单词 | entirety |
释义 | entiretyn. 1. a. The state or condition of being entire; completeness, fullness, integrity, perfection; esp. in phrase in its entirety: in its complete form, as a whole. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > [noun] wholeness?c1400 entirety1548 entireness1605 integrality1611 entire1622 1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Cvii Deragotorye to the entiertee and fulnes of Christes ones sacrifice. 1630 W. Prynne Anti-Arminianisme 163 They haue an intirety, a fulnesse in themselues. 1765–9 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (R.) This is the natural and regular consequence of the union and entirety of their interest. 1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North I. 384 Its entirety—its unity, which is so perfect. 1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. 3rd Ser. xv. 181 The Christian Church taken in its entirety. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 183 All chance of fulfilling it [his religious mission] in its entirety had passed away for ever. b. Law. The entire or undivided possession of an estate; esp. in phrase by entireties, when two parties are jointly seised of a whole estate, and neither is exclusive possessor of a part. Cf. moiety n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > undivided tenure entirety1613 1613 H. Finch Law (1636) 10 They shall not haue the land by entierties, but by moities ioyntly. a1626 F. Bacon Office of Alienations (R.) Sometimes the attorney..setteth down an entierty, where but a moiety, a third, or fourth part only was to be passed. 1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 307 A husband, seised jointly with his wife, whether by moieties or entireties. 1809 W. Bawdwen tr. Domesday Bk. 615 Rayner claims the Entierty of the Church. 1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law ii. 7 A purchaser cannot be compelled, even in equity, to take an undivided part of an estate..if he contracted for the entirety. 2. The whole; the sum total. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] everydeala1300 universityc1384 universal?c1400 the whole ofc1450 alpha and omega1526 entire1597 be-alla1616 all1619 totalitya1631 all-hood1722 entirety1856 totalnessc1864 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. i. 21 You have the entirety of our outfit. 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life Introd. 24 Those other characters must relate..to the entirety of the organism as such. 1885 Times (Weekly ed.) 10 July 20/3 The entirety containing about 26 acres. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1548 |
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