alday

See also: Alday

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English alday (“all day”), compound of al +‎ day. Equivalent to all +‎ day.

Adverb

alday (not comparable)

1. (archaic) For the whole day; all day.
   • 1611, Joseph Hall, “Epistle VIII. To E.B. Dedicated to Sir George Goring.”, in Epistles […], volume III, London: […] [William Stansby and William Jaggard] for Samuell Macham, […], →OCLC, 5th decade, pages 95–96:

     To ſet the minde on the racke of long meditation (you ſay) is a torment: to follow the ſwift foote of your hound alday long, hath no wearineſſe: what would you ſay of him that finds better game in his ſtudie, then you in the fielde, and would account your diſport his puniſhment? ſuch there are, though you doubt and wonder.

References

• “alday, adv.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

• adlay, Dayal, Yalda

Middle English

Etymology

al +‎ day

Adverb

alday

1. all day (the entire day)