everydel
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Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From everich/every + del (“a part, thing”).
Noun
[edit]everydel (uncountable)
- everything
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, line 1288:
- Whan he hadde found his firste mansioun,
He knew the remenaunt by proporcioun,
And knew the arising of his moone wel,
And in whos face, and terme, and everydel, [...]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Adverb
[edit]everydel
- entirely, completely, in every respect
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 1823-1825:
- '[...] Ne make werre upon me, night nor day,
But been my freendes in al that ye may,
I yow foryeve this trespas everydel'- (please add an English translation of this quotation)