somedeal

American  

[suhm-deel] / ˈsʌmˌdil /

adverb

Archaic.

1. somewhat.

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Etymology

Origin of somedeal

before 900; Middle English somdel, Old English sume dǣle, dative of sum dǣl some portion. See some, deal ¹

Example Sentences

And when men have gathered it, then cometh the white that is somedeal less than the black. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

In Ethiopia all the rivers and all the waters be trouble, and they be somedeal salt for the great heat that is there. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

For of fire he taketh red colour in the overmost part, and of earth green in the nethermost, and of the air a manner of brown colour, and of water somedeal blue in the middle.

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert

Now shall I tell thee—did I not before?—that while I am a maid untouched, my wisdom, and somedeal of might, abideth with me, and only so long. 

From Wood Beyond the World by Morris, William

Claverhouse laughed a little stern laugh like a man that is forced to laugh at himself, yet is somedeal proud of what he hears.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)