selfsamen.adj.

c1422 T. Hoccleve Dialogus (Durh.) l. 731 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 136 Let noon housbonde thynke it shame..Thogh his wyf do to him þat selue same.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. l. 496 (MED) In his scheld..he bar..of goulys a lyoun..and in his baner bete Þe silfe same.

?1548 tr. J. Calvin Faythfull Treat. Sacrament (new ed.) Pref. sig. A.viii So dyd he ordayne hys apostles and in them all that shoulde succede them: priestes to offer vp the selfe same.

1574 A. Golding tr. A. Marlorat Catholike Expos. Reuelation 15 I the Lord am the firste, and euen I the selfsame am also with the last.

1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue v. sig. A3 The Author..varieth from that sense, which Chawcer vseth in translating the selfe same.

1634 F. Quarles Mildreiados in Divine Poems (rev. ed.) 518 You shall receive but the selfesame by Number and by Measure; which, before, you had by Weight.

1644 G. Plattes in S. Hartlib Legacy (1655) 253 If I be not hugely mistaken, it is the self-same with..Saint-Foin.

1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. ii. 50 That they seem to be as so many self-sames, so many reproductions of one thing.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 4 Whatever Persons the Civil-Law forbids to be accusers, the Canon-Law does the self-same.

1852 Monthly Christian Spectator Oct. 636 In military and civil life alike, the motive power of his deeds was the selfsame—not ambition nor vanity..but simple loyalty.

2006 M. Statler in S. C. Buckner & M. Statler Styles of Piety vi. 110 Rather than invoking the principles of noncontradiction to eliminate differences and arrive at knowledge of the self-same, philosophers should engage in..differentiation.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 4171 (MED) Cedar..was made knyȝte þe silfe same ȝere.

c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) l. 3992 She..Whiche [read With] the selve same suerde..Karf hyr hert even atweyn.

1539 Bible (Great) Matt. viii. 13 Hys seruaunt was healed in the selfe same houre [ Tindale 1526 that same, 1534 the selfe, Rheims 1582 the same].

?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 43 The selfe same day that Adrian was made Emperour of Rome.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iii. iii. 161 Both of you are Birds of selfe-same Feather. View more context for this quotation

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 147 And still he's in the self same place, Where at his setting out he was.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 177. ⁋2 The very self-same Action done by different Men can not merit the same Degree of Applause.

1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 388 He trod the very self-same ground you tread.

1832 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter iv, in Poems (new ed.) 35 Pray, Alice, pray, my own sweet wife, That we may die the selfsame day.

1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs II. 333 I could hardly believe it was the same Jura Bek who had been such a bitter enemy to Russia... But it was the selfsame man.

1931 R. Campbell Georgiad iii. 62 They're all members of the self-same school, And drilled..to enforce on all The standards of the middling and the small.

1970 Times 6 Mar. 11/1 He is a prisoner of the Conservative legacy in defence, the self-same legacy which the Conservatives presumably expect to reinherit if and when they achieve office.

2006 C. Frazier Thirteen Moons ii. vi. 116 Many fine crystal wineglasses..had been made at Murano, the selfsame Venetian island from which worthless colored-glass beads had originated.

1582 Bible (Rheims) Heb. i. 12 Thou art the self same, and thy yeres shal not faile [earlier versions and 1611 the same].

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island i. iii. 2 Their souls self-same in nearer love did grow.

c1680 W. Beveridge Serm. (1729) I. 16 The case is the self-same here.

1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 77 That we should believe in Him..as He Who Is, the self-existing, the self-same.

1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 164 Always self-same, like the sky.