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Entire   /ɪntˈaɪər/   Listen
adjective
Entire  adj.  
1.
Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient; as, the entire control of a business; entire confidence, ignorance. "That ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." "With strength entire and free will armed." "One entire and perfect chrysolite."
2.
Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful. "Pure fear and entire cowardice." "No man had ever a heart more entire to the king."
3.
(Bot.)
(a)
Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
(b)
Having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth.
4.
Not gelded; said of a horse.
5.
Internal; interior. (Obs.)
Synonyms: See Whole, and Radical.


noun
Entire  n.  
1.
Entirely. "Too long to print in entire."
2.
(Brewing) A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer. (Eng.) "Foker's Entire."





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"Entire" Quotes from Famous Books



... was so absurdly twisted. The care of his children occupied his entire time now, so that his work, in seeking that which was required to support them, had to be entirely neglected. He had fifty dollars between him and starvation for his children. Nor could he see his way to earning more. The struggles of his unpractical mind were painful. ...
— The Twins of Suffering Creek • Ridgwell Cullum
... mean time a horrible scene had been enacted. One young savage, climbing into the baggage-wagon containing the children of the white families, twelve in number, tomahawked the entire group. This was during the engagement near the sand-hills. When Captain Wells, who was fighting near, beheld ...
— Wau-bun - The Early Day in the Northwest • Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie
... these merely quantitative differences in the Vowel-Sounds, there is a corresponding difference of Quality, which produces a Counter-Scale of Vowel-Sounds; an echo or repetition of the Basic Scale throughout its entire length. This new Scale is a Series of Sounds predominantly short in quantity. They are called by Mr. Pitman the Stopped Vowels. (In German they are denominated the Sharp Vowels.) These Sounds are nearly always followed by a Consonant-Sound in the ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... of deliberation and of entire mastery of the situation Mr. Simmons produced a Minute Book ...
— To Him That Hath - A Novel Of The West Of Today • Ralph Connor
... the New Hampshire hills his father still tills his little farm, but he no longer depends upon it for his entire living. Tom regularly sends the allowance he promised, and in addition his brothers are often the recipients of handsome gifts. Harry, developing a taste for study, was sent to Exeter Academy, from which in due course he ...
— The Young Miner - or Tom Nelson in California • Horatio Alger, Jr.


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