tyme (countable anduncountable,pluraltymes)
- Archaic spelling oftime.
1588, Ffraunces Morgan,Chancery Procedings, Series II, 222/83[1]:in the ſaid Leafe did promyſe and Covenante to and wth the ſaid Giles Allen to build in & vpon the demiſed [premiſſes 4-3] buildings for Tenementes to be errected vpon the premiſſes the ſome of two hundrethe poundes and the ſame to be done and fyniſhed by a certaintyme [5-9]
1602, William Combe, John Combe, “The original Conveyance of over a hundred acres of land from William and John Combe to Shakespeare”, inShakespeare Estate Records[2]:the saide John Combe, his heires and assignes, shall and will, fromtyme totyme, and at alltymes herafter, well and sufficientlie save and keepe harmles and indempnified as well the saide fowre yardes of errable lande
1629,Charter of Massachusetts Bay[3], archived fromthe original on28 August 2012:And the newe elected Deputie Governor and Assistants, and all other officers to be hereafter chosen as aforesaide fromTyme toTyme, to take the Oathes to their places respectivelie belonging, before the Governor of the said Company for theTyme being, vnto which said Governor, Deputie Governor, and assistants
2000, Heather J. Kintyre,A Future History: The Tanner Chronicles[4], iUniverse,→ISBN, page128:While Pan slept, the tyme machine was communicating with Skyn regarding Pan.
FromOld Englishtīma, fromProto-West Germanic*tīmō, fromProto-Germanic*tīmô.Doublet ofdemon.
tyme (pluraltymes or(Southern, Southwest Midland) tymen)
- Theconcept oftime orduration.
- Anoccasion,event, oroccurrence; a specific time.
- Aspecificduration; aperiod of time:
- Areign; theduration of aruler'soffice.
- Alifetime; theduration of aperson'slife.
- Part of aperiod of time(especially aseason oryeartide).
- Part of aprocess orevent.
- Abrief orephemeral point in time; aninstance.
- Agenericreference to some vaguely-specified orunspecifiedduration.
- Times;multipliedby(usually in the plural)
- Specifies the ratio of comparison in acomparativesentence.
- (grammar) Verbaltense; the way time is morphologically marked on a verb.
Borrowed fromAnglo-Normantime (continentalOld Frenchthym), fromLatinthymum, fromAncient Greekθύμον(thúmon).
- IPA(key): /ˈtiːm(ə)/,/ˈtim(ə)/
tyme (uncountable)
- thyme(plants in the genusThymus)
tyme
- alternative form ofteme(“topic”)
