1. a. In every manner or way; in every direction. b. In every respect.
a. 1570. Levins, Manip., 197. Eueryway, omni modo, quauis.
1580. Baret, Alv., E 376. Square euerie way, quoquo versus quadratum.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1776), I. 398. A Deity residing in the midst of an universe, infinitely extended every way.
1878. Browning, La Saisiaz, 34. The everyway external stream.
b. 1601. Shaks., Jul. C., IV. iii. 55. You wrong me euery way: You wrong me Brutus.
1615. Bedwell, Moham. Imp., II. § 57. The contrary … opinion is euery way without any shew of probability.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones, IV. ii. Her mind was every way equal to her person.
1828. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), I. 169. A wide and everyway most important interval divides Werter [etc.].
quasi-adj. 1628. Hakewill, in Ussher’s Lett. (1686), 399. Sir Thomas Bodley, of whose … every way sufficiency, I have had a long trial.
2. Comb. (nonce-wds.)
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1852), I. 475. A clock … with everyway-multiform-exquisitely-mechanical circumstances belonging to it.
1841. J. T. Hewlett, Parish Clerk, III. 320. Every-way-at-once-ish eyes.
Hence Everywayness (nonce-wd.), the quality of extending in every direction.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 103. His everywayness or immensity is the same.
