halfendeal
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English healfan dǣl, accusative form of healfa dǣl (“half part”).
Noun[edit]
halfendeal (plural not attested)
Adverb[edit]
halfendeal (comparative more halfendeal, superlative most halfendeal)
- (obsolete) Half.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- now the humid night was farforth spent, / And heauenly lampes were halfendeale ybrent [...].