▪ I. every, n.
(ˈɛvərɪ, ˈɛvrɪ)
Also 4 eur.
[Var. form of eaver1.]
Rye grass (Lolium perenne).
| 14.. tr. Higden (Rolls) VII. 525 (Harl. MS. 1900) Of whete and of eur' that som men clepeth darnel. 1863 Barnes Dorset Gloss. (Philol. Soc.), Every or ever-grass. |
▪ II. every, a. (quasi-pron.)
(ˈɛvərɪ, ˈɛvrɪ)
Forms: α. 1 ǽfre ǽlc, 2 efrec, 3 æver ælc(h, æfrech, ever ech, evreche, 3–6 evere, (5 evre). β. 3 ever ulc, 3–6 ev(e)rilc, -il(k(e, (3, 4–5 north. evere -ilc, -ilke). γ. 2 æv(e)ric, æwric, efri, 3 eaver euch, æv-, eavriche, a-, efri(c(h, æv-, av-, everihc, 3–6 everich(e, -yche, (4 evreich, everuch(e, 5 evirych, evyriche, 6 ewerik), 4–7 everi(e, -ye, (4 evri, 6 ewry), 4– every. Also 5 ery, 8 (in verse and colloq.) e'ery.
[OE. ǽfre ǽlc, *ǽfre ylc: see ever adv. and each.
The OE. ǽlc, ylc, was a compound of á, synonymous with ǽfre; but, owing to umlaut and contraction, the etymological force of the word had become obscured, and ǽfre was prefixed in order to express more distinctly the original sense. Although the phrase was always written in OE. (as sometimes in ME.) as two words, it had in 10th c. already come to be felt as a compound, and when it is governed by a prep. this is placed before the first of the two words. The forms marked α descend from ǽfre ǽlc, and the β forms, including the mod. every, from ǽfre ylc. It does not appear that ǽfre was prefixed to the other two words, ǽᵹhwilc and ᵹehwilc, which enter into the history of each.]
I. As adj. used attrib.
1. Used to express distributively the sense that is expressed collectively by all.
Originally this sense was expressed by each, from which every differed only in emphasizing the element of universality in the signification. Thus Wyclif writes ‘euery langour and eche sekenesse,’ it being unnecessary to repeat the emphasis. When every had ceased to be recognizable as a compound of each, the two words were at first often used somewhat indiscriminately, but their functions were gradually differentiated. In mod. usage, every directs attention chiefly to the totality, each chiefly to the individuals composing it. It may also be observed that each usually refers to a numerically definite group, in contrast to the indefinite universality expressed by every: thus ‘Each theory is open to objection’ relates to an understood enumeration of theories, but ‘Every theory is open to objection’ refers to all theories that may exist.
a. followed immediately by a n., or by a n. preceded by a descriptive adj.; occas. with vb. in pl.
| Wulfstan Hom. (Napier) 20 æfre ælcne neode [Man] ᵹeærnað to gode sylfum ymbe. O.E. Chron. an. 1014 And æfre ælcne Deniscne cyng, utlah of Engla lande ᵹecwædon. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 135 æuriche sunendeie, and oðre heȝe daȝen. Ibid. 139 Efri cristenne Mon. a 1200 Moral Ode 65 (Trin. MS.) Africh man mid þat he haueð mai bugge heueriche. c 1205 Lay. 2378 For euer ulc [c 1275 euerech] god mon ah his lauerdes heste to do. Ibid. 25299 æuer ælc swein. a 1225 Ancr. R. 4 Rihten hire and smeðen hire is..of efrich ordre þe god. c 1230 Hali Meid 13 Eauer euch wif is hire were þral. 1258 Proclam. Hen. III, And al on þo ilche worden is isend in to æurihce oþre shcire. a 1300 Cursor M. 3309 Euer ilk fote miht he noght blinne, To bihold þat fair maydene. c 1340 Ibid. 761 (Trin.) Wommon telle me whi þat ȝe eten not al comynly In paradis of euer vche tre? ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 212 In ever-ilk aperty pyghte with precyous stones. c 1400 Beryn 1779 The Burgeyse toke a-visement long on euery drauȝte. c 1450 Merlin iv. 65 Eueriche man to brynge with hym his wyf. 1500–20 Dunbar ‘Quhome to sall I complene my wo’ ix, Fra ever⁓ilk mowth fair wirdis proceidis. a 1535 More On the Passion Wks. 1299/1 Euery fynger shalbe a thombe. 1558 Q. Kennedy Compend. Tract. in Wodr. Soc. Misc. (1844) 117 Bot everilk faithfull minister to bestowe the grace quhilk God hes gevin hym. 1588 J. Harvey Prophecies 51 Every right woonder, such as Moises and Elisaeus used, were neither fained apparences, or, etc. 1606 G. W[oodcocke] tr. Justin's Hist. 16 a, Discending amongst euery private Captaine. 1610 Shakes. Temp. i. i. 62 Hee'l be hang'd yet, Though euery drop of water sweare against it. a 1618 Raleigh in Walton Angler (1653) 67 If all the world and love were young, And truth in every Shepherds tongue? 1711 E. Ward Vulgus Brit. viii. 89 E'ery willing Hero. 1763 Garrick in Colman's Posth. Lett. (1820) 249 They have dug up Every Utensil that were in use among the Romans. 1796 Hist. Ned Evans II. 105 Every inhabitant, male and female, young and old, was assembled. 1820 Southey Life Wesley I. 393 To see every person in his class at least once a week. 1848 Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 279 In every experimental science there is a tendency towards perfection. 1860 Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 34 Feeling better in every way. 1879 Lockyer Elem. Astron. ix. l. 307 Every particle of matter attracts every other particle. |
b. preceded by a possessive pronoun.
| 1588 Shakes. L.L.L. iv. i. 87, I prophane my heart on thy euerie part. 1610 ― Temp. ii. i. 257 A space whose eu'ry cubit Seemes to cry out, how, etc. 1611 ― Cymb. i. iv. 49 Then a young Traueller..in my euery action to be guided by others experiences. 1682 Dryden & Lee Dk. Guise ii. ii, Your every Grace Will kill at least your thousand in a day. 1702 Rowe Tamerl. i. i, There my Thoughts my every Care is center'd. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. 97 Her every moment to find the moment critical. 1798 Jane Austen Northang. Abb. (1866) 95. 1812 Coleridge in Southey Omniana II. 234 The ungrateful traitor, whose every measure has been to make them still more incapable. 1835 Beckford Recoll. 146 Anger pervaded his every look and gesture. 1870 Lowell Study Wind. 87 The Americanism of his every thought, word and act. 1879 J. W. Sherer Who is Mary? 258 She turned her love over in its every aspect. |
c. with a superl. adj. (preceded by the) interposed before the n. Obs. or arch. (The sense would now be expressed by even the least, etc., treated as a parenthesis).
| 1620 J. King Serm. 28 Euery the least remembrance. 1659 Bp. Walton Consid. Considered 73 In all the Copies extant..every the least iota and tittle is to be found. 1785 A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscr. (1786) V. 117 Strict adherence to every the minutest part of their customs and religion. 1806–7 J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) i. x, Every the most minute article. 1837–8 Sir W. Hamilton Logic xv. (1866) I. 277 Every, the most complex, web of thought may be reduced to simple syllogisms. |
† d. with a or an before the n. Obs.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 510 (Gött.) Iornays..fourti mile euerilk a day. c 1325 Pol. Songs (1839) 157 Everuch a parosshe heo polketh in pyne. 1352 Minot Poems x. 51 God save sir Edward his right In everilka nede. c 1440 Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xli, Eueryche a soule resonable owyth for to coueyte..nyghynge to Jhesu. |
e. (a) with ns. referring to time, as day, year, etc. in advb. phrases indicating repetition (cf. everyday); also (b) before a cardinal numeral, to indicate successive groups of objects; (c) before an ordinal, successive intervals of action; so every other (day, etc.), where other = ‘second’; also attrib.; † every other while: at alternate periods; every now and then; (d) every time, on all occasions, without fail or exception, certainly; freq. used as an affirmative exclamation. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
| (a) c 1205 Lay. 6034, & aure alche [c 1275 euereche] wintre inne Wales heo wuneden. a 1300 Cursor M. 19041 (Gött.) Arli þe apostlis euer-ilke day went to þe temple for to prai. c 1420 Sir Amadace (Camd.) xii, A marchand of this cite, Hade..euirych ȝere thre hundryth pownde. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 141 Eryday, or eueryday, quotidie. 1570 Levins Manip. 196 Eueryday, quotidie. 1652 Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 23 The keeping of..greater Armadoes every day then other. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 823 Tisiphone..every Moment rises to the sight. 1732 Berkeley Alciphr. ii. §6 The world every day grows wiser. 1796 H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) III. 41 The two tides of six hours re-appear every day equal. |
| (b) 1606 Shakes. Ant. & Cl. v. ii. 278 In euery tenne [women] that they [the Gods] make, the diuels marre fiue. a 1626 Bacon New Atl. (1629) 19 Euery twelue yeares ther should be set forth..two Ships. a 1716 Lady M. W. Montague Let. to Mrs. S. 5 Aug., Every twenty paces gives you the prospect of some villa, and every four hours a large town. 1848 Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 176 A parliament should be held every three years. |
| (c) c 1400 Mandeville (1839) xvi. 174 At euery thrydde pas þat þei gon fro here hows þei knelen. c 1400 Beryn 1256 To clothe the al new, euerich othir day. 1517 R. Torkington Pilgr. (1884) 20 Every yer or every other yer ys Chosyn a Duke. 1545 Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. (1548) Luke iv. 98 a, An extreme tyrannous deiuill..dooeth euery other while soodainly take hym. 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 329 This same staru'd Iustice hath done nothing but prate to me..and euery third word a Lye. 1829 Bentham Wks. (1843) XI. 18 The daily, more than the every other day, papers. 1884 M. E. Wilkins in Harper's Mag. Oct. 793/1 She stopped..to kiss her..every other minute. |
| (d) 1865 Trans. Ill. Agric. Soc. V. 318, I advise everybody to plant it,..but always charge them to also plant Delaware and Catawba without fail, ‘every time’. 1925 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 July 469/2 The Americans, if only because they have twice the population, are bound to win every time. 1927 A. B. Cox Mr. Priestley's Problem ii. 30 ‘It could be done... What do you say, Doyle?’..What he did say, tersely, was: ‘Every time! Let's!’ 1928 S. Lewis Man who knew Coolidge i. 41 If he'd study his mother and me a little more..he'd be a lot better off! You bet! Every time! 1939 G. B. Shaw Good King Charles i. 50 Thats what I have done, and you havnt. And that puts me ahead of you with the British people every time. |
f. Phrases, on every side: everywhere, in every direction. In same sense, † in or on every end, on every half. every man Jack, every mother's son (colloq.): every single individual. every now and then, every now and again, every once in a while [corruption of ever, etc.]: at intervals, from time to time. every bit, every whit: altogether, entirely, quite. every here and there: at various points or places. every last: absolutely every (colloq., orig. U.S.). every so often (or oft): from time to time, at intervals. every which way (also ever(y) which a way(s): orig. and chiefly U.S., everyway, in all directions; so every which: whichever, every. Also every-deal.
| c 1205 Lay. 5883 On æuer alchere [c 1275 euereche] halue. Ibid. 10549 Folc hi wende an æuerælche [c 1275 euereche] ende. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 5952 The deneis..in euerich ende Him worrede her & þer. c 1340 Cursor M. 1646 (Trin.) Couetise lecchery and pride Haþ spred þis world on euery syde. 1583 T. Stocker Warres Lowe C. i. 79 a, The Spaniardes murdered euery mothers sonne of them. 1700 S. Parker 6 Philos. Ess. 12 The Primæval Earth will be e'ery whit as ill shaped as that we poor Mortals inhabit. 1731 Select fr. Fog's Wkly. Jrnl. (1732) II. 255 The Doctor was every now and then confoundedly puzzled what to do with them. 1824 ‘A. Singleton’ Lett. 82 Children [in Virginia] learn from the slaves some odd phrases; as, every which way. 1833 Bp. Thirlwall in Philol. Mus. II. 240 The theory will every now and then become the foundation of the history. 1840 Dickens Barn. Rudge xxxix, ‘Every one of 'em,’ replied Dennis, ‘Every man Jack’. 1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. iv. 39 He kept a flinging his arms about every which way. 1859 G. W. Dasent Pop. Tales Norse 347 Every man Jack of them are so sound asleep. 1860 Bartlett Dict. Amer. s.v., Every once in a while. 1872 Mark Twain Roughing It (in Farmer Americanisms), He put on the pack saddle..and then wound a rope all over and about it and under it every which way. 1883 P. Robinson Fishes of Fancy 90 Every now and again the ear could catch the sudden splash of pike meeting pike. 1887 A. W. Tourgée Button's Inn 80 You've done..more'n any other man would have done, working and contriving every which way. 1888 ‘Mark Twain’ in Century Mag. Jan. 460/2, I know it is with me—every last sentence of it. 1896 ― Tom Sawyer, Detective (1897) xi. 117 He got that big di'mond out..and let it flash and blaze and squirt sunlight everwhichaway. 1896 J. K. Snowden Web of Old Weaver x. 118 Every so oft I could hear him say a word or two. 1905 Eng. Dial. Dict. Suppl. 99/1 'Er goes charing at Mrs. Long's every so often. 1928 ‘M. Chapman’ Happy Mountain i. 8 [His hair] had a habit of sticking out every-which-a-ways. 1928 R. Frost Let. 11 Oct. (1964) 191 Thought on in these bookish ways our lives go everywhichway. 1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) iv. 89 Other coppers are coming from every which direction. Ibid. xi. 237 People running every which way. 1949 R. Harvey Curtain Time xiii. 128 Sleepily, monotonously, every so often, a drop would form, slide down the umbrella and fall with a soft plop on the floor. 1953 R. Graves Poems 29 From every-which-a-way, hot as a two-buck pistol. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. (Suppl.) 15 Aug. p. x/2 Stacked-up copies of every-which volume published in Great Britain since the prosperous thirties. 1959 Listener 15 Jan. 115/1 The bullocks bellowed as one, and surged away in a great sea of cattle, every last 900 head of them. 1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File v. 30 Hemmed in every-which-way was Ross. 1965 Listener 3 June 836/3 As for driving a motor-car while looking every whichway and singing a duet, I hope that the Road Safety Council has already protested. 1968 J. Wainwright Edge of Extinction 200 Clear 'em out—every last one of 'em. 1970 Sunday Times 22 Nov. 35/5 Every so often we would hear the tender melancholy note of the horn. |
† 2. With plural n. (chiefly with defining word interposed): All severally (cf. Gr. ἕκαστοι). Obs.
| 1558 Queen Elizabeth in Strype Ann. Ref. I. App. i. 2 Subjects of every the said kingdomes. 1591 F. Sparry tr. Cattan's Geomancie 68 Of the head and of euery things therein contayned. 1610 Shakes. Temp. v. i. 249 I'le resolue you..of euery These happend accidents. 1623 Bingham Xenophon 126 Taking Polycrates the Athenian Captaine with him, and a man from euery the Coronels. 1626 W. Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1629) 256 Wee..owe him [God] obedience according to euery his morall commands. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 91 Every several Troups have their Ensignes. |
3. With loss of distributive sense: = ‘All possible’, ‘the utmost degree of’.
| [1783 Ld. Percy in G. Rose's Diaries (1860) I. 58 Every domestic ease..that a mortal could enjoy.] Mod. I feel every respect for him. They showed him every consideration. There is every prospect of success. |
4. In senses now commonly expressed by each. a. In every man, used to distribute a plural. (arch.) † b. Each of two (obs. exc. dial.).
| 1526–34 Tindale Matt. xx. 9 They..came and receaved every man a peny. [So in 1611 and R.V.] 1599 Thynne Animadv. (1875) 50 They dyd ryde one euerye syde of hym. 1632 Lithgow Trav. x. 455 The Sergeants, and the two slaues, thrust on euery ancle an heauy bolt. 1880 Antrim & Down Gloss. s.v., There's a chimley on every en' o' the house. |
† 5. = any; in sentences expressing possibility.
| 1552 Huloet s.v., Euerye man, quilibet. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 180 b, When everie season suffereth them [bees] not to be abroad, they must at such times bee fedde. 1760 Goldsm. Cit. W. xxv, The weakness of the wall which every earthquake might overturn. |
II. absol. (quasi-pron.)
† 6. Everybody, every one. Obs.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 4 Vor euerich schal holden þe uttre efter þet þe licome mei best mid hire serui þe inre. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 2355 Euerilc he kiste, on ilc he gret. c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 102 Fuyr schal preve þe werke of everyche. c 1386 Chaucer Wife's Prol. 103 Every hath of God a propre gifte, Som this, som that, as him likith. 1475 Caxton Jason, Euerich hadde well eten and dronken raysonably. 1502 Arnolde Chron. (1811) 4 That euerich admyttyd in to the lybarte of the cite be of certayn crafte or office. |
7. a. Each, or every one, of (several persons or things). Formerly often with verb in pl. Obs. exc. in legal documents.
| 1388 Wyclif Matt. xx. 9 Thei token eueryche of hem a peny. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iii. xii. (Tollem. MS.), Þe wit þat takeþ hede to many þingis takeþ þe lasse hede to eueriche þerof. c 1430 Cookery Bks. 20 Temper it vppe wyth almaunde mylke, & do euery of hem in a potte. 1486 in Surtees Misc. (1890) 47 Hertly I pray you, and everych of you. 1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 10 All other thinges comprised in the same Indentures and letres patentes and in everych of them. 1578 Lyte Dodoens i. lxxviii. 116 Every of the sayde joyntes are of the quantitie of a wheate corne. 1658 Sir H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 420 Promissing to them and every of them rewards and summes of money. 1665 J. Sergeant Sure-footing in Chr. 224 Every of whose Words and Actions were infinitely to be admir'd. 1722 De Foe Plague (1840) 41 Every of the said chirurgeons is to have twelvepence a body searched by them. |
b. esp. in phrase all and every (= L. universi et singuli). The phrase is also occas. used in concord with a n. in sing. or pl.
| 1502 Gt. Charter in Arnolde Chron. (1811) 223 That the chartur aforsaid in alle and euerych her articles..be obserued. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 182 Let vs all & eueryche of vs in all our distresse..ron to that trone of mercy. 1570 Grindal Rem. (1843) 149 That all and every of the said vicars have a Bible. 1655 Marquis of Worcester in Dircks Life (1865) 390 Use these seals to all and every of the purposes aforesaid. 1826 Bentham in Westm. Rev. VI. 473 To all and every the children and child of the said intended marriage. 1845 Act 8 & 9 Vict. c. 119 Sched. ii, The said covenantor, his heirs, executors, or administrators, and all and every other person whosoever. |
† c. Each (of two). Obs.
| c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. 2378 Philomene, In armes everych of hem [Philomela and Progne] other taketh. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xxi. 77 A cacchepol..craked a-two here legges..of euerich of þo þeoues. a 1502 in Arnolde Chron. (1811) 300 It was decreed by the sayd arbitrours, that eueryche off my Lordis of Glouceter and of Winchester shulde take ethir other by the hand. 1560 Frampton in Strype Ann. Ref. I. xx. 242 Two men covered with white canvas coats..and every of them a vizard upon their faces. 1578 Lyte Dodoens v. ii. 547 There be two sortes of Blites..and every of them is diuided againe into two kindes. |
† 8. Distributing a plural. Obs.; = each.
| c 1300 Beket 671 Forto do everech his beste to wende ech in his side. c 1430 Cookery Bks. 27 Take a porcyon of pouder of Clowys, of Gyngere, of Graynys of Perys, of Euery a porcyon. c 1440 Douce MS. 55 xxxix, Cast..broth and water and wyn of everiche a quantite. 1485 Caxton Paris & V. 16 Goo ye eueryche under that baner that he wyl mayntene. |
III. Combinations.
† 9. every other. = Each other: used as a reciprocal pronoun. (In early use every is subj. and other obj.; later the phrase appears as a compound.) Obs.
| 1154 O.E. Chron. an. 1135, æuric man sone ræuede oþer þe mihte. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 7 We luuien ure efrec oðer us bi-twenen swa we weren broðre. c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. 719 Tisbe, The name of everych gan to othyr sprynge. c 1386 ― Pars. T. 128 The lovyng children..wolden everych of hem eten other if thay mighten. 1413 Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle v. xiv. (1483) 105 They saiden graces wonder ioyfully takyng eueriche other by the hand. 1594 Kyd Cornelio v. in Hazl. Dodsley V. 242 They ran at ever-each other hand and foot. |
10. every one. (In 16–17th c. the form everych one was often divided every chone.) † a. adj. = sense 1 a. Obs.
| 1548 Udall Erasm. Par. Luke 103 b, Euery one man ought to be neighbour to an other. |
b. adj. absol. (ˌɛvrɪ ˈwʌn). With reference to a n. or pron. going before, which it usually distributes; or followed by of. Often incorrectly with pl. vb. Sometimes = Each (of two things).
| c 1225 Ancr. R. 18 Blescið ou mid euerichon of ðeos gretunges. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 185 Ilk kinnes erf, and wrim, and der..And euerilc on in kinde good. c 1320 R. Brunne Medit. 132 With hym þey ryse everyche-one. c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 502 Evere ilk one of þese parties is þo same Gods body. c 1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 48 We schulen foonde euery-choon. c 1460 Towneley Myst. 121 He commaundes you everilkon, To hold no kyng bot hym alon. 1503 Sheph. Kalender xlvii, I shall them soon vanquish every chone. a 1535 More On the Passion Wks. 1389/1 To haue hadde theym taken and slayne euerye chone. 1588 King tr. Canisius' Catech. 216 The sinne of Adam..is in al men, ane seueral and peculiar sinne in euerilk ane. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 223 The under lip five, every one of the cheeks ten. 1611 Bible Num. xvi. 3 All the Congregation are holy, euery one of them. a 1680 Butler Rem. (1759) I. 14 What we every one can swear. 1699 Bentley Phal. Pref. 89 Every one [of these Passages] are true. |
c. pron. (ˈɛvrɪwən, ˈɛvrɪˌwʌn). Everybody; sometimes written as one word. The pron. referring to every one is often pl.: the absence of a sing. pron. of common gender rendering this violation of grammatical concord sometimes necessary.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 252 Muchel neod is þet euerichon holde mid oðer, mid bisie bonen. c 1340 Cursor M. 10047 (Trin.) Þe chastite of þis lady Ouercomeþ..Gredines of eueruchon. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 125 Euerichon loked to hym self. 1526 Skelton Magnyf. 1055 Cryst save everych⁓one. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & F. A iij, Tyll everie one had mocked everichone. 1695 Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth Pref., The Difficulties..of every one. 1732 Berkeley Alciphr. iv. §21 Every one knows that analogy is a Greek word. 1735 Johnson tr. Lobo's Voy. 99 Every one Sacrifices a Cow or more, according to their different Degrees of Wealth or Devotion. 1870 G. W. Dasent Eventful Life (ed. 4) i. 1 Every one had made up their minds that I was to be one thing, and I came out another. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 479 Those familiar words..are in the mouth of every one. 1877 W. H. Mallock New Repub. (1878) 94 Everyone then looked about them silently, in suspense and expectation. |
11. a. In parasynthetic derivatives, as every-coloured.
| 1744 Thomson Spring 726 The Peacock spreads His every-colour'd Glory to the Sun. |
b. every-nighter, one who attends every performance of a play, series of concerts, etc.
| 1905 G. B. Shaw in Grand Mag. Feb. 126 He specially appeals to those who have seen King Henry VI. five times..to discontinue their visits... The every-nighters..have no excuse for their selfishness. 1947 Penguin Music Mag. II. 35 The orchestral player will admit the strain..and so will the most fanatical every-nighter after a few seasons. |
12. Combined with adverbs, as everyhow, everywhere, etc., and with substantives, in which the combination is usually written as one word, the sense of the substantive being weakened; as everybody, everything, etc.
¶ 13. The form ever each, surviving in archaistic use till 16th c., was corrupted into every each, which often appears in late editions of 15th c. texts (where the originals had evereche, everych, or the like), and hence has occas. been used arch. by recent writers.
| 1430 Lydg. Bochas i. xix. (1554) 35 b, Sampson..toke their [foxis] tailes knit them twein and twein And amid euery eche he set a fire-bronde. 1477 Norton Ord. Alch. i. in Ashm. (1652) 21 Everie each of Foure were Gold and like a Knight. 1567 J. Maplet Gr. Forest 29 And euery eche moment at death his nod and beck. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 375 Every each other day he suffereth one sickness or other. 1609 C. Butler Fem. Mon. vii. (1623) R iij, But for the most part they die eueryeach one. 1634 Malory's Arthur i. xxvii. (1816) I. 49 Every each of them [1470 everyche of hem] did him homage. 1864 Munby in Once a Week 26 Nov., Now every each hath pass'd the bar. |
▪ III. every
obs. var. of ivory.