every body

Definitions

1. 1

   Obsolete spelling of everybody.

   • Afraid of every body, ashamed of herself, and longing for the home she had left, she knew not how to look up, and could scarcely speak to be heard, or without crying.
2. 2

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see every, body.

   • 142.5 Disposition after dissection. The remains of every body received for scientific purposes under this chapter shall be decently buried or cremated after it has been used for said purposes, and a failure to do so shall be a misdemeanor.
   • Nevertheless – all William’s enquiries were channeled through the presidential office – the authorities were anxious to exhume every body buried since the coup and arrange them for inspection.
   • “He wants to donate his body to science. Apparently they only take skinny bodies…something about it being hard to store human fat. It’s odd. I would have thought every body was of some use or interest to science.”

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