a. Obs. Forms: (1 alra cynna, ? alles cynnes), 2–3 alles cunnes (ü), 3–4 alle kunnes, alle kinne, 4–5 alkyns, alkyn(e, 5–6 alkin, alken. [orig. genitive phrase, sing. or pl., alles cynnes of every kind, ‘omnis generis,’ alra cynna of all kinds, ‘omnium generum,’ which being placed before the noun on which they depended, as alra cynna fúʓlas fowls of all sorts, alles cunnes deor beasts of every kind, became treated more or less as adjs., and finally reduced to alkins, alkin. It is doubtful whether they occur before 1100, though OE. has phrases parallel to alra cynna in maneʓra cynna wítu ‘afflictions of many kinds.’ Ps. x. 7. Modern usage reverses the syntactic relation in all kind of, all kinds of. See KIN and KIND.] Of every kind or sort; every kind of, all kinds of.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 79. Alles cunnes wilde dor.
c. 1200. Ormin, 850. Onn alle kinne wise.
c. 1230. St. Juliana, 35. Ha greiðið þe … Alles cunnes pinen.
c. 1330. Florice & Bl., 793. Þer was alle kunnes gleo.
1340. Hampole, Pr. Consc., 613. Alkyn filthe.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. X. 177. Of alkinnes craftes · I contreued toles.
1460. in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866), 105. Alken synnes wer wroȝt in me.
1552. Lyndesay, Complaynt, 300. Wors than thay in alkin thyng.
