sundryn.
/ˈsʌndri/, U.S. /ˈsəndri/ 1. In plural. Various items not important enough to be mentioned individually; miscellaneous small items. Also occasionally in singular: an individual item of this kind.
a. Small items lumped together in an account as not needing individual mention. Also in extended use in itemized lists that are not formal accounts.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > miscellaneous things
short end1560
threads and thrums1600
varieties1624
giblet1638
thrum1648
scrip-scrap1711
sundries1711
odds and ends1761
oddment1821
odd-come-short1836
what-nota1861
flotsam1861
odds and sods1921
odds and bobs1957
1711 A. Nicholas Young Accomptant's Debitor & Creditor sig. F3v (table) To Ditto Paid for Sundries.
1721 J. Sawbridge Exact Particular & Inventory 7 By Petty Cash per sundries.
1794 A. Young Trav. France (ed. 2) II. xix. 421 Live Stock..Corn..Tobacco..Sundries.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxi. 547 A few of these [sc. ladders] are given in the table of Sundries.
1912 Times 19 Dec. 20/3 6,885 bales, made up as follows:—New South Wales, 387 bales; Queensland, 328;..British East African, ten; and sundries, five bales.
1971 Post Office Rep. & Accts. 95 in Parl. Papers 1970–1 (Cmnd. 608) XLIII. 1069 Postal accommodation expenses for the year ended 31 March 1971. Rent and insurance..Rates on land and buildings..Maintenance and repair of buildings and furniture..Fuel..Electricity..Water..Sundries.
b. Miscellaneous small items of merchandise.
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society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun]
warec1000
warec1000
cheapingc1200
chaffer1297
gooda1300
merchandisec1300
harnessc1386
pennyworths1403
haberdashery1419
merchandya1425
mercimonyc1460
merchantyc1485
merchandrise?1495
haberdasha1529
traffic1533
chaffery1535
trade1645
Manchester goods1705
stuff1708
sundries1740
business model1832
Manchester1920
tradables1921
durable1930
1740 Petition A. Forbes & D. Scot 1 The said Mr. Paton commissioned from Mr. Forbes, sundries in Value upward of 1200 Guilders.
a1754 H. Fielding Jrnl. Voy. Lisbon (1755) 182 The whole pitiful 30 l. came pure and neat into the captain's pocket,..attended with the value of 10 l. more in sundries, into the bargain.
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 16 The vender of sundries.
1877 Times 6 Apr. 13/1 (advt.) Iron platerer's wares, black ironmongery, ironmonger's sundries.
1917 Harrods Gen. Catal. 410 (heading) Manicure preparations and sundries... Majestic Polish..1/6.
1962 H. Jennings Societies in Making ii. 48 They..sold a wide variety of greengroceries and groceries, as well as bread, cigarettes and sweets and countless sundries.
2003 N. Rush Mortals xxv. 391 Man and wife were buying sundries in a job-lot discount emporium.
c. Small items of food served as accompaniments or additions to a meal or (later) as a light meal in themselves.
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1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 220 Mr. Alexander Trott sat down to a fried sole, maintenon cutlet, Madeira, and sundries.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxviii. 145 Mr. Giles, Brittles, and the tinker were recruiting themselves..with tea and sundries.
1892 New Rev. Mar. 361 Four couple of snipe, two couple of woodcock, two brace of pheasants, and some fourteen rabbits, which, with a sundry or two, make up the respectable total of thirty-two head.
1920 P. Gibbs People of Destiny iii. 82 He paid for at least eight portions of chicken okra, followed by eight plates of roast turkey and baked potatoes, and, not counting sundries, nine serves of deep-dish pie.
2005 D. J. Brewer Anc. Egypt (2014) p. xiv Finally a thank you is due to Belinda..for plying me with coffee and breakfast sundries through the long writing and editing phase.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > other types of accounts
calends of exchangec1374
scorea1400
pipe1455
mensalc1475
profit and loss1553
stock1588
bank account1671
lump-account1699
revenue account1703
profit and loss account1721
sundry1736
drawing account1737
stock account?1768
private account1772
trading account1780
Flemish account1785
capital account1813
embankment1813
cost account1817
cash-credit1832
current account1846
savings account1850
deposit account1851
suspense account1869
control account1908
checking account1923
ghost account1933
numbered account1963
budget account1969
ISA1975
MSA1993
1736 J. Mair Book-keeping Methodiz'd ii. i. 22 Goods bought, Dr. to Sundries.
1761 D. Talbot Pract. Bk.-keeping made Easy 38 Sundries Dr. to Sundries, viz. Voyage to Comp. for your Share of the Goods and Charges. Each Partner, his Accompt for his Part of Charges only.
1840 B. F. Foster Theory & Pract. Book-keeping 66 Sundries Dr. to Merchandise... The term Sundries is used in such cases merely to avoid recapitulating the same creditor. Thus, instead of saying,‘Walter Holmes Dr. to Merchandise’, ‘Henry Brown Dr. to Merchandise’, and ‘John Smith Dr. to Merchandise’, we avoid this repetition by using the word sundries.
3. Australian. Cricket. A run scored other than by the batter hitting the ball; an extra. Cf. extra n. 1b.Sundries awarded to the batting side are credited to the team's total score, and not to any individual batter. Since 2000, sundries have included penalty extras, which can also be awarded to the fielding side.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > running > not off bat
bye1744
extra1855
sundry1860
extra1884
boundary-bye1887
1860 Argus (Melbourne) 9 Jan. 3/6 ‘Sundries’ 22 was the highest scorer, as has not infrequently happened this season.
1922 Bundaberg (Queensland) Mail 2 Mar. 6/2 Another sundry was registered, but from Elliott's first ball Stengord gave Carvell a catch and had to retire before scoring.
1976 0–10 Cricket Scene (Austral.) 13/1 That 104 was seven runs more than the 11 New Zealanders could muster between them..excluding the 15 sundries.
2015 Newcastle (New S. Wales) Herald (Nexis) 9 Nov. 34 Stockton were routed for 61 in 24.2 overs. Sundries top-scored with 15.
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sundries man n. a dealer in sundry merchandise, esp. one who supplies sundry items for a particular trade.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in sundries or smallwares
miscellany gentleman (also madam)1609
knick-knackatorian1802
sundries man1866
sundry man1868
1866 Birmingham Daily Post 18 Oct. 7/2 Tables were ballotted for..and grocers' sundries-men took the even numbers.
1892 Garden 27 Aug. 191 Wasp-killers, as supplied by most horticultural sundriesmen.
1951 W. Lewis Rotting Hill v. 167 The quality of all goods supplied by the sundriesmen had inevitably deteriorated.
2014 Meat Trades Jrnl. (Nexis) 7 Nov. 24 The word ‘trader’ is worrying because it suggests you are not buying from an established butcher's sundries man or specialist knife dealer.
sundry ledger n. a ledger kept for accounts not recorded in any specific ledger.
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1858 Amer. Railway Times 3 July There are sundry ledger balances amounting to $59,942.50.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 2 Nov. 8/1 One of the ledgers, the cash-book, and the sundry ledger.
1906 Business Man's Mag. Mar. 59/2 A Sundry ledger is kept for all other individual accounts that are not provided for in the consumer's ledgers.
2013 A. Ross & P. Williams Financial Managem. Constr. Contracting x. 187 Input into sundry ledger.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in sundries or smallwares
miscellany gentleman (also madam)1609
knick-knackatorian1802
sundries man1866
sundry man1868
1868 Standard 31 Oct. 6/7 Sittings for last examination... Nov. 20, P. Croney, Cotton-st. Poplar, baker—Nov. 20, J. N. Pottow, Harrison-st. Gray's-inn-rd., druggist's sundryman—Nov. 20, T. Lane, Watford, builder.
1894 Times 4 June 13/6 Druggists' sundry-men.
1920 Meyer Brothers Druggist Jan. 90/1 (heading) Sundry suggestions from a sundry man.
sundry shop n. now chiefly Malaysian English a shop that sells miscellaneous goods; a general store.
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1896 Gardening Illustr. 23 May 174/2 Buy the Quassia-chips at the horticultural sundry shop. It is cheaper than the chemist's.
1935 Times of India 15 June 2/2 The goodwill stocks and outstandings of the business as a going concern at Bangkok in Siam Cloth Shop and Sundry Shop of Mahomedally A. Mogul.
1980 S. O'Dell Sarah Bishop xxi. 87 Across the road was a two-storied sundry shop... I purchased a long-hafted ax, a scoop of flour, some sweetening, enough salt to last, two thick blankets, and gunpowder and shot.
2016 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 23 Dec. 7 Bahari, 54, who owned a sundry shop on the ground floor, said her business was not affected.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
sundryadj.pron.
/ˈsʌndri/, U.S. /ˈsəndri/α. Old English sindrig, Old English suindrig (Northumbrian), Old English syndrie, Old English syndrig, Old English syndryg, early Middle English sindri, early Middle English sindriȝ, Middle English sindre, Middle English sindrey, Middle English syndre, Middle English syndry, Middle English–1500s (1700s English regional (Westmorland)) sendry; also Scottish pre-1700 senderye, pre-1700 sendri, pre-1700 sendry, pre-1700 sinderie, pre-1700 sindre, pre-1700 sindri, pre-1700 sindrye, pre-1700 syndery, pre-1700 syndra, pre-1700 syndre, pre-1700 syndri, pre-1700 syndrie, pre-1700 syndrye, pre-1700 synrie, pre-1700 synry, pre-1700 1700s– sindrie, pre-1700 1700s– sindry, pre-1700 1800s syndry, 1800s sinry, 1900s sindra.
β. Middle English sondree, Middle English sonndry, Middle English soondry, Middle English soundri, Middle English sum-dri, Middle English sundrii, Middle English sundy (transmission error), Middle English–1500s sondery, Middle English–1500s sondri, Middle English–1500s sondrye, Middle English–1500s soundry, Middle English–1500s sundery, Middle English–1500s sundri, Middle English–1600s sondrey, Middle English–1600s sondrie, Middle English–1600s sondry, Middle English–1600s soundrie, Middle English–1600s sundrey, Middle English–1600s sundrie, Middle English– sundry, 1500s sonderie, 1500s soondrie, 1500s–1600s soundery, 1500s–1600s sundrye, 1600s sunderie, 1900s sundhry (Irish English (northern)), 1900s sunry (Irish English (northern)); also Scottish pre-1700 sonndryie, pre-1700 sunddrie, pre-1700 swndrie.
A. adj.† III. That splits something apart.
I. Separate, distinct, different.† 2. Distinct or different for each separate person, place, etc.; respective; individual. Obsolete.† 3. Of a different kind; dissimilar in nature, form, or quality; = different adj. 2. Also with from, of. Obsolete.
1. Having a separate or distinct existence or status; not joined or united with another; esp. physically separated; standing apart. In Old English sometimes spec.: set apart for a particular purpose; special. Now Scottish.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [adjective] > individual or distinct
sunderlyeOE
sundryOE
serec1175
proper1340
serelepesa1400
sundrylepesc1400
sunderlepesa1450
peculiar1509
several1533
unconfounded1577
well-distinguished1594
articulate1603
unconfused1609
inconfused1626
separate1691
demarcated1862
OE Paris Psalter (1932) cxl. 12 Feallað firenfulle on heora fengnettum; ic me syndrig eom, oþþæt ic swa fere.
OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Judges (Laud) Epil., in S. J. Crawford Old Eng. Version of Heptateuch (1922) 415 Hi hæfdon ælce dæge heora witena gemot, & wæron gesette synderlice to ðam þa senatores.., þe dæghwamlice smeadon on anum sindrian huse embe ealles folces þearfe.
c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 174 Ne seah ic þær nan temple, ne nan sundrie hus.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1985 Ðor was in helle a sundri stede Wor ðe seli folc reste dede.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16094 Þe pretori, þat was a sundri stede.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xix. l. 192 Þre persones in o pensel..departable from oþer..And sondry to seo vpon.
c1548 in Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 2nd Pt. (1681) (modernized text) 148 John and Thomas, wheresoever they be, far and sundry, or near together.
a1556 N. Udall Coronat. Anne Boleyn in E. Arber Eng. Garner (1879) (modernized text) II. 58 The fourth Lady..peerless in riches, wit, and beauty; Which are but sundry qualities in yon three [sc. Juno, Pallas, and Venus].
1638 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court IV. ii. 92 Breed them in sundry houses, that continuall presence may not encrease enmity.
1790 A. Wheeler Westmorland Dial. (1802) 114 She ligs in a sendry kaw boose.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xliv Partitionin' aff the wast en' an' makin, a sinry door to oorsel's.
1928 Rymour Club Trans. 1922–8 III. 134 Of inseparable companions they say, ‘Friend binds friend,—they're nae sindra gear.’
?2004 Makkin yer Voice heard in Sc. Parl. in Sc. Corpus Texts & Speech The Scottish Pairlament an the Scottish Executive is sindry organisations an has different roles in governin Scotland.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > different or distinct for each respectively
sundryOE
sundera1382
several1457
mutual?1533
OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Deut. (Claud.) xxxiii. 1 Moyses ða gebletsode ær his deaðe Israhela bearn, ða twelf mægða, ælc mid syndrigre bletsunge.
OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Otho) v. Concl. 482 In septem Epistolas Canonicas [ic sette] syndrie bec.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 87 Inhis licome..he þolede sundri pine. & deiȝede ȝeont al his bodi.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1344 He hefde on liue tuenti sunen. and alc hefde sundri [c1300 Otho sindri] moder.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9533 Ilkan sum-dri gift he gaue.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 731 His men, in-to syndry plas, Clam our the wall.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 51 Ilk ane of them hed ane syndry instrament to play to the laif. the fyrst hed ane drone bag pipe, the nyxt hed ane pipe maid of ane bleddir and of ane reid, the thrid playit on ane trump [etc.].
1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching sig. E Those Amarosos here in England..that..will haue in euery shire in England a sundry wife.
1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 104 They therefore assigned sundry gods to severall creatures.
1673 Anat. of Popery 153 Each have their sundry Collects, Hymns, Praiers, and Oblations.
1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) civ. iv His Ministers Heav'n's Palace fill, To have their sundry Tasks assign'd.
1783 W. Tooke tr. J. G. Georgi Russia IV. 47 They..have sundry habitations assigned them.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective]
othereOE
otherkinseOE
unilicheOE
elseOE
otherways?c1225
diversc1250
diverse1297
unlikea1300
likelessa1325
sundrya1325
contrariousc1340
nothera1375
strangec1380
anothera1382
otherwisea1393
diversed1393
differenta1400
differing?c1400
deparayll1413
disparable1413
disparail1413
dissemblable1413
party?a1439
unlikeningc1450
indifferent1513
distinct1523
repugnant1528
far1531
heterogene?1541
discrepant1556
mislike1570
contrary1576
distincted1577
another-gainesa1586
dispar1587
another gate1594
dislike1596
unresembling1598
heterogeneana1601
anothergates1604
heterogeneal1605
unmatched1606
disparate1608
disparent?1611
differential1618
dissimilar1621
disparated1624
dissimilary1624
heterogeneous1624
unparallel1624
otherguess1632
anotherguise1635
incongenerous1646
anotherguess1650
otherguise1653
distant1654
unresemblant1655
distantial1656
allogeneous1666
distinguished1736
otherguised1768
unsimilar1768
insimilar1801
anotherkins1855
diff1861
distinctive1867
othergate1903
unalike1934
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1480 Wexen boden ysaac sunes..and adden sundri wunes: Esau wilde man, huntere, And Iacob tame man, tiliere.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 4246 Putyfar..held ioseph in mensk and lare Al þou þair treuthes sundri ware.
a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) ii. l. 27 Ek for to wynne loue yn sondry ages In sondry londes, sondry ben vsages.
1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) iv. 23 A venymous beest of sundry lykenes Of dyuers beestes.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prol. to Rdr. ⁋2 Euery church allmost had ye Byble of a sondrye translacion.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. B.viij Carduus..is a sundry herbe from Cinara.
1614 W. B. tr. Philosophers Banquet (ed. 2) ii. vi. 113 The sundryest kindes of extremities.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. vi. 176 A sundry dialect maketh not a severall language.
4. Different from other people or things of the same type; distinct, separate; = different adj. 3. Frequently preceded by a numeral or an adjective expressing number, esp. many. See also all and sundry at all adj., pron., n., adv., and conj. Phrases 5b. Now rare.In common use until the mid 18th cent.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > distinct
distincta1382
alienc1384
sundrya1393
alienate1533
several1533
particular1547
severable1548
different?a1560
distinguished1609
remote1615
discriminate1626
incoincident1636
discriminated1673
allogenous1842
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 6876 (MED) Thei bede..Tuo sondri beddes to be dyht.
?a1450 tr. Macer Herbal (Stockh.) (1949) 93 (MED) Sundry men sundirliche maken þis oile, but þe grete clerk Pallidius writiþ of hit þus.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. v. 176 Whan he is in the myddes of the tabler he may goo in to .viii. places sondry.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 149 Heilie harlottis..Come in with mony sindrie gyis.
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. E iij Dioscorides descrybeth thes herbes seuerally, & so maketh them sondry herbes.
1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 219 The third Brooke.., being crossed in the way by seuen other sundry bridges.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 231 Nine sundry Sects of Christians haue their Monasteries within this City.
a1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Art of Love (1709) i. 55 Experience finds, That sundry Women are of sundry Minds.
1767 P. Sanderson Descr. Bishoprick Durham 53 in Antiq. Abbey Durham He was miraculously elected by a Voice heard..three sundry Times.
1816 Raleigh Reg. & N.-Carolina Gaz. 26 May The principal characters of Mecklenberg county met on two sundry days in Queen's Museum in Charlotte.
1919 Congress. Rec. 15 July 2638/2 We have got two sundry civil bills before the House at one time.
2006 J. N. Jensen User's Guide to Engin. 208 Use simple words to express your ideas a clearly as possible. Avoid sentences such as ‘System failure mode was encountered on three sundry occasions.’
II. A number of; of various kinds; miscellaneous. (Now the usual sense.)
5. † b. In partitive construction, equivalent to the pronominal construction sundry of (see sense B.). Obsolete.
a. A number of, several.In some cases difficult to distinguish from sense A. 6a; see the note at that sense.
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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > [adjective]
somec950
somea1122
sundryc1275
diverse1387
divers1393
diverse and sundry1484
plurala1538
various and sundry1652
several?1661
several-fold1833
pluralistic1837
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 5903 Folc of ælche cræfte sundri scipen bi-tæhte & mong þan wifmonnen wepmon næuer enne.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1798 Iacob sente fer bi-foren Him riche loac and sundri boren.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. l. 1476 This Emperour..Withinne a ten mile enviroun..Hath sondry places forto reste.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 100 And ȝit is thare sindry othir realmes yat obeyis nocht to the Emperoure.
1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Morninge Prayer sig. .iv The scripture moueth vs in sondrye places, to acknowledge and confesse our manyfolde synnes and wyckednesse.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. iii. 159 Sundry Blessings hang about his Throne, That speake him full of Grace. View more context for this quotation
1682 J. Phillips Conf. Observator & Heraclitus 27 Guarded from the brousing Cattle with sundry sweet-smelling brakes.
1740 in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1891) I. 152 Sundry riotous persons fin'd for carrying Ann Miln from her own house.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. ii. ii. 163 Cecilia..was then ushered with great pomp through sundry apartments.
1794 Bloomfield's Rep. 13 The Court having heard..sundry affidavits read.
1843 G. P. R. James Forest Days I. i. 4 These benches formed the favourite resting place of sundry old men.
1870 ‘A. R. Hope’ My Schoolboy Friends xi. 149 Disturbing the placid repast of sundry forlorn cows.
1913 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 19 Feb. 493/2 Having built some proper out-houses to replace sundry untidy wooden hen-roosts.
1985 Christie's Sale Catal. Mod. & Vintage Firearms 20 Mar. 11 Some very light pitting, sundry small dents; trigger-return mechanism and sear-linkage not effective.
2003 New Yorker 17 Nov. 72/2 Bush bypassed the U. N. and resorted to an alliance with Prime Minister Tony Blair's Britain and sundry lesser members of the ‘coalition of the willing’.
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a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2551 Ðo sette sundri hem to waken [read baken] His tigel and lim and walles maken.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 321 Whom Cicero veray often tymes citeth in soondrie his werkes.
1588 W. Allen Admon. to Nobility & People p. xvi She hathe..replenished sundrie the coste townes and other, with innumerable strangers of the worst sorte of malefactors and sectaries.
1624 W. Bedell in J. Wadsworth & W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. Ep. Ded. sig. *4 He excused him in sundrie his Letters to others by his lack of health.
1696 J. Howe Funeral Serm. Mrs. Judith Hammond 14 Whereupon how admirable a display will there herein be of sundry the most known Attributes and Excellencies of the Divine Nature.
1760 in Acts of Assembly, Jamaica (1771) II. 52 For avoiding the infinite Number of small and trifling Suits commenced, or prosecuted against sundry his Majesty's loving Subjects.
1780 Jrnl. House Delegates Commonw. Virginia begun 1777 (1827) 39 The petition of sundry the freeholders and inhabitants of the said parish of Amherst.
c. In collocation with diverse, several, various. In early use esp. in diverse and sundry; now usually various and sundry.
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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > [adjective]
somec950
somea1122
sundryc1275
diverse1387
divers1393
diverse and sundry1484
plurala1538
various and sundry1652
several?1661
several-fold1833
pluralistic1837
1484 Rolls of Parl.: Richard III (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1484 §3. m. 6 Sundrie and diverse false and traitours proclamacions.
1498 Interpr. Names Goddis & Goddesses (de Worde) sig. Aiijv/1 Chaungeable of sondry dyuers coloures.
1539 Anno Tricesimo Primo Henrici Octaui ix. sig. C Deuised comprised and expressed by his gracis sundry and seueral letters patentes or other writynges.
1590 L. Lloyd First Pt. Diall of Daies 76 At sundrie severall times.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum xxvii. 1249 The Water Souldier hath divers and sundry long narrow leaves.
1652 W. Lilly Easie & Familiar Method 19 When any Ecclips happens, the Death of some King or great Person follows; various and sundry losses unto the State publick, much action to no purpose in the Managing of the Civill affairs of the Commonwealth; Many simple Consultations and no Conclusions.
1681 J. Fitz-Gerrald Narr. 23 Take notice of the several and sundry Inconveniences.
1725 D. Defoe in W. Lee Daniel Defoe (1869) III. 393 We have had Fools of various and sundry Sorts in this Nation, who have made their Appearance at various and sundry Times, and in various and sundry Places.
1791 World 5 Apr. Divers and sundry wicked and evil disposed persons.
1842 Examiner 15 Jan. 38/2 Every one was dressed and armed as suited his own fashion, and sundry and manifold were the habits thus displayed.
1888 Overland Monthly June 648/1 Still farther up the valley we met various and sundry other members of the family.
1921 Spectator 10 Feb. 7/1 A discussion of this clause on the Street, referring to sundry and several matters which have happened in other lands.
1950 Chicago Defender 23 Sept. 20/5 I have never retracted any of the..news items that had the complainants worried into making diverse and sundry threats.
2011 Associated Press State & Local Wire (Nexis) 15 Mar. There are also various and sundry exemptions that will disappear over time.
6.
a. Of various kinds; a variety of; varied, diverse, manifold. Now esp. of items or people gathered or considered together: of various types or from diverse sources; miscellaneous.Frequently with an implicit aspect of numerousness, with the sense effectively becoming ‘many various’, ‘a great variety of’, and hence overlapping with or (in modern uses not clearly referring to something miscellaneous) merging into sense A. 5a.† (b) Modifying a singular noun with plural sense. Obsolete.
(a) Modifying a plural noun.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective]
sunderlyeOE
manifoldeOE
selcoutha1000
felefoldc1000
mislichOE
alkinOE
manykinOE
fele-kync1175
serekina1300
sundera1325
sundrya1325
serea1340
divers1340
varyingc1340
variantc1380
muchfoldc1384
serelepesa1400
serelepya1400
multifaryc1460
sundryfoldc1460
multiplicate?a1475
variable?a1475
sundrilyc1480
diversea1542
particoloured1591
multifarious1593
Protean1594
daedal1596
choiceful1605
Daedalian1605
multiplex1606
variated1608
diversified1611
multiplicious1617
variousa1634
multivarious1636
mosaic1644
multiple1647
omnigenous1650
chequered1656
plurifarious1656
ununiform1660
variate1677
disuniform1687
Proteusian1689
unsteady1690
unequable1693
inequable1721
variegating1727
varied1733
multitudinous1744
multifold1806
polygeneous1818
unequalized1822
ruleless1836
varicoloured185.
non-uniform1856
omnigener1857
polytypic1858
multiferous1860
variatious1871
variegated1872
polytypical1890
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 666 Al was on speche ðor-bi-foren: Ðor woren sundri speches boren.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. l. 38 Þanne cam scripture, And serued hem..of sondry metes manye.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 5184 If I may lere Of sondry loves the manere.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 7 For to mak in thair synging Syndry notis, and soundis sere.
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. P7 How many and how sondry are the euils wherwith our mortall state is endaungered.
1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. E2v Like to a meddow full of sundry flowers. View more context for this quotation
a1613 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 269 The seuerall sortes of fowle..and..the sondrey kindes of takeinge of them.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iii. xi. 152 The external parts about the mouth are sundry.
1677 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 327 There are sundry sorts of Habits becomming Souldiers in particular.
1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. vii. 215 The Prophets of old were..destroyed by sundry Kinds of Death.
1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 611 To use several medicaments more or less humecting..to the sundry burnt parts.
1856 H. B. Stowe Dred I. xxiii. 297 Sundry articles of provision, and fodder for horses, were dispensed for a consideration.
1871 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 659/2 A great many sundry things of almost equal value.
1951 R. Harling Paper Palace (1952) 94 Other sundry objects that might hold the unknown words that Wensley wanted for his chapter.
1982 G. Godwin Mother & Two Daughters viii. 315 She did it with one hand, at the same time chatting with Miss Mary about sundry topics.
2001 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 31 May 5 The gardens are strewn with cars, bricks, rubble, timber, old furniture, rusting domestic appliances and other sundry items.
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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 2453 (MED) Saturnus..Of Chapmanhode..fond the weie, And ek to coigne the moneie Of sondri metall..He was the ferste man.
a1450 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Caius) l. 4313 + 46 He hadde wunnen in to hys hond Many a batayle in sundry lond.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 29 Elrisle..Auchinbothe and othir syndry place.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. E.iv In learning to handle sundry kinde of weapons.
1565 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) ix. sig. HH.iijv O thou Thaumatis hye, Of sundry colour to beholde.
a1612 W. Fowler Wks. (1914) I. 16 In statelye verse..with a store of sindrie sort of historeis.
1695 R. M. Lives Prophets, Patriarchs, Apostles 6 She then..hasted to load her Asses with sundry kind of victuals.
1726 C. Ellison Most Pleasant Descr. Benwel Village 250 Wines of sundry Sort, (Such as Madera, Rich Anadea, Tockay, and neatest Port.)
b. Consisting of members or elements of different kinds; of mixed composition or character.In later use usually modifying a noun denoting a number of items or people gathered or considered together; cf. sense A. 6a.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > of mixed composition or character
linsey-woolsey1565
mongrela1586
piebald1590
sundry1593
party per pale1607
mi-parti1610
hybridan1623
participle1694
ambigenal hyperbola1710
hybrida1716
mulish1729
hybridal1801
mulea1833
mixtiform1837
mongrelized1857
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. vi. 180 Forbidding them [sc. the Jews] to put on garments of sundry stuffe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. i. 17 A melancholy of mine owne, compounded of many simples, extracted from many obiects, and indeed the sundrie contemplation of my trauells, in which by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadnesse. View more context for this quotation
c1650 (c1400) Julian of Norwich Revelations Divine Love: Longer Version (Sloane 2499) (1996) 82 Onethys we knowen of our selfe..in what way we stonden, for the merveloushede of this sundry felyng.
1849 Knickerbocker Sept. 244/1 We also noticed our little round-faced, red-faced friend around the corner, the ‘Chronicle’ man and a sundry variety which we have not time to mention.
1889 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Nov. 836/2 The Guest Hall of the monastery is the Hospitium, which provides permanent lodgings for a certain and sundry collection of antiquities.
1929 S. G. C. Knibbs Savage Solomons xvii. 239 The dining-table, after the meal had been finished, was instantly converted into a bench, with vices and clamps decorating its edges, and a sundry array of fret-saws.
2002 R. Fairnie Scots Tung Wittins (SCOTS) No. 100 Scotland haes a sindry an colourfu language heritage.
2011 A. Reuben Beautiful Cage xxix In this section of the city, a sundry population of actors, artists, writers, and students from the local university lived and congregated.
c. In or with reference to accounts and other commercial documentation: consisting of miscellaneous items; not requiring individual mention or further itemization. Cf. sundry n. 1a.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > miscellaneous or heterogeneous
difform1525
maslin1590
several1590
heterogeneana1601
miscellane1603
heterogeneal1605
miscellaneous1615
heterogeneous1629
miscellany1629
miscellanean1632
miscellaneal1633
stromatic1656
sundry1678
heterogenous1695
sorted1697
well-assorted1757
various1772
misc.1806
variegated1815
olla-podrida-ish1827
unhomogeneousa1830
olla-podridical1830
heterologous1834
non-homogeneous1853
cut-and-paste1864
assorted1897
sorty1899
inhomogeneous1904
1678 J. Vernon Compl. Compting-house 204 Sundry Accompts must be Debtor.
1722 A. Brodie Rules Explained 8 in New & Easy Method Book-keeping Charging the Holland Debtor to sundry Accounts for the value.
1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. II. 187 75 tons of sundry wood.
1841 A. W. Pugin Let. 31 Mar. (2001) I. 227 £60 for cartage, sundry expenses, etc.
1870 R. W. Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining (1872) 98 The assets of the company [include] Cash in Bank of California $119,609... Sundry open accounts $2,863.
1895 Munic. Register City of Waterbury (Connecticut) for 1894 102 Spencer & Pierpont, sundry food for horses $36 84.
1913 Times 9 Aug. 19/2 Yield, including sundry revenue, £4,855.
2012 Times (Nexis) 15 Sept. (Business section) 84 The sundry expenses add about 0.2 per cent, taking the TER to about 1.7 per cent.
7. That splits something apart; that divides or differentiates. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > [adjective]
subtlec1300
subtilea1450
judgemented1548
sundry1564
refined1574
discerning1583
respective1597
discernible1603
divisive1603
distinct1606
distinctional1607
discriminativea1638
distinctive1646
distinctial1648
discernable1650
discriminating1650
sagacious1650
discriminanta1656
dignoscitive1674
distinguishing1699
discriminate1743
discriminatory1745
diacritical1856
discriminational1918
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective]
sundry1564
discerning1574
singlinga1593
severing1597
sundering1624
segregatinga1628
separating1647
separatory1715
disparting1730
disseveringa1822
1564 T. Harding Answere to Iuelles Chalenge xii. f. 133v They must vse a discretion and a sundry iudgement betwen the thinges they write agonisticῶς,..and the thinges they vtter dogmaticῶς.
1593 A. Chute Beawtie Dishonoured 54 Thus life, and death, in vnitie agreeing Dated the tenor of their sonderie strife.
B. pron.
Originally Scottish. A number of people or things; more than one, several.
a. In singular. Also in collocation with diverse, several, various: cf. sense A. 5c.Compare also pronominal use of all and sundry: see all adj., pron., n., adv., and conj. Phrases 5b(b).
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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > [noun] > more than one person or thing
sundry1399
diverse?c1450
divers1526
certain1532
severals1654
1399 in W. Fraser Melvilles & Leslies (1890) III. 15 Williame of Ross, chapellane, Adam of Carry, notare..with othir syndry.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 199 Syndry wayntyt, bot nane wyst be quhat way.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. vii. vii. f. lxxxv/2 Syndry of his noblis perswadit him to rais new army.
?1580 S. Batman New Arival Three Gracis sig. D.iii The dyuell vseth, in diuers and sundry of his ministers, dayly to poscesse and torment the minds of men.
a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) xlvi. 146 Divers and sundry of the workes of the Lord.
1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 123 The not understanding of which has made sundry in vain attempt to predict events foretold in the Apocalypse.
1715 No King-sellers 31 Yet doth he elsewhere bestow the highest Eulogiums on sundry, who branded and stigmatiz'd it.
a1796 R. Burns Katharine Jaffray in Poet. Wks. (1839) III. 181 He's tell'd her father and mother baith, As I hear sindry say, O.
1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 84 Sundry of those little hemmings and coughings.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. vii. 115 Sundry of the modern European languages.
1917 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 31 July 1383/2 One series of sleeves being at one end of the tube and the other series at the other end and on the opposite side of the sound holes, sundry of said sleeves of each series carrying open rings encircling the adjacent sound holes.
1933 Michigan Alumnus 21 Oct. 57/1 Several and sundry of the Varsity football players tucked the ball under their arms and went long distances for touchdowns.
2004 J. Rauch Gay Marriage vi. 106 Most often, people just mash together various and sundry of the above.
b. Scottish and English regional (northern). In plural. rare after 18th cent.Compare also all and sundries, an occasional variant of the pronominal use of all and sundry: see all adj., pron., n., adv., and conj. Phrases 5b(b).
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a1605 R. Birrel Diarey 21 in J. G. Dalyell Fragm. of Scotish Hist. (1798) Ther wes a verey grate slaughter amongst the English canoniers, sundries of them having ther legges and armes torne from ther bodies.
1608 in Select. Extracts Anc. Minutes Kirk-session of Kinghorn (1863) 11 Syndries sat out of the sicht of the preachour and behind baks.
1661 J. Lamont Diary (1830) 143 This yeire ther were diuers persons, both men and weomen, apprehended for witchcraft in Lowthian and Edb. and sundrys of them brunt.
1757 Nithsdale Baron Court Bk. in Sc. National Dict. at Sindry Sundrys of the Possessors thereof have abstracted their Corns, Bear, Rye, Pease and other Grain.
1770 I. Fletcher Diary 29 Sept. (1994) 228 Met Charles Bowman & John Youdall there about the lead. Shew'd it to sundries. Did not sell.
1838 J. P. Kennedy Rob of Bowl I. xii. 173 Sundries have seen the hoofs and horns, and heard the howlings.
1954 Mearns Leader 1 Jan. in Sc. National Dict. at Sindry This wis lookit on by sinnries o' fowk as an ill sign.
Phrases
P1. † a. in (also on, by) sundry wise: in several or different ways; variously. Also occasionally in sundry wises. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adverb]
manifoldlyeOE
mislicheeOE
sere-wise1340
in (also on, by) sundry wisea1393
in sundry waysa1393
manifolda1400
manifoldwise1440
multifarya1450
sunderly?a1450
multiplyingly1483
sundrilya1500
several1551
changeably1567
sundrywise1591
severally1605
variously1627
miscellaneously1639
multifariously1657
variedly1827
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. l. 29 For now upon this tyde Men se the world on every syde In sondry wyse so diversed, That [etc.].
1484 in J. Gairdner Lett. Reigns of Richard III & Henry VII (1861) I. 88 Feithful services to us in sundry wises doon.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) iv. l. 570 Þar aulde serymonyis Þat þai oyssit on syndry wysse In to þar deuocion.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) vii. l. 903 Apon þis be syndry wyis Betweyn þaim caussit was contrauersyis.
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Rom. xii. f. xxxiiiv God doeth in sondry wyse bestow his giftes.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 3v The fruitefull Earth that tyld in sundry wyse, Vnto the eye her goodly fruites dooth yeelde.
1653 G. Wither Dark Lantern 23 [Bees] being much oppressed, by their drones; Who..did in sundry wise, Incroachments make on their proprieties.
1689 W. V. Popery plain Foppery 6 Pride made the Pope a Simon Magus grow,..Boldly to sell the Spirit's Gifts for gain, In sundry wise, as History makes Plain.
b. in sundry ways (also †way): in several or different ways; variously. Also (esp. in the 16th and 17th centuries) with in omitted.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adverb]
manifoldlyeOE
mislicheeOE
sere-wise1340
in (also on, by) sundry wisea1393
in sundry waysa1393
manifolda1400
manifoldwise1440
multifarya1450
sunderly?a1450
multiplyingly1483
sundrilya1500
several1551
changeably1567
sundrywise1591
severally1605
variously1627
miscellaneously1639
multifariously1657
variedly1827
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 2297 For evere yit it hath be so, That love honeste in sondri weie Profiteth, for it doth aweie The vice.
1474 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1912) L. 121 Many persones daily bene deceived of thassise of beddes, as in Celers, Curteins..Coverlettes of Englissh makyng, which been thynne drevyn and in sondry weyes deceivably made.
?1538 Inst. Lawes Eng. sig. C.vii Particion maye be made in sundrye wayes.
1592 T. Tymme Plaine Discouerie Ten Eng. Lepers E 4 b This leprosie of pride dooth sundrie waies lay holde upon men.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem Table 61 He quha being lawfullie summoned, is absent,..is sindrie wayes vnlawed according to the diversitie of the courts.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 101 To breed him, break him, back him, are requir'd Experienc'd Masters; and in sundry Ways: Their Labours equal, and alike their Praise. View more context for this quotation
1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 36 There have died sundry ways since the Ship first struck forty-five Men.
1824 Times 19 Jan. 2/2 This grievance acts in sundry ways.
1920 O. Wister Straight Deal xv. 210 They tried it on in sundry ways, but ended by the discovery that, while engaged upon this enterprise, they had been in sundry ways quite completely ‘done’ themselves.
2015 Independent (Nexis) 28 June 4 His interpretation of Lady Bracknell, a character that has been read in sundry ways..is that ‘she's extraordinarily nouveau riche’.
P2. sundry times (formerly also † sundry time): several times, numerous times, on numerous occasions, often; (also) from time to time. Also with at (formerly also †in). Now rare.
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xi. 189 Temples..of þe heed..hauen þat name bycause of contynuel meouynge. For þey ben ichaunged as it were sondry tymes.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xix. l. 153 (MED) Ac ich sauede ȝow sondry tymes.
a1450 tr. Aelred of Rievaulx De Institutione Inclusarum (Bodl.) (1984) 12 (MED) This passion lefte him neuere..but euere in sondry tymes began vpon him fresshe and fresshe.
1533 Fabyans Cronycle (new ed.) I. ccxxiiii. f. cxlviiiv/2 He sondry tymes warned & rebuked Englyshmen for theyr mysseliuyng.
1575 G. Gascoigne Glasse of Gouernem. i. iv. sig. Biiiv When the people of Israell prouoked him at sundry times, he did yet at euery submission stay his hand from punishment.
1587 R. Crompton Short Declar. End Traytors sig. C.iiiiv Shee had already sundry time falsifyed her word, her writing & her othe.
1613 T. Potts Wonderfull Discov. Witches B2v The sayd Spirit or Deuill appeared at sundry times vnto her.
1700 True Relation of Conspiracy Ship Adventure 2 The Captain often circumvented me in sending Broth or other fresh Provisions to sick Men from his own Table, and hath sundry times ordered Fowls to be kill'd expresly for them only.
1799 J. Hemet tr. E. C. P. Guizot Contradictions I. i. 7 Those fits of impatience which I had manifested at sundry times, when my marriage had likely to have been broke off.
1897 E. J. Waggoner Stud. Bk. of Hebrews 1 ‘How did he speak?’ ‘By the prophets.’ ‘He has spoken—how often?’ ‘Many times. Sundry times.’
1918 J. Ward Psychol. Princ. iv. 90 The term field of consciousness has occurred sundry times in the course of this exposition.
2013 V. A. Bennett Lost in Schizophrenia Prol. I had originally left the Church when I was sixteen, falling from grace at sundry times.
P3. all and sundry: see all and sundry at all adj., pron., n., adv., and conj. Phrases 5b.
Compounds
Parasynthetic, with the sense ‘of various different —’.
sundry-coloured adj.
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1498 Interpr. Names Goddis & Goddesses (de Worde) sig. Aviv/2 Ridyng on a pantere a sondry coloured best.
?1606 M. Drayton Eglog i, in Poemes sig. C7v His sundry coloured coate.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 454 The Quire, walld..with sundry coloured stone, in which are inserted..tables of cast coper..in halfe relievo.
1834 R. M. Milnes Memorials of Tour in Greece 28 A sundry-coloured and strange-featured way, Our hearts have followed.
2010 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 11 Sept. 1 e They and a few cohorts spent 10 weeks on the road in 2008, toting a bag containing sundry-colored Sharpies, chalk and Wite-Out.
sundry-shaped adj.
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1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. vi. 70 Afore the making of this sundryshaped world [Fr. ce monde diuersifié], God had conceyued an incorruptible patterne thereof.
1839 R. Wake Southwold iii. 68 Sundry-shaped productions of carpentry-craft.
1971 Press-Courier (Oxnard, Calif.) 1 Apr. 3/4 (advt.) Sundry-shaped fashion frames for ladies and men, in solid or tortoise shell tones.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
sundryadv.
/ˈsʌndri/, U.S. /ˈsəndri/, Scottish English /ˈsɪndrɪ/, /ˈsʌndrɪ/, Irish English /ˈsʌndri/α. Old English suindrige (Northumbrian), Old English swyndria (Northumbrian), Old English syndrige, early Middle English sindriȝ, Middle English syndri, Middle English syndry; also Scottish pre-1700 sindri, pre-1700 sindrie, pre-1700 synderie, pre-1700 syndery, pre-1700 syndri, pre-1700 syndry, pre-1700 1700s– sindry, 1800s–1900s sinnery, 1800s– sinry.
β. Old English sundrig (Northumbrian), Old English sundrige (Northumbrian), Middle English sundi (transmission error), Middle English sundri, Middle English–1500s sondry, Middle English–1800s sundry, 1500s–1600s sundrie.
Now rare (Scottish and Irish English (northern) in later use).† 1.
a. Individually; separately; in turn. Cf. sundrily adv. 1. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [adverb] > individually (not collectively)
sunderlyeOE
sundryOE
sundrilyOE
sunderlepesOE
serelepesc1175
serelya1375
severinglya1390
sunderlingc1390
properlya1393
serea1400
severally1399
departinglya1425
diviselyc1449
severately1470
sunderwisea1550
separately1552
disjunctively1590
semovedly1593
distributively1597
particular1599
dividedly1607
dividually1631
separatively1789
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adverb]
sunderlyeOE
sundryOE
asundera1325
discretelyc1475
sundrily1487
severally1541
sunderwisea1550
separately1552
sejunctly1586
disjunctively1590
sejunctively1602
severedly1605
abstractivelya1651
incommunicately1664
detachedly1797
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Mark xiv. 19 Illi coeperunt..dicere ei singillatim, numquid ego : ða uel hia ongunnon..cuoeða him swyndria [OE Rushw. Gospels syndrige] hueðer ic see þæt.
OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) lxviii. 94 Genim ðas wyrte þe man gallitricum..nemneð, cnuca hy syndrige [L. per se], lege to þam sare.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 21 Seggeð..Bifore compelin oðer efter vchtsong. Dirige. wið þreo salmes. & wið þreo leceons vche nicht sundri.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2354 In lond gersen Sulen ge sundri riche ben.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20202 I sal to þe a-postles weind onan, And sceu þam sundri an and an, þat tai be her þe thrid dai.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 297 He..till gret lordis, ilkane syndri, Ordanit ane felde for thar herbry.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 57 The fautys wych we schal fynde sundry in the partys.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. Xv These three in these three rowmes did sondry dwell.
b. In detail. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [adverb] > in detail
sundrya1400
speciallyc1405
parcelly1451
particulary1473
particularly1489
plentifully?1544
inventorially1604
punctually1618
detailedly1806
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 26609 Scrift agh be scire and sundri [a1400 Fairf. sundre] tald.
2. In or to separate places; apart. Now rare.
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OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Mark iv. 34 Seorsum autem discipulis suis disserebat omnia : syndrige uutedlice ðegnum his tosceadade uel trahtade uel he sægde alle.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12265 Alle þa wepmen at heore mete seten. sundi bi heom-seoluen.
a1425 (c1300) Assumption of Virgin (BL Add.) (1901) l. 364 Sche asked hem how þei come þere, That sprad so sundry were.
1524 in State Papers Henry VIII (1836) IV. 129 It may doo gret ewel to Me, and pwt the Kyng my son and Me syndry.
?1591 R. Bruce Serm. Sacrament iii. sig. K3 Looke how weil we agree in the generall, in the particuler we loope als far sundry.
1599 A. Hume Hymnes sig. G1v They..sundrie through the earth were driuen.
1621 A. Simson Heptameron 32 Should wee dwell sundrie so fare, I here, thou in the heauens?
1658 J. Durham Comm. Bk. Revelation 35 The Churches are divided as they live sundry.
1760 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. at Sindry The men were parted, and some women were holding them sundry from each other.
1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. I. i. 20 The herds, wha lived about three miles sindry.
1901 R. De B. Trotter Galloway Gossip Eighty Years Ago 61 The members gaed doon on their knees, three fit sinnery on the floor in twa lang raws.
3. In or into pieces; so as to be broken apart; = asunder adv. 3.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [adverb] > into separate parts
asundera1325
in sunderc1390
piecemeala1450
sundry1531
piecely1552
a-pieces1560
apart1608
1531 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Chron. Scotl. (1938) I. v. x. 206 Drawin sindry with wylde hors.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. xi. 63 (heading) How þe Veanis and fidenatis war discomfist, & mecius dictator drawin sindri for his demeritis.
a1668 J. Renwick Choice Coll. Pref. Lect. & Serm. (1776) 67 Their bodies quartered and put far sundry.
1712 T. Blackwell Let. 17 Apr. in Misc. Spalding Club (1841) I. iv. 220 Our joynts have almost been pulled sundry.
1882 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) (at cited word) The thing fell sindry in my han'.
1893 F. Mackenzie Cruisie Sketches (1894) ii. 20 It will be an unco hard hoast that shak's ye sindry.
1955 in Sc. National Dict. at Sindry [Ayrshire] My baler's faan sinry.
1975 A. Deyell My Shetland 54 I sed ‘Lat wis send da wringer, sheet an aa ta Hoovers, an dey'll ken foo ta tak it sindry.’
2005 P. Dante Dooble Veesion in New Shetlander No. 233 10/1 He saw da eart au sindry smushed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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sun-dry
sun-dry adj. dried up, parched, or withered by the sun; dried by exposure to the sun as opposed to artificial heat; = sun-dried adj.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > injured by heat or fire > parched > by the sun
sunburnta1586
scorcheda1593
sun-dried1604
sunbaked1628
sun-dry1885
1885 W. B. Yeats in Dublin Univ. Rev. June 110/2 And with a sun-dry weed He wrote it on the sands.
1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) i. ii. 51 The seaports of the sun-dry Levant.
2011 L. Kirschenbaum Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen v. 132 1 cup sun-dry tomatoes, briefly soaked in warm water.
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