Determiner

(en determiner)

All of a countable group, without exception.

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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every' tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met ' every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

*, chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson

, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}

Used with ordinal numbers to denote those items whose position is divisible by the corresponding cardinal number, or a portion of equal size to that set.

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Determiner

(en determiner)

Each of the two; one and the other.

* (Bible), (w) xxi. 27

Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

* (1678-1751)

He will not bear the loss of his rank, because he can bear the loss of his estate; but he will bear both , because he is prepared for both.

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Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample

, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains , passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}

(obsolete) Each of more than two.

* (Oliver Goldsmith) (1730-1774)

Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound.

* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)

He prayeth well who loveth well both man and bird and beast.