love nor money, zo Mr. Baker zess.
1957 F. A. Collymore Notes for Gloss. Barbadian Dial. (ed. 2) 59 I ain't got neither-nother sixpence.
1975 T. Callender It so Happen 99 He never going look at neithernother girl again.
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'notherpron.3adj.3
/ˈnʌðə/, U.S. /ˈnəðər/ colloquial.
A. pron.3
1. Contrasted with one. Another one, a different one. Cf. another adj. 2.
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a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse iii. iv. 57 in Poems (1638) So the subt'le Cardinall Calls one book Bellarmine, 'nother Tostatus, Yet one mans labour both.
1651 L. Willan Astræa v. iv. 121 He hath try'd one Death, now must try 'nother.
1793 C. Smith Old Manor House III. i. 8 I never saw the like of this old house—it will tumble about our ears, I reckon, one day or nother.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Zome man or nother 've a-bin yur, 'cause can track'n all drue the field.
1904 H. R. Martin Tillie 40 To fill out blanks answerin' to a lot of darn-fool questions 'bout one thing and 'nother.
2. one 'nother = one another at one pron. 11.
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1897 Timothy Towser 134 They'll look 'pon wan tother, an' grizzle, an' whisper, an' tisper, an' titch wan nothers hands.
1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men 20 People told one 'nother that God was talking in de mountains.
1989 Lit 1 49 Celie and Nettie, reunited,..‘totter toward one nother like us use to do when us was babies’.
B. adj.3 (determiner).
Additional, further. Cf. another adj. 1a.
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a1681 J. Lacy Sauny the Scott (1698) ii. 6 Why then here's ten Pieces, and that Ring I'll pawn to you for 'nother Forty, 'tis worth a Hundred.
1832 J. K. Paulding Westward Ho! I. xv. 137 Well, I go to conjurer again, and he give me 'nother great medicine.
1886 Cent. Mag. Feb. 638/1 Well, honey, I tole my son Mose, when I bid him far'well, dat..dey'd git nare 'nother fi' cint out o' his mammy's pocket ag'in.
1934 D. G. Mackail Summer Leaves x. 341 ‘How long have you got here?’.. ‘'Nother month, I expect.’
1972 ‘L. Egan’ Paper Chase (1973) xii. 195 'Nother little bit of the thing just occurred to me.
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notheradj.2pron.2
/ˈnʌðə/, U.S. /ˈnəðər/ Now chiefly U.S. colloquial.† B. pron.2
A. adj.2 (determiner).† 1. With no.
a. no nother: no different, no other. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [adjective]
the ilkeOE
selfeOE
oneOE
no nothera1325
that ilk (thilk) same1390
one self?a1425
selfsamec1425
the same self1503
proper1523
one (and the) selfsame1531
self-said1548
one and the same1551
identical1581
the same very1590
the very same1597
individuala1602
individually the same1604
a (also one) selfly1605
very1611
same1621
numerical1624
numeric1663
identic1664
synonymous1789
a1325 St. Brendan (Corpus Cambr.) 627 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 201 No noþer man þanne sein Patrik min abbot nis.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1852 Hastow no noþer þing?
c1330 Sir Orfeo (Auch.) (1966) 229 (MED) He no hadde kirtel no hode, Schert, no noþer gode.
1377 in Somerset & Dorset Notes & Queries (1913) 13 274 (MED) The..officers that schuld loke that this..custume wer thus kept schal be chose in Yatmystre and in no nother towne.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) 23505 (MED) Ne noþir þing es man sin forgife Þan for to bete it quil we lif.
c1480 (a1400) St. Thais 138 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 219 Quhare þu Is, & in na nothyre place I-wyse.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccclix. 582 They shulde haue no nother trust in him, but that he wolde be their Enemy.
1557 Bible (Whittingham) Mark ix. 29 This kynd can by no nother meanes come forth, but by prayer.
1580 T. Churchyard Pleasaunte Laborinth: Churchyardes Chance 25 Disdaine in thee doeth spot thee mutche, Whose blot I see, within thy browe, No nother faulte, in thee I toutche.
b. no notherwise: not otherwise, in no other way; similarly no notherways. Obsolete.
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c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 482 (MED) He cuthe no noderways tell.
1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 330 They derst no nothere wysse don for ferre.
c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 511 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 22 It, þat we ȝarne, sal fall ws, and na nothirwa(i)s.
1538 J. Husee Let. 27 Sept. in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/4/94) f. 118 He aneswerd wher you dyed or not the kyng wold do no notherwisse.
?1555 Image of Idlenesse xv. sig. Giv I wolde not they shulde perceaue that I knowe so much therein as I do, and therefore good master Prouest make no notherwyse vnto hym, but that ye suspect it of your selfe.
a1603 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Plutarch On Curiosity in Poems (1964) 61 And if perchance a busy man come in wher secret tale Or earnist aught be don, no nother wise than as the cat In running hides his meat so sknatchz from hand that ready was.
2. In positive contexts, in senses of other: different; (the) other (of two alternatives); additional. Now chiefly in a whole nother (chiefly U.S. colloquial). Cf. another adj. 1a, 'nother adj.3, other adj. 5.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective]
othereOE
otherkinseOE
unilicheOE
elseOE
otherways?c1225
diversc1250
diverse1297
unlikea1300
likelessa1325
sundrya1325
contrariousc1340
nothera1375
strangec1380
anothera1382
otherwisea1393
diversed1393
differenta1400
differing?c1400
deparayll1413
disparable1413
disparail1413
dissemblable1413
party?a1439
unlikeningc1450
indifferent1513
distinct1523
repugnant1528
far1531
heterogene?1541
discrepant1556
mislike1570
contrary1576
distincted1577
another-gainesa1586
dispar1587
another gate1594
dislike1596
unresembling1598
heterogeneana1601
anothergates1604
heterogeneal1605
unmatched1606
disparate1608
disparent?1611
differential1618
dissimilar1621
disparated1624
dissimilary1624
heterogeneous1624
unparallel1624
otherguess1632
anotherguise1635
incongenerous1646
anotherguess1650
otherguise1653
distant1654
unresemblant1655
distantial1656
allogeneous1666
distinguished1736
otherguised1768
unsimilar1768
insimilar1801
anotherkins1855
diff1861
distinctive1867
othergate1903
unalike1934
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 468 (MED) Mi siȝt is seruant to mi hert, & alle my noþer wolnk wittes.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 1139 (MED) In-sted o þi noþer [MS. yi noyer] sede, Ne sal þe groue bot thorne and wede.
?c1430 (c1383) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 19 Ȝif þat o part holdiþ wiþ o pope and þe toþer wiþ o noþere pope.
1461 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 247 As for my nother guddes,..I hertly beseke you to se my gudis that leves..to tender my childer ther with.
a1500 (?a1400) Tale King Edward & Shepherd (Cambr.) (1930) 432 (MED) Conyngus with my noþer slyng I con slee and hame bryng.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 36 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 96 I haue mekle mater..Of ane nother sentence.
1835 D. Crockett Acct. Col. Crockett's Tour 225 I'll now answer one nother question about what's the best way of keepin the democratic party in my quarter from splittin.
1887 M. L. Molesworth Little Miss Peggy vii. 100 I just runned over with the 'nother shoe myself.
1890 M. L. Molesworth Story Spring Morning 315 I don't know what we shall do if we have to be a whole 'nother day in the house and in the dark.
1893 Christian Union 22 Apr. 764 One dog's no better and no worse than any 'nother dog in sech a case.
1907 F. A. Steel Sovereign Remedy viii. 100 It was not as the 'nother one.
1910 Cent. Mag. Dec. 302 Gee-oh! a whole 'nother day at home to-morrow!
1963 Word Study Feb. 7 I have to grade a whole nother set of themes.
1996 R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage (at cited word) Peter and your nother brother were here today.
1. no nother: none other; nothing else. Obsolete.
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c1330 Horn Child 865 in J. Hall King Horn (1901) 189 Now be min robes riuen, & me no was no noþer Ȝeuen Of alle þis seuen Ȝere.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 1679 (MED) Seþþe no noþer nel be but nedes to wende.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 245 (MED) It was no noder to giff to mynstrals bod for to offyr to fendis.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 906 Thocht he wes best no nothir lak we nocht.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (1856) 94 Nowe, syth it wyll no nother be, All that God sendeth, take it in gre.
1534 G. Joye Subuersion Moris False Found. 7 No nother then this foundacion.
a1556 Ld. Morley tr. Petrarch Tryumphes (?1565) 59 It is no nother to be named but a second death.
1655 R. Davenport King Iohn & Matilda i. sig. B4v Leis...You have my faith, If you mislike that pledge—K. We do. Leis. And I reply that I can spare no nother.
2. the notheren [representing Old English ðam ōðrum] : the others; those remaining. Obsolete. rare.
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c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 44 To segge hys ‘leuy’ an englysch, ‘Fram þe noþeren ytake’.
c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 43 For to seruy ine godes house By-fore alle þe noþeren.
3. A second or other; a different one. Cf. another adj. 2, other adj. 5 – 7. Obsolete.
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1459 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 7 j nothir of tapestry worke newe, in the hall wendowe.
1471 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 194 (MED) A nedyll howse of rede welwytt..j nodyr secundary.
1551 in O. S. Phelps & A. T. Servin Phelps Family (1899) I. 64 Subscribed & confirmed 29 of Ap'll 1551 in the p'sence of Jon beshope of gloucester & dyvers nothers ther p'sent.
1634 in E. Bain Merchant & Craft Guilds (1887) 282 The said servant sall be removit fra that maister and sall go to ane nyther.
1692 C. Gildon Post-boy rob'd of his Mail I. Prol. 10 But such a Discovery we made, that it surpriz'd us with several effects of Passion, one laugh'd, the nother swore, and the third preach'd.
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notheradv.1conj.
/ˈnʌðə/, U.S. /ˈnəðər/α. Old English–Middle English noþer, Old English–Middle English noðer, early Middle English neoþer, early Middle English neoðer, Middle English noþeir, Middle English noþere, Middle English nothir, Middle English nothire, Middle English nothur, Middle English nothyr, Middle English nothyre, Middle English noþier, Middle English noþir, Middle English noþire, Middle English notþer, Middle English noþþer, Middle English noþur, Middle English noþyr, Middle English– nother; English regional 1800s nutha, 1800s– noather, 1800s– norther, 1800s– nuther; U.S. regional 1800s nur, 1800s– nuther; also Scottish pre-1700 noothir, pre-1700 nothair, pre-1700 nothir, pre-1700 nothire, pre-1700 nothyr, 1800s noother.
β. Middle English noiþer, Middle English noyther, Middle English (1800s English regional (Yorkshire)) noither; Scottish pre-1700 noyther, pre-1700 noythir.
γ. Middle English nodur, Middle English nodyr; English regional 1800s noader, 1900s– nudder; Scottish pre-1700 noder, pre-1700 nodir, pre-1700 nodyr, 1700s nodder.
English regional in later use.
1. With another negative expressed or implied: nor. Cf. neither adv. 2. Obsolete.
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OE Beowulf 2124 Noðer hy hine ne moston, syððan mergen cwom, deaðwerigne Denia leode bronde forbærnan.
?c1335 (a1300) Land of Cokaygne 27 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 145 (MED) Þer nis baret noþer strif.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 5 (MED) Our litel konnynge myȝte nouȝt take knowleche, noþer folwe þe foure.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. iv. 130 Bere no siluer ouer see.., golde noither siluer.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 1372 (MED) He..band hire..bigly to-gedire, With þat scho flisch noþer fayle fyue score aunkirs.
1474–5 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 311 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 That no manere man nor woman procure nother take away no childe.
a1529 J. Skelton Ware the Hauke (1843) 196 Nor yet dronken Bacus; Nother Olibrius, Nor Dionisyus.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 80 b Nor in eating and drinking nother in chambring and wantonnesse.
2. Without another negative: nor, nor yet, and not. Cf. neither adv. 2. Obsolete.
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OE Fortunes of Men 36 Þær him hrefn nimeþ heafodsyne..noþer he þy facne mæg folmum biwergan.
a1500 St. Augustine of Canterbury (Lamb. 72) in R. Hamer & V. Russell Suppl. Lives ‘Gilte Legende’ (2000) 371 We wole resseyve yowe mekely and we schal mynyster to yow syche thyngis as ben necessarie. Noþer we wylle forbede yow.
1531 W. Tyndale Expos. Fyrste Epist. St. Jhon sig. D We..loue you all a lyke: nether loue we loue one moare and a nother lesse.
1547 R. Record Vrinal of Physick 3 Nother is it so easy a thing..to translate well.
1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 31v He is hevy and waketh much, nother can rest in one place.
3. † b. nother…nother: neither…nor. Cf. neither adv. 1b. Obsolete.
a. Followed by ne, na, no, or nor (in early use frequently with another preceding or following negative): = neither adv. 1.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > none or not any one of > neither
nauthereOE
noutherOE
notherlOE
neitherc1300
α.
β. c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 3664 (MED) Merlin..bad he no schuld lete passe Noiþer þe more no þe lasse Þat miȝt bere ani tiding To þe barouns of her king.c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) lxxiv. 6 (MED) For þat noiþer of þe est, ne out of þe west, ne [L. eque..neque..nequen] of þe wilde mounteins; for God ys iuge.a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 2385 (MED) Noiþer burde ne barn bi-laft at þe quarrer, but went after þe werwolf.c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xii. 209 (MED) It were noyther resoun ne riȝt to rewarde hem bothe aliche.a1450 Pater Noster Richard Ermyte (Westm. Sch. 3) (1967) 9 (MED) We þat preyen noiþer be we entendaunt to hym ne to oureself.c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 87 Þey kepe noiþer clene lif ne wedding, but on sleþ an oþer.γ. a1461 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 54 He..never was callyd upon, nodyr for sewte ne servyse..and so seyth payd never rent for the same.1471 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 271 (MED) The wynde, the water spareth nodyr priynce ne kyng.c1480 (a1400) St. James Great 70 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 99 Philet..mycht ster noder hand na fete.a1500 Roberd of Cisyle (Cambr. Ff.2.38) (1879) 26 (MED) The kynge thoght he had no pere For to acownte, nodur fer nor nere.1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay 105 Bot alace thay wil noder prech thair self nay ȝeit suffer oders quhilk wald prech.1574 in D. Littlejohn Aberd. Sheriff Court (1904) 261 Syme is noder persewar nor Moir defender in this present caus of Cognitioune.lOE Revival of Monasticism in T. O. Cockayne Leechdoms, Wortcunning, & Starcraft (1866) III. 442 Gif heora hwilc mid deofles costnunge beswicen..gyltig biþ, ne gladige on þæt noþer ne cyning ne worul[d]rica.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8352 Ne mihte þer na man neoðer ute no igan [read in gan].
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 465 He nis noþer ȝep ne wis.
c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) l. 259 Ne mot þer non ben inne Þat one þe breche bereþ þe ginne, Noþer bi daie ne bi niȝt.
1385 in 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS App. iii. 410/2 That the forsayde personaris..souch hym nother with grace, lufe na with lauch [etc.].
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 1266 (MED) Thei merveille how such a wiht..Desireth nother Mariage Ne yit the love of paramours.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 5857 Noþer i knau him þat yee sai, Ne i ne wil lat þe folk a-wai.
c1425 Castle of Love (Egerton) (1967) l. 108 (MED) Thou salt no man sle vnlaghfully..nother bodely ne gastly.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 17 (MED) Þe kirk mai not..noþer sequester ani man fro comyning of feiþful men, ne fro part takyng of sacraments.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 87 This childe..nys nother youre ne myn by reson.
1523 T. Cromwell Speech to Parl. in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 34 They dare not trye hyt by the sworde, nother with us, nor with the saide Emparours Subiectes.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 58 Bot that nother the king nor cuntrie mycht cum to skaith.
1640 R. Brome Sparagus Garden iv. i For our own parts we nother know nor care where hence she coame, nor whither she's gone, but dead she is.
1867 E. Waugh Home Life Factory Folk xxi. 185 Hoo's noather feyther nor mother.
1873 J. Spilling Molly Miggs (1903) 9 But that's nuther here nor there.
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c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) 22853 Ne sal him noþer go vore gold noþer garisome.
a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) 1. Cor vii. 19 (MED) To þe hele noþer it profites noþer it harmys.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 50 Noiþer in biggings, noiþer in liȝts, noiþer in instruments.
1496 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 340 12 shepe nother of the best nother of the worste.
1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory ii. i. sig. b4 Nother by exhortacyon..nother by..punyshment..nor other thyng.
1551 W. Turner Herball (1568) i. 84 It hath nother seedes like vnto marrishe mallowe, nother may a man make roopes of it.
1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 109 Then efteruart nother brigued, or desyred, nother violentlie inuaded ye Bishoprick.
4. † b. With preceding negative implied. Obsolete. rare.
a. Reinforcing a preceding negative (usually one which in turn follows another negative): = neither adv. 3a.
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the mind > language > statement > negation > [adverb] > used to strengthen preceding negative
noutherc1175
notherc1225
neither1551
me neither1882
me either1898
c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 12 (MED) He haueð his merke on me iseiled wið his in-seil; ne mei vnc lif, ne deð noþer [c1225 Royal nowðer lif ne deað] twemen otwa.
a1325 St. Mary Magdalen (Corpus Cambr.) 280 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S.-Eng. Legendary (1956) 312 (MED) Angles hure ladde in a stude þer nas no frut ne gras Ne tre ne weod ne more noþer þat eorþliche was.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 722 (MED) Mi-self knowe ich nouȝt mi ken ne mi kontre noiþer.
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. ix. 111 (MED) Was no pride on his apparail ne no pouert noþer.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 402 (MED) Be noȝt a-bayste..ne a-bleyd nothire.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) ix. 222 ‘I shall never sette foote there.’ ‘Nor I nother,’ sayd Richarde.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxxxiiij When that wolde take no place nother.
1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 3 If ye can not have the same nother, then take [etc.].
1781 T. Holcroft Duplicity iv. 51 Clara. No but I wunt. Squire. Wunt you? Clara. No—nor you'st not be bridegroom nother.
1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. v It don't seem to hang very well together nother.
1884 J. C. Egerton Sussex Folks & Sussex Ways 45 No, nor yet Jerusalem nother.
1899 L. A. Fison Merry Suffolk, Master Archie & Other Tales 25 Noo, tain't that norther.
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?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 50 Thus the scorne and the scaith scapit he nothir.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† notheradv.2
Obsolete. rare.
Nowhere.
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the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [adverb] > nowhere
nowhereeOE
never wherea1400
no-gatesa1400
nothera1400
nother-wherea1400
nouthera1400
nouther-wherea1400
nowheres1847
no-gate1879
noplace1880
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 17556 (MED) In israel er hei felles; Þar es he soth and noþer [Gött. nouþer, Trin. Camb. nowhere, Fairf. nowwher] elles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
> as lemmas
neither..neither (also nother)
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β. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) III. 1191 That neyther you, my lorde kyng Arthur, nother you, sir Gawayne, com nat into the fylde.c1475 tr. Henri de Mondeville Surgery (Wellcome) f. 151 (MED) Kutte þi þreed neiþir to schorte neiþir to longe.1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 102 We..intend so to proceed in this matter, neither enclynyng on the right hande, neyther yet on the left.1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 176 Neither alwaies, neither to euery one, neither of euery sort.a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) xvi. 129 This stuff or Oar being neither loose..as earth.., neither firm..as stone, is of a middle substance..composed of shels or scales.1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xxxii. 187 Neither can an Opposition, neither can a Ministry, be always wrong.δ. a1539 in Archaeol. 47 54 Nither at the christening nother at the confirmacion.c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke 14:35 Nether in erthe nether in the dunghil it is profitable.
a1425 Dialogue Reason & Adversity (Cambr.) (1968) 11 (MED) Narwnes of place withstandeþ neþur wit neþur vertu.
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