adv. Obs. Forms: 1 tǫsomne, tosamne, 2–3 to somne, (Orm.) tosamenn, 2–4 to same, 3 to somnen, 3–4 to samen, 4 to samyn. [OE. tósamne, tósǫmne, f. tó, TO prep. + SAMEN together. Cf. OFris. to samene, OS. tô samane, te samne (MDu. te-zamen, Du. samen), OHG. saman, zi samane (MHG. zesamene, Ger. zusammen); also ON. til-samans.
The element samen represents an orig. sb., of which saman, samane, samans were case-forms: cf. Skr. samana concourse, assembly, samana adv. together; also OIr. samain assembly, the Tara-festival.]
Together; into or in one body or company.
c. 893. K. Ælfred, Oros., IV. xi. § 9. Raðe þæs þe hie tosomne comon.
971. Blickl. Hom., 191. Þa coman þær tosamne unarimedlico menʓeo.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., II. 100. Moyses fæste feowertiʓ daʓa and feowertiʓ nihta tosamne.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 23. Boðe to same þe sowle and þe lichame.
c. 1200. Ormin, 649. Forrþi shulenn alle þa … Tosamenn stanndenn att te dom.
c. 1205. Lay., 8597. To-somnen we scullen gliden.
c. 1315. Shoreham, i. 116. Crist is mid ous to-same.
13[?]. Cursor M., 11461 (Cott.). And did he suith to samen call Þe maisters of his kingrik all. Ibid. (c. 1375), 3073 (Fairf.). To-samyn dwelled þai þare.
