Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Some part; somewhat; something; some.
  • In some measure or degree; somewhat; partly; partially.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete In some degree; somewhat.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • pronoun Some part; a portion, something; some.
  • adverb obsolete In some measure or degree; somewhat, partly, partially

Etymologies

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From Middle English somdel, sumdel ("somewhat, to an extent, in some measure; part, portion, a bit, small amount; in ~ this instance, this case"), equivalent to some +‎ deal.

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Examples

  • Curfew Street, and though we know he was somedeal hurt in that matter, we cannot see why he should not do homage in leal and duteous sort.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • In Ethiopia all the rivers and all the waters be trouble, and they be somedeal salt for the great heat that is there.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And when men have gathered it, then cometh the white that is somedeal less than the black.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • For of fire he taketh red colour in the overmost part, and of earth green in the nethermost, and of the air a manner of brown colour, and of water somedeal blue in the middle.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • And first is red colour, that cometh out of a light beam, that touches the outer part of the roundness of the cloud: then is a middle colour somedeal blue, as the quality asketh, that hath mastery in the vapour, that is in the middle of the cloud.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • And they must be gladded with instruments of music, and somedeal be occupied.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • And despise somedeal the usages of other men in comparison to their own usage.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • The voice is hoarse, swelling groweth in the body, and many small botches and whelks hard and round, in the legs and in the utter parts; feeling is somedeal taken away.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • By this, as some say, the pain perpetual due to Trajan as a miscreant was somedeal taken away, but for all that was not he quit from the prison of hell, for the soul may well be in hell and feel there no pain by the mercy of God.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

  • The countess made somedeal deol, [11] for no sothness they nustë.

    Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845

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