Definition of "gamut"

I must begin with rudiments of Art / To teach you gamoth in a briefer sort, - -Bian. Why, I am past my gamouth long agoe.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

The entire gamut of the view's changes should have been known to her; its winter aspect, spring, summer and autumn; how storms came up from the sea; how the moors shuddered and brightened as the clouds went over; she should have noted the red spot where the villas were building; and the criss-cross of lines where the allotments were cut...

1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob’s Room

She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.

1933?, Dorothy Parker, review of Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway play The Lake

THE LONDON BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] In the course of its pages the author runs through the whole gamut of the locomotives that have during the period under review run on the rails of the L.B. & S.C. and its forebears.

1960 December, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 776