everybody, pron.
(ˈɛvərɪ-, ˈɛvrɪbɒdɪ, -bədɪ)
[Comb. of every and body n. in the sense (now obs. in literary use) of person. Formerly written as two words: cf. anybody.]
Every person, every one. everybody else: every other person. Sometimes incorrectly with pl. v. or pron.
| c 1530 Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. 285 Everye bodye was in theyr lodgynges. 1580 Sidney Arcadia ii. (1613) 156 Now this king did keepe a great house, that euerie body might come and take their meat freely. 1620 Horæ Subsec. 477 To take vpon him the disciplining of euery body for their errours. 1691 T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. lxxxvii, That which is every body's work is no body's. 1710 Berkeley Princ. Hum. Knowl. §97 Time, place, and motion..are what everybody knows. 1715 De Foe Fam. Instruct. i. i. (1841) I. 10 Do not everybody else love him? 1759 Bp. Warburton Lett. (1809) 280 Every body else I meet with are full ready to go of themselves. c 1817 Hogg Tales & Sk. II. 196 Gilbert was every body's body. 1820 Byron Wks. (1840) IV. 298 Every body does and says what they please. 1860 Tyndall Glac. i. xi. 72 What I suppose has been observed..by everybody. 1866 Ruskin Eth. Dust v. (1883) 82 Everybody seems to recover their spirits. 1871 Morley Voltaire (1886) 119 He was ever on the alert..to impart of it [knowledge] to everybody else. |