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单词 sundry
释义 sun·dry
I. \ˈsəndrē, -ri\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English sindry, sundry, sondry, from Old English syndrig; akin to Old High German suntarīg sundry, Old English sundor apart — more at sunder
1. obsolete : different or distinct for each : respective
 < his ministers heaven's palace fill to have their sundry tasks assigned — John Wesley >
2.
 a. obsolete : variously different : separate
  < like to a meadow full of sundry flowers — Shakespeare >
 b. : more than one or two : miscellaneous, several
  < a guard of sundry horsemen — Charles Dickens >
  < sundry sciences commonly known as social — I.A.Richards >
3. obsolete : diverse
 < how many and how sundry are the evils wherewith our mortal state if endangered — Angel Day >
4. : of or relating to sundries
 < a state's sundry revenue >
II. adverb
Etymology: Middle English sindry, sundry, sondry, from Old English syndrige, from syndrig, adjective
obsolete : separately, apart, asunder
III. pronoun
(plural in construction)
Etymology: Middle English sindry, sundry, sondry, from sindry, sundry, sondry, adjective
: an indeterminate number : divers
 < she danced with sundry who asked her — Donn Byrne >
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