Generall
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Generall is an adjective meaning Archaic spelling of general.
Meaning
Archaic spelling of general.
Example Sentences
Centurions, and l. peticapitaines: I would then apoinet a generall hed, over all the main battaile: I would that every Conestable should have an Ansigne, and a Drum.
And because it is so, S. Peter in his first canonicall or generall epistle, forbiddeth that women should appeare, shew, and sett out themselues by theyr apparayle and neatnes.
Moreover it seemeth that Gonzalvo de Oviedo, a famous Spanish writer, alludeth unto the sayde voyage in the beginning of the 13. chapter of the 19. booke of his generall and natural historie of the West Indies, agreeing very well with the time about which Richard Eden writeth that the foresayd voyage was begun.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include historie, speciall, principall, severall, naturall, continuall.
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