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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Constituting each and all members of a group without exception.
  2. adj. Being all possible: had every chance of winning, but lost.
  3. adj. Being each of a specified succession of objects or intervals: every third seat; every two hours.
  4. adj. Being the highest degree or expression of: showed us every attention; had every hope of succeeding.
  5. idiom. every bit Informal In all ways; equally: He is every bit as mean as she is.
  6. idiom. then From time to time; occasionally.
  7. idiom. every once in a while From time to time; occasionally.
  8. idiom. every other Each alternate: She went to visit her aunt every other week.
  9. idiom. every so often At intervals; occasionally.
  10. idiom. every which way Informal In every direction.
  11. idiom. every which way Informal In complete disorder.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Each, considered indefinitely as a unitary part of an aggregate; all, of a collective or aggregate number, taken one by one; any, as representing all of whom or of which the same thing is predicated. A proposition containing every before a class name is equivalent to the totality of statements formed by replacing this expression by the name of each individual of the class. But if not is placed before every, the meaning is that some one or more of these individual propositions are not true. Thus, “not every man is a poet” does not mean that not any man is a poet, but only that some men are not poets. In many cases, however, every is ambiguous.
  2. each one (of the whole number); every person; everybody.
  3. Each of any number of persons or things; every one.
  4. n. An obsolete form of ivory. Wright

Wiktionary

  1. All of a countable group, without exception.
  2. Used with ordinal numbers to denote those items whose position is divisible by the corresponding cardinal number, or a portion of equal size to that set.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. All the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite number.
  2. adj. obsolete Every one. Cf. Each.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified
  2. adj. (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English everich, which is made up of Old English ǣfre ("ever") + ǣlċ ("each"). Furthermore, ǣfre itself comes from ā in feore ("ever in life"), and ǣlċ from ā ġelīċ ("ever alike"). Thus equivalent to ever +‎ each. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English everi, everich, from Old English ǣfre ǣlc : ǣfre, ever; see aiw- in Indo-European roots + ǣlc, each; see līk- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “It's coming out of every rock, every drop of rain, every flower, every particle of air, every  stitch of clothing, every cell of skin, every bead upon our silly heads.”

    Fictionaut: A Short Snippet of Text

  • “I dreamt I was at a huge convention, but every pro writer bailed except for me and Catherine Asaro, and we were forced to do _every_ panel.”

    Tweet Dreams

  • “By every place, we really mean *every* place — there are Place Pages for businesses, points of interest, transit stations, neighborhoods, landmarks and cities all over the world.”

    Place Pages for Google Maps: There are places we remember!

  • “I recently did a patent investigation and we had to mark every single configuration setting it was a wireless comm application and note _every_ deviation in the setup from what would otherwise be considered the norm.”

    Pain in Maine, but they can measure rain « Climate Audit

  • “It works out to one cupcake every two or three weeks, assuming *every* mother brings in cupcakes which is of course not the case.”

    "Banning cupcakes is almost like an assault on the national identity."

  • “What was is thatThomas Jefferson said..every 50 years there should be a….hhmmmm..cant seem to remember the rest ..oh yeah every 50 year there should be a rev******CENSORED******”

    Think Progress » John McCain’s War On Blogs

  • “_I've_ been wondering, why is the Army spending all its resources to gather up not just every last piece of eetee salvage, but nearly _every person_ who's worked with it?”

    Asimov's Science Fiction

  • “A hungry man is an angry one;" so runs the legend, but, if true, and I have every reason to believe that it is, it held not on the lower deck of the "Iron Duke" this day, for _no_ man was angry, and _every_ man”

    In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83

  • “I would give every traveling man, every business man, _every man_ this same advice.”

    Tales of the Road

  • “I think it would be better to do away with all such qualifying expressions, and constantly maintain (what I certainly believe to be the fact) that _variations of every kind_ are _always occurring_ in _every part_ of _every species_, and therefore that favourable variations are _always ready_ when wanted.”

    Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1

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