phr. used as adv., prep. and a. [See ALL C 9.]
A. adv. Everywhere around; affecting equally every one in a circle or company. In a complete circuit; so as to include all the parts of anything, or every member of a circle or company.
1871. R. H. Hutton, Ess. (ed. 2), I. Pref. 15. Revelation is a light on God’s character, taken all round.
1882. Tennyson, Hands All Round, 9.
| Hands all round! | |
| God the traitor’s hope confound! |
Mod. To make things pleasant all round.
B. prep. Around all the parts of, round in every direction.
1805. in Nicolas’s Disp. (1845), VII. 209, note. Cutter’s head all round the compass during the night.
C. adj. Including everything in a given circle, affecting everyone or everything alike; equally developed all round. An all-round man: one who is ‘good all around,’ or has ability in all departments.
1869. Notes on N. W. Prov. Ind., 98. We find an all-round rent of so much per acre charged on the cultivation.
a. 1883. Angler’s Souvenir, 270. Very few anglers are ‘all round’ men—i.e. devote themselves to the pursuit of all branches of angling alike.
