everydel

Middle English

Alternative forms

• everydeel

Etymology

From everich／every +‎ del (“a part, thing”).

Noun

everydel (uncountable)

1. everything
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, line 1288:

     Whan he hadde found his firste mansioun,
     He knew the remenaunt by proporcioun,
     And knew the arising of his moone wel,
     And in whos face, and terme, and everydel, [...]

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Adverb

everydel

1. entirely, completely, in every respect
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 1823-1825:

     '[...] Ne make werre upon me, night nor day,
     But been my freendes in al that ye may,
     I yow foryeve this trespas everydel'

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