Etymology From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *əntagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and integer.
We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.
No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 415–416:
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Biology, Botany, Natural sciences Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
Spores tetrahedral, paraphyses mastoid-claviform, scales smooth, entire.1899, Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club, volumes 6-8, page 192:
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Biology, Botany, Natural sciences Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.2018, Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay, page 423:
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Morally whole; pure; sheer.
See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee / wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:
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Internal; interior.
Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet VI”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC:
Etymology From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *əntagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and integer.
In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.1876, WE Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism:
‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 19:
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An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate, published 2006, page 124:
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Philately A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.