adv. Obs.; also alsone, alsoone. [= als soon, i.e., as soon, which is the modern form in sense 1; sense 2 is quite obs.] See also AS SOON.
1. Followed by as: As soon. Cf. Fr. aussitôt que.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, X. 368. Alsoyn As this deuisit wes.
1434. Test. Ebor., II. 41. Alson as ye saule be out of ye boddy.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., July. Alsoone may shepheard clymbe to skye … As Goteheard prowd.
2. absol. As soon as possible, at once, immediately. (Fr. aussitôt.)
a. 1300. Cursor M., 339. He … said wit word, and als son All his comament was don.
c. 1340. Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 4624. Þe grete dome sal noght be aftir alsone.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, V. 574. Iames of douglas … The presoners has tane alsone.
c. 1420. Sir Amadace, lvii. (1842), 50. Alsone his lord he metes.
