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more deal
c. Modifying a noun which expresses quantity or amount, esp. as a proportion of a whole. In early use frequently in more deal (see deal n.1); in later use only in the more part (see also part n.1 Phrases 1a(c)). Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > greater in quantity, amount, or degree
moOE
moreOE
the more partOE
lessa1616
mo'1858
no mo'1858
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a great part or proportion > the greater part, the majority
the more partOE
the best part ofOE
(the) more parta1350
(the) most parta1350
(the) most part alla1350
(the) most party1372
for (also be, in) the most part (also deal, party)a1387
the better part ofa1393
the mo?a1400
most forcea1400
substancea1413
corsec1420
generalty?c1430
the greater partc1430
three quartersc1470
generalityc1485
the most feck1488
corpse1533
most1553
nine-tenths?1556
better half1566
generality?1570
pluralityc1570
body1574
the great body (of)1588
flush1592
three fourths1600
best1601
heap1609
gross1625
lump1709
bulk1711
majority1714
nineteen in twenty1730
balance1747
sweighta1800
heft1816
chief1841
the force1842
thick end1847
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxxix. 334 Menig man wolde þone maran dæl his lifes aspendan on his lustum, and ðone læssan dæl on dædbote, gif he wiste hwænne he geendian sceolde.
1258 Proclam. Henry III in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1868–9) 21 (MED) Þo isetnesses..beon imakede..þurȝ þan to foren iseide rædesmen oþer þurȝ þe moare dæl [Fr. greignure partie] of heom.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3377 He let..de more del To kepen here ðing al wel.
a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 352 But more part of þis world erreþ here.
?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. ii. 189 Schrewes, whiche that contenen the more partie of men.
a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 113 (MED) In like fourme..is ruled..the more parte of all the reawmes of Affrike.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccxxxii. [ccxxviii.] 721 Tyll the kyng had assembled toguyder more nombre of noble men.
1533 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 155 In part of payment of ane mair soume.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Acts xxvii. B The more parte off them toke councell to departe thence.
1577 N. Breton Floorish vpon Fancie sig. Bijv I..learned so long there till I prou'd more halfe a very foole.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 270 The more Party of the Sutors of this your Realm.
1656–7 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1881) II. 537 Recevvit..in pairt payment of ane mair sowme.
1768 C. Smart Parables Jesus Christ lv. 112 The poor infidel and blind Are still the more part of mankind.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 117 The more part of them perished by falling over the rocks.
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