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单词 halfendeal
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ˈhalfendealˈhalvendealn.adj.adv.

Forms: In Old English healfan dǽl, Middle English–1500s halfen-, halven-del(e, Middle English helvendel, helvyndel, Middle English halvendell, Middle English halfon-, -un-, halvundel(e, halvundell(e, Middle English–1500s halfendell, Middle English–1600s halfyndele, 1500s–1600s halfendeale. β. Middle English halfendole, Middle English halfendoole. γ. Middle English–1500s halfendale.
Etymology: Old English þone healfan dǽl , accus case of se healfa dǽl, the half part (see half-deal n. and adv., deal n.1, dole n.1), occurring after verbs of giving and the like, and mechanically retained after the sense of the inflection was lost.
Obs. exc. dial.
A. n.
‘Half part’; a half, a moiety.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [noun] > division into two equal parts > a half
halfc950
halfendealc1000
half-part1398
half-deal1399
mediety?1440
moiety1444
demi1501
demi-parcela1592
single1592
second1594
tally1647
'arf1854
half-value1903
c1000 Apollonius of Tyre (1834) 12 He..sealde apollonige þone healfen dæl.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3536 He hehte..þat he dælde his æhte atwam. & nom þa hæluen-dale [c1300 Otho halfendele].
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 5 Ac Schropschire naþ haluendel to þilke bischopriche i wis.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 10919 He parted his host in haluendel.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3253 Þat haluendol þan diȝte he wiþ-inne forþ to stonde.
c1400 Rom. Rose 2364 That in oo place thou sette, alle hoole, Thyn herte, withoute halfen doole.
?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 16 Þou schalt doubul þat merke þe quych stondes for haluendel on, for too haluedels makes on.
1488–9 Act 4 Hen. VII c. 19 The same halvendele of thissues and profites.
1536 in J. Strype Eccl. Mem. I. xxxv. 274 That the king's highness may have the moyety and halfendale of the dividends.
a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 212 When they had ridd away the halfendeale and dearest part, every man of himself, out of danger.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word), I let'n had a full halfen deal, same's off we was to share and share alike.
B. adj.
Half. Obs.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [adjective] > division into two equal parts > half
half835
halfendeala1300
demi1418
a1300 Fragm. Pop. Sc. (Wright) 22 Evene helven-del than appel heo wolde ȝyve hire liȝt.
c1330 King of Tars 783 Yit haluendel the child were thyn.
a1440 Sir Degrev. 812 He passed never out on the playn Halvendel a myle.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Add. MS.) xc. 414 The porter..to whome I graunted halfyndele my mede.
C. adv.
Half, by half. Obs.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [adverb] > in half > half or by half
halfingc897
halfc1175
halfendeal1387
half-deal1399
half in half1583
half-and-half1818
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) i. v. 45 The brede..[is] wel nyh haluendel lasse þan þe lengþe.
c1400 Gamelyn 272, I have nought yet halvendel sold up my ware.
1590 Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ix. sig. Ll8v, Lampes..halfendeale ybrent.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2016).
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