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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



... elegant apartment, in the company of two lovely and accomplished women, and he was the object of their entire attention and gratitude. He had been used to this in his days of happiness, when he was "the expectancy and rose of the fair state, the glass of fashion and the mould of form,—the observed of all observers!" and the ...
— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter
... 3. The entire literature of a people, in which its intellectual, moral, and social condition, at any particular era, ...
— Outline of Universal History • George Park Fisher
... our minds, is lost by the admittance of any theory but our old tradition? The more we read, and the more we think—think as becomes the readers of Homer,—the more rooted becomes the conviction that the Father of Poetry gave us this rich inheritance, whole and entire. Whatever were the means of its preservation, let us rather be thankful for the treasury of taste and eloquence thus laid open to our use, than seek to make it a mere centre around which to drive a series of theories, whose wildness is only equalled ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer
... the undoubted dialogues of Plato. We know, too, that Alcibiades was a favourite thesis, and that at least five or six dialogues bearing this name passed current in antiquity, and are attributed to contemporaries of Socrates and Plato. (1) In the entire absence of real external evidence (for the catalogues of the Alexandrian librarians cannot be regarded as trustworthy); and (2) in the absence of the highest marks either of poetical or philosophical excellence; and (3) considering that we have express testimony to the existence of contemporary ...
— Alcibiades I • (may be spurious) Plato
... Missouri. There seemed to be some hesitation about giving out this "revelation." It is dated after the meeting of the General Conference at Nauvoo which ordered the building of a church there, and it was not published in the Times and Seasons until the following June, and then not entire. The "revelation" shows how little effect adversity had had in modifying the prophet's egotism, his arrogance, or ...
— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn


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