umquhileumwhileadv.adj.

/ˈʌmhwʌɪl/

Forms: α. Middle English um-wile, Middle English, 1600s–1800s umwhile (Middle English homwill), Middle English, 1500s umwhyle. β. northernMiddle English umquile ( umquil, Middle English umquille), vmqwhyle; ScottishMiddle English umqwhile (1800s umquwhile), Middle English– umquhile (Middle English–1500s wmquhile), Middle English–1600s umquhyle (Middle English wmquhyle, vm-, wmqwhyle); Middle English umquhil, Middle English–1600s umquhill, ( wm-; 1600s vmquhill, wmquill).

Etymology: Representing Old English ymb hwíle (see umbewhile adv.), with substitution of um- prefix for ymb-. In later use specifically Scottish, whence the usual spelling with -quh-.

Now only archaic.

A. adv.

†1. At times; sometimes. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb] > sometimes or occasionally

whiloma900

whilea1000

stoundmealc1000

stundumOE

otherwhileOE

umquhile1154

with and withc1175

by stoundsa1225

otherwhilesc1225

umbestound?c1225

umbewhilec1230

then and thenc1275

sometime…sometime1297

umstounda1300

by while13..

over while13..

sometime1340

umbe throwea1350

at timesa1382

now and again (also anon, eft, now)a1393

umbwhile1393

eftsoona1398

sometimea1400

by sithesc1400

umbestoundsc1400

from time to (formerly unto) time1423

now and (also or) then1445

ever now and nowa1470

when and whenc1470

occasionallya1475

in timesa1500

whiles?a1500

whilomsa1500

sometimes1526

somewhiles1528

at whiles1540

ever now and then1542

a-whiles1546

somewhiles…, somewhiles1547

at sometimes1548

now and thenc1550

ever and anon1558

by occasions1562

on (also upon) occasion1562

as soon…as soon1581

every now and then (also again)1642

by a time1721

once and a while1765

ever and again1788

periodically1825

in spots1851

α.

1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1137 Hi læiden gæildes on the tunes æure um wile & clepeden it tenserie.

1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 2780 Fallace ys, as who seye, ‘gyle’, As many one sweryn vmwhyle.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1415 Vmwhile west, vmwhile est, þer schipes driuen in many tempest.

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxli. 6 I fled noght fra tribulacioun in saule, thof i fled vmwhile in body.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 345 Þere was laughyng and louryng..And seten so til euensonge and songen vmwhile.

a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 118 Ye countyr vmwhyle to capcyously, and ar ye be dysiryd.

β. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10323 Þof godd vmquil be funden still.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4319 Sua þou mai þe driue to ded, To ded vmquil, and to langur.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) vi. 20 Ay when him list, he gase to visit þam, and vmqwhyle ledes þam aboute with him.1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 262 To stand agayne thar fayis mycht, Wmquhile with strenth, & quhile with slycht.a1500 Ratis Raving i. 1448 And eild..Wmquhill is twrnyt with inwy, And wmquhill led with lichory.1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 525 That all this warld hes bene full of variance; Vmquhill in plesure and prosperitie, Vmquhill in pane and greit penuritie.a1568 in Bannatyne MS (1896) IV. 633 Vmquhile I syche and vmquhile I sing... Vmquhill I lawche and quhill I weip and wring.

2. At one time; at some previous time; formerly. Obsolete exc. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb]

erea822

fernOE

whileOE

erera1000

whilereOE

onceOE

somewhile1154

whilomc1175

herebeforec1200

somewhilesa1250

yorea1250

orc1275

rather?a1300

erewhilec1305

sometimea1325

sometimec1330

at or in sometime1340

in arrear1340

heretoforea1375

fernyear1377

once upon a timec1380

behinds1382

beforetimea1393

of olda1393

erenow1393

umquhilea1400

erst14..

fornec1400

yore whilec1400

of before1402

late1423

abefore1431

beforetimes1449

whilesc1480

sometime1490

aforrow?a1513

behind1526

quondamc1540

in foretime(s?c1550

erstwhile1569

erstwhiles1569

aleare1581

erewhiles1584

sometimes1597

formerly1599

anciently1624

olim1645

somewhile since1652

quondamly1663

forepassed1664

sometimea1684

backward1691

historically1753

time back1812

had-been1835

when1962

a1400–50 Alexander 23 Oute in þe erth of Egipt enhabet vmquile Þe wysest wees of the werd.

a1400–50 Alexander (Dublin) 3079 Nowe am I kest vnder, Þat had of the Orient all ouer homage vmwhile.

c1480 (a1400) St. Andrew 863 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 88 Ane bischope vmquhile, I herd say..sancte Andrew in affecione had ay.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 2 Chaumerlayn vmquhile to..king Charles of ffraunce.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ii. l. 207 O der Wallace, wmquhill was stark and stur, Thow most on neide in presoune till endur.

1508 W. Dunbar Ballade Barnard Stewart in Poems (1998) I. 177 (title) Lord, Barnard Stewart,..conquereur of Naplis and vmquhile constable general of the same.

a1555 D. Lindsay Tragedie in Dialog Experience & Courteour (1559) sig. Si^v I am Dauid, that cairfull Cardinall,..That vmquhyle had, so gret preeminens.

1567 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. iv. 1 I, Henrie Stewart, vmquhile of Scotland King.

1832 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 2) I. vii. 93 A drawing..representing Hebe and the bird, umquhile sacred to Jupiter.

1890 J. Service Thir Notandums 88 Her white cheek, umquhile red.]

†3. At some later time; by-and-by. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > different time > [adverb] > at some future time or one day

yeteOE

hereafter1154

hereafterwardc1386

sometimec1386

oncea1393

whiloma1400

rather or latera1450

one of these daysa1470

one day1477

umquhile1489

in timea1500

with time?1531

sooner or later1577

odd shortly1681

some summer's day1697

first or last1700

some of these (‥) days1831

someday1898

down the road (also track)1924

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 256 For nane wate, in how litill space That God wmquhile will send his grace.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. x. 209 And I wmquhill quhilk sal be clepit thi spous, Quham to sall we be left in this waist hous?

B. adj. Former, late:

a. Of persons; esp. = now deceased. In the first quot. perhaps still adverbial.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective] > recently dead

latea1422

new-dead?a1425

umquhile1431

deceased1490

that wasa1500

feu1813

the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adjective] > former (of persons)

umquhile1431

old1435

quondam1547

ancient1681

ci-devant1790

ex1823

former1905

past1915

1431 Munim. de Melros (Bannatyne Club) 521 Patrike off Dunbarr,..brothir vmquhile of a hee & mychti lorde Sir George of Dunbarr.

1477 King James III in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1885) VIII. 403 (note) Landis..the quhilkis umquhile Cuthbert Colvile had of ws of before.

1490–1 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 197 A compositioun maid with vmquhile the Master of Craufurd.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 519 James Stewart, Sone and Air..to vmquhill King Robert Stewart.

1583 in Montgomerie's Poems (1910) 300 The testament..pertening to vmquhile ane richt honorabill Ladie Margaret Fraser.., relict of vmquhile Iohne Montgummerie.

1633 Sc. Acts, Chas. I (1870) V. 26/1 The fruites of benefice givin by his Majestie his said vmquhyle dearest father.

c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 22 Lauchlen M‘Intoshe..brother to the vmquhill laird of M‘Intoshe; Williame M‘Intoshe..sone to vmquhill Lauchlen Angoussone.

1714 A. Ramsay Elegy John Cowper xiii Of umquhile John to lie or bann, Shaws but ill will.

1784 in Minutes of Evid. Nairne Peerage (1873) 72 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. A) XII. 65 The goods and gear which pertained and belonged to umq^le miss Brabazone Nairne.

1814 W. Scott Waverley I. x. 135 The estate which devolved on this unhappy woman by a settlement of her umwhile husband.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 58 His uncle, as well as his umquhile father, is a round-head, I presume.

1874 A. Hislop Bk. Sc. Anecd. 725/1 The ‘leader of the psalmody’, as umquhile ‘precentors’ are now termed.

1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. xii. 408 Her father visited his umquwhile clientage at the coal-wharves.

1934 J. Buchan Free Fishers ii. 40 What do you think of your umquhile pupil, Professor?

1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 606/3 The reference to the ci-devant Lord Stansgate is notoriously getting shorter and shorter;..with further reduction en by en the umquhile peer will disappear completely.

b. Of things. rare.

ΚΠ

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) i. 16 Quhat sal be said of athenes, the vmquhile fontane of sapiens.

1842 F. Trollope Visit to Italy i. x. 161 I went to see Europe's umwhile wonder and delight.

1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 356 When I last passed along the Coal-hill, I saw my umquhile house existing as a bit of dingy wall.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	umquhile
释义	umquhileumwhileadv.adj. /ˈʌmhwʌɪl/ Forms: α. Middle English um-wile, Middle English, 1600s–1800s umwhile (Middle English homwill), Middle English, 1500s umwhyle. β. northernMiddle English umquile ( umquil, Middle English umquille), vmqwhyle; ScottishMiddle English umqwhile (1800s umquwhile), Middle English– umquhile (Middle English–1500s wmquhile), Middle English–1600s umquhyle (Middle English wmquhyle, vm-, wmqwhyle); Middle English umquhil, Middle English–1600s umquhill, ( wm-; 1600s vmquhill, wmquill). Etymology: Representing Old English ymb hwíle (see umbewhile adv.), with substitution of um- prefix for ymb-. In later use specifically Scottish, whence the usual spelling with -quh-. Now only archaic. A. adv. †1. At times; sometimes. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb] > sometimes or occasionally whiloma900 whilea1000 stoundmealc1000 stundumOE otherwhileOE umquhile1154 with and withc1175 by stoundsa1225 otherwhilesc1225 umbestound?c1225 umbewhilec1230 then and thenc1275 sometime…sometime1297 umstounda1300 by while13.. over while13.. sometime1340 umbe throwea1350 at timesa1382 now and again (also anon, eft, now)a1393 umbwhile1393 eftsoona1398 sometimea1400 by sithesc1400 umbestoundsc1400 from time to (formerly unto) time1423 now and (also or) then1445 ever now and nowa1470 when and whenc1470 occasionallya1475 in timesa1500 whiles?a1500 whilomsa1500 sometimes1526 somewhiles1528 at whiles1540 ever now and then1542 a-whiles1546 somewhiles…, somewhiles1547 at sometimes1548 now and thenc1550 ever and anon1558 by occasions1562 on (also upon) occasion1562 as soon…as soon1581 every now and then (also again)1642 by a time1721 once and a while1765 ever and again1788 periodically1825 in spots1851 α. 1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1137 Hi læiden gæildes on the tunes æure um wile & clepeden it tenserie. 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 2780 Fallace ys, as who seye, ‘gyle’, As many one sweryn vmwhyle. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1415 Vmwhile west, vmwhile est, þer schipes driuen in many tempest. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxli. 6 I fled noght fra tribulacioun in saule, thof i fled vmwhile in body. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 345 Þere was laughyng and louryng..And seten so til euensonge and songen vmwhile. a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 118 Ye countyr vmwhyle to capcyously, and ar ye be dysiryd. β. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10323 Þof godd vmquil be funden still.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4319 Sua þou mai þe driue to ded, To ded vmquil, and to langur.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) vi. 20 Ay when him list, he gase to visit þam, and vmqwhyle ledes þam aboute with him.1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 262 To stand agayne thar fayis mycht, Wmquhile with strenth, & quhile with slycht.a1500 Ratis Raving i. 1448 And eild..Wmquhill is twrnyt with inwy, And wmquhill led with lichory.1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 525 That all this warld hes bene full of variance; Vmquhill in plesure and prosperitie, Vmquhill in pane and greit penuritie.a1568 in Bannatyne MS (1896) IV. 633 Vmquhile I syche and vmquhile I sing... Vmquhill I lawche and quhill I weip and wring. 2. At one time; at some previous time; formerly. Obsolete exc. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] erea822 fernOE whileOE erera1000 whilereOE onceOE somewhile1154 whilomc1175 herebeforec1200 somewhilesa1250 yorea1250 orc1275 rather?a1300 erewhilec1305 sometimea1325 sometimec1330 at or in sometime1340 in arrear1340 heretoforea1375 fernyear1377 once upon a timec1380 behinds1382 beforetimea1393 of olda1393 erenow1393 umquhilea1400 erst14.. fornec1400 yore whilec1400 of before1402 late1423 abefore1431 beforetimes1449 whilesc1480 sometime1490 aforrow?a1513 behind1526 quondamc1540 in foretime(s?c1550 erstwhile1569 erstwhiles1569 aleare1581 erewhiles1584 sometimes1597 formerly1599 anciently1624 olim1645 somewhile since1652 quondamly1663 forepassed1664 sometimea1684 backward1691 historically1753 time back1812 had-been1835 when1962 a1400–50 Alexander 23 Oute in þe erth of Egipt enhabet vmquile Þe wysest wees of the werd. a1400–50 Alexander (Dublin) 3079 Nowe am I kest vnder, Þat had of the Orient all ouer homage vmwhile. c1480 (a1400) St. Andrew 863 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 88 Ane bischope vmquhile, I herd say..sancte Andrew in affecione had ay. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 2 Chaumerlayn vmquhile to..king Charles of ffraunce. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ii. l. 207 O der Wallace, wmquhill was stark and stur, Thow most on neide in presoune till endur. 1508 W. Dunbar Ballade Barnard Stewart in Poems (1998) I. 177 (title) Lord, Barnard Stewart,..conquereur of Naplis and vmquhile constable general of the same. a1555 D. Lindsay Tragedie in Dialog Experience & Courteour (1559) sig. Si^v I am Dauid, that cairfull Cardinall,..That vmquhyle had, so gret preeminens. 1567 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. iv. 1 I, Henrie Stewart, vmquhile of Scotland King. 1832 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 2) I. vii. 93 A drawing..representing Hebe and the bird, umquhile sacred to Jupiter. 1890 J. Service Thir Notandums 88 Her white cheek, umquhile red.] †3. At some later time; by-and-by. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > different time > [adverb] > at some future time or one day yeteOE hereafter1154 hereafterwardc1386 sometimec1386 oncea1393 whiloma1400 rather or latera1450 one of these daysa1470 one day1477 umquhile1489 in timea1500 with time?1531 sooner or later1577 odd shortly1681 some summer's day1697 first or last1700 some of these (‥) days1831 someday1898 down the road (also track)1924 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 256 For nane wate, in how litill space That God wmquhile will send his grace. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. x. 209 And I wmquhill quhilk sal be clepit thi spous, Quham to sall we be left in this waist hous? B. adj. Former, late: a. Of persons; esp. = now deceased. In the first quot. perhaps still adverbial. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective] > recently dead latea1422 new-dead?a1425 umquhile1431 deceased1490 that wasa1500 feu1813 the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adjective] > former (of persons) umquhile1431 old1435 quondam1547 ancient1681 ci-devant1790 ex1823 former1905 past1915 1431 Munim. de Melros (Bannatyne Club) 521 Patrike off Dunbarr,..brothir vmquhile of a hee & mychti lorde Sir George of Dunbarr. 1477 King James III in J. Stuart & G. Burnett Exchequer Rolls Scotl. (1885) VIII. 403 (note) Landis..the quhilkis umquhile Cuthbert Colvile had of ws of before. 1490–1 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 197 A compositioun maid with vmquhile the Master of Craufurd. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 519 James Stewart, Sone and Air..to vmquhill King Robert Stewart. 1583 in Montgomerie's Poems (1910) 300 The testament..pertening to vmquhile ane richt honorabill Ladie Margaret Fraser.., relict of vmquhile Iohne Montgummerie. 1633 Sc. Acts, Chas. I (1870) V. 26/1 The fruites of benefice givin by his Majestie his said vmquhyle dearest father. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 22 Lauchlen M‘Intoshe..brother to the vmquhill laird of M‘Intoshe; Williame M‘Intoshe..sone to vmquhill Lauchlen Angoussone. 1714 A. Ramsay Elegy John Cowper xiii Of umquhile John to lie or bann, Shaws but ill will. 1784 in Minutes of Evid. Nairne Peerage (1873) 72 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. A) XII. 65 The goods and gear which pertained and belonged to umq^le miss Brabazone Nairne. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. x. 135 The estate which devolved on this unhappy woman by a settlement of her umwhile husband. View more context for this quotation 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 58 His uncle, as well as his umquhile father, is a round-head, I presume. 1874 A. Hislop Bk. Sc. Anecd. 725/1 The ‘leader of the psalmody’, as umquhile ‘precentors’ are now termed. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. xii. 408 Her father visited his umquwhile clientage at the coal-wharves. 1934 J. Buchan Free Fishers ii. 40 What do you think of your umquhile pupil, Professor? 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 606/3 The reference to the ci-devant Lord Stansgate is notoriously getting shorter and shorter;..with further reduction en by en the umquhile peer will disappear completely. b. Of things. rare. ΚΠ c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) i. 16 Quhat sal be said of athenes, the vmquhile fontane of sapiens. 1842 F. Trollope Visit to Italy i. x. 161 I went to see Europe's umwhile wonder and delight. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 356 When I last passed along the Coal-hill, I saw my umquhile house existing as a bit of dingy wall. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.adj.1154
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