α. see every adj. and pron. and way n.1 and int.1
β. U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland) 1900s– everway.
单词 | every way |
释义 | every wayadv.adj.α. see every adj. and pron. and way n.1 and int.1 β. U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland) 1900s– everway. A. adv. 1. In every direction.In quot. 1841 forming an isolated humorous compound. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > [adverb] > in all directions everywaysa1398 every whitherwarda1398 every wayc1400 everywhither1495 allwhither1878 omnidirectionally1950 whichways1961 c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 4604 His folk was sone in þat medleye By strengþe dryuen eueryche weye. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. f. clxxiiii/1 This castell went vpon wheles, the whiche myght be tourned euery waye properly. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie E 315 Square euery waye. Quoquo versus quadratum. 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) iii. ii. ii. i. 366 His eyes are like a ballance, apt to propend every way, and to bee wayed downe with every wenches lookes. 1648 N. Ward Mercurius Anti-mechanicus 28 None is more pertinaciously self-conceited of infallibility, then he who is most envelloped in the tanglements and hampers of the old every-way-wreathing Serpent. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 398 A Deity residing in the midst of an universe, infinitely extended every way. 1833 W. G. Simms Bk. my Lady 133 His enemies were on his heels, running every way in pursuit of him. 1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk III. 320 Every-way-at-once-ish eyes. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 34 The everyway external stream. 1935 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (trade ed.) cxv. 621 Check was a short, compact, furious man, darting glances every way from beneath tangled eyebrows. 1992 N.Y. Times 4 Mar. c6/4 Hair that went every way at once. 2. a. In every respect. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adverb] > universally or with universal application > in every respect every waya1530 a1530 T. Lupset Compend. Treat. Dyenge Well (1534) sig. Dv Euery way deth is a thing neuer to be feared of a wyse man. 1565 T. Peend tr. M. Bandello Moste Notable Hist. Ld. Mandosse sig. B.viiiv Due reuerence shee doth without delaye, Unto the noble Duchesse, as her better euery waye. 1615 W. Bedwell tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ ii. §57 The contrary..opinion is euery way without any shew of probability. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. ii. 109 You wrong me euery way: You wrong me Brutus. View more context for this quotation 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. iv. ii. 12 Her Mind was every way equal to her Person. View more context for this quotation 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. ii. 278 A clock..with everyway-multiform-exquisitely-mechanical circumstances belonging to it. 1828 T. Carlyle Goethe in Foreign Rev. 2 100 A wide, and every way most important, interval divides Werter..from Goethe's next novel. 1873 B. F. De Costa Hiawatha 12 His positive religious character is everyway overstated. 1935 W. H. Ukers All about Tea II. vi. xxvi. 281/1 It is possible for connoisseurs to secure..sets of silverware that faithfully reproduce any desired period and are everyway the equals of historic pieces. 1993 T. Parker May Lord in His Mercy be Kind to Belfast (1994) vi. 80 She went to discos on Saturday nights, and she liked being in the company with her friends; every way, she was an ordinary normal girl. b. In every manner or way. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > [adverb] > in every way every way1570 everyhow1765 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Qiiv/1 Euery way, omni modo, quauis. 1592 R. Greene Philomela Ep. Ded. sig. A3 I endeuored any way and euery way that I might, to discouer my affectionate dutie to him. 1611 W. Haine in tr. Cicero Certaine Epist. sig. Bv Provoking them every way, day by day, to excell one another by talking together,..by disputing one against another,..by writing one to another. 1648 T. Henderson Declar. Comm. Estates conc. Unlawfull Engagem. in Eng. 4 And so every way to oppresse all honest men in their persons, Estates and Consciences. 1739 H. Walpole in Hist. & Proc. House of Commons (1742) XI. 149 We are at War with Spain, and we will distress her every way we possibly can. 1864 Caledonian Mercury 8 Nov. To be understood any way and every way at the pleasure of the reader. 1977 D. Bredes Hard Feelings v. 154 Call him on the phone at like four o'clock in the morning, see, and you mouth him every way you know how. 2011 D. McCullough Greater Journey i. i. 8 He had been his mother's ‘right hand man’ through boyhood, helping every way he could. Entire in every respect. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute shirea1225 purec1300 properc1380 plainc1395 cleana1400 fine?a1400 entirec1400 veryc1400 starka1425 utterc1430 utterlyc1440 merec1443 absolute1531 outright1532 cleara1535 bloodyc1540 unproachable1544 flat1553 downright1577 sheer1583 right-down?1586 single1590 peremptory1601 perfecta1616 downa1625 implicit1625 every way1628 blank1637 out-and-outa1642 errant1644 inaccessional1651 thorough-paced1651 even down1654 dead1660 double-dyed1667 through stitch1681 through-stitched1682 total1702 thoroughgoing1719 thorough-sped1730 regular1740 plumb1748 hollow1751 unextenuated1765 unmitigated1783 stick, stock, stone dead1796 positive1802 rank1809 heart-whole1823 skire1825 solid1830 fair1835 teetotal1840 bodacious1845 raw1856 literal1857 resounding1873 roaring1884 all out1893 fucking1893 pink1896 twenty-four carat1900 grand slam1915 stone1928 diabolical1933 fricking1937 righteous1940 fecking1952 raving1954 1628 G. Hakewill Let. 16 July in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. cxxxi. 399 Sir Thomas Bodley of whose..every way sufficiency, I have had a long trial. 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike xi. 60 Wherefore I would demonstrate in paper, his every way ignorance of the Mathematicks. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > [noun] > being everywhere at the same time ubiquity1637 ubiquitariness1654 everywayness1674 everywhereness1674 omnipresentness1727 totipresence1768 omnipresencea1822 ubiquitousness1852 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 103 His everywayness or immensity is the same. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.adj.c1400 |
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