entire

alternative obsolete intire

1. not comparablepostpositionalsometimesWhole; complete.

   We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.

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   No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]

   1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 415–416

   Synonyms: complete, total, utter · Antonyms: partial, incomplete

2. not comparablebiologyHaving a smooth margin without any indentation.

   Spores tetrahedral, paraphyses mastoid-claviform, scales smooth, entire.

   1899, Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club, volumes 6-8, page 192

3. not comparablebiologyConsisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
4. not comparablecomplex analysisComplex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
5. not comparableNot gelded.

   On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.

   2018, Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay, page 423

6. not comparableMorally whole; pure; sheer.

   No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.

   1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater

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   See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee / wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us.

   c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]

7. not comparableInternal; interior.

   Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire

   1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet VI”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC

plural entires · alternative obsolete intire

1. archaiccountableuncountableThe whole of something; the entirety.

   ‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’

   1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 19

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   In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.

   1876, WE Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism

2. countableuncountableAn uncastrated horse; a stallion.

   He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.

   2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate, published 2006, page 124

3. countableuncountablehobbiesA complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
4. countableuncountablePorter or stout as delivered from the brewery.