Meanings
nounhalfendeal (plural not attested)
- archaicno pluralA half.
adverbhalfendeal (comparative more halfendeal, superlative most halfendeal)
comparative more halfendeal · superlative most halfendeal
- obsoleteHalf.
now the humid night was farforth spent, / And heauenly lampes were halfendeale ybrent [...].
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
- Old Englishhealfan dǣl
- Englishhalfendeal
From Old English healfan dǣl, accusative form of healfa dǣl (“half part”).
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APA
halfendeal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/halfendeal
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Chicago
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