Forms: α. 1 syndriʓ, (syndryʓ, Northumb. suindriʓ), 1–2 sindriȝ, 2–3 sindri, 4–5 sindre, syndre; Sc. and north. 4– sindry, syndry, 5–7 sindri, 5–8 sindrie (5 sendri, 6 sin-, syndrye, -ie, syndery, 8 sendry); β. 3–4 sundri, 4–6 sondri, -dry(e, (4 sundrii, -dre, sum-dri, sondree), 5–6 sondre, sundery, soundry, 5–7 sundrie, soundrie, 6–7 sondrie, (6 so(u)ndery, -ie, soondrie, 7 sondrey), 4– sundry. [OE. syndriʓ separate, special, private, exceptional, corresp. to MLG. sunder(i)ch single, special, LG. sunderig, OHG. sunt(a)rîc, sund(i)rîc, -erîg special (MHG. sunderig, -ic); f. sunder SUNDER a.: see -Y1.]
1. Having an existence, position or status apart; separate, distinct. Obs. exc. dial.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Judg., Epil. (Gr.), 263. Þa senatores … dæʓhwanlice smeadon on anum sindrian huse embe ealles folces þearfe.
c. 1000. Ags. Ps. cxl. 12 (Gr.). Ic me syndriʓ eom.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 1985. Ðor was in helle a sundri stede, wor ðe seli folc reste dede.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 332. Þis wright [sc. God] … Fra al oþer, sundri [Fairf. ys sundre] and sere. Ibid., 16094. Þe pretori, Þat was a sundri stede.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. XIX. 192. Þre persones in o pensel … departable from oþer … And sondry to seo vpon.
1533. N. Udall, Coronat. Anne Boleyn, in Arb., Garner, II. 58. The fourth Lady … peerless in riches, wit, and beauty; Which are but sundry qualities in yon three [sc. Juno, Pallas and Venus].
1549. Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. 1 Pet. 9. Let not age, estate, condicion or sondry being in diuerse countres disseuer you a sondre.
1790. Mrs. Wheeler, Westmld. Dial. (1802), 114. She ligs in a sendry kaw boose.
† 2. Belonging or assigned distributively to certain individuals; distinct or different for each respectively. Obs.
a. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., IV. xxiii. [xxii.] (1890), 328. Þurh syndriʓe þine ondsware [orig. per singula tua responsa] ic onʓet & oncneow, þæt [etc.]. Ibid., V. xxiii. (1899), 697/1. On septem Epistolas Canonicas [ic sette] syndrie bec.
c. 1100. Ælfric, Deut. xxxiii. 5. Moyses þa ʓebletsode … þa twelf mæʓða ælce mid sindriʓre bletsunge.
c. 1205. Lay., 2688. He hefde on liue tuenti sunen and alc hefde sindri moder.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 9533. Ilkan sum-dri gift he gaue.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, X. 731. His men, in-to syndry plas, Clam our the wall.
1430–40. Lydg., Bochas, I. ii. (MS. Bodl. 263), 17/1. The contre off Sennar thei forsook And ech off hem a sondri contre took.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron. Hen. VIII., 70. iiii. hed peces called Armites, euery pece beyng of a sundery deuice.
1549. Compl. Scot., vi. 65. Ilk ane of them hed ane syndry instrament to play to the laif. the fyrst hed ane drone bag pipe, the nyxt hed ane pipe maid of ane bleddir and of ane reid, the thrid playit on ane trump [etc.].
1592. Greene, Conny Catching, Wks. (Grosart), XI. 84. Those Amarosos here in England … that … wil haue in euery shire in England a sundry wife.
a. 1700. Dryden, Ovid’s Art Love, I. 863. Experience finds That sundry Women are of sundry Minds.
1715. Pennecuik, Truth’s Trav., 114. Ilk an ran a sindrie gait.
1738. Wesley, Ps. CIV. iv. His Ministers Heav’n’s Palace fill, To have their sundry Tasks assign’d.
† 3. Individually separate; that is one of a number of individuals of a class or group. Usually with pl. sb. or sing. sb. in pl. sense: Various, (many) different. Obs. (or merged in 5).
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 665. Al was on speche ðor bi-foren, ðor woren sundri speches boren.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, V. 7. For to mak in thair synging Syndry notis, and soundis sere.
14[?]. Sir Beues (MS. E.), 4313 + 46. He hadde wunnen in to hys hond Many a batayle in sundry lond.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, I. 29. Elrisle … Auchinbothe, and othir syndry place.
1551. Recorde, Pathw. Knowl., I. xvii. Diligently behold how these sundry figures be turned into triangles.
1561. T. Hoby, trans. Castiglione’s Courtyer, I. (1577), D vij b. In learning to handle sundrie kinde of weapons.
1596. Edward III., III. i. 69. Like to a meddow full of sundry flowers.
1603. Owen, Pembrokeshire (1892), 269. The seuerall sortes of fowle … and … the sondrey kindes of takeinge of them.
1677. in Verney Mem. (1907), II. 327. There are sundry sorts of Habits becomming Souldiers in particular.
1754. Sherlock, Disc., vii. (1759), I. 215. The Prophets of old were … destroyed by sundry Kinds of Death.
† b. Preceded (rarely followed) by an adj. of number or plurality (esp. many). See also 6 e. Obs.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XIII. 38. Þanne cam scripture And serued hem … of sondry metes manye.
1390. Gower, Conf., II. 359. Thei bede … Tuo sondri beddes to be dyht.
1474. Caxton, Chesse, IV. v. (1883), 176. Whan he is in the myddes of the tabler he may goo in to viii. places sondry.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xxvi. 26. Heilie harlottis … Come in with mony sindrie gyiss.
15[?]. Adam Bel, 470, in Hazl., E. P. P., II. 158. We haue slaie your fat falow der In many a sondry place.
1570. Foxe, A. & M. (ed. 2), 1362/2. In those dayes there were ij. sundry Bibles in English.
1570. Satir. Poems Reform., xiii. 17. And this he vsis mony sindrie sortis.
1570–6. Lambarde, Peramb. Kent (1826), 198. The third Brooke … being crossed in the way by seven other sundry bridges.
1617. Moryson, Itin., I. 231. Nine sundry Sects of Christians haue their Monasteries within this City.
1678. R. Barclay, Apol. Quakers, V. § 20. 157. This Parable, repeated in three sundry Evangelists.
† c. Comb., as sundry-coloured, -shaped adjs.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, vi. (1592), 62. Afore making this sundrishaped world, God had conceiued an incorruptible paterne thereof.
1593. Drayton, Ecl., i. 14. His sundrie coloured Coat.
a. 1700. Evelyn, Diary, June 1645. The quire, wall’d … with sundry colour’d stone halfe relievo.
† 4. Different, other. (Const. from.) With pl. sb. or sing. sb. in pl. sense: Diverse, manifold. Obs.
13[?]. Cursor M., 4246 (Gött.). Putyfar … held ioseph in mensk and lare Al þou þair treuthes sundri ware.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 5184. If I may lere Of sondry loves the manere.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, X. 708. The king changyt on syndry hors off Spayn.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., IV. (Percy Soc.), 19. A venemous beast of sundry likenes.
1535. Coverdale, Bible, Prol. to Rdr. ¶ 2. Euery church allmost had ye Byble of a sondrye translacion.
1548. Turner, Names Herbes (E.D.S.), 23. Carduus … is a sundry herbe from Cinara. Ibid. (1551), Herbal, I. E iij. Dioscorides descrybeth thes herbes seuerally, & so maketh them sondry herbes.
1586. A. Day, Engl. Secretorie, I. (1625), 132. How many, and how sundry are the euils wherewith our mortall state is endangered.
1614. W. B., Philos. Banquet (ed. 2), 113. The sundryest kindes of extremities.
1639. Fuller, Holy War, IV. vi. (1647), 176. A sundry dialect maketh not a severall language.
1668. Culpepper & Cole, Barthol. Anat., III. xi. 152. The external parts about the mouth are sundry.
b. † (a) Consisting of different elements, of mixed composition. Obs. rare.
1594. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., IV. vi. § 3. Forbidding them [sc. the Jews] to put on garments of sundry stuffe.
1600. Shaks., A. Y. L., IV. i. 17. A melancholy of mine owne, compounded of many simples, extracted from many obiects, and indeed the sundrie contemplation of my trauells, in which my often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadnesse.
(b) Consisting of miscellaneous items: cf. SUNDRIES.
1790. Beatson, Nav. & Mil. Mem., II. 187. 75 tons of sundry wood.
1870. Raymond, Statist. Mines & Mining (1872), 98. The assets of the company [include] Cash in Bank of California $119,609…. Sundry open accounts $2,863.
1913. Times, 9 Aug., 19/2. Yield, including sundry revenue, £4,855.
5. As an indefinite numeral: A number of, several. (The prevailing use.)
† Occas. with poss., as sundry his = several of his.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, ii. (Paulus), 26. In parelis wes he stad sindry.
1390. Gower, Conf., I. 209. This Emperour … Withinne a ten mile enviroun … Hath sondry places forto reste.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 107. And ȝit is thare sindry othir realmes that obeyis nocht to the Emperoure.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 321. Whom Cicero veray often tymes citeth in soondrie his werkes.
1552. Bk. Com. Prayer, Morn. Prayer, Exh. The scripture moueth vs in sondrye places, to acknowledge and confesse our manyfolde synnes and wyckednesse.
1605. Shaks., Macb., IV. iii. 158. Sundry Blessings hang about his Throne, That speake him full of Grace.
1630. Prynne, Anti-Armin., 118. Subiecting it to sundry alterations, periods, and changes at our pleasure.
1782. Miss Burney, Cecilia, II. ii. [She] was then ushered with great pomp through sundry apartments.
1794. Bloomfield’s Reports, 13. The Court having heard … sundry affidavits read.
1843. G. P. R. James, Forest Days, i. These benches formed the favourite resting-place of sundry old men.
1870. ‘A. R. Hope,’ My Schoolboy Fr., xi. 149. Disturbing the placid repast of sundry forlorn cows.
1913. Oxf. Univ. Gaz., 19 Feb., 493/2. Having built some proper out-houses to replace sundry untidy wooden hen-roosts.
† b. In collocations, as sundry (and) divers, divers (and) sundry, sundry (and) several. Obs.
c. 1420. ? Lydg., Assembly of Gods, 321. Chaungeable of sondry dyuerse colowres.
1483. Rolls of Parlt., VI. 245/1. Sundrie and diverse false and traiterous proclamacions.
1495. Naval Acc. Hen. VII. (1896), 138. Diverse & soundrie shippes.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Edw. IV., 222. At sondry and seuerall tymes (and not all at one tyme).
1574. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 424. For dyverse and sondrye good occations.
1590. L. Lloyd, Diall Daies, 76. At sundrie severall times.
c. ellipt. and (chiefly Sc.) absol. (Cf. SEVERAL a. 4 c.)
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, I. 199. Syndry wayntyt, bot nane wyst be quhat way.
1575. in Maitl. Club Misc., I. 115. Syndery boyith of the citie and gentillmen upaland.
a. 1629. Hinde, J. Bruen, xlvi. (1641), 146. Divers and sundry of the workes of the Lord.
1680. H. More, Apocal. Apoc., 123. The not understanding of which has made sundry in vain attempt to predict events foretold in the Apocalypse.
a. 1796. Burns, Katharine Jaffray, iii. He’s tell’d her father and mother baith, As I hear sindry say, O.
1825. T. Hook, Sayings, Ser. II. Doubts & F., i. II. 84. Sundry of those little hemmings and coughings.
1875. Whitney, Life Lang., vii. 115. Sundry of the modern European languages.
6. Phr. † a. On, in, a sundry: alteration of on-, in-sunder (see SUNDER B), ASUNDER. † b. By sundries: individually. † c. In or on sundry wise (occas. wises), later sundry wise: in various or different ways; variously; diversely. d. (In) sundry ways (in the same sense). e. All and sundry, occas. † all sundry: every individual, every single; now only absol. (occas. † all and sundries) = everybody of all classes, one and all. (orig. and chiefly Sc. = L. omnes et singuli.)
a. c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 393. On sundri ðhenken he to ben.
13[?]. Cursor M., 14665 (Gött.). We er all ane,… Sua þat we thoru nane-kin art Ne man be made in sundri [Cott. in sundre] part.
c. 1330. Amis & Amil., 309. Now we asondri schal wende.
a. 1400. Parlt. 3 Ages (Roxb.), 90. I … choppede of the nekke And þe hede and the haulse homelyde in sondree.
c. 1420. ? Lydg., Assembly of Gods, 1765. Whyche iii tymes, a sondry deuydyd, Mayst thow here see.
b. a. 1400–50. Wars Alex., 3909. Þai seke out be sundres sexti to-gedire.
c. c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, v. (Johannes), 558. He taucht þam in syndry vyis.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, IX. 441. The laif … Sesit … Men, armyng, and marchandiss, And othir gudis on syndri viss.
14[?]. Chaucer’s Friar’s T., 172 (Harl. MS. 7334). Why … ryde ȝe þan or goon, In sondry wyse [v.r. shape] and nouȝt alway in oon?
1484. in Lett. Rich. III. & Hen. VII. (Rolls), I. 88. Feithful services to us in sundry wises doon.
1549. Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. Rom. 33. God doeth in sondry wyse bestow his giftes.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., I. (1586), 3 b. The fruitefull Earth that tyld in sundry wyse, Vnto the eye her goodly fruites dooth yeelde.
1591. R. Turnbull, St. James, 149 b. Men fall and sinne … three waies … and there is no man which doeth not fall through euerie one of these, sundriwise.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xlvii. Twa precious saints might pu’ sundry wise, like twa cows riving at the same hay-band.
d. a. 1578. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 3. Ingyne of man be Inclinatioun in sindrie wayes is giwin.
1592. Timme, Ten Engl. Lepers, E 4 b. This leprosie of pride dooth sundrie waies lay holde upon men.
1605. Shaks., Macb., IV. iii. 48. Yet my poore Country Shall … More suffer, and more sundry wayes then euer.
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj., Table 61. He quha being lawfullie summoned, is absent,… is sindrie waye vnlawed according to the diversitie of the courts.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., III. 187. To breed him, break him, back him, are requir’d Experienc’d Masters; and in sundry Ways: Their Labours equal, and alike their Praise.
1743. Bulkeley & Cummins, Voy. S. Seas, 36. There have died sundry ways since the Ship first struck forty-five Men.
e. 1389. in Sir W. Fraser, Wemyss of W. (1888), II. 24. Til there thyngys al and syndry lelily and fermly to be fulfyllyt and yhemmyt.
1480. in Exch. Rolls Scot., IX. 120, note. All and sendri oure liegis and subditis.
1552. Abp. Hamilton, Catech. (1884), 3. Till all and sindry personis.
1562. A. Scott, Poems (S.T.S.), i. 95. To ceis all sindrye sectis of hereseis.
1597. Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 303/2. Togidder with all and sindrie the teindscheves.
1682. Lond. Gaz., No. 1682/1. To have forfault … all and sundry his Lands, Heretages, Liffrents, and Rents.
absol. 1428. Munim. de Melros (Bann.), 519. Till all & syndry to quham þe knawlage of þir presentz lettris sall to cum.
1442. in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 63/2. Till al and sindri that thir presentez lettrez sall here or see.
1783. W. Gordon, trans. Livy’s Rom. Hist., IV. ii. 310. Sedition never failed to procure honour and respect to all and sundries, its authors and abettors.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., lii. Join wi’ Rob Roy … and revenge Donacha’s death on all and sundry.
1837–43. Hawthorne, Twice-told T. (1851), I. x. 171. I cry aloud to all and sundry, in my plainest accents.
1901. Scotsman, 13 March, 12/2. The city must advertise for estimates from all and sundry.
† 7. That sunders or separates; dividing; discriminating. Obs. rare.
1564. Harding, Answ. to Jewel’s Chalenge, 133 b. They must vse a discretion, and a sundry iudgement betwen the thinges they write agonisticῶς,… and the thinges they vtter dogmaticῶς.
1593. A. Chute, Beautie Dishonoured (1908), 111. Thus life, and death, in unitie agreeing Dated the tenor of their sonderie strife.
Hence † Sundryfold a., manifold; † Sundryhead, diversity, variety; † Sundrywhere adv., in various places.
c. 1430. Lydg., Minor Poems (Percy Soc.), 194. Complexionat of *sondryfold coloures.
1557. Phaër, Æneid, V. M iv b. Skant yemen twayn … the same coud beare, So sondriefolde it was.
1395. Hylton, Scala Perf. (W. de W., 1494), II. xlvi. Þe *soundryhede of orders [of angels].
1548. Patten, Exped. Scot., M vij b. His valiaunce *sundry whear tried.
1568. T. Howell, Arb. Amitie, Poems (1879), 35. The fethred foule … sundrie where his fostring foode, With chirping bill he peekes.
