eithers

English

Determiner

eithers

1. (obsolete) Any one of two or more.
   • 1602, William Warner, “The Seventh Booke. Chapter XXXVI.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 173:

     Nor Court nor Citie had ſhe ſeene, yeat eithers prayſe ſhe had: / So much more vvorth by hovve much leſſe ſhe vvas vn-nicely clad.

   • 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas], “[Du Bartas His Second VVeeke, […].Abraham. […].] The Captaines. The IIII. Part of the III. Day of the II. Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 499:

     [T]he friends that in one Couch did ſleep, / Each others blade in eithers breſt do ſteep: / And all the Camp with head-les dead is ſowen, / Cut-off by Cozen-ſwords, kill'd by their owne.

   • 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edward the Third, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 72, page 575, column 1:

     That eithers friends, adherents, and ſequels, ſhould be comprehended in the truce, and that the truce ſhould extend it ſelfe to the titlers in Britaine and their ſides; and that the Cardinals ſhould doe their beſt to obtaine abſolution from the ſentence of Interdict executed vpon the Countrey of Flaunders.

   • 1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book I, page 91:

     Ganges (that great, rich and deified river which ſay the Bannyans iſſues out of a rock at Siba formed like a Cowes head) a whiles forbad them, reſtranyning eithers fury, ſave what volleyed from the roring guns to eithers prejudice.

   • 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part IV, page 605:

     [A]middle of meeting waters of river Yssia and Essia river on this one of eithers lone navigable lake piously Kevin, […]

See also

• either