Gehwǣr

According to the Old English Dictionary:

gehwǣr

Add; I. everywhere. (1) where there is motion, (a) all over an area, throughout a space :-- Heora fȳnd fērdon freólīce gehwǣr swā þicce swā gærstapan ipsi veniebant et instar locustarum universa complebant, Jud. 6, 5. Gehwār ābūtan woffiende circumquaque debachantes, An. Ox. 3775. Þearfe bringed Maius micle geond menigeo gehwār, Men. 79. (b) to every place :-- Hē fērde fram Antiochiam, for þan þe hē wæs apostol, and sceolde gehwǣr gecuman and Crīstendōm ārǣran (cf. dixit eis: ' euntes in mundum universum praedicate euan-gelium, ' Mk. 16, 15), Hml. S. 10, 13. (2) where there is doing or being, (a) all over a limited area :-- Wæs micel hearm gedōn gehwǣr be þǣm sǣriman. Chr. 981; P. 124, 12. Gewaer parumper (the passage in which the word occurs is :-- Interea Brittania cessatum quidem est parumper ab externis bellis, Bd. 1, 22. The glosser seems to have read this as meaning that everywhere war with outsiders had ceased), Txts. 182, 84. (b) at every place where a certain condition is possible :-- Gehwǣr sācerdas and mæssepreóstas betwih wībedum wǣron slægene passim sacerdotes inter altaria trucidabantur, Bd. I. 15; Sch. 43, 15. (c) denoting frequent occurrence, in very many places :-- Gehwār (-hwǣr, ) passim, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 236, 14. ꝥ man swā geongne man cwealde . . . swā hē geāxod hæfde þe man gehwǣr (ubique) dyde, Ll. Th. i. 240, 26. Ōdre bēc man hæfd wīde gehwǣr on crīstendōme Crīste tō lofe, Ælfc. T. Grn. 19, 39. (cc) of statements in books :-- Hit is āwriten on Crīstes bēc, and gehwǣr on ōþrum bōcum, Hml. Th. i. 136, 24. (d) in every instance :-- Hē ꝥ in scopgereorde mid þā mǣstan swētnesse geglencde, and in Englisc gereorde wel gehwǣr fordbrōhte. Bd. 4, 24; Sch. 481, 12. II. indefinite. (I) anywhere without restriction, anywhere one pleases, (a) of motion :-- Gif hrȳdera hwelc sié þe hegas brece and gā in gehwǣr (quolibet), Ll. Th. i. 128, 12. (b) of position :-- Þā welmas þā þe beóþ gehwǣr geond þone līchoman, Lch. ii. 204, 14. (2) somewhere :-- Wæs eác eordstynung on manegum stōwum on Wygracestre and on Wīc and on Deórbȳ and elles gehwǣr (in some other places) and eác ꝥ wilde fȳr on Deórbȳscīre micel yfel dyde and gehwǣr elles, Chr. 1049 ; P. 167, 24-27. gehwær,ge-hwær

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