sondry

English

Adjective

sondry

1. Obsolete spelling of sundry.
   • 1570, Margaret Ascham, “To the Honorable Sir William Cecill Knight, Principall Secretarie to the Quenes Most Excellent Maiestie”, in Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], →OCLC:

     Sondry & reaſonable be the cauſes vvhy learned men haue vſed to offer and dedicate ſuch vvorkes as they put abrode, to ſome ſuch perſonage as they thinke fitteſt, either in reſpect of abilitie of defenſe, or ſkill for iugement, or priuate regard of kindeneſſe and dutie.

Anagrams

• Sydnor

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sundry, sindry

Etymology

From Old English syndriġ (“separate, single; sundry, various, distinct; special, private, peculiar, exceptional, particular; characteristic; (distributive) one each”), from sundor (“asunder, apart, separately””).

Adjective

sondry

1. sundry, various
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, 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, column 1, lines 12–13:

     Than longen folke to go on pylgrymage / And palmers to ſeken ſtraunge ſtrondes / To ſerue halowes couth in sondry londes

     Then folk long to go on pilgrimage, / And palmers to seek strange strands, / To serve shrines well known in sundry lands.

Descendants

• Scots: sindry
• English: sundry