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Webster 1913 Edition


Every

Ev′er-y

,
Adj.
&
Adj.
p
ron.
[OE.
everich
,
everilk
; AS.
ǣfre
ever +
ælc
each. See
Ever
,
each
.]
1.
All the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite number.
Every
man at his best state is altogether vanity.
Ps. xxxix. 5.
Every
door and window was adorned with wreaths of flowers.
Macaulay.
2.
Every one. Cf.
Each
.
[Obs.]
Every of your wishes.”
Shak.
Daily occasions given to
every
of us.
Hooker.
Every each
,
every one.
[Obs.]
Every each of them hath some vices.”
Burton..
Every now and then
,
at short intervals; occasionally; repeatedly; frequently.
[Colloq.]
Syn.
Every
,
Each
,
Any
.
Any denotes one, or some, taken indifferently from the individuals which compose a class. Every differs from each in giving less prominence to the selection of the individual. Each relates to two or more individuals of a class. It refers definitely to every one of them, denoting that they are considered separately, one by one, all being included; as, each soldier was receiving a dollar per day. Every relates to more than two and brings into greater prominence the notion that not one of all considered is excepted; as, every soldier was on service, except the cavalry, that is, all the soldiers, etc.
In
each
division there were four pentecosties, in
every
pentecosty four enomoties, and of
each
enomoty there fought in the front rank four [soldiers].
Jowett (Thucyd. ).
If society is to be kept together and the children of Adam to be saved from setting up
each
for himself with
every
one else his foe.
J. H. Newman.

Webster 1828 Edition


Every

EV'ERY

,
Adj.
[Old Eng. everich. It is formed from ever.] Each individual of a whole collection or aggregate number. The word includes the whole number, but each separately stated or considered.
Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps.39.

Definition 2024


Every

Every

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Every

  1. A surname.

every

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every

  1. All of a countable group, without exception.
    Every person in the room stood and cheered.
    • 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, chapter III:
      At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. [] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
      Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
  2. Used with ordinal numbers to denote those items whose position is divisible by the corresponding cardinal number, or a portion of equal size to that set.
    Every third bead was red, and the rest were blue.  The sequence was thus red, blue, blue, red, blue, blue etc.
    Decimation originally meant the execution of every tenth soldier in a unit.

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