† albeˈdene, adv. Obs.
3–5. Also al bidene, alle bidene, al bydene, albydene, all bedene.
[Really two words all bedene, i.e. ‘all soon,’ but so much used together that all preserved little of its force. Cf. although.]
Forthwith, immediately.
| a 1300 Havelok 730 And thrie, he gat it al bidene. c 1320 Syr Bevis 3685 And men told hem albedene How the geaunt Ascopard In a castel hire hadde to ward. 1330 R. Brunne Chron. 45 Lyndeseie he destroied quite alle bidene. c 1400 Syr Percyv. 2278 Grete lordes and the qwene Welcomed hym al-bydene. c 1450 Erle of Tolous 1211 Betwene them had they chyldyr fyftene Doghty Knyghtys all bedene. |