† fullyadj.
Obsolete.
1. Perfect, without defect; absolute, complete; thorough.In quot. OE1: fully or amply attended. Cf. full adj. 6d.In quot. OE2: (of faith) universal, rendering post-classical Latin catholicus catholic adj. 2.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adjective] > complete or full
fulleOE
fullyOE
plaina1325
plenala1450
replete?a1500
replenished1548
stuffeda1616
plenitudinary1647
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 785 Her wæs geflit & fullic sinoð [eOE Parker Her wæs geflitfullic senoþ, lOE Domitian A.viii Her sæt full sinoð] æt Cealchyþe, & Eanbriht ærcebisceop forlet sumne dæl his bisceopdomes.
OE Cambridge Psalter: Canticles xv. 42 Haec est fides catholica : þis is se fullica geleafa.
1385fullely [see fullily adv. at Derivatives]. c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 134 Heyl follich fruit of soþfast fay.
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cxxxviii. 21 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 266 With fulli hatereden hated i þa.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9862 (MED) All es fulli þat he wroght.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Gouernaunce of Princis (1993) xxxiii. 110 Thou sulde..slepe a gude fully slepe, a gude lang quhile.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xiii. sig. e.iii Well byloued father, this is my fully mynde.
1673 W. Lucy Answer to Hobbs his Leviathan ii. xv. 62 Either the Conquest is fully and compleat, (which seldome happens) or else the well-nigh-conquered Nation comes to a Treaty for their conditions.
2.
a. Of great size, large.Only in Old English.Compare note in etymology.
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OE tr. Wonders of East (Tiber.) §10. 190 Seo Nil is ealdor fullicra ea [OE Vitell. fallicra ea; L. capud fluuiorum], & heo faweð [read floweð] of Ægiptna lande & hi næmnað ða ea Archoboleta, þæt is haten þæt miccle wæter.
b. Having a full or rounded shape; plump.
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. l. 753 Coldenes..makeþ men more fully and huge [L. corpulentiores].
1505 F. Marsin et al. Rep. Queen of Naples (modernized text) in J. Gairdner Historia Regis Henrici Septimi (1858) 232 The said queen's [sc. Joanna, of Naples] breasts be somewhat great and fully,..they were trussed somewhat high..the which causeth her grace for to seem much the fullyer and her neck to be the shorter.
Derivatives
fullily adv. [compare Old High German folliglīhho, Old Icelandic fulluliga] completely, fully. Chiefly Scottish.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adverb] > fully or to full extent or in full
fullyeOE
wellOE
plenarly?1316
largelyc1325
abandonc1330
perfectly1340
sadlya1375
plainlya1382
fullily1385
largea1400
atauntc1400
taunta1550
in toto1573
good1577
soundly1577
richly1588
plenarily1615
sounda1616
plenally1631
1385 in W. Fraser Red Bk. Grandtully (1868) I. 139* Beand..the ende of myne ordenans fullely demyt.
a1400 tr. R. Rolle Oleum Effusum (Harl.) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 187 (MED) With þo swetnes of þo godhede fullyly it [sc. the heart] is fylde.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 426 And haid till erd gane fullyly, Ne war he hynt him by his sted.
1568 in R. V. Agnew Corr. P. Waus (1887) I. 42 Fullili contentit for all the haill inspreit gudis of Barnbarracht and Frucht.
1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 174 S. Johne..is fullalie occupied in commending vnto vs brotherlie charitie.
1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 92 The next day the Assemblie fullilie conveined, Earles, Lords, Barrons, Ministers, and Commissioners.
fulliness n. fullness. Chiefly Scottish in later use.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > fullness
fullnessa1398
repletiona1398
fullinessa1400
impletion1583
repleteness1603
plenitya1622
expletion1623
plenuma1784
stowage1825
plenitude1857
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10404 Þe takening of a hundret tale, Al fullines it takens hale.
c1480 (a1400) St. John Baptist 207 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 229 Al þe lafe..of his gret fullynes has tane.
1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1890) II. 36 He denyis the fullines [L. plenitudinem] of the Trinitie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
fullyv.
/ˈfʊli/, U.S. /ˈfʊli/ slang (originally and chiefly British). Now disused.
transitive. To commit (a person) for trial.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] > commit to custody > commit for trial
reprieve1556
refera1675
fully1846
1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 68 The beak fullied her to the Balie, and a seven penn'orth, across the herring ditch.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 388/1 At Launceston [Tasmania] I was ‘fullied’ by a bench of magistrates, and had 100 [lashes].
1926 E. Wallace More Educated Evans iv. 97 We found a lot of stolen property in his house, and he is certain to be fullied.
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid xxix. 281 They'll fully me to the Old Bailey, I reckon.
1984 Verbatim Summer 21/2 Not many living Englishmen would understand the meaning of, say, to be fullied.
Derivatives
ˈfullied adj.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [adjective] > committing to custody > committed to custody > committed for trial
fullied1859
1859 G. W. Matsell Vocabulum Fullied, committed for trial.
1900 Evening News (Sydney) 27 Feb. 3/4 When young men are unlucky enough to be ‘fullied’, as the vernacular for ‘committed to trial’ runs, an entertainment is arranged to get funds for the use of the ‘fullied’ one.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
fullyadv.
/ˈfʊli/, U.S. /ˈfʊli/ 1. In a full manner or degree; to the full; in (its) entirety or totality; completely, entirely; thoroughly, exactly, quite.
a. Modifying a verb (frequently a past participle).
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adverb]
fullyeOE
allesOE
fullOE
rightc1175
everydealc1300
wholec1300
whollya1325
finelyc1330
fairly1340
completec1374
gainlya1375
clearly1377
freelya1393
plaina1393
entire?a1400
entirelyc1400
oddlyc1400
sufficientlyc1440
expressc1475
totally1509
completely1526
finec1530
exactly?1531
sincerely1576
start1599
fillingly1611
circularly1618
solid1651
out-over1745
rotundly1775
roundedly?1802
whole hog1840
clear-away1883
whole cloth1917
righteous1948
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adverb] > fillingly or to satiety
fullyeOE
satiably1580
the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adverb] > fully or to full extent or in full
fullyeOE
wellOE
plenarly?1316
largelyc1325
abandonc1330
perfectly1340
sadlya1375
plainlya1382
fullily1385
largea1400
atauntc1400
taunta1550
in toto1573
good1577
soundly1577
richly1588
plenarily1615
sounda1616
plenally1631
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) ii. iii. 104 Heo [sc. the church] þa gyta næs fullice geworht [L. perfecta] ne gehalgod.
lOE King Ælfred tr. St. Augustine Soliloquies (Vitell.) (1922) i. 20 Ða ic me gebæd, me þuhte þæt ic swa fulice ne understode þæt þæt ic bæd swa swa ic wolde.
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 27 To sume men he cumeð..and wille fulliche rixle on him eft on þe eche liue.
a1250 Wohunge ure Lauerd in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 277 (MED) Neh hefde i fulliche buhed til alle mine þre fan.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 6997 (MED) Gij went forþ fulleliche wiþalle: Was him þer no nedes to duelle.
1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 50 We fulliche vndirstondend ȝour lettres.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 476 Unnethes es a child born fully Þat it ne bygynnes to goule and cry.
c1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 117 Hete milke..& lete natt fully buille.
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 5 (MED) Whenne the candell was liȝt, þey sawe fully the toode sitting on his brest.
a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. CCxxxv All the powers & desyres of mannes soule shall be fully contented & quyeted.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 187 Italian, Spanish, and Greek, who fully pronounce every letter in the word.
1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 275 His eyes..are with all so fully placed, as is most comely.
1653 R. Baxter Christian Concord 19 The things that we thought should be fullier expressed then in the ancient Creed, are these.
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxiii. 220 Behold, Achilles' Promise fully paid.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. iii. 23 In this I satisfied him fully.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. i. 20 The dawn..introduced the strangers more fully to each other.
1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 78 Inferior Franks..posted themselves, fully armed, outside.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. v. 76 By the time that exercise was terminated, day had fully dawned.
1891 Law Times 90 441/2 Both sides should be heard, and heard fully.
1911 Boys' Life Apr. 18/1 To attack them in the open now that they were fully prepared would be folly.
1964 Negro Digest Jan. 12/1 The revolution will not be fully completed in 1964, but it will be moved a full measure forward.
1985 S. Hood Storm from Paradise (1988) 29 We have a kirk session next week. I fully expect they will want you to join them as an elder.
2004 Yachting May 120/2 Radar can help, but only if it is fully understood and properly used.
b. Modifying an adjective or adverb, and in other constructions.
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OE Will of Ælfhelm (Sawyer 1487) in D. Whitelock Anglo-Saxon Wills (1930) 34 Ic wæs þinum fæder swa gehyrsum swa ic fyrmest myhte & fullice hold on mode & on mægene.
OE Wulfstan Baptism (Hatton 113) (1957) 179 Ðonne þis gedon bið eal fullice wel swa to ðære cristnunge gebyreð, þonne is..to efstanne wið fontbæðes.
a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 73 He nis noht fulliche cristene mon þet is awiht wone of þisse þreo þing.
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 1687 (MED) Ar hit beo fulliche eue.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ii. l. 2036 (MED) Nat fulli sobre, nor fulli in a rage.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 229 (MED) Tho that haue fulli blake eyen tokenyth that thay bene feynte.
a1577 G. Gascoigne Princelie Pleasures Kenelworth sig. A.vjv, in Whole Wks. (1587) I would confesse that fortune then, fully freendly dyd me dandle.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xiii. sig. I2 To a hart fully resolute, counsaile is tedious.
1611 Bible (King James) Rev. xiv. 18 Gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe.
a1631 J. Donne Annunt. & Passion in Poems (1633) 152 Not fully a mother, Shee's in Orbitie.
1745 W. Whiston Sacred Hist. I. iv. 354 The King..being thereby made fully sensible of the Error he had committed, for the remedying of it sent a Messenger to Myrcinus.
1787 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Norfolk I. 271 There are men..who are fully aware that the ‘proof’ of their turnep-crop depends more on [etc.].
1812 T. Belsham Mem. Theophilus Lindsey 348 Withdrawing himself from an office the duties of which he was so fully competent to discharge.
1861 W. Fairbairn Iron 101 The fluid iron, as it flows from the tap-hole, is fully white hot.
1902 Science 16 May 769 All these individuals [sc. ants] are carefully fed, groomed and guarded till fully mature.
1946 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 93 443/2 The radar set being able to follow fully automatically once it was locked on to its target.
1956 S. Plath Let. in K. Payne Between Ourselves (1983) 6 One of the few women poets in the world who is fully a rejoicing woman, not a bitter or frustrated or warped man-imitator.
2001 Constr. News 20 Sept. 18 (advt.) With a fully-adjustable suspension seat, all-round visibility, low noise levels and user-friendly controls.
2014 Atlantic Nov. 93/1 Google..revealed a prototype of a fully driverless car.
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a. Used with an amount or quantity, esp. for emphasis: the whole of; as much as; = quite adv. 3e.Now invariably preceding the numerical or quantitative expression; in earlier use sometimes placed after it.
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OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 330 Ðeodred bisceop..þa leode bæd georne, þæt hi him mid fæstan fullice þry dagas.
OE Laws: Geþyncðo (Corpus Cambr.) ii. 456 Gif ceorl geþeah, þæt he hæfde v hida fullice agenes landes.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 7640 (MED) Ar king willam adde ibe king volliche þre ȝer.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 488 Þar he badd noght fullik an vre.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 111 Ne take his ese [wolde he] fully half a day.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 4570 Anticrist..Sal regne thre yhere and a half fully.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 26 On horsebacke was fully fyffty thousand, and on foote ten thousand of good mennes bodyes.
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 467 Walter, his heires and his assignes..ben nerrer than other in biyng of the seid tenement to the ende of the seid terme of lx yere fully.
1549 Forme & Maner consecratyng Archebishoppes sig. A.ijv Fully thirtie yeres of age.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1771/2 There were in the towne of Calais fiue hundred English souldiours ordinarie... And of the townesmen not fully two hundred fighting men.
1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel 198 Our eternall God. Who (promising foure thousand yeeres fully before to send such a blessed seede of the woman, as should actually bruse the Serpents head) hath [etc.].
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xxviii. 236 Whose height, as he saith, was fully seuen cubits.
1682 R. Ware Foxes & Firebrands: Pt. II 35 in J. Nalson Foxes & Firebrands (new ed.) The Convert continued not fully two years in his Parsonship or Parish before he died.
1775 J. Whitaker History of Manchester II. vi. 174 The number of royal thanes or capital tenants, at the Doomsday survey, was not fully seven hundred in all.
1824 S. Afr. Jrnl. 1 27 A lion, having carried off a heifer of two years old, was followed on the spoor or track for fully five hours.
1877 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (ed. 6) II. ii. 25 Hesitation lasting fully two days.
1902 Daily Chron. 10 July 5/2 At the half-mile London were leading by fully three lengths.
1943 Triumphs of Engin. 115/2 It took fully ten years to get all this early work completed.
2015 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 1 Sept. a12 Fully two-thirds of the vehicles bore New Brunswick licence plates.
b. Similarly used for emphasis with comparative expressions, as fully as —— as, etc.
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c1300 St. John Baptist (Laud) 6 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 29 Manie miracles sum oþur dude þat fulliche so holi man nas.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 87 Him nediþ his medicyn I-maad nouȝt fulliche so drie.
1531 Bp. W. Barlow Dyaloge Lutheran Faccyons sig. O4v They shall I warant you certefye of the thyrde tother sorte that are so gladde of suche laboure not fully so many as ye reken now.
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xix. sig. I ii The owners hurt to be fully as muche In one of these cases as in an other.
1658 A. Jackson Annot. Job xxii. 168 in Annot. Old Test. Doctrinall Bks. I conceive that thereby is only meant his walking in an upright and perfect way, and so the second clause to be fully the same in effect with the first.
1685 J. Falconer Cryptomenysis Patefacta 4 This Transposition will appear fully as much a Stranger to the true meaning in an Epistle as any.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. i. 15 Sheeps Wooll, that is fully as hard and coarse as Hogs Hair.
1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile V. 77 Teff is used by all sorts of people from the king downwards, and there are kinds of it which are esteemed fully as much as wheat.
1845 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 102 My system is fully as unitarian as your own.
1893 Lowell (Mass.) Daily Sun 25 Nov. 3/5 The Yale team has the best defense line she has ever put on the gridiron, and her offensive line is fully the equal of former years.
1903 T. J. Dwyer Guide Hardy Fruits & Ornamentals 85 The Columbian Mammoth White Asparagus..throws larger shoots and fully as many of them as the Conover's Colossal.
1974 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News 18 Oct. (Focus section) 3/3 Carson exhibited a comic timing and a coquetry which was fully the equal of her beautiful voice.
1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) v. 134 A completely different child, possessed of a sweetness of nature fully as disarming and winsome as his brother Ardaviraf's.
3. With reference to eating, feeding, etc.: so as to be full or sated; to repletion.
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OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iii. xxxvii. 252 Þa þa hi wæron genihtsumlice of þam [loaf of bread] & fullice [L. plene] gereordade.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2092 Fuliche ne is he noȝt now fram þe vj fet y-mete in brede.
c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 237 Þe Kyng hade nouȝt ȝitte fulliche eten.
1541 R. Whitford Dyuers Holy Instrucyons & Teachynges xvii. f. 37 Ye other persons shulde therby be fully fedde and made spiritually fatte.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxxxii. 60 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 225 The poore..with store of bread Shall fully all bee fedd.
1660 S. Lynch 3 Serm. 165 To lead us into the green pastures, there to feed us with spiritual and corporal food, whereby bodie and soul may be fed fullie, comfortablie, and with comforts everlasting.
1783 Crit. Rev. Aug. 439 Children never have their stomachs overloaded, but be fed fully only at proper intervals, five times a day.
1831 New Monthly Mag. 31 76 The heroes of Homer eat fully and frequently.
1856 Trans. N.Y. State Agric. Soc. 1855 15 419 Those [caterpillars]..probably are often much pinched with hunger before the vegetation has advanced sufficiently to enable them to feed fully.
1910 Expositor Mar. 328/1 These poor unfortunate Englishmen perished of starvation even while feeding fully day by day upon food that served to satisfy their hunger.
1978 S. B. Ortner Sherpas through Their Rituals vi. 132 The gods are presented with all their offerings..and urged to eat fully and enjoy themselves.
2010 J. Ivie Knight & White Satin xi. 131 ‘I ate fully,’ she lied, and then her belly rumbled in direct discord.
Phrases
more fully: used (parenthetically) with reference to a title, statement, etc.: in full; without abbreviation or abridgement; so as to include the full text or particulars.
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1621 J. Mayer Eng. Catechisme 435 The first forme of blessing, is.., The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all: or more fully, The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ, the loue of God, and the Communion of the holy ghost be with you all, Amen.
1723 J. Reynolds Inq. State & Œcon. Angelical Worlds xxx. 196 They are said to be reserved unto Judgement; and more fully, to the Judgement of the great Day.
1831 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 17 334 An act of sub-multipling or (more fully) of sub-multipling by the same determining cardinal number by which the base had been multiplied before.
1876 A. B. W. Kennedy tr. F. Reuleaux Kinematics of Machinery i. 46 A combination of pairs of elements in this way we shall call a chain, or more fully a kinematic chain.
1939 C. V. Wedgwood tr. K. Brandi Emperor Charles V 578 The Interim, or, more fully, the imperial ‘Declaration of how things are to managed in the Holy Roman Empire, touching the question of religion, until the general council can be held.’
1995 F. Stubbings Bedders, Bulldogs & Bedells (rev. ed.) 70 Keeping terms or more fully keeping terms by residence.., observing the requirements of the University Ordinances to reside within the precincts of the University for a certain number of terms in order to qualify for a given examination or degree.
2009 M. Maslin Global Warming: Very Short Introd. (ed. 2) vi. 120 This intercomparison is being carried by the C⁴MIP (more fully, Coupled Carbon Cycle Climate Model Intercomparison Project).
Compounds
C1.
a. With past participles.fully developed, fully-manned, fully optioned, fully paid-up: see the second element.
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1877 Solicitors' Jrnl. 23 June 664/2 The fully-licensed Public-house, the Hoop and Grapes.
1893 H. B. Walters in Catal. Greek & Etruscan Vases Brit. Mus. II. 67 Combat of two fully-armed warriors, perhaps Achilles and Hector.
1906 Jrnl. Hygiene 6 69 Three fully-established, and two probable, cases of infection with B. paratyphosus B.
1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy (1959) 23 ‘A good table’..still means a fully-stocked table rather than one which presents a balanced diet.
1990 Littlewoods Catal. Spring–Summer 38 (caption) A slender, back-split skirt..in textured, linen-look fabric and fully-lined.
b.
fully-clothed adj.
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1856 Illustr. London News 2 Feb. 123/3 Watching with equal anxiety..is the fully-clothed Singhalese contractor.
1915 Times 10 Aug. 8/6 (advt.) It will support wearer and two others clinging to him, indefinitely, head-and-shoulders clear of water, and fully-clothed.
1999 S. L. Kasfir Contemp. Afr. Art ii. 79 (caption) Emphasizing the contrast between tropical semi-nudity and the fully clothed Western visitor.
2015 Mirror (Nexis) 28 Oct. A man—believed to be Connor's dad—went into the water fully-clothed in a desperate bid to try and save his son.
fully-equipped adj.
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1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 State Papers 133/2 Whether the Company are obliged to allot tonnage on board their fully equipped ships for the private trade to be carried on.
1832 T. Chalmers On Polit. Econ. xii. 373 A fully equipped [1832 (ed. 2) fully-equipped] and full-paid agency in all the departments of national usefulness.
1907 Times 15 Nov. 16/1 A fully equipped petrol automobile possesses four speeds.
1977 It May 21/2 A fully-equipped ambulance, manned by State-certified paramedics and emergency medical technicians.
2002 Getaway Dec. 248/2 (advt.) Comfortable fully-equipped cottage for self-catering holidays.
fully-fitted adj.
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1876 Telegraphic Jrnl. 1 July 181/1 Under pressure of broken-down communications, a fully fitted ship has to be hired.
1908 Commerc. Motor 19 Mar. 45/2 A fully-fitted, grocer's, delivery van.
1976 Evening Post (Nottingham) 15 Dec. 15/5 (advt.) Modern well situated detached house consisting of through lounge, fully fitted kitchen, [etc.].
1990 Punch 20 Apr. 39/2 The Urasenke Foundation of Tea..has installed in the museum a fully-fitted Teahouse.
2002 List (Glasgow & Edinb. Events Guide) 4 July 30/1 The bedrooms may be spacious and the kitchen fully-fitted but the garage is still where it's at.
fully-formed adj.
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1686 J. Canaries Rome's Addit. to Christianity 14 They need not seek for Holiness it self, and a fully formed piety, before they approach them [sc. the sacraments].
1825 Med. Adviser 12 Feb. 99/2 The cure of fully-formed organic disease.
1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxxv. 698 The normal product of discharge cannot be a fully-formed crystalline lead sulphate.
1988 Financial Times 31 Dec. (Weekend FT section) p. xii/3 Musical ideas that could only spring fully-formed from Britten himself.
2011 Oxfordshire Music Scene Dec. 10/2 It's pretty rare that a previously unheard-of band sends us a song as fully-formed as ‘Rome’.
fully-trained adj.
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1797 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener (ed. 15) 27 Both in any young trees still under training, and in the fully-trained older trees furnished with the requisite expansion of branches.
1863 Free Church Scotl. Monthly Rec. Oct. 343/2 Rawji Mulhari is a fully trained apothecary.
1909 Chatterbox 362/2 The Duke is coming..to bring a lot of silly yokels into collision with fully-trained soldiers ten times more numerous.
2002 O. Figes Natasha's Dance (2003) vi. vi. 417 The artist Roerich..was a fully-trained archaeologist before he became famous for his Scythian designs for The Rite of Spring.
c. Forming parasynthetic adjectives in -ed, with the sense ‘fully or plentifully provided with (what is denoted by the noun)’. Cf. full adj., n.2, and adv. Compounds 2a(c).
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1802 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 385 They [sc. oats] will be remarkably behind in harvesting, few of the late sorts being yet fully eared.
1870 Zoologist 5 2184 I see splendid fully-plumaged birds all through the winter.
1908 W. T. Hornaday Camp-fires on Desert ix. 108 I lamented the fact that our deer was not a full-grown and fully-antlered male.
1935 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Dec. 890/1 The author..describes the gentle art of soothing freshly-caught, fully-fanged cobras.
1957 N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Oct. (Real Estate section) r18/6 (advt.) Terrific location..fully applianced.
1989 Computers & Humanities 23 37/1 A fully-featured [word processing] program is not much costlier than a simple memo-writer.
2008 J. C. Browne Sweet Potato Queen's Guide to raising Children for Fun & Profit xix. 161 It took no small amount of cajoling..to soothe the still fully-toothed Kate.
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fully-automatic adj. designating a system, device, or machine whose function is completely automatic; spec. (of a firearm) that loads itself and fires continuously (cf. semi-automatic adj.).
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1889 Profess. Papers Corps Royal Engineers 14 192 The Maxim fully automatic 1-pounder..is a very interesting gun.
1947 J. L. Daniels & A. O. R. Johnson in P. I. Smith Pract. Plastics xvii. 235/2 A new type of Swiss fully-automatic moulding machine has been introduced.
1977 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 30 Dec. Prohibited weapons will include all fully-automatic firearms, switchblade knives, [etc.].
2002 Country May 9 (advt.) From the versatile 250cc Bear Tracker to the fully automatic range-topping 660cc Grizzly there is a model to suit your needs.
fully-fashioned adj. (of a garment; originally esp. a stocking) shaped to fit closely to the body; also in extended use.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > that fits in specific way > close-fitting
straita1387
justc1440
sitting1440
close1488
well-fitted1590
close-bodied1677
succinct1714
tightish1775
tight1784
full-fashioned1812
skintight1838
snug1838
fully-fashioned1844
tight-fitting1846
close-fitting1870
slim1884
skin-fitting1915
skinny1915
slinky1921
tight-ass1969
1844 Leicester Chron. 23 Nov. The more fully fashioned work is the worst paid.
1884 Brit. Trade Jrnl. Jan. (Suppl.) 25/2 Upon the 184-needle machine, a girl sixteen years old can produce, in a day's work of ten hours, from 1 to 2 dozen pairs of fully-fashioned ribbed half-hose.
1945 R. Dimbleby in L. Miall R.D., Broadcaster (1966) 41 A woman friend..wearing what looked to me like fully-fashioned silk stockings.
1946 Picture Post 11 May 17/2 Pure silk stockings cost about 25s. a pair, and fully-fashioned ‘mixtures’ from 15s. to about 6s.
1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. iii. 149 Use must be made of a fully-fashioned knitting machine.
2007 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 24 May 34 It is..the UK's last manufacturer of fine-gauge, fully-fashioned knitwear products.
fully-fledged adj. = full-fledged adj. at full adj., n.2, and adv. Compounds 1b.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > prepared or ready > mature or matured
digesta1398
ripea1398
fledge1398
concoct1534
seasoned1545
well-seasoned1545
ripened1561
seeded1567
fledged1579
thorough-seasoned1605
matured1626
well-matured1626
advanced1646
concocted1647
digested1657
well-digested1657
predigested1663
maturated1698
drop-ripe1724
well-developed1769
mellowed1798
fully-fledged1906
1778 Fanatic Saints 33 Thus Absolution, the just Consequence of Confession, fosters Iniquity in the Egg.—Rare Birds, when fully-fledged!
1835 Amer. Monthly Mag. Aug. 473 Even for the fully-fledged and high-flying authors, it has its advantages.
1866 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 July 73/2 It is nothing unusual..for men—fully fledged doctors—to be sent from college perfectly unacquainted with the rudiments of the profession.
1906 Daily Chron. 23 Mar. 4/4 This suggestion that unions should be compulsorily converted into fully-fledged corporate bodies.
1936 Discovery Aug. 262/1 It was thought that a gap intervened between the Old and the New Stone Ages, during which man retreated from Northern Europe to return fully-fledged as neolithic man.
1971 Engineering Apr. 27/2 Management and marketing are now fully-fledged subjects in their own right.
2003 ‘A. Pendragon’ & C. J. Stone Trials of Arthur ii. 17 He was about 17 by now, and a fully-fledged biker. Leathers, cut-off denims, hair down to his shoulders, headband.
fully-grown adj. = full-grown adj.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [adjective] > growth > maturation or mature
perfecta1387
full-growna1393
mature1801
fully-grown1810
developmental1830
prematuration1914
1810 Ann. Reg. 1808 (Otridge ed.) Misc. Ess. 165/1 That method of history, which consists in suppressing facts..to seize..general causes with their effects, is suited to fully grown men.
1847 R. Owen in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1846 Notices & Abstr. 89 I..obtained nearly seven sacks of fully-grown, perfectly sound potatoes.
1913 W. E. Kellicott Textbk. Gen. Embryol. iii. 88 Fully grown human oöcyte freshly removed from the ovary.
2007 Independent 8 Mar. (Extra section) 4/1 For those who don't want a fully-grown labradoodle romping around their house, but who still want the non-moulting hair of a poodle, the cockapoo is the crossbreed option of choice.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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adv.eOE- not to give a doggone
- not to give a fart
- not to give a flying fuck
- not to give a frick
- not to give a fuck
- not to give a goddam
- not to give a goldarn
- not to give a good goddam
- not to give a good goldarn
- not to give a mite
- not to give a monkey's
- not to give a monkey's fuck
- not to give a motherfuck
- not to give a pulled hen
- not to give a rap
- not to give a rat's arse
- not to give a rat's ass
- not to give a rat's ding
- not to give a rye straw for
- not to give a shit
- not to give a shite
- not to give a sod
- not to give a stuff
- not to give a thought
- not to give a toss