adv. phr. [See ALL C 9.]

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  1.  Over the whole extent, in every part; over the whole body, in every limb.

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1577.  trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 115. The properties of God … to bee all ouer, and euerie where.

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1633.  Massinger, New Way, IV. iii. I am so full of joy,—nay, joy all over.

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1710.  Lond. Gaz., mmmmdccix/4. Stray’d … a Mare … black all over.

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1720.  Waterland, 8 Serm., 101. It was confounding the Ideas of Creator and Creature, and was all over Contradictory, and Repugnant.

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Mod.  I ache all over.

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  2.  Finished, brought to a close; done for. (Cf. Ger. vorüber.) It is all over with = L. actum est de.

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Mod.  It’s all over with poor John.

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  3.  adj. (from 1) colloq. Indisposed all over or all through the body, generally ill.

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1851.  Mayhew, Lond. Labour, III. 146. It gives you an all-over sort of feeling.

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