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What does "entire" mean?

Entire: With strength entire and free will armed. Milton. One entire and perfect chrysolite. Shak.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful. Pure fear and entire cowardice. Shak. No man had ever a heart more entire to the king. Clarendon.
  2. 3.(Bot.) (a) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla. (b) Having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth.
  3. 4.Not gelded; -- said of a horse.
  4. 5.Internal; interior. [Obs.] Spenser.
  5. 6.Entirely. "Too long to print in entire." Thackeray.
  6. 7.(Brewing) A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer. [Eng.] "Foker's Entire." Thackeray.

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