▪ I. sundry, a.
(ˈsʌndrɪ)
Forms: α. 1 syndriᵹ, (syndryᵹ, Northumb. suindriᵹ), 1–2 sindriȝ, 2–3 sindri, 4–5 sindre, syndre; Sc. and north. 4– sindry, syndry, 5–7 sindri, 5–8 sindrie (5 sendri, 6 sin-, syndrye, -ie, syndery, 8 sendry); β. 3–4 sundri, 4–6 sondri, -dry(e, (4 sundrii, -dre, sum-dri, sondree), 5–6 sondre, sundery, soundry, 5–7 sundrie, soundrie, 6–7 sondrie, (6 so(u)ndery, -ie, soondrie, 7 sondrey), 4– sundry.
[OE. syndriᵹ separate, special, private, exceptional, corresp. to MLG. sunder(i)ch single, special, LG. sunderig, OHG. sunt(a)rîc, sund(i)rîc, -erîg special (MHG. sunderig, -ic); f. sunder sunder a.: see -y1.]
1. Having an existence, position, or status apart; separate, distinct. Obs. exc. dial.
| c 1000 ælfric Judg. Epil. (Gr.) 263 Þa senatores..dæᵹ⁓hwanlice smeadon on anum sindrian huse embe ealles folces þearfe. c 1000 Ags. Ps. cxl. 12 (Gr.) Ic me syndriᵹ eom. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 1985 Ðor was in helle a sundri stede, wor ðe seli folc reste dede. a 1300 Cursor M. 332 Þis wright [sc. God]..Fra al oþer, sundri [Fairf. ys sundre] and sere. Ibid. 16094 Þe pretori, þat was a sundri stede. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xix. 192 Þre persones in o pensel..departable from oþer..And sondry to seo vpon. 1533 N. Udall Coronat. Anne Boleyn in Arb. Garner II. 58 The fourth Lady..peerless in riches, wit, and beauty; Which are but sundry qualities in yon three [sc. Juno, Pallas, and Venus]. 1549 Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Pet. 9 Let not age, estate, condicion or sondry being in diuerse countres disseuer you a sondre. 1790 Mrs. Wheeler Westmld. Dial. (1802) 114 She ligs in a sendry kaw boose. |
† 2. Belonging or assigned distributively to certain individuals; distinct or different for each respectively.
Obs.| a 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. xxiii. [xxii.] (1890) 328 Þurh syndriᵹe þine ondsware [orig. per singula tua responsa] ic onᵹet & oncneow, þæt [etc.]. Ibid. v. xxiii. (1899) 697/1 On septem Epistolas Canonicas [ic sette] syndrie bec. c 1000 ælfric Deut. xxxiii. 5 Moyses þa ᵹebletsode..þa twelf mæᵹða ælce mid sindriᵹre bletsunge. c 1205 Lay. 2688 He hefde on liue tuenti sunen and alc hefde sindri moder. a 1300 Cursor M. 9533 Ilkan sum-dri gift he gaue. 1375 Barbour Bruce x. 731 His men, in-to syndry plas, Clam our the wall. 1430–40 Lydg. Bochas i. ii. (MS. Bodl. 263) 17/1 The contre off Sennar thei forsook And ech off hem a sondri contre took. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 70, iiii. hed peces called Armites, euery pece beyng of a sundery deuice. 1549 Compl. Scot. vi. 65 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 Greene Conny Catching Wks. (Grosart) XI. 84 Those Amarosos here in England..that..wil haue in euery shire in England a sundry wife. a 1700 Dryden Ovid's Art Love i. 863 Experience finds That sundry Women are of sundry Minds. 1715 Pennecuik Truth's Trav. 114 Ilk an ran a sindrie gait. 1738 Wesley Ps. civ. iv, His Ministers Heav'n's Palace fill, To have their sundry Tasks assign'd. |
† 3. Individually separate; that is one of a number of individuals of a class or group. Usually with
pl. n. or
sing. n. in
pl. sense: Various, (many) different.
Obs. (or merged in 5).
| c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 665 Al was on speche ðor bi-foren, ðor woren sundri speches boren. 1375 Barbour Bruce v. 7 For to mak in thair synging Syndry notis, and soundis sere. 14.. Sir Beues (MS. E.) 4313 + 46 He hadde wunnen in to hys hond Many a batayle in sundry lond. c 1470 Henry Wallace i. 29 Elrisle..Auchinbothe, and othir syndry place. 1551 Recorde Pathw. Knowl. i. xvii, Diligently behold how these sundry figures be turned into triangles. 1561 T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer i. (1577) D vij b, In learning to handle sundrie kinde of weapons. 1596 Edw. III, iii. i. 69 Like to a meddow full of sundry flowers. 1603 Owen Pembrokeshire (1892) 269 The seuerall sortes of fowle..and..the sondrey kindes of takeinge of them. 1677 in Verney Mem. (1907) II. 327 There are sundry sorts of Habits becomming Souldiers in particular. 1754 Sherlock Disc. vii. (1759) I. 215 The Prophets of old were..destroyed by sundry Kinds of Death. |
† b. Preceded (rarely followed) by an
adj. of number or plurality (
esp. many). See also 6 e.
Obs.| 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 38 Þanne cam scripture And serued hem..of sondry metes manye. 1390 Gower Conf. II. 359 Thei bede..Tuo sondri beddes to be dyht. 1474 Caxton Chesse iv. v. (1883) 176 Whan he is in the myddes of the tabler he may goo in to viii. places sondry. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxvi. 26 Heilie harlottis..Come in with mony sindrie gyiss. 15.. Adam Bel 470 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 158 We haue slaie your fat falow der In many a sondry place. 1570 Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 1362/2 In those dayes there were ij. sundry Bibles in Englishe. 1570 Satir. Poems Reform. xiii. 17 And this he vsis mony sindrie sortis. 1570–6 Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 198 The third Brooke..being crossed in the way by seven other sundry bridges. 1617 Moryson Itin. i. 231 Nine sundry Sects of Christians haue their Monasteries within this City. 1678 R. Barclay Apol. Quakers v. §20. 157 This Parable, repeated in three sundry Evangelists. |
† c. Comb., as
sundry-coloured,
sundry-shaped adjs.| 1587 Golding De Mornay vi. (1592) 62 Afore making this sundrishaped world, God had conceiued an incorruptible paterne thereof. 1593 Drayton Ecl. i. 14 His sundrie coloured Coat. a 1700 Evelyn Diary June 1645, The quire, wall'd..with sundry colour'd stone halfe relievo. |
† 4. Different, other. (Const.
from.) With
pl. n. or
sing. n. in
pl. sense: Diverse, manifold.
Obs.| 13.. Cursor M. 4246 (Gött.) Putyfar..held ioseph in mensk and lare Al þou þair treuthes sundri ware. c 1400 Rom. Rose 5184 If I may lere Of sondry loves the manere. c 1470 Henry Wallace x. 708 The king changyt on syndry hors off Spayn. 1509 Hawes Past. Pleas. iv. (Percy Soc.) 19 A venemous beast of sundry likenes. 1535 Coverdale Bible Prol. to Rdr. ¶2 Euery church allmost had y⊇ Byble of a sondrye translacion. 1548 Turner Names Herbes (E.D.S.) 23 Carduus..is a sundry herbe from Cinara. 1551 ― Herbal i. E iij, Dioscorides descrybeth thes herbes seuerally, & so maketh them sondry herbes. 1586 Day Engl. Secretorie i. (1625) 132 How many, and how sundry are the euils wherewith our mortall state is endangered. 1614 W. B. Philos. Banquet (ed. 2) 113 The sundryest kindes of extremities. 1639 Fuller Holy War iv. vi. (1647) 176 A sundry dialect maketh not a severall language. 1668 Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. iii. xi. 152 The external parts about the mouth are sundry. |
b. † (
a) Consisting of different elements, of mixed composition.
Obs. rare.
| 1594 Hooker Eccl. Pol. iv. vi. §3 Forbidding them [sc. the Jews] to put on garments of sundry stuffe. 1600 Shakes. A.Y.L. 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 my often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadnesse. |
(
b) Consisting of miscellaneous items:
cf. sundries.
| 1790 Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. II. 187, 75 tons of sundry wood. 1870 Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining (1872) 98 The assets of the company [include] Cash in Bank of California $119,609... Sundry open accounts $2,863. 1913 Times 9 Aug. 19/2 Yield, including sundry revenue, {pstlg}4,855. |
5. As an indefinite numeral: A number of, several. (The prevailing use.)
† Occas. with
poss. as
sundry his = several of his.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints ii. (Paulus) 26 In parelis wes he stad sindry. 1390 Gower Conf. I. 209 This Emperour..Withinne a ten mile enviroun..Hath sondry places forto reste. 1456 Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 107 And ȝit is thare sindry othir realmes that obeyis nocht to the Emperoure. 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 321 Whom Cicero veray often tymes citeth in soondrie his werkes. 1552 Bk. Com. Prayer, Morn. Prayer, Exh., The scripture moueth vs in sondrye places, to acknowledge and confesse our manyfolde synnes and wyckednesse. 1605 Shakes. Macb. iv. iii. 158 Sundry Blessings hang about his Throne, That speake him full of Grace. 1630 Prynne Anti-Armin. 118 Subiecting it to sundry alterations, periods, and changes at our pleasure. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia ii. ii, [She] was then ushered with great pomp through sundry apartments. 1794 Bloomfield's Reports 13 The Court having heard..sundry affidavits read. 1843 James Forest Days i, These benches formed the favourite resting-place of sundry old men. 1870 A. R. Hope My Schoolboy Fr. 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. |
† b. In collocations, as
sundry (and) divers,
divers (and) sundry,
sundry (and) several.
Obs.| c 1420 ? Lydg. Assembly of Gods 321 Chaungeable of sondry dyuerse colowres. 1483 Rolls of Parlt. VI. 245/1 Sundrie and diverse false and traiterous proclamacions. 1495 Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 138 Diverse & soundrie shippes. a 1548 Hall Chron., Edw. IV 222 At sondry and seuerall tymes (and not all at one tyme). 1574 in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 424 For dyverse and sondrye good occations. 1590 L. Lloyd Diall Daies 76 At sundrie severall times. |
c. ellipt. and (chiefly
Sc.)
absol. (
Cf. several a. 4 c.)
| c 1470 Henry Wallace i. 199 Syndry wayntyt, bot nane wyst be quhat way. 1575 in Maitl. Club Misc. I. 115 Syndery boyith of the citie and gentillmen upaland. a 1629 Hinde J. Bruen xlvi. (1641) 146 Divers and sundry of the workes of the Lord. 1680 H. More Apocal. Apoc. 123 The not understanding of which has made sundry in vain attempt to predict events foretold in the Apocalypse. a 1796 Burns Katherine Jaffray iii, He's tell'd her father and mother baith, As I hear sindry say, O. 1825 T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Doubts & F. i. II. 84 Sundry of those little hemmings and coughings. 1875 Whitney Life Lang. vii. 115 Sundry of the modern European languages. |
6. Phr.
† a. on sundry,
in sundry,
a sundry: alteration of
on-,
in-sunder (see
sunder B),
asunder.
† b. by sundries: individually.
† c. in or on sundry wise (
occas. sundry wises), later
sundry wise: in various or different ways; variously, diversely.
d. (in) sundry ways (in the same sense).
e. all and sundry,
occas. † all sundry: every individual, every single; now only
absol. (
occas. † all and sundries)
= everybody of all classes, one and all. (
orig. and chiefly
Sc. = L.
omnes et singuli.)
| a. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 393 On sundri ðhenken he to ben. 13.. Cursor M. 14665 (Gött.) We er all ane,..Sua þat we thoru nane-kin art Ne man be made in sundri [Cott. in sundre] part. c 1330 Amis & Amil. 309 Now we asondri schal wende. a 1400 Parlt. 3 Ages (Roxb.) 90, I..choppede of the nekke And þ⊇ hede and the haulse homelyde in sondree. c 1420 ? Lydg. Assembly of Gods 1765 Whyche iii tymes, a sondry deuydyd, Mayst thow here see. |
| b. a 1400–50 Wars Alex. 3909 Þai seke out be sundres sexti to-gedire. |
| c. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints v. (Johannes) 558 He taucht þam in syndry vyis. 1375 Barbour Bruce ix. 441 The laif..Sesit..Men, armyng, and marchandiss, And othir gudis on syndri viss. 14.. Chaucer's Friar's T. 172 (Harl. MS. 7334) Why..ryde ȝe þan or goon, In sondry wyse [v.r. shape] and nouȝt alway in oon? 1484 in Lett. Rich. III & Hen. VII (Rolls) I. 88 Feithful services to us in sundry wises doon. 1549 Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Rom. 33 God doeth in sondry wyse bestow his giftes. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 3 b, The fruitefull Earth that tyld in sundry wyse, Vnto the eye her goodly fruites dooth yeelde. 1591 R. Turnbull St. James 149 b, Men fall and sinne..three waies..and there is no man which doeth not fall through euerie one of these, sundriwise. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xlvii, Twa precious saints might pu' sundry wise, like twa cows riving at the same hay-band. |
| d. a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 3 Ingyne of man be Inclinatioun in sindrie wayes is giwin. 1592 Timme Ten Engl. Lepers E 4 b, This leprosie of pride dooth sundrie waies lay holde upon men. 1605 Shakes. Macb. iv. iii. 48 Yet my poore Country Shall..More suffer, and more sundry wayes then euer. 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. Table 61 He quha being lawfullie summoned, is absent,..is sindrie wayes vnlawed according to the diversitie of the courts. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 187 To breed him, break him, back him, are requir'd Experienc'd Masters; and in sundry Ways: Their Labours equal, and alike their Praise. 1743 Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas 36 There have died sundry ways since the Ship first struck forty-five Men. |
| e. 1389 in Sir W. Fraser Wemyss of W. (1888) II. 24 Til there thyngys al and syndry lelily and fermly to be fulfyllyt and yhemmyt. 1480 in Exch. Rolls Scot. IX. 120 note, All and sendri oure liegis and subditis. 1552 Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 3 Till all and sindry personis. 1562 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) i. 95 To ceis all sindrye sectis of hereseis. 1597 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 303/2 Togidder with all and sindrie the teindscheves. 1682 Lond. Gaz. No. 1682/1 To have forfault..all and sundry his Lands, Heretages, Liffrents, and Rents. |
| absol. 1428 Munim. de Melros (Bann.) 519 Till all & syndry to quham þe knawlage of þir presentz lettris sall to cum. 1442 in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 63/2 Till al and sindri that thir presentez lettrez sall here or see. 1783 W. Gordon tr. Livy's Rom. Hist. iv. ii. 310 Sedition never failed to procure honour and respect to all and sundries, its authors and abettors. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. lii, Join wi' Rob Roy..and revenge Donacha's death on all and sundry. 1837–42 Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) I. x. 171, I cry aloud to all and sundry, in my plainest accents. 1901 Scotsman 13 Mar. 12/2 The city must advertise for estimates from all and sundry. |
† 7. That sunders or separates; dividing; discriminating.
Obs. rare.
| 1564 Harding Answ. to Jewel's Chalenge 133 b, They must vse a discretion, and a sundry iudgement betwen the thinges they write agonisticῶς,..and the thinges they vtter dogmaticῶς. 1593 A. Chute Beautie Dishonoured (1908) 111 Thus life, and death, in unitie agreeing Dated the tenor of their sonderie strife. |
Hence
† ˈsundryfold a., manifold;
† ˈsundryhead, diversity, variety;
† ˈsundrywhere adv., in various places.
| c 1430 Lydg. Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 194 Complexionat of *sondryfold coloures. 1557 T. Phaer æneid v. M iv b, Skant yemen twayn..the same coud beare, So sondriefolde it was. |
| 1395 Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xlvi, Þe *soundryhede of orders [of angels]. |
| 1548 Patten Exped. Scot. M vij b, His valiaunce *sundry whear tried. 1568 T. Howell Arb. Amitie Poems (1879) 35 The fethred foule..sundrie where his fostring foode, With chirping bill he peekes. |
▪ II. ˈsundry, adv. Obs. exc. Sc. Forms: 1
Northumb. syndriᵹe,
suindriᵹe,
swyndria; chiefly
Sc. and
north. 4
syndri, 4–6
syndry, 5
sindrie, 6
sindri, (9
sinry,
sinnery,) 5–
sindry; 3–5
sundri, 4
sondry, 6–7
sundrie, 4–9
sundry.
[OE. syndriᵹe, = OHG. sunt(a)rîgo (MHG. sunderige, LG. sonderig, sünderig); f. prec.] 1. Separately, apart; severally, individually.
| c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark iv. 34 Seorsum, syndriᵹe. Ibid. xiv. 19 Singillatim, swyndria. c 1205 Lay. 24577 Alle þa wepmen at heore mete seten sund[r]i bi heom seoluen. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 2354 In lond gersen sulen ȝe sundri riche ben. a 1300 Cursor M. 20202, I sal to þe a-postles weind onan, And sceu þam sundri an and an, Þat tai be her þe thrid dai. 1375 Barbour Bruce xvii. 297 He..till gret lordis, ilkane syndri, Ordanit ane felde for thar herbry. c 1475 Rauf Coilȝear 29 Be thay disseuerit sindrie, midmorne was past. 1524 St. Papers Hen. VIII, IV. 129 It may doo gret ewel to Me, and pwt the Kyng my son and Me syndry. 1538 Starkey England (1878) 85 The fautys wych we schal fynde sundry in the partys. 1589 A. Hume Poems (S.T.S.) 60 They..sundrie through the earth were driuen. 1590 Spenser F.Q. ii. ix. 48 These three in these three roomes did sundry dwell. 1829 Hogg Sheph. Cal. I. i. 20 The herds, wha lived about three miles sindry. |
† b. In detail.
Obs. rare.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 26609 Scrift agh be scire and sundri [v.r. sundre] tald. |
2. Of a single object (or anything so considered): In or into pieces; to pieces;
= asunder adv. 4.
| 1533 Bellenden Livy i. xi. (S.T.S.) I. 63 How þe Veanis and fidenatis war discomfist, & mecius dictator drawin sindri for his demeritis. 1536 ― Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 231 Drawin sindry with wild hors. 1882 Jamieson's Sc. Dict. s.v., The thing fell sindry in my han'. 1893 F. Mackenzie Cruisie Sk. ii. (1894) 20 It will be an unco hard hoast that shak's ye sindry. |