Definition of "entire"

entire

/ɪnˈtaɪə/

adjective
not comparable
1. (sometimes postpositive) Whole; complete.
  Quotations
  No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]
  1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: Printed by A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones; republished as Geoffrey Keynes, edited by John Sparrow, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: […], Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923, page 98, lines 2–3
2. (botany) Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
3. (botany) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
4. (complex analysis, of a complex function) Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
5. (of a male animal) Not gelded.
  Quotations
  On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.
  2018, Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay, page 423
6. Morally whole; pure; sheer.
  Quotations
  See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make theewrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us.
  c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene iv]
  No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.
  1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707
7. Internal; interior.
  Quotations
  Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire
  1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet VI”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby; reprinted in Amoretti and Epithalamion (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas […], 1927,
noun
countable and uncountable, plural entires
1. (now rare) The whole of something; the entirety.
  Quotations
  In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.
  1876, WE Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism
  ‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’
  1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 19
2. An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
  Quotations
  He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.
  2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate, published 2006, page 124
3. (philately) A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
4. Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.

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