en blocadv.
/ɒn ˈblɒk/ In a block, as a whole. Also attributive.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > that is all or the whole [phrase] > all collectively en masse
in generala1393
in gross1508
by the lump1522
in universal1532
at large1598
in the lump1624
in (the) massa1631
at the great1699
by or in (the) slump1795
en masse1802
in a slump1827
en bloc1861
in block1870
in (the) aggregate1973
1861 J. S. Mill Represent. Govt. xvii. 312 The amount assigned to each being levied by the local assembly..and paid en bloc into the national treasury.
1878 L. W. M. Lockhart Mine is Thine I. xii. 241 You judge all your old friends, en bloc, simply from your own point of view.
1888 Contemp. Rev. Jan. 81 We are bound to take Nature en bloc, with all her laws and all her cruelties, as well as her beneficences.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 11 July 2/2 We agree, prima facie, that there is every kind of objection to en bloc disfranchisements.
1905 Spectator 28 Jan. 111/1 He was all but ready to..accept the tenets of the elder Church en bloc.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 17 Nov. 5/3 This machine is the new 1909 model, the en bloc engine, four-speed gear-box, and thermo-syphon cooling denoting the only departure from standard practice.
1914 C. W. Dyson Perrins Ital. Bk.-illustr. p. v To rescue them..from the perils of the auction by persuading the owner to sell them to me en bloc.
1930 G. R. de Beer Embryol. & Evol. i. 10 It is not the ‘stage’ which is shifted en bloc, but certain characters which may be peculiar to that stage.
1934 Discovery June 174/1 Nearby..are villages whose inhabitants in summer migrate en bloc,..to the islands off the coast where they spend their time fishing.
1966 Eng. Stud. 47 65 A mere en bloc rendering of the phrase obscures an image.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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adv.1861