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ˈhalfendeal, ˈhalven-, n., a., and adv. Obs. exc. dial.
In 1 healfan dǽl, 3–6 halfen-, halven-del(e, 4 helven-, helvyndel, 4–5 halvendell, 5 halfon-, -un-, halvundel(e, -dell(e, 5–6 halfendell, 5–7 halfyndele, 6–7 halfendeale. β. 4 -dole, 5 -doole. γ. 4–6 -dale.
[OE. þone healfan dǽl, accus case of se healfa dǽl, the half part (see half-deal, deal n.1, dole n.1), occurring after verbs of giving and the like, and mechanically retained after the sense of the inflexion was lost.]
A. n. ‘Half part’; a half, a moiety.
c1000Apollonius of Tyre (1834) 12 He..sealde apolloniᵹe þone healfen dæl. c1205Lay. 7093 He hehte..Þat he dælde his æhte a twam, And nom þa hæluen dale [c 1275 halfendele]. 1297R. Glouc. (1724) 5 Ac Schropschire naþ haluendel to þilke bischopriche i wis. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 10919 He parted his host in haluendel. c1380Sir Ferumb. 3253 Þat haluendol þan diȝte he wiþ-inne forþ to stonde. c1400Rom. Rose 2364 That in oo place thou sette, alle hoole, Thyn herte, withoute halfen doole. c1425Craft Nombrynge 14 Þou schalt doubul þat merke þe quych stondes for haluendel on, for too haluedels makes on. 1488–9Act 4 Hen. VII, c. 19 The same halvendele of thissues and profites. 1536in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. xxxv. 274 That the king's highness may have the moyety and halfendale of the dividends. a1656Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 212 When they had ridd away the halfendeale and dearest part, every man of himself, out of danger. 1888Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. s.v., I let'n had a full halfen deal, same's off we was to share and share alike.
†B. adj. Half. Obs.
a1300Fragm. Pop. Sc. (Wright) 22 Evene helven-del than appel heo wolde ȝyve hire liȝt. c1330King of Tars 783 Yit haluendel the child were thyn. a1440Sir Degrev. 812 He passed never out on the playn Halvendel a myle. c1440Gesta Rom. xc. 414 (Add. MS.) The porter..to whome I graunted halfyndele my mede.
†C. adv. Half, by half. Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden i. v. (Rolls) 45 The brede..[is] wel nyh haluendel lasse þan þe lengþe. c1400Gamelyn 272, I have nought yet halvendel sold up my ware. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. ix. 53 Lampes..halfendeale ybrent. |