pron. [Comb. of EVERY and BODY in the sense (now obs. in literary use) of person. Formerly written as two words: cf. ANYBODY.] Every person, every one. Everybody else: every other person. Sometimes incorrectly with pl. vb. or pron.
c. 1530. Ld. Berners, Arth. Lyt. Bryt., 285. Euery bodye was in theyr lodgynges.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia, II. (1613), 156. Now this king did keepe a great house, that euerie body might come and take their meat freely.
1620. Horæ Subseciuæ, 477. To take vpon him the disciplining of euery body for their errours & imperfections.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., p. lxxxvii. That which is every body’s work is no body’s.
1710. Berkeley, Princ. Hum. Knowl., § 97. 142. Time, Place, and Motion … are what every Body knows.
1715. De Foe, Fam. Instruct., I. i. (1841), I. 10. Do not everybody else love him?
1759. Bp. Warburton, Lett. (1809), 280. Every body else I meet with are full ready to go of themselves.
c. 1817. Hogg, Tales & Sk., II. 196. Gilbert was every body’s body.
1820. Byron, Wks. (1840), IV. 298. Every body does and says what they please.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. xi. 72. What I suppose has been observed to some extent by everybody.
1866. Ruskin, Eth. Dust, v. (1883), 82. Everybody seems to recover their spirits.
1872. Morley, Voltaire (1886), 119. He was ever on the alert … to impart of it [knowledge] to everybody else.
