Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
once .
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Examples
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Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Di-onys'ius the Areop'agite, and a woman named Dam'aris, and others with them.
Acts 17. 1999
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I can, wyche I beseche you forget not to geve me everday onys.
Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam
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I can, wyche I beseche you forget not to geve me everday onys.
Charles the Bold Putnam, Ruth, 1856-1931 1908
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Also anon after at Bedford, on the schire day, weren xviij men at onys murdred myschevously withoughte any strok, in fallynge doun hedlynge at the stayre of there Shire-hous, and manye mo foule hurt.
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Tak mulbery [2] and bray hem in a morter and wryng [3] hem thorth a cloth and do hem in a pot over the fyre and do thereto fat bred and wyte gresse and let it nazt boyle no ofter than onys and do thereto a god party of sugur and zif yt be nozt ynowe colowrd brey mulburus and serve yt forthe.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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abyde I will hyre iantilnesse; wold she loke onys owt of hyr howse
Quia Amore Langueo Anonymous 1917
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p {ar} t of the nombre to be multiplied {e}, and so shall {e} the digit be had {e} twies, onys in the digit, that other in the article.
The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902
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m {u} ltiplicacioɳ of þe 2 digitt comys thre, for onys 3 is but 3.
The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902
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Also that the Bochers of this Francheis, and al others that kepe slaughter shopes and kill flesche in this Francheis, to sell, mak onys yerly befor the Mair and his burgesses one bull-bayting, at convenient Tyme of the yere, according to the custom of this Francheis befor usyd, upon peyn of fortur of vj _s_. viij _d_. "
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 475, February 5, 1831 Various
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Payne puff, [40] chese, freynes, [41] brede hote, with a cake, [42] and a wif lying in childe-bed, w {i} t {h} a scriptour saing in this wyse, “I am comyng toward your bryde. yf ye dirste onys loke to me ward,
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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