ALKARGEN.
t
and Bugloss of Languedoc.
1567 MAPLET Greene Forest 55 Orchanet,
of the Romaines
called Anchusa.
1578 LYTE Dodoens g The
first [of the smal Buglosses] is called in French Orc/tanette,
in English Alkanet, or Orchanet.
1616 SUBFLF.T Countr.
Farms 332 Red [Waxe is made] by putting the root of Alkanet
vnto common Wax. 1725 BRADLEY Fani. Diet. s.v. Orkanet,
The Orkanet grows in the Southern Parts of France. 1796
WITHERING Bat. Arr.uigeni. II. 226 The root of the foreign
Alkanet that is kept in the shops. 1828 S. GRAY Operat.
Chew. 541 Alkanet root gives a fine colour.
is
;
MIN
GERARD Herbal u. cclxxi. 657 The Alkanets flower
sommer moneths. 1861 PRATT Flower.
The roots of most of the Alkanets furnish some
Alkitran,
ALKANET.
it
Alkargen (lka-id.:$en). Chem. [f. ALKAR(SIN)
+ (OxY)GEtf.] (See quot.)
1877 WATTS F&wnes* Chem. 232 Cacodylic or DimethylAUSTEN
-t-
A
heavy poisonous liquid, spontaneously inflammable,
with disgusting odour of garlic, formed by distillation of arsenious oxide and dry acetate of potash,
supposed to be a variable mixture of cacodyl and
oxidation products.
iSsoDAUBENY Atom. Theory \\\.
Alkatran, early form of ALOHITBAN,
Alke, obs. form of ELK.
II
Obs. [ad. (perh. indirectly) Arab.
Alkeda'vy.
CADI
i.e.
al-qadawi,
I
ALCALDE
or
Obs,, pitch.
(sc.
llAlkekengi
+ qdfawt of the
alqa$r the palace).]
palace of a cadi or alcalde.
1631 HEYWOOD Maid of West
davy, the great Pallace.
cade Into our Alkedavy.
al ihe
Ibid.
iv.
v.
The
(1874) 313 Fill our Alke329 Beare him. hence Al-
(^lkrke-nd.5i).
Bot.
Forms:
5
alkenkengy, 6 alkakinge. 6-7 alkakengie, 7 alkakeng(e, alcakengie, 8 alkakengi.
Arab.
kengi
f.
al the
+
.
i$\
[med.L. alkei.e.
al-kdkanj, al-kakenj,
variant of
ALCHITRAN,
Obs., pitch.
1.
I.
with
sing.
entire or
unabated amount
;
;
a. with proper names,
all England,
abstracts,
names of
substances,
all flesh, all
and
wisdom, all
speaking; also with Jay, night, spring, sninHicr,
Lent* August, and other definite portions of time,
886 O. E. Chron., And him all Angel cyn to cirde. a 1000
Metr. Ps. Iv. 9 Ic ealne dig, ecne Drihten wordum weorSi^e.
^1175 Lamb. Hont. 17 prouwede de& for al moncun. ^1175
Cott. Horn. 225 Of ban weard eft 5esta^eled call middenard.
(TI3Z5 E. E. Allit. P. B. 779 In longyng al nyst he lenge^.
i\QQAyenb. 17 To huam alle triacle went in to venym. 1382
WYCLIF Matt, xxviii. 18 Al power is jouun to me, in heuene
and in erthe. i473\VARK\v. Chrou. 3 And so Kynge Edward
was possessed of alle Englonde. 1535 COVERDALE Judg.
1611 BIBLE
xix. 13 Tarye at Gibea or at Ramah allnight.
.
as grasse.
is
.
health and well-fare.
beseech
1763 J.
1665
MARVELL
Corr. 50
God to continue you in all
BROWN Poetry fy Mm. v. 79
Horace
hath set him above the old Philosophers, as a
Teacher of all Virtue. 1849 MACAULAY Hist. Eng. I. 576 At
Exeter all Devonshire had been gathered together to welcome him. 1862 TRENCH Miracles Introd. 12 This speaking
. .
from a
'
kdkanj a kind of medicinal resin
growing in the mountains of Herat.'
Pers.
tree
Pers. Diet. Cf.
Freytag. 'Nightshade,' Hopkins
alcachcngi* Sp. alquequenje, Fr. alkckcngc, which
also appears as an earlier Eng. form.]
1.
plant (Physalis Alkekengi Linn.) N.O. Solanaceaf, also called \Vinter-Cherry from its ornaIt.
A
mental
scarlet fruit.
1440 Promp. Parti., Alkenkengy, herbe morub. More Ha
hath the
1551 TURNER Herbal \\. 142 Alkakinge
same vertue that gardin nyghtshad hath.
1597 GERARD
Herbal u. Hi. 271 The red winter Cherrie is called
in
and Alkakengie. 1605 TIMME
English red Nightshade
ritbea.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Quersit. in. 181 Take of alkakeng berries, twenty in number.
1676 BULLOKAR, Alkakangi. 1742 BAILEY, Alkakengi, winter
cherry, the Fruit of one sort of the Plant Night-shade. 1783
AINSWORTH Thesattr, t Halicacabus, a red winter cherry,
red nightshade, alkakengy.
Alkemy, -enamy(e,
A Iker.
obs. forms of
ALCHEMY.
A
sort of custard.
1381 Forme of Cury 120 (in Wright; For to make rys alker,
Talc figys and ray sons, and do away the kernelis.
t
Obs.
/z).
Obs. [a.Fr.<j#/rw?jad,
Arab. L*jJl al-qirmiz,
(ult.)
i.e.
al
KERMES.]
1. The Kermes, or Scarlet Grain insect (the female
of Coccus Ilicis}, formerly supposed to be a berry,
and sometimes described erroneously as a 'gall.'
1621 BURTON Anat. Mel. 11. v. i. v, Alkermes comforts the
inner parts. 1624 CAPT. SMITH Virginia vi. 216 The , . Fruits
are of many sorts and kinds, as Alkermes, Currans, Mul-
1718 QUINCY Compl. Dispens. 83 Of Alkermes,
Juice of the Berries is wonderfully grateful to the
Palate, and a fine Cordial.
beries, etc.
The
A
2.
once famous confection or cordial of which
the kermes 'berry' was originally an ingredient.
1605 BACON Adv. Learn. iv. ii. 164 Venice treacle, mithridate, diascordium, the confection of alkermes. 1626
Sylva
965 Kermes, which is the principal ingredient in their
cordial confection Alkermes.
1692 TRYON Good Hottse-tv.
(ed. 2) i. 6
rich Cordial of Alchermes that I'll send you.
A
1704 COCKER Diet., Alkertnes, an Excellent Confection
against swoonings, it is made of Gold, Amber, Pearl and the
like.
1753 CHAMBERS Cycl. Supp. s. v., The confection alkerme^has undergone divers changes and censures.
Alkimy,
VOL.
I.
obs. form of
ALCHEMY.
is
diffused over
all
I fonde ^ere Freris, alle be foure ordres.
1660 T.
Phil. (17011 113 i He form'd a Law, which
the old Men folio w'd.
1782 COWTER "J. Gilpin 114 The
dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows
all.
1849 MACAULAY Hist. Kng. I. 171 They bad watched
all his motions, and lectured him on all his youthful follies.
C. with a pers. or rel.
(In the nom. all was
i.
55,
STANLEY Hist.
all
pron.
time.
All that is possible, the greatest possible.
1594 SHAKS. Rich. Ill, iv. i. 57 Sf. I in all haste was sent.
I with all vnwillingnesse will goe.
1879 Wild Life
in S. C. 258 A weasel . makes all speed into the fern.
come.
Edward I' 11641; 15 The
J. HEYWOOD Prov,
Ep.
.
b. with a defining word (dem. or poss. adj., genitive
case, etc.) all precedes def. word, or, less usually,
follows the sb.
855 O. E. Chron., Ofer al his rice. 860 Ibid., To allum
rice.
870 Ibid., pa Deniscan
|>a:t lond all ge eodon.
A Samiuti in E. E. P. (1862) 7 Of al ^is ioi ber nis
non end. 1207 R. GLOUC. 122 And schewede hem al be wey
wyder he schulde wende.
4:1386 CHAUCER K?its. T. 660
And songen al the roundel lustily. 1593 SHAKS. Rich. II,
1667-8
in. ii. 174 You haue but rmstooke me all this while.
bam
.
,
c 1280
Corr. 84 (1872-5) II. 231
We
are, as for all other
your kindnesse, obliged to you. 1682 DRYDEN Medal 304
Frogs and Toads and all the Tadpole Train. 1830 TF.NNYSON May Queen \\. 24 And all the world is still, 1847
i.
193
With
all
my
sb. is
With my full heart.
understood, as all this, all
heart,
All now follows
that, all mine, all your friend'' s.
it
as take it all (or all of if).
a 700 on Ritthwell Cross, Ic baet a! biheald. c 1175 Lamb.
Horn. 40 God be al Jis heom haue5 isend. c 1220 Mali Meid.
c 1300 Leg Rood 18 Al hit com of
31 pat neo hit al welde'5.
one more. Mod, All this is distasteful to me. I see it all
now.
t d. Following the. Obs. rare,
1297 R. GLOUC. 367 per nas prince in be al worlde of so
noble fame.
1449 PECOCK Repr. 313 Ech preest which
schulde folewe thilk ensaumpling thoru3 the al fulnes and
;
.
<r
likenes of
g. all
e.
we, for which the
of us.}
6 Alle wee as sliep erreden.
liaue gone astray.]
1557 MOKK
liii.
place
tliat
They
are
they
al
preach
of.
1562
<(
11867' 79 Euer>- man for him selte,
and god for us all. 1593 SHAKS. Rich. //, in. ii. 142 Yea, all
of them at Bri^tow lost their heads.
1665 LD. DORSET, To
all you Ladies now on Land.
1711 ADDISON Spcct. No. 93
P i We all of us complain of the Shortness of Time.
1798
COLEKIDGE Anc. Mar. iv. iv, And they all dead did He.
KEATS
1820
We
all
you
all
St.
Agnes
xi,
Mod.
here to-night.
all
all of us have said so at times; I saw
have heard it from all of you. He took down all
And so say all of us.'
our names, or the names of all of us.
f3. Every. L. omnis, Fr. tout (tout hommc}.
Obs. exc. as in b.
This use, unknown to OE., seems to have begun with
thing, in which the sing, and pi. being alike, atU thing
passed from pi. into coll., and then simple sir.g. In later
times often combined, atthing (cf. anything, something^
A 1C day seems
M0M/flj)i and used advb. see below C 2b.
know him
;
;
I
:
to be after Fr. tonjours. The extension to all~kin all-gate t
all vian, all body etc., seems northern aa't/tmg} aa'&odte,
aa'gate, are still common Sc. fur everything everybody, every
way. (See also infra C 2 b.)
TIOOO/ELFRIC Saints' L. \. 136 God aelmihti^ wat ealle bing
ealle bing be ajfre waeron.
ci\i$Laml\ How. 7
toga:dere
Wurfiian alre erest pin feder and bin moder ouer alle eordt
it.
fe. Followed by
Obs. repl. by a wJiole.
"1300 St. Brand. 60 Her 3e habbeth al a 3er meteles
a.
A
i-beo.
lastand alle a
1340 HAMPOLE Pr. Consc. 3010
malady . .
c 1350 Will. Palerne 2215 pet trauailed al a ni^t.
ynere.
c 1386 CHAUCER Frankl. T. 620 She wepeth, wailleth, al a
day or two. 1523 LD. RERNERS Froissart I. liv. 75 Ther
was one [assault] endured al a day.
2. With sb.pl. The entire number of; the indi-
vidual components of, without exception. (All precedes the sb. or defining adj. ; rarely, in poetry,
follows the sb.).
a. without defining word.
;
t
.
.
1297 R. GLOUC. 371 Edgar Abelyng And kyng
J?o glade boru alle byng. ijgSTKKViSA Barth.
xi, And J>is we see^ al day [ynotidie^ with
oure yen [ed. 1582 this we see each day]. 1526 TINDALE
Phil. ii. 14 Do all thynge [1611 all things] without murmurynge. 1549 Bk, Com. Prayer, Pref. on Ceremonies, Some
bee so newe fangle that they woulde innovate all thyng [1604
all things].
1556 LAUDER Tract, 144 >our . dewtie . . That
Sec.
1558 KENNEDY in
^e aucht tyll all Creature.
Misc. I. 174 Lat all Christiane man haue refuge to the juge.
1570 ASCHAM Scholem. 62 Good order in all thyng.
liche t'ing.
Macolom were
D?
P.
A*,
iv,
.
#W.
b. esp.
So when the
WYCLIF Isa.
we like sheepe
1382
[1611 Alle
manner.
c.
;
allt or all
i.
140 Kalle hi sind on Gocle^
T
^1175 Lamb. Hont. 125 L re drihten and lire alesend
c 1200 Moral Ode 176 Ealle he sculle buder
esih&e.
(b.)
Princess
we
i-unne us alien,
A. And
MARVELL
is
'
or quantity of
the whole extent, substance, or
compass of the whole.
i Pet. \. 24 All flesh
(1872-5) II. 186, I
b. with defining word. (Also with sb. understood,
as all those, all mine, all llenry's,}
885 C>. E. Chron .^ And ^a scipo alle gerahton. ciooo, -\g$.
Gosp. Matt. xxvi. 35 Kalle ba ojjre leorning-cnihtas.
^1175
Cott. How. 219 He and halle his ifcren. c 1175 Lamb. //out.
97 Ealle bas bing and moni^e oSre.
1362 LANGL. P. Pi, A.
1000 /ELFRIC Saints' L.
sb.
The
A
formerly often prefixed
:
A. adj.
With sl>.
1
878 O. E. C/iron., Him to comon ongen Sumor saste alle and
Wilsastan. ciooo Sax. Leechd. I. 296 Wi3 ealle wundela,
genim bas wyrte. 1154 O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1135
c izzo Hali Meid. 5
pa bestrede e dai ouer al landes.
Freo ouer alle fram alle worldliche weanen. 1366 MAUNDEV.
ii. 10 Alle Men knowen not that.
1570 ASCHAM Scholem. \\.
lArb.) 118 Marke all aigcs.
1606 SHAKS. Ant. fy Cl. \. iv. 9
man who is th' abstracts of all faults That all men follow.
1742 VOL-SG 2\'t. Th. i. 424 All men think all men mortal,
but themselves. 1807 CRABBE Par. Reg. in. 52 All men have
done, and I like all, amiss. 1860 ABP. THOMSON Laws of
Th. 77. 131 The word All in its proper logical sense means
'each and every;' but it stands sometimes for 'all taken
together.' 1873 SYMONDS Crk. Poets Hi. 89 Theognis bid* his
friend iCyrnu^) be as much as possible all things to all men.
mod. usage
:
its
(ed. 2t 219 Cadet's fuming
liquor also called alkarsine.
1875 BLOXHAM Chem. 524 Alcarsin has the properties of a base ; it is capable of combining with the oxygen acids to form crystalline salts.
fy at. 793
Consc. 613
(1), a., sb., and adv. Forms Sing. I- all
(late \VS. 1-3 eall, eal), 1-7 al (north. 4-5 alle).
PI. 1-5 alle (\VS. 1-3 ealle, north. 2-7 al), 5- all.
For early inflected forms, see below, D. [Common
to all the Teutonic stock, but not found beyond
cf. OS. all, al, UFris. al, ol, OHO. al (fllfor\ OX.
all-r, Goth, ail-s. Properly adj. but passing on one
side into a sb., on the other into an adv. As an adj.
it
usually precedes, but sometimes follows its sb.]
+
txlkausin). Chem. [f. ALK(ALI)
-IN, in reference to its preparation.]
Ha
^1330 Florice
HAMTOLE Pr.
All
arsenic Acid, also called Alkargen.
ic)
^1230 Sf. Juliana 35
Alkmuyne, variant of ALCAMYXE.
Alknamy(e, obs. form of ALCHEMY.
with Alkany Roots.
Alkarsin
kinne wise.
alle
filthe. I377LANGL. I\ PL B. x. 177 Ofalkmnescraftescontreued toles. 1460 in Pot. Rcl. fy /,. Poems (1866) 105
Alken synnes wer wro3t in me. 1552 LYNDESAY C outplay nt
300 Wors than thay in alkin thyng.
:
obs. or dial, form of
1741 Compl. Fam. -Piece i. i. 82 Colour
alles
I
degree of red colouring matter.
see ALCANNA.
Alkany,
?
Alkyn
flourish in the
PI. IV. 50
Alkanna
8w Onn
grei'dio be . . Alles cunnes pinen.
per was alle kunnes gleo. 1340
(L. canescens).
.slight
alra cynna,
(i
;
;
1597
Forms:
Obs.
doubtful whether they occur before noo, though
OE. has phrases parallel to alra cynna in mancgra
'
cynna -witu afflictions of many kinds.' Ps. x. 7.
Modern usage reverses the syntactic relation in all
kind of, all kinds of. See Kix and Kixn.] Of every
kind or sort every kind of, all kinds of.
cii7S Lamb. Horn. 79 Alles cunnes wilde dor. cxzoo OR-
Applied to kindred plants: a. Common (EngAlkanet {Anchusa officinalis} b. Evergreen
Alkanet (A. sempcrvirens]
c. Bastard Alkanet
(Litkosptrmum arvense}\ d. Alkanet (of America),
and
<;.
beasts of every kind, became treated more or less
as adjs., and finally reduced to alkins, alkin. It is
3.
lish)
A'lkin,
cynnes), 2-3 alles cunnes ("), 3-4 alle kunnes,
alle kinne, 4-5 alkyns, alkyn(e, 5-6 alkin, al*
ken. [orig. genitive phrase, sing, or pi., alles cynnes
of every kind, * omnis generis? alra cynna of all
kinds, 'omnium generum? which being placed
before the noun on which they depended, as alra
cynna fiiglas fowls of all sorts, alles cunnes dcor
called Orchanet, Dyer's Bugloss, Spanish Bugloss,
and Greekes
ALL.
225
u
Others again prepared their cloth with
Dyeing
alkanet. 1876 URE Diet. Arts I. 89 Oil coloured by alkanet
is used for staining wood in imitation of rosewood.
2. The plant whose root yields the dye, Anchusa
or Alkanna tinctoria, N.O. Boraginacex, also
Introd.
I.
with kin (obs.
and
see ALKIN), kind,
:
and allemanereof marchaun1366 MAUNDEV.
discs.
^535 COVERDALE Josh. iii. 15 All maner watris of
Erasm.
etc.
the londe.
Paraphr. Pref. 14 Void
1548 UDALL
of almaner parciaHtie of affection. 1607 SHAKS. Timon \. i.
that
labour
on the bosome of this
of
natures
67 All kinde
Sphere, a 1609 ? SHAKS. Lover's Compl. 121 All kind of
Serin.
<ri68o
UEVERIDCE
(1729) II. 21 Avoid all
arguments.
manner of evil.
1711 STEELE Spcct, No. 32 ? 2, I shall be
of
all
manner
Shape. 1817 JAS. MiLL2?r//. ind.
quite .out of
II. v. iv. 437 Orders which might be construed all manner of
All
kind
of
drollery.
ways. Mod,
4. = Any whatever. In universally exclusive senas without all (cf. L. sine omni}.
tences or clauses
only in such phr. as beyond all question, doubt,
controversy, etc., or where the exclusion is expressed
by a verb, as To deny, disclaim, renounce, all con*
xx. 215 Spices
;
Now
ncxion.
,1400 Apol. for Loll. 72 If l>e kirk, wib out oole autorite,
1449
solempnize matrimoyn forbidun of \>e. general kirk,
PECOCK Repr. iv. ix.472 Nile ?e swere alwise. 1587 HOLINfell
SHED Scot. Chron, 11806) I. 315 Such of the people as
into their hands, were slaine without all mercie. 1605 SHAKS.
withbe
without
all
Should
Macb. in. ii.
remedie,
Things
out regard. 1652 NF.EDHAM tr. Scldens Mare Cl. 75 The
Carthaginians enjoyed the command of the Sea without all
Controversie.
1847 LONCF. Et>. \. iii. 10 Without all guile
or Suspicion .. was he.
1855 MACAULAY Hist. Eng. III. 382
He disclaimed all intention of attacking the memory of Lord
i
.
.
n
Russell.
II. absol.
5. As antecedent to relative All that, all those,
the accompanying demonstrative having been
before the relative
dropped from the earliest times
that ^what obs., cf. Ger. alles was}, which latter is
'
all we have = all that
also
now often
:
'
dropped
that
we
827 O. E. Chron., Al
allum bam be him
Ichulle al don )>at bi
8 Yee Rivers, and all
On
35
:
have.
To haue
his
bzt be su|?an Humbre
waes.
874 /;V.,
c 1320 Cast. Lone 535
Isestan woldon.
wille is.
Mornay \.
1587 GOLDING
De
that euer
pompe, and
all
is.
what
1607 SHAKS. Tim,
state
compounds.
29
iv.
ii.
1667
ALL.
bring.
6. Followed by of: in sing. The entire amount,
every part, the whole in //. Every individual, all
the members or examples.
(This const, is comparatively modern, and is probably due to form;
none of, some of, little of, much of, few
many of.} Rare, exc. with pronouns, as all of
of whom, of which, of them.
assoc. with
of,
it,
[See pronominal examples under 2c.J
c 1800 MONTGOMERY Hymn, 'Tisnot the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die. 1858 SEARS A than. x. 81 The Sadducees held that all of human existence was bounded between
birth
and death.
7. as//. = All men, all people.
f 1000 Ags. Gosp. Mark xiii. 37 SoSlice baet ic eow secje,
eallum \Lindisf., Ruskw. allum, Hatt. eallen] ic hit sec^e.
1382 WYCLIF Eph. iv. 6 O God, and fadir of alle, the which
is aboue alle men, and by alle
thingis, and in vs alle.
1593
SHAKS. Rich. II, in. ii. 160 Some poyson'd by their Wiues,
some sleeping kill'd, All murther'd. 1611 BIBLE i Tittt.iv.
15 That thy profiting may appeare to all.
1711 ADDISON
Sped. No. 122 P2 Beloved and esteemed by all about him.
1878 Birm. Weekly Post 2 Feb., An inn in Marlborough has
the sign 'The Five Alls.' They are a king, with the motto,
'I govern all;* a bishop, with 'I pray for all;' a lawyer,
1 plead for all
a soldier, I fight for all
a labourer, I
1
'
'
'
;
*
;
pay for all.'
8. as sing. = Everything.
nooo /ELFRIC Saints' L. 139 God is as^hwEer
MALORY Artkur(i&i6) I. 303 But in God is all.
i.
call.
1470
1589 Pap
w. Hatch. (1844)21 Alls as it is taken; marie the diuell take
al.
1667 MILTON P. L. i. 105 What though the field be lost?
All is not lost.
1785 CRABBE Xewsp. 235 Something to all
men, and to some men all. 1870 LOWELL Study Wind. 211
draws nearer to the all-for-point fashion of the
Browning
.
.
with every poem he writes. i866G. MAC DONALD
Ann. Q. Neighb. i. 10, I wanted to see yer face,
fa
sir, that
cottcettisti,
.
'
was all.'
b. All but
ALL.
226
MILTON P.L. ix.sfy To tell thee all What thou commands!.
1690 LOCKE Hum. Underst. Wks, 1727 I. i. iv. n. 25 This
is all could be infer'd from the Notion of a God,
1790 BURKE
Fr. Rev. 43 To derive all we possess as an inheritance from
our forefathers. 1850 TENNYSON In Mem. xxiii. 17 And all
we met was fair and good. And all was good that Time could
Everything short of. Hence (adverbially} Almost, very nearly, well nigh.
:
J 598 J. BASTARD in Fair's S. P. II. 306 Man
All but resembleth God, all but his glasse, All but the picture of his
maiestie.
01678 MARVELL Poems Wks. III. 412 Society is
all but rude To this delicious solitude.
1831 CARLYLE Sart.
Res. 11. ii. in The ail-but omnipotence of early culture. 1862
STANLEY Jew. Ch. (1877; I. v. 87 These were all but unknown
to Greeks and Romans.
1866 PUSKV Mirac. Prayer 12 An
.
.
phenomena. 1878 Bosw. SMITH
Carthage 203 The best and all-but-sufficing answer.
all-but-infinite variety of
And everything else, and everything
c. And all
connected therewith, et cetera hence, Too, also, as
well (especially in dial, speech; Sc. *\Voo'd an'
married an a' '). And all that and all the rest of
:
;
1
:
affirmatively = altogether,
now
in
wholly ;
only
negative or interrogative sentences, or conditional
clauses
e. g. / did not speak at all ; did
you speak
at all? ifyou spoke at all.
c 1350 Will. Paleme 283, I be coniure & comande att alle.
<ri4oo Epipk. (Turnb. 1843) "o Myrre betokneth to us at
all Of hys monhode that is mortall.
1513 DOUGLAS Eneis
Prol. 34 My waverand wyt, my cunnyng febill at all.
1535
COVERDALE Jer. \\. 14 Saycnge peace, peace, when there
is no peace at all.
1552-5 LATIMER Serrtt. % Rem. (1845} 52
:
'
:
They were
they thought all things were cocksure.
161 1 BIBLE i Sean. xx. 6 If thy father at all misse me.
1849 MACAULAY Hist. Eng. II. 557 If he refuses to govern
us at all, we are not bound to remain
without a government. 1876 FREEMAN Norm. Conq. III. xii. 185 Without
any form of trial at all. Ibid. IV. xvii. 55 For that very
cause, it soon ceased to be a garrison at all.
f (.) stibstantively. Obs.
1672 MARVELL Reh. Transp. II. 3 He is so self-sufficient,
and an At -all of so many capacities.
careless at
all,
.
C.
For
all,
.
adv. and prep., Notwithstanding
:
see
FOR.
.ii34 [He] smot him so feral his scheld.
1526 TINDALE Acts xvi. 39 They have beaten us openley . .
we are Romans. *6u BIBLE John xxi.
For
all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
1741
RICHARDSON Pamela I. 28 Sit still, Pamela, and mind your
Work, for all me. Ibid. IV. 178 A sad Situation I am in . .
for all that.
1795 BURNS, A man 's a man for a' that.'
d. In all
In the whole number, all together ;
u
for all that
'
:
also, in
whole.
ciTfioSirFcrn>nt>, 4387, V. hundred knyjtis in al bay wore.
1387 TREVISA Higden Rolls Ser. III. 363 He lived in alle
bre and sixti ;ere.
1611 BIBLE i Chron. ii.6 Fine of them in
all.
1654 GENTILIS tr. Servita's Hist. Inquis. (16761 870 It
is received either in part or in all, or in
part or in all laid
aside.
1856 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 33 'Work, work, work !'
are the in-all and the end-all of existence to him. 1882 Mar.
Ins. Policy, All and every other Person or Persons to whom
the same doth, may, or shall appertain, in Part, or in All.
all (o&s.), with all: f (a.) Altogether,
fe.
Mid
quite (o6s.); (b.} see WITHAL.
t
885 K. yELFRED Gregory xix. 144 Da hie swuSe stiSliche
arasiad, & mid ealle of3ryscea<5. t~ii75 Lamb. Horn., Mid
allefordon. c 1230 Ancr. R. 100 A grim word mid alle. a 1300
E. E. Psalter xxi. 27 Loove Laverd bai sal with al. 1297 R.
GLOUC. 28 He lette close fuyr in metal quoynteliche withalle.
f. Of all, from its use after a
superlative, as in
D. II) was formerly used
beyond all.
first of all (see
= Most of
all,
MARLOWE
elliptically
Ediv. If, iv. v, Vild wretch, and why hast
1590
thou, of all unkind, Borne arms against thy brother.
1605
ANDREWES Serm. (1841) II. 158 From each part; but of all,
from the last part. 1649 LOVELACE Poems 30 She Whom
thou of all ador'st. 1711 ADDISON Sped. No. 135 ^4 First
of all by its abounding in monosyllables.
f g. Over all
Everywhere (Ger. iiberall, Fr.
:
partout}. Obs.
1297 R. GLOUC. 375 Tresour aboute & o^ergod oueral apertelycne.
1386 CHAUCER Prol. 549 Over al there he cam.
h. With all see e (above) and WITHAL.
<
et cetera.
it,
<~
1535 TIN-DALE Wks. 1849
all.
and
1538
all.
II. ii
He
will save Devils
and
:
III. Combined with other adjectives.
BALE Tare Lowes 1007 The wolle, skynne, flesh
CROKE Ps. Ii, The walles, and all, shalbe
f 10. Emphasized by 'whole
c 1540
made newe. 1662 MORE /$*/</. Ath. ni.x. (1712) 120 Down
came John, Pipe and all. 1681 Trial S. Colledge 29 Jeff.
Who were the All? Dugdale. King and Clergy-men and
all.
1702 DE FOE New Test, in Somers Tracts (1751) III.
They did it to Purpose, carried all before them, subdued
Monarchy, cut of their King's Head, and all that. 1828
SCOTT /'". M. Perth I. 37 With smithy, bellows, tongs, anvil,
and all.
1857 HELPS Friends in C. Ser. i. I. 122 Region
of subtle sympathies,' and all that.
d. All in all
All things in all respects, all
14
'
:
Also adverbially and
things altogether in one.
subst.
(See in all below, pd.)
1539 l' great') and 1611 BIBLE i Cor. xv. 28 That God maye
be all in all [WYCLIF, alle thingis in alle thingis, TINDALE,
all in all thingesj. 1596 R. CAREW in Shaks. Cent. Praise 20
Will you have all in all for Prose and verse? i767FoRDYCE
Sertn. Yng. Worn. I. i. 27 Mirth and diversion are all in all.
(21824 CAMPBELL On receiv. Seal xii, The all-in-all of life
Content
1824 BYRON Don J. ii. clxxxix, They were All in
all (see
ALLWHOLE),
all
:
all
whole, whole
and whole,
entire
;
advb.
Obs.
ci449 PECOCK Repr. i. viji. 39 These ij officis maken the
hool al werk. Ibid. \. ii.
It upon which the al hool substaunce of the wal
stondith.
Ibid. u. vii. 177 It is open
ynoii^ to a!le hem whiche wolen biholde al the hool proces
But according to the hool al processe. 157-9 W. FULKE
Heskinss Parl. 154 All the whole vpper house is manifestly
contrarie vnto it.
1601 HOLLAND /Ye^y (1634) 1.402 The
lower sort of these trees the floud couereth all and whole.
1 11. All both, all two. Obs. (Fr. tous les deux.}
(1420 Chron. Vilod. 892 pey weron as bleynd all bothe, y
entirely.
n
.
.
.
.
wys, as ever was ony stok or stoune.
12. Distributed to each member or part of the
whole, by the forms all and some (arch.), one and
all, each and all, all and each, all and sundry, etc.
a. Of these all and some (see SOME) has the
!
each other. 1859 TENNYSON Vivien 248 And trust me
all or all in all.
1878
Q. Mary in. vi. 136 Their
Flemish go-between And all-in-all.
e. phr. "When all comes (goes) to all
when
all to
not at
:
everything
explained ;
summed up, wound up, cleared up,
when one gets to the bottom of every-
is
thing. arch.
1519 HORMAN Vulg. 123 Whan it cometh all to all.
1526
SKELTON Magnyf. 1732 For your sake, what so ever befall
I set not a flye, and all go to all.
1580 NORTH Plutarch
1668
(1676) 141 When all came to all nothing was done.
PEPYS Diary 19 Aug., When all come to all, a fit of jealousy
about Tom,
0. Hence, in many prepositional phrases.
a. Preceded by above after, before, beyond, for, =
;
>
Everything, (or often) everything else, everything
to the contrary. Hence, after all after considering
everything to the contrary, nevertheless; once for
all\ once only; for good and all finally (see GOOD).
:
:
z6n BIBLE Hear.
x. 10 By the which will we are sanctified
once for all. 1712 STEELE Sfiect. No. 462 F i But after
all he is very pleasant Company.
1763 BOSWELL Johnson
(1826) I. 356 Here it is proper, once for all, to give a true and
fair statement.
1768 STERNE Sent. Journ. (1778) II. ii, I
stopp'd to bid her adieu for good and all.
1809 W. IRVING
Knickerb. vn. xi. (1849) 440 Yet after all he was a mere mortal.
1849 MACAL'LAY Hist. Eng. I. 172 Above all, he had been
Jong an exile.
.
.
b.
At
all
:
In every way, in any way. Formerly
longest history.
(-1325 Caur de L. 5846 They that wolde nought Crystene
c 1386
become, Richard leet sleen hem alle and some,
CHAUCER Knts
Sonday to
the
T. 1329 These lordes alle and some Been in
the cite come.
1460 Play Sacr. 402 Whyle
they were alle together
& sum
.
.
Comedite corpus meum.
1600 HOLLAND Livy xxvit. xiii. 637 e, To endeavour and
strain themselves, both all and some [singulis universisque\.
1681 DRYDEN Abs. fy Ackif. u. 457
stop your noses,
Now
1870 MORRIS Earthly Par. 1 1. in. 478
Two hours after midnight all and some Into the hall to
wait his word should come.
If It has been suggested that in this phrase some
readers
all
and some.
was a corruption of isame
the phonology shows that
(isome) 'together/ but
with the
is not so
first quot. above cf. this from the same poem
c 1325 Ceeur de L. 4385 Among the toun folk was no game
To counsayl they gaderyd hem insame.
f b. Al and som (some) was also used in sing., as
if confused with
/;; = The whole sum, the sum
total
advb. entirely. 06s.
BRUNNE
Handl.
R.
1303
Synne 169 pe tale ys wrytyn al
and sum In a boke of Vitas Patrum. c 1380 Sir Ferumb.
it
;
:
;
;
shridde him ber-with
& clobed him al & some.
3014
1:1386 CHAUCER Wife's T. Prol. 91 This is all and som [v.r.
c
Childe
sum, some, somme].
1480
of Bristowe 338 in Hazl.
E.P. P. 123 By that the fourtenyht was come, his gold was
al
and
some.
WVATT
Wks, (1861) 173 Hencegon,
1520-41
forth, my Poins, this shall be all and sum.
1625 tr. Gonsalvios Sp. Inquis. Pref., Herein resteth all and some concerning these matters.
He
.
.
One and all all and each, each and
sundry, all and every.
c.
t
allt all
and
1513 DOUGLAS SEneis ix. viii. 16 With huge clamours
followand ane and all. 1782 COWPER J. Gilpin 239 And all
and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. 1816
SCOTT Old Mart, xxxvi, All and sundry his moveable goods
and gear inbrought to his Majesty's use. 1837 J. LANG
AVw S. Wales I. 185 Rendering it virtually imperative on
all and sundry to follow his example.
.
.
sb. (through the absolute use in A 8.)
Usually with pass, pron., as our all Everything
that we have, or that concerns or pertains to us ;
B.
1.
:
whole
interest, concern, possession, property.
1677, i. xxxi. 55 He shall not
of an honest man. 1681 NEVILE Plato
matters
which concern our All. 1707
ADDISON State of War 242 Our All is at stake. 1722 WOLLASTON Relig, fi>at. viii. 157 When two persons throw their
all into one stock as joint-traders for life.
1794 BURKE Corr.
1862
are, as I think, fighting for our all.
(1844) IV. 221
TRENCH Mirac. iii. 143 Whatever it was, it was their all.
FKLTHAM Resolves Wks.
1627
command the All
Re dry. 235 Those
.
.
We
b. In this sense it has been used with a//.
1721 MRS. CENTLIVRE Perpl. Lovers \. 267 I'd pluck up a
courage, pack up my Awls and match with him. 1752
FIELDING Amelia vii. iii. (1775) 296 [My father] bid me pack
up my alls and immediately prepare to quit his house. 1763
BICKERSTAFF Love in Vill. 44 So pack up your alls, and be
[Still a common phrase in Scotland.]
c. Antithetically, with little.
1631 QUARLES Sampson (1717 280 That little All Was left,
was all corrupt. 1738 JOHNSON London 189 [You] leave your
little all to flames a prey.
1738 WESLEY Hytnn t Long'have
I viewed,'
little All I give to Thee.
1755 JOHNSON
Bosivell 11826) I. 226 No man is well pleased to have his all
neglected, be it ever so little. Mod. Many a struggling
tradesman lost his little all in the fire.
trudging away.
'
My
2. Whole being, entirety, totality.
1674 FAIRFAX Bulk $ Sell'. 145 The laws of motion, in the
round All of bodies. 1761 LAW Cotnf. Weary Pilgr. (1809)
86 This pure love introduces the creature into the all of God.
1843 CARLYLE Past, fy Pr. 169 An All of rotten Formulas.
3. \\hole system of things, TO uav, the Universe.
1598 J. BASTARD in Farr S. P. II. 316 Man is the little
world (so we him call The world the little god, God the
Great All. 1612 WITHER Prince Henry's Obs. in Juven.
(1633)298 Living in any corner of this All. 1649 DRUMMOND
Wks. 1711, 25 Come see that King, which all this all commands. 1714 MANDEVILLE Fab, Beesd-j^\\. 21 The beautiful all, must be the workmanship of one great architect of
power and wisdom stupendious. 1839 BAILEY Festus x.x\\\\.
(18481 329 The atom and the all Commune and know each
other.
1850 CARLYLE Latt.-day Pamph. vi, (1872) 200 No
pin's point can you mark within the wide circle of the All
where God's Laws are not.
C. adv.
I. General construction.
1. All adj. is often separated from the sb. which it
defines, by an auxiliary vb. or clause, and so appears
to refer to the predicate; as 'Zion our mother is
all wofull/ where all, originally an attribute or
complement of Zion, comes to be viewed as qualifying woful altogether woful.
a 1000 C.EDMON Gen. (Grein) 756 Hit is Adame nu call forgolden. cuaoOttON 9579 Issraaele beod tatt wass Allwesste
& all forrworrpenn. 1:1220 HaliMfid. 21 Ah al is meidenes
1382 WYCLIF Prov. xii. 3 The roote -of
song unlich beose.
rijtwis men shal not ben al moued.
1483 CAXTON 67. de la
7*our C vij, The lady wente oute of her wytte and was al
MORE
Annv.
Bk. Wks. 1557,
Poysoned
demonyak.
1533
1056/1 His exposicion flitteth all fro the poynte. 16x1 BIBLE
Nan. iii. i Woe to the bloody City, it is all full of lyes
and robberie. 1814 BYRON Corsair in. xv. 18, I am not all
1826 DISRAELI Viv, Grey vii. v. 405
deserted on the main.
His Royal Highness all smiles, and his Consort all diamonds. 1850 LYNCH Theoph. Trinal xi. 224 Another is all
frivolity.
1879 TENNYSON Lover's T. 59 Six stately virgins,
1
,
all in
white.
2. Whence, as true adv. modifying adj. or adv.:
Wholly, completely, altogether, quite (cf. ALL- E.
6,7)(ziooo Crist (Grein) 1221 Eall aefter rihte. f 1200 Trin.
Horn. 191 purch onde com dea5 in to be worelde al
1340 Ayenb. 89 Nou ich be habbe al uolliche
ysseaued bet ich leue. 1375 B ARBOUR Bruce I. 392 All othir
contenance had he. r 1425 WYNTOUN Cron. vi. vi. 29 Hyr
1541 ELYOT
chyld-ill al suddanly Travalyd hyr sa angrily.
Image Goz>t. 33 But it succeeded. all other wise.
Count Teckely i. 57 They endeavour all anew to put those
. . in a state uncapable.
1793 SOUTHEY Triumph of Worn.
63 Wks. II. 7 AH hopelessly our years of sorrow flow. 1849
MACAULAY Hist. Eng. II. 480 AH at once the whole fleet
tacked. 1880 BROWNING dive 28 All-agog to have me tresColl.
umbegonge.
.
.
pass.
fb. In
this sense all
nothing
loath.')
1
thing was also used.
(Cf.
Obs,
agst. Trib. in. Wks. 1557, 1217/1, I am
1534
not all thinge afearde in this case.
1605 SHAKS. Macb. HI.
i. 14 It had bene as a gap in our great Feast, And all-thing
vnbecomming. 1665 RAY Flora 189 The flowers are not allthing so broad.
MORE Comf.
3. Even, just
passing into a mere intensive or
emphasizing adjunct. (Cf. ALSO.) arch.
1579 W. FULKE Heskinss Parl. 195 Al bicause he would
;
1633 P. FLETCHER
Isl. v. Ixviii, All so, who strives .To tiring his dead
soul to the joyfull skie.
1720 GAY Blackeyed Susan, All in
1808 SCOTT Marm. i. xi,
the Downs the fleet was moored.
He . Gave them a chain of twelve marks' weight All as he
not acknowledge the presence of Christ.
Purple
.
.
lighted down.
4. All through, wholly, entirely, without admixture.
a black Gelding .
1705 Loftd. Gaz. mmmmclix/4 Stolen
Ibid,
forced, and then paces a little.
Ibid,
Trots
and
all.
mmmmclxxviii/4
mmmmclv/4
gallops
.
trots all, except
Paces
all.
.
.
ALL.
227
II. Special constructions.
5. All one. t a. All together. Obs. b. (also all a.)
One and the same, quite the same. All of a: see
CHAUCER Prol. 76 Al bismotered with his habergeon,
'
especially the prefix to- = asunder
(LG. ter-,
IIG. zer-, L. rftrj, as in to-break, to-burst, to-cut, to-
(See also ALONE.)
f 1380 WVCLIF
J?a weoren heo al an.
Wicket 5 It is .. all one to denye Christes wordes for heresye
and Christe for an heretyke. 1581 MARBECK Bk. Notes 935
gnaw,
A
adj?
.
'
A
stones.
of degree, all gives emphasis, =
Quite, altogether, as all so, all too. (All so is now
obs., exc. in the combined form ALSO q.v.)
a 1000 Alfred's Dcatli (Grein) 13 Eal swa ^ebundenne.
(izoo Moral Ode 328 Of f>esse riche we bencheS to ofte, of
bare alto selde. (1384 CHAUCER H. of Fame 288 Dido..
That loued alto sone a gest. 1587 HOLINSHEIJ Scot. Ckron.
(1806) II. 175 The King., did send forth, but all too late,
Andrew Wood. 1597 SHAKS. 2 Hen. IV, \: ii. 24 Our argument Is all too heavy to admit much talke. 1805 SOUTHEY
he travels
c in Az. xvii. Wks. V. 322 Give me the boy
all
1831 CARLYLE Sart. Res. (1858) 182 Thy ailtop slow.
too Irish mirth and madness. 1840 GEN. P. THOMPSON Exerc.
(j84z) V. 191 War is all soon enough when it cannot be helped.
8. With adv. the By that amount, to that extent,
just so much.
1600 SHAKS. A. Y. L. I. ii. 102 All the better: we shalbe
the more Marketable.
1879 TENNYSON Lovers T. 82 He
was all the more resolv'd to go.
9. With adverbs of place: In all directions, in every
part as all about, all round. Special idioms are all
.
:
;
along (see ALONG), ALL OUT, ALL OVER, ALL BOUND,
all together or ALTOGETHER, all one or ALONE q.v.
q.v.
he haue
\
completeness, as all round, down, over,
through, etc.
1621 MIDDLETON etc. Old Laws v. i, That's equal change
gives
1793
NELSON
in Nicolas's Disp. II. ii
round the compass. 1849 MACAULAY Hist.
down the Rhine, from Carlsruhe to Cologne.
HICGINSON
Hist. U. S. xxvi, 264 This made a great
1875
excitement all over the country.
II.
all
455 All
1 12. With prep, referring to a point of space
Quite, entirely. All to naught, to absolute nothingTo call all to naught: to
ness, away to nothing.'
:
'
Cf. 15 below. Obs.
Lamt. Hani. 35 [>u forwuroest eca..al to nohte.
CH30 Ancr. R. 380 [He] tukeS ham alto wundre. f 1300
Beket 23 The Princes Doujter
that hire hurte al upe him
caste.
IJS9 Homilies I. (1859) 134 David, when Semei did
call him all to naught, did not chide
again. 1591 SHAKS.
V'en. ff Ad. 993 It was not she that call'd him all to
naught.
01617 P. BAYNE Ephes. (1658) 102 Hee doth give his son
all to death.
i66 BACON Sylva 540 The sap is not so frank
as to rise all to the boughs.
vilify.
*7S
.
.
. .
13.
With
to
of the dative
1:1300 Beket 99
249 The Spirit of
inf.:
Expressly, just.
Red alto afonge. 1607 HIERON Wks. II.
God came all to shew how these men
, .
were inabled of God.
1 14. All emphasized the particle combined with
a vb.
;
all-to-benight. Obs.
1534 MORE Com/, agst. Trio. in. Wks. 1557, 1224/1 She fel
in hand with hym and all to rated him. 1538 LATIMBR Sertn.
<V Rent. (1845) 398 We be fallen into the dirt, and be ail-to
dirtied, even up to the ears.
1549 CHALONER tr. Erasm.
D iij b, Beyng all to laught to scorne. 1551-76
GRINDAL fr'ruitf. Dial. Wks. 1843, 48 To kneel and crouch
down and ail-to be-god him. 1589 GREENE Menaphon (Arb.)
Morise Enc.
Her cheekes all to be blubbered with her jealous teares.
1591 G. FLETCHER Russe Commonw. 141 And so al to bethe image gods.
1611 COTGR., Papilloteu.v,
sprinkleth
All-to-bespangled .. set thicke with spangles.
1647 I. C.
Char. Lond.-Diurn. 3, I wonder my Lord
is not once more
all-to-be-traytor'd.
1674 FAIRFAX Bulk ty Selv. 53 The
wide, thick, all-to-be deckt heap of visible beings. 1682
N. O. Boileau's Le Lutrin i. 314 Him too the bounteous
6^
.
BUNYAX
.
Pilg.
c.
pi.
\\.
48 She
all-
exc. gen. pi.
In
were still distin-
Altogether, at all, wholly, entirely. (Fr. dit tout.}
(11100(9. E. Chron. an. 1018 paet gafol
waes ealles Ixxii
busend punda. 1205 LAYAM. 3077 pa hit alles up brae, r 1230
Ancr. R. 88 Hwon hit alles cume5 forS. 1297 R. GLOUC. 17
Corineus was alles wrob. ciytaCast, Loue 659 Whon he
wolde alles bicome man.
II. The gen. plur. alra, alre, aller, alder, al'
ther, of all* was used down to 1600.
f2. "With sb. a. governed by sb. (To 1200.)
a 1000 CYNEWULF Elene (Grein) 816 Allra cyninga brym.
Ibid. 217
4:1175 Lamb. Horn. 33 He is alra kinge king.
.
to do.
the world over.
.
utterly, soundly'; in later times esp. with vbs. in
be- ; as all-to-befool, all-to-begod, all-to-bcblubbcr,
1684
Heo
is selra
.
binga angin.
governed by superlative. (To 1300.)
a\wx3 Scopes Wtdfift 15 Ealra ricost monna cynnes. f izoo
Moral Ode 351 per is alre merube mest. i97 R- GLOUC.
135 pat ys aller mon worst, bat me euer sey witn ye.
f 3. absol. with a superlative, orig. either before
to.
or after
;
subseq.
always prefixed, and becoming at
Prefixed to any
length a mere intensifying prefix.
'
superlative, as aller-bcst best of
-erst,
-farthest,
-fairest,
all,* aller-blivest,
-feeblest,
-first,
-foulest,
-highest, -last, 'least, -liefest, -longest, -most, -next,
'
-truest, -worst, etc. ; of which alder liefest dearest
of all, very dear,* was a common epithet in i6th c.
a 1000 Metr. Ps. cviii. 28 Him si abrogden hiora sylfra
sceamu swySust ealra. a 1000 C*:DMON Gen. (Grein) 337
Ofermetto ealra swi5ost. 1154 O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an.
1135 Alre fyrst Balduin de Reduers. 1297 R. GLOUC. 44
And London aller most, a 1300
Crete townes in Engelond
Cursor M. 7391 Quar es J>in alber-yongest son? c 1374
CHAUCER Troylus v. 576 Myn afderlevest lady deere, So
altherlevest lord, and brothir
wommanly. Ibid. in. 240
dere. 1382 WYCLIF i Sam. ix. 10 Altherbest is thi word ; com,
a
Pieces
Thornton MS. (1867) 31 He
we.
1400
Relig.
fr.
go
.
.
My
es al)>ir-myghtyeste, althirwyseste, and alswa althire-beste,
1481 CAXTON Myrronr \. xiii. 42 God created nature aUhtrfirst.
1502 ARNOLD Chron. (1811)43 Our alther lieuest uncles.
X587GASCOIGNE Wks. 163 To mine Alderlieuest Lord I must
indite a wofull case.
1590 T. WATSON Egl., Wahingham
386 Thou, Spencer, art the alderliefest swame. 1593 SHAKS.
2 Hen. VI, i. i. 28 Mine Alder liefest Soueraigne.
f b. In
later times
when
the nature of alther
.
f
guished by Wyclif and Chaucer.)
fl. The gen. sing, alles was used adverbially:
f c. With the subj. mood, though or if, being expressed by the reversed position of vb. and subject
(as in be they
if they be}, were omitted, leaving
all apparently ^although. Thus: albe I=all though
I be. 06s.exe. in synthetic phrases ALBEIT, ALBE q.v.
c 1365 CHAUCER A B C 46 Al have I ben a beste in witte
and dede, Yet, Lady thou me close in with thyn grace.
H. Fame 1820 Al be ther in me no lustice Me lyst
(.-1384
not doo hyt nowe. c 1386
Pral. 736 Al speke he never so
ne
large.
rudely,
1532 MORE Conf. TindaleWV.5. 1557, 385/2
All were he neuer so olde eare he were baptysed.
1560 H.
COLE Lett, to Jewel, We brought more than ye were able to
answer, all were it no Scriptures, nor Councels, nor Doctours.
1599 Bp. HALL Satires in. i. 50 All could he further then
earths center go.
1659 FULLER App. Inj. Innoc. (1840) 532
From whence came Smith, albe he knight or squire, But
from the smith that forgeth at the fire.
11. With prep, of extension in space or time, all
Eng.
.
3oure alleris frende.
1430 Syr Gener. 5244 The gates thci
shet bi here althers consent, c 1460 FoSTESCUE Abs, fy Lint.
Mon. 144 The Harmes ben now by hym turnyd into our
alter Good.
1513 DOUGLAS sEneis xn. i. 40, 1 sail reuenge
form-assoc., all to, allto, alto was
extended to other verbs as 'wholly, completely,
;
<$
The wind
<
t!5. Hence, by
by northern dial, after ijth
midl. dial, all sing, and alle
HAMPOLE Pr. Cause. 3045 pe saul, al-if it haf na body.
WYCLIF 3 Treat. 17 Al^if theishulen aftirbe dampnyd.
Uplandyshni. 41 All if I would, it were
1514 BARCLAY Cyt.
all
R. BKUNNK Chron. 162 Pat 1 be jour aller broker. 1377
LANGL. P. PI. B. xvi. 205 Adam was oure aller fader, c 1380
Sir Fernnib. 2884 By-for hure alre si^t.
1386 CHAUCER
Prol. 823 Vp roos oure boost and was oure allor cok [T. r.
alber, alder].
1401 Pol. Poems 11.65 Crist, our aller duke.
a 1423 JAMES I King's Q. in. xl, I will that Gud-hope
be,
;
1340
power so
With
. .
.
alleris, alders,
(Cf. our-s, their-s, both-er(s.)
1230 Ancr. R. 52 Eue vre alre moder. Ibid. 94 Hore
alre crune. a 1300 Cursor M. 469 For bare aller right. 1330
2-4 -en, 2-5 -e gen. 1-2 alra, 2-4 -re, 3-4 aldre,
3-6 aller, alder, alj>er, alther, also passim, alir,
These
aldir, -yr, althir
alleris, altheris, etc.
survived longest in the south, none being retained
4:1380
if
althers.
;
;
All
second possessive ending, making
;
moder ware. 1366 MAUNDEV. ii. 13 5'f alle it be so, that
Menseyn. 1:1375 WYCLlF..-lte:r/Vi45 Ifal bei kepen neiber.
fb. The more common order was all if, all
though the former is now obs., the latter written
A ij,
iij,
;
to them all, etc. (Cf. L. omnium
nostrum par ens.} Later northern writers, to whom
the -er had no longer a genitive force, added a
uses of early inflected forms.
(The inflexions were; Sing. ace. masc. i-j alne,
2-3 alle, dat. m. & n. i allum, 2-3 -en, 2-4 -e
dat. & gen. f. 1-3 alre, 2-4 alle
gen. m. & n.
1-3 alles. 7V. nom. & ace. 1-5 alle; dat. \ allum,
emphasized the supposi-
Jttgitrtha tPaynell)
:
D. Obsolete
J?i
1557
B
^1320
c 1330
1*1430 LYDG.
closed in her hert
1 4. In concord with a pron. pi. possessive our,
where modern language has of
thy tongue thou me all to terest.
1587 FLKMING Contn.
Holinshcd\\\. 1991/1 Which the Scots in times past haue
all to broken. 1611 BIBLE Jndg. ix. 53 And a certaine woman
cast a piece of a milstone vpon Abimelechs head, and all to
brake his scull. 1637 MILTON Counts 380 Her wings
Were
altorufiled, and sometimes impaired.
Dean AlUo-be-Blesses.
:
but shame.
(1535)
alfierne&r.
devel wai.
Bl. 27 In the althrest fairest sete.
your, their aller
us all, belonging
to-be-fooled me.
tion or concession, = Even if, even though. Thus
If all they keep = if wholly or really they keep, even
if they do keep. Obs.
c 1330 R. BRUNNE Citron. 37 pof alle Edgar be gate, Estrild
word ALTHOUGH
W. DE WORDF. Communyc.
many
i. v, For there was one
thyng
alderother in her chere declared. 1630 Thick. Turvcy
56 An alder leefer swaine, I weene, In the barge there was
not scene.
.
.
<
Ibid.
1300 Beket 2253 And crope ek as emeten alaboute.
820 Seint Thomas was albenethe.
1480 CAXTON Descr.
Brit. 4 Britayne is all aboute xlviii sithe Ixx thousand
paas. 1699 BENTLEY Phalaris 130 He is all-over mistaken,
1879 TENNYSON Lover's T. 75 Beheld All round about him.
10. With conjunctions, t a. With if and though
as one
1493
ff
Chron. Troy
.
.
With adverbs
all, all
intensifying force, produced
An
sight of, and it was written separate, or even joined
to all, as al to-torn, al to torn, alto torn. Obs.
a looo Gregory $ Dial. in. xvi. (Cott. MS. 77 b\ pa;t he sceolde
beon eal to sliten from 5am clifstanum. c 1200 Trin. Coll.
Horn. ii3Urehelende
altoshiurede^ejiaten. ciyytArth.
ff Merl. 4853 That he tak he alto rof.
1400 Sege off Melaynezfa Riche hawberkes were all to-rent. fi449PECOCK
Repr. v. i. 484 That her ordre schulde be alto broke. 1483
CAXTON Gold. Leg. 236/1 They were alle to cutte with the
;
though
J'lorice
vative vbs. were at length rarely used without all,
the fact that the to- belonged to the vb. was lost
It is all one water whether Symon Peter, or Symon Magus
be christened in it. 1691 RAY Ace. Errors in Call. E. IV.
154 As for the vulgar and illiterate it is all one to them.
170* Eng. Theophr. 1 38 That which a man causes to be done,
he does himself, and 'tis all a case. 1719 DE FOE Crusoe
1768 BLACK(1858) 373 It was all one, he could not sleep.
STONE Comm. IV. 20 What persons are, or are not, capable
of committing crimes or, which is all one, who are exempted
from the censures of the law. 1829 SCOTT City M. xxxvi, It's a'
ane to Dandie.' Mod. It's all one to me whether I go or stay.
6. Pleonastically in the combinations ALL-WHOLE,
ALL-WHOLLT, ALL-HTTEKLY, q.v. (See also
10.)
in if all,
its
remarkable constructions.
cizSo Gen. ^ Ex. 3997 On ilc alter fier
Stuy* Sag. (W.) 2298 On alder twenti
to-hcw, to-rend, to-rive, to-shake, to-shiver,
to-tear, to-tread, to-wcnd. Thus all to-broken, (G. all
*
zerbrocheti} quite broken in pieces.* As these deri-
3.
.
sciousness of
'
1205 LAYAM. 29080
7.
ALL-.
c 1386
was
forgotten, it was erroneously written all there.
a 1450 Syr Gowghter 172 Huntyng he loved al there best.
c 1500 Partenay 2490 Ywon all ther first ther he edified- 1513
DOUGLAS sEneis v. ix. 21 All thare last The antiant fcyag
Acestes. 1537 LYNDF.SAY Q. Mas>d. 150 The greit Maister
of houshold all thare last.
tc. Ignorance of the true meaning, with con-
.
and end our alleris offence.
E. All- in comb.
Combinations with all- as first element have exfrom the earliest times, and have become,
since c 1600, unlimited in number. In some groups
the combination is merely syntactic, though even
there individual instances of long standing have
isted
become
true
compounds
;
cf.
the gradation in all
The
alive, all-important, all-powerful, almighty.
stress is not on all except in a few real
compounds
as a'lii'ays, a'lso. On these combinations as well
as on simple phrases, derivatives are freely formed
in which the loose union or non-union of the
original elements is cemented by the formative process, so that all is no longer merely in
syntactic combination with the rest of the word
thus all-pcrvadingncss, all-eyed, cannot be analysed
as all+pervadingne$$, all + eyed, but only as (all;
pervading) +
The following
-ness, (all eyes} + -ed.
general classification contains I. Simple combinations
II. Derivatives formed on these, and on
phrases. Words in SMALL CAPITALS are treated in
their alphabetical place in the sequel.
I. Simple combinations.
;
1. adject,
with
sb.,
as
ALL-FOUR^S, -HAIL, -HALLOWS,
-MIGHT, -NIGHT, -SAINTS, -SOULS, -SPICE (and their
derivatives); all-power, omnipotence; all-wisdom,
ri68o J. PORDAGE Myst. Dirin. 55 The Power of all Powers,
yea All-power it self. 1827 Jidin. A'tt'. XLV1. 320 Here it
a sort of all-wisdom.
has assumed
2. adject, with adv. ^formerly an oblique case of
sb. or pron.), as ALGATE, ALWAYS, ALLWHEBE,
.
,
-WHITHER.
3. stibstant. (genit.} with sb.
'of all, universal/
as ALL-FATHER
all-monarch, -parent, -soul', esp.
as obj. gen. with verbal agents, when there is an accompanying ppl. form in -ing (see 7), as all-coni'
;
mandcr
(cf.
all-commanding], -creator, -destroyer,
-encompasser, -giver, -maker, -seer, 'Sustained, etc.
1594 SHAKS. Rich. Ill, v. i. 20 That high All-seer, which I
dallied with.
iii. 11641) 21/2
1598 SVLVESTEK Du Bartas
The All-Monarch's bounteous Majesty. Ibid. 24/2 Th'
eternall All-Creator.
1613 ZOUCHE Dtrve in Farr's S. P. 320
To this All-maker's prayses sing. 1621 BURTON Anat. Mel.
in. ii. i. i, That mischievous all-commander of the Earth.
1795 T. TAYLOR Met. Afiul. (1822) 184 The all-powerful and
all-parent Syrian goddess.
1850 MRS. BROWNING Pront.
End. I. 163 Zeus, the all-giver. 1870 BRYANT Homer II.
i,
xni. 13 Saturn's son, The all-disposer.
1870 H. MACMILLAK
Bible Teach, i. 26 The invisible shrine of the All-encomthe All-sustainer.
passer,
1879 WHITNIIY Sattskr, Gram.
Jntrod. 20 The emancipation of the soul, and its unification
with the All-sou!.
4. snbstant. (obj.} with vb. inf., as ALL-HEAL allhold, that which holds all.
1496 Dives <y Paup. iW. de Wordet i. xxxiv. 73/1 Settynpe
;
of mete or of drynke by nyght on the benche, for to fede All
holde, or gobelyn.
5. advb. with sb., as ALL-BONE; all-heart (ie-.
wholly heart), a name of the elm tree aU-sayer.
And in attrib. phrases such as all-rail, wholly by
;
all-slavery, all-talk, wholly, altogether (given
to) talk, all-wool, wholly of wool.
is called of
1567 MAPLET Greene Forest 41 b, The Elme
rail,
.
.
someAll heart. i6z4BARGRAVEvV>v.2i OurSaviour found
some all-sayers and no-doers, so others that would ontdoe
all faith.
1833 GEN, P, THOMPSON Excrc. (1842) II. 479 The
'all slavery' party in England,
who wherever two or three
were gathered together to oppress, were there m the midst
. .
of them.
1863 W. PHILLIPS Speeches iii. 50 The all-talk
par(y.
1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 3 Dec., The first all-rail
shipment of lumber. 1882 Daily News 4 Mar., The demand
most apparent in all-wool dress goods.
6. advb. with adj., =; 'wholly, altogether, infinAbout twenty of these combinations are
itely.*
is
found
in
OE. including eall-beorhtt
-gearo, -g
29-
a
ALL-.
/,
-mihtii,
-hdli^, -hu-it, -Ircn,
-nafod, -niwe, -rihl, -seolccn, -teaw, -weald, -werlic.
Of these ALL-HOLY, and AL-MIGHTY, survived into
-gretie, -gyldcn,
ME. and
were reinforced from time to time by
-WITTY, -worthy, -wise, -coon, -merciful, -just.
Since 1600, the number of these has been enormously extended, all- having become a possible
prefix, in poetry at least, to almost any adj. of
Thus,
quality.
all-able, -beauteous, -bitter, -black,
-bountiful, -brilliant, -complete, -constant, -content,
-divine, -dreadful, -earnest, -eloquent, -essential,
-im-
-evil, -fair, -glorious, -golden, -gracious, -holy,
portant, -just, -lavish, -lovely, -merciful, -peaceful,
-perfect, -potential, -praiseworthy, -prolific, -puissant, -pure, -rapacious, -righteous, -sacred, -substantial, -true, -various, -vast, -wondrous.
a 1000 ? C.DMoN.SVz?. 522 (Gr.) Englas eall-beorhte. CYNEWULF Ajidreas 799 Korean eall-grene. ^EtFRic Jitdg. xvi.
16 3ebunden mid eallniwum rapum. c 1340 [See ALL-WITTY].
c X 375 WYCLIF Antecrist 137 Chef bUchop & kynges son
alworbiest. 1585 Aw. SANDYS Serin. (18411 292 Three Persons
and one almighty and all-merciful God. 1586 T. B. tr. La
Primaitdayes Fr. Acad. II. 574 He must bee all-good, al1600 TOCRNEUR Transf. Mctntnorpli.
just, and almightie.
xii. 78 11878) 194 Where shall I find a safe all-peacefull seat.
1611 SHAKS. Cymb. ML v. 95 /'is. Oh my all-worthy lord.
Cta. All-worthy villaine, Discouer where thy Mistris is at
once.
1626 G. SANDYS Ovitfs Met. vni. 166 One who did
despise All-able Gods. 1613-30 DRL'MM. OF HAWTH. Poems
Wks. 1711, 46/2 Earth's all-thorny soyl. Ibid. 47 Of the
first world an all-substantial man.
("1656 Up. HALL Itwis.
IVvrhi n. ii, The bliss-making presence of the All-glorious
God.
1670 EACHARD Contempt Clergy 41 The all-wise
patron, or all-understanding justice of the peace. 1725 POPE
Otiyss. XXIH. 303 Such future scenes the all-righteous powers
display.
1765 TUCKER Lt. Nat. I. 503 We judge of the All
perfect by ourselves.
1781 GIBBON DecL fy F. II. 139 His
all-powerful virtue, and celestial fortune.
1794 T. TAYLOR
I. 304 He employed all-various purifications.
HALLAM
Hist.
Lit.
IV.
iv.
iii.
The
soul is united
54. 95
1839
to an all-perfect being. 1839 W. IKVING li'ot/ert's Roost'iS^}
are
modern
languages]
all-important. 1842 H. 1C.
63 They [the
MANNING .SVrw. 118481 1. xx. 303 Christ was all-pure. 1849
HARE Par. Serin. (1849) II. 112 The one living, eternal, allworthy Sacrifice.
1855 MACAULAY Hist. Eng. IV. 379
Bowed down by fear of the allpowerful Campbells. 1861
l
.
W. GRESLEY Soplir.
vital character.
<$
1862
Neol. 140 It
is
.
ent.
and
LYTTON Strange Story
are connected with the next
-ive,
from L.
all-efficient, -perftcient,
pr. pples.
and
II.
258 Is not
-sufficient
If all-
by forms
in
vbl. adjs., as
-potent, -prepotent, -preva-
all-comprehensive,
-perceptive, -persuasive, -pervasive.
lent,
and
of that all-essential
the Creator omniscient? if all-wise, all-foreseeing?
foreseeing, all pre-ordaining?
T These
ALLANTOIS.
228
;
-miscreative,
1594 HOOKER Eccl. Pot. n. (1617) 79 The Testimonies of
Clod are al-.sufficient vnto that end for which they were giuen.
1623 DRVMM. OF HAWTH. Cypress Gr. Wks. 1711, 121 The
1660 R. COKK I'tnver ff
wise and all-provident Creator.
Siihj. 75 The good will and pleasure of the All-prepotent
n.
i.
Cath.
Theot.
God. 1675 BAXTER
233 He himself who
is God Allsulficient.
1684 T. BUKNET Th. Eartk I. 320
That great all-comprehensive thought. 1711 SHAFTESBURY
Charact. (1737' II. 365 That all-prevalent wisdom which you
have establish'd. 1790 BURKE Fr. Rev. 287 Your all-sufficient legislators have forgot one thing that seems essential.
1821 SHELLEY Prom. Unb. i, The all-miscreative brain of
Jove. 1879 FROUDE Cxsar ii. 17 Moral habits are all-sufficient while they last.
7. advb. with pr. pple. as in prec., but often as
the object of the verbal action. With exc. of ALLWIELDING q.v. found already in OE., no examples
of this combination occur much before 1 600 in
modern times their number is unlimited, though
many are used only in poetry. Examples all;
:
acting, -affecting, -afflicting, -appointing, -arranging, -attempting, -availing, -bearing, -beholding,
-bestowing, -binding, -blessing, -canning, -cheering,
-commanding, -composing, -comprehending, -conceiving, -concerning, -confounding, -conquering, -confuming, -convincing, -covering, -creating, -daring,
ticciding, -defying, -despising, -destroying, -devouring, -dimming, -disposing, -embracing, -ending, -en-
That All-knowing Isaac Casaubon.
I hid.
v.
note 76
What
all-appointing Heauen will. 1633 DRUMM. OF HAWTII. Cypress Gr. Wks. 1711, 124 That all-sufficient and all-sufficing
Wks. 1711, 31/1 All-acting verities of
nappiness. ^1630
those flaming tow'rs. Ibid. 32/2 See, all-beholding King.
Ibid. 29/2 Uncreate
Beauty, all-creating Love. Ibid, 43/1
The greatest gift, that . 1 he all-governing pow'rs to man
can give.
Ibid. 30/1 Thy all-upholding might her malice
reins.
1655 H. VAUGHAN Silex Scint. i. (1858) 15 Some
drops of thy all-quickning blood. 1667 MILTON P. L. x. 591
Second of Satan sprung, all conquering Death. 1674 N.
FAIRFAX Bulk $ Setv. 99 Motion, which is an all-reaching
affection or belonger to each bit of the world.
1710 PALMER
Prvverhs 376 Our conduct is in view of an all-seeing eye.
1741 RICHARDSON Pamela (1824) I. xx. 268 The all -surpassing
pleasure that fills the worthy breast.
1742 YOUNG Nt. Th.
viii. 1150 All-bearing,
1765
all-attempting, till he falls.
TUCKER Lt. Nat. I. 596 Offspring of all-protecting Jove.
Ibid. 666 The all -space-fill ing mundane soul. 1768 BOSWELL
Corsica\\\,(fA. 21 164 Looking up to an all-ruling Providence.
1827 KEBLE Chr. Year Tues. bef. Easter, Thine all-pervadIbid. Purific., An all-defying, dauntless look.
ing look.
1848 L. HUNT Jar of Honey vii. 92 The all-including genius
of Shakspeare.
1857 EMERSON Poems 25 The all-loving
Nature Will smile in a factory. 1863 (26 Mar.) BRIGHT Sp.
(1878) 125 Christian morality ever widening and all-blessing
in its influence. 1870 BRYANT Homer \. in. 94 O all-beholding
and all-hearing Sun! 1882 SHORT-HOUSE J. IngUsant II.
131, I see traces of this all-pervading truth.
8. advb. with pa. pple.
'wholly, completely';
.
=
sometimes assuming an instrumental relation = by
Rare bef. Shakspere. Examples all-accom:
plished, -admired, -appalled, -armed, -dreaded, -enlightened, -enraged, -honoured, -licensed, -praised,
-shunned, -watched.
(These pass by ambiguous
(
combinations, as all-watched,
wholly watched
through,' or
1596 SHAKS.
'
being all watch,' into group 12.)
i Hen.
IV, in. ii. 140 This gallant Hotspur,
this all-praysed Knight.
Iffit. ', iv. Cho. 38 The
1599
\\ earie, and all-watched
Lear i. iv. 220 This,
night. 1605
Foole.
1606
Ant.
your all-lycenc'd
<y Cl. 11. vi. 16 AllTitnon iv. ii. 14
honor'd, honest Romaine Brutus.
1607
His disease of all shunn'd pouerty. 1611
Cymb. iv. ii. 271
Th' all-dreaded Thunderstone. c i6ia SYLVESTER Lachr. La.'
chritn. Poems 11633) 1149 O, All-admired, Benign and Bountious
All-desired (right) Panaretos
a 1631 DRAYTON
!
O
!
Triumph of David,
How
ibid, 114
th'
this
vnarmea youth him-
would beare Against
all-armed giant (which they
c
feare).
1711, 10/1 False
delights., my all-appalled mind so do affray.
1725 POPE
Inform him.
Odyss. xin. 483 Oh all-enlightened Mind
selfe
1630 DRUMM. OF HAWTH. Wks.
!
-filling, -forget-
ting, -governing, -grasping, -healing, -hearing, -heeding, -including, -involving, -judging, -justifying,
-knowing, -loving, -maintaining, -ordering, -pervading, -pitying, -pondei ing, -prevailing, -preventing, -protecting, -providing, -quickening, -reaching,
-relieving, -ruling, -satiating, -satisfying, -saving,
-seeing, -shaking, -soothing, -space-filling, -subduing,
-surpassing, -surrounding, -sustaining,
-swallcnuing, -swaying, -telling, -tolerating, -transfending, -triumphing, -turning, -understanding,
-sufficing,
-upholding, -working.
a 1000
L. L. n.
Alwaldend God. 1588 SHAKS.
fame Doth noyse abroad. 1593
(Th.) 474
21 All-telling
i. i. 141 The all-cheering sunne.
1594
i. 78 To all posteritie, Euetl to the generall
Rich, lit,
Lcarm. ii. 6 All-shaking Thunder.
all ending day.
1605
1599 MARSTOM.SA Villaitie in. ii. 232 Close his eyes with thy
brawny strength is an
all-dimming hand, Ibid. n. v. 195
Patient Crissil 16 When all-comall-canning charms.
Z..
,
Exm.
Cod.
Rom.
tf
i.
Jnl.
in.
O
j6oj
manding love your hearts subdue. 1607 HIERON Wks. I. 427
1612
It hath pleased the all-disposing God to remooue you.
DRAYTON Poly-olb. ix. note 152 The Drujds inuocation was
note
109
to one AU-healing or All-sauing power, Itid, vji.
I!
10.
a.
sb.
from
as all-fullness,
6,
-powerful-ness,
b. from 6 T, as all-defiance, -sufficience,
-potency, -prevalency, -sufficiency c. from 7, as allknawingness, -meaningless, -pervadingness, -pre~
;
;
vailingness.
a. 1614
n. 259
The
loue and kind-
nesse of his ull-powerfulnesse.
1656 JEANES Fiilnesse of
Christ 382 That all-fulnesse which dwelleth in Christ. 1670
EACHARD Contempt Clergy 56 The all-powerfulness of aquafortis.
18x4 SOUTHEY Str'J\ More (1831) I. 52 It would be
disparaging his own all-wiseness. 1860 RUSKIN Mod. Paint.
V. vni. iv.
19 He must be able to bear the all-wroncness.
.
to furnish
b. 1641 Prel. Episcop. A b, All -sufficiency
with spiritual knowledge. 1642 H. MORE Song of Soul
us
n. I. n. liv, What thing not done by his all-potencie? a 1797
WALPOLEGiwy*//' 1847! HI-*- l6 The Duke of Bedford.,
reflected on Pitt's all-sufficience.
1826 E. IRVING Babylon
II. VH. 235 The doctrine of Christ, and the all-prevalency
of his kingdom. 1845 CARLYLE Cromwell (1871) V, 136 With
1865 PUSEY Truth fy
pious all-defiance front the World.
Off. En%, Ch. 108 The all-sufficiency of the Intercession of
our Divine Redeemer. 1870 SMITH Syn. $ Antonyms, Ubi~
.
.
.
guity, Syn. Omnipresence. All-pervasiveness.
C. 1654 E. JOHNSON \Vonder-~Mrkg. Proi>. 56 The honour
of his All-seemgness. 1674 N. FAIRFAX Bulk <$ Selt>. 23 The
naked essence of God is as much his all-knowingness, his
all-fillingness, or his onefoldness, as his everlastingness.
Blackw. Mag. (1882) 119 The abominable no-meaningness
The all-meaningness
of the lecc 1830
COLERIDGE
in
.
.
.
.
1862 F. HALL Hindu P /tilos. Syst. 64 In the matter
of omnipresence, or, rather, all-pervadingness.
11. adv. from the same, as ail-powerfully \ ailtures.
sufficiently ; ail-convincingly.
1649 ROBERTS CUwis Bibl. 308 How . ail-sufficiently able
God is, in performing of his Promises. Mod. An ail-convincingly genuine inscription.
12. adj. in -cd, formed on phrases (chiefly since
1600), as all-aged of all ages,
all-coloured, all'all eyes,' all-sided
s/taped, all-sized, all-eyed, being
ready or skilful on all sides, versatile.
These have
the stress on all: a-ll-si--ded.
1621 G. SANDYS Ovid's Met. r. (1626) 7 All-colour'd Iris,
luno's messenger. 1630 J. TAYLOR (Water P.) Wks. \\. 61/2
Al-shaped Proteus. 1658 J. R. tr. MoufftCs Theat. Ins. 899
Let that all-eyed Argus tell. 1765 TUCKER Lt. Nat. II. 478
Persons of all sized apprehensions. 1862 M. HOPKINS Hawaii
275 One of those rapid, intelligent, all-sided men. 1882 Daily
A'eics 8 Nov. 6/5 Coursing.
All-Aged Stakes, of 6 guineas
strenuously.'
= according
(a=lla
Mns.
adv. phr.
br<~-\v),
to the BBKVE.]
(See quot.)
1806 CALLCOTT Mns. Grain, iii. 30 The barred Semicircle
_
is used to denote a quicker Movement, and is called Alia
Breve.
1879 E. PROUT in Grove Diet. A/us., Alia Breve,
originally a species of time in which every bar contained a
breve or four minims ; hence its name
Modem alia breve
time simply differs from ordinary common time by being
always beaten or counted with two minims in the bar, and
therefore is really quick common time.
.
.
Alia Capella
= according to
= prec.
II
(a-lla kape-lla), ad-v.phr.
(the
[It.,
manner
Mus.
of) the chapel.]
1847 ni CRAIG. 1879 E. PROUT In Grove Mns. Diet. I. 53/2
Alia ttrei't?
This time, chiefly used in the older church
music
was also called Alia Capella.
Allaglte (re-lacbjait). Min. [mod. f. Or. a\\ayrj
An altered
change, alteration + -ITE min. form.]
variety of the mineral RHODONITE, classed by Dana
as a carbonated variation, of a dull-green or red.
.
.
.
dish-brown colour.
Allagostemonous
(se:12g(?istrnwnw\ a. Bot.
(by Gleditsch and Monch) Gr. a\\ayr) change
[f.
+ <rrrifjiuv
1880
mens
(See quot.)
thread.]
GRAY Bot. Text-bk. 395 Allagostemonons, with staalternatively inserted on the torus and on the petals.
Allah,
God,
(re-la),
[a.
Arab. $JJ\ allah the
contr. of al-ilah,
al the
i.e.
+
aJl ilah
(true)
god =
Aram. F&K
The name
elah, Heb. rji^N eloah]
of the Deity among Mohammedans.
1702 ROWE Tamerl. \.
14 Well has our holy Alha mark'd
him out The Scourge of lawless Pride. 1753 HANWAY Trav.
i.
11762* II. xv. i. 403 The Tartars when they believe themselves to be dying, repeat this word, allah, allah, continually. 1840 CARLYLE Heroes (1858) 235, I make but little of
his [Mahomet's] praises of Allah.
Allahism
(ae-laiiz'm).
prec.
[f.
The
+ -ISM.]
Mohammedan
conception of the attributes of God.
1881 SEELEY in Macm. Mag. July 170/1 [Bonaparte] had
some fusion apparently of Rousseau's Deism
imagined
.
.
with the Allah-ism of
Mohammed.
Allamotti, -monti, -moth, dial, names for
Stormy Petrel. Montague Omit h. Diet. 1802.
Allan, var. of ALAN and of AULIX a sea-bird.
Allane, obs. form of ALONE.
Allanerly, variant of ALLENNABLY.
Allanite (se-lansit). Min. [named after T. Al-
the
;
lan, a mineralogist + -ITE, min. form,]
A
brownishblack mineral, akin to Epidote, consisting mainly
of the oxides of cerium and iron, with silica.
1843 HL-MBLE Diet. Geol., Allanite, an orthitic melane-ore
brought from Greenland. 1880 DANA Min. 287 Allanite is
a cerium-epidote,
.
RALEIGH Hist. World
Alia Breve
[It.,
*
9. advb. with vb. = wholly, completely.' rare.
1839 BAILEY Festus ix. (1848) 104 Whether the sun all-light
or
the
moon.
thee
II. Synthetic derivatives of comb, and phrases.
-wiseness
'A labouring
+ -TiON.]
v.
Bailey 1731.
'
1
all.
.
during, -energizing, -enlightening,
T.ABORATE
.
Allantoic
+ -ic
(?el^ntJu-ik), a.
Fhys.
[f.
ALLANTO-
cf. mod. Fr. allaiito'ique.']
Of or belonging to the allantois.
1836 TODD Cycl. A Hat. $ Phys. I. 47/1 Certain acids almost peculiar to individual animals such as the
allantoic,
1850 DAUBENY^/CW. Theory yi\ \e.&. 2^365 The allantoic fluid
of the cow.
1880 HUXLEY in Nature No. 583. 203 The existing horse has a diffuse allantoic placentation.
18
:
.
.
t
All an to id
f.
;
cf.
:
A.
and sb. Phys. [mod.
d\\dvr- sausage + -tiSr]*
(al:e*ntoid), a.
ad. Gr. dAAavTu-fiC???
shaped see -OID, and
mod.
Fr. allanto'ide^\
Of
or pertaining to the allantois.
1633 P. FLETCHER Purple Isl. n. xxiiu The last, from Urineadj.
lake with waters base, In the allantoid sea empties his flowing race. 1836 TODD Cycl, Anat. <y Phys. I. 646/2 In which
[the Batrachia] during fcetal life no allantoid membrane is
ever formed.
B.
The
sb.
allantoid
membrane
or ALLANTOIS.
1667 Phil. Trans. II. 512 Then he proceeds to the description ofihtAllantojdcs. 1847-9 TODD Cycl, Anat.fyPkys, IV.
744/1 The allantoid in the mare does not form a closed bag.
Allaiitoiclian (aela-ntordian), a. and sb. Zool.
A. adj.
[ad. Fr. allantoidien see prec. and -IAN.]
Havingthefcetus furnished with an allantois. B. sb.
animal whose foetus is so furnished.
:
An
1861 HL-LME
Moquin-Tandons Med.
Zool.
11.
u. 62 Allan-
toidians= Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia.
Ang.-nt.nin
(al?e'nt0,in).
Chcm.
[mod.
f.
AL-
form. Cf. Fr. allantoine] A
crystalline substance, C<N 4 H,O 3 the nitrogenous
constituent of the allantoic fluid.
1845 TODD & BOWMAN Phys. Anat. I. o Allantoin, an analogous compound to urea. 1863 WATTS Fmwics' Chem. (1877)
LANTO-IS
+ -IN chem.
,
II.
412 Allantoin
foetal calf
.
.
It is
is found in the allantoic liquid of the
by boiling uric acid
produced artificially
.
.
.
.
with lead dioxide and water.
Allailtois
(ala."nt0 is). Phys. [mod. L. in form,
f. the earlier form allantoidest ad.
t
a factitious sing.
The fcetal
see ALLANTOID.]
Gr. dXAoi'To-fiSijs
membrane (so itamed by ancient anatomists from
its form in a calf) found only in mammals, birds,
and reptiles, which lies between the amnion and
chorion, and forms a means of communication between the foetal and maternal blood.
:
*t Alia'borate,
v.
0fc.-
stem of allabora-re to
+ labora-re
to labour.]
[f.
'
To
L.
//Aw-/- ppl.
= ad- to, at
labour vehemently.'
toil at,
f.
al-
Blount Glossogr. 1656; whence in Bailey.
Alla'borateiiess. Obs.
[f. assumed allaboratc ppl. adj., ad. L. allaborat- (see prec.) + NESS.]
*
being well wrought.' Bailey 1731t Allabora'tion. Qls~* [n. of action f. ALI
A
1646 SIR T. BROWNE Pseud. Ep, 270 The Allantois is a thin
coat seated under the Corion, wherein are received the
1691 RAY
watery separations conveyed by the Urachus.
Creation (1701) 82 Abundance of urine in the Allantoides.