adv., conj. Now dial. or vulgar. [See SOMEVER 2.] = prec.

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a. 1425.  trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 61. When-someuer þe pacient feleþ tyklyng or ychyng or prykkyng in þe lure.

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1507.  Cov. Leet Bk., 608. When-sume-euer and as often as the case shall require.

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1558.  Q. Kennedy, Compend. Tract., in Wodrow Soc. Misc. (1844), 99. Quhensumevir questioun or debait rysis.

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1611.  in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. I. 547. The next degree I expecte is some violent fryars and Jesuites inciting … the Catholick Princes against hereticks,… Which whensomever it bee I confidently beleeve you shall see ye tragedie begin in France.

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1810.  Splendid Follies, III. 112. You have my consent, sir, to marry the girl whensumdever it’s convenient.

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