a' God's name

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a' God's name

  1. Obsolete form of in God's name.
    • 1661, Samuel Tuke, "The Adventures of Five Hours", in 1876, Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt, A Select Collection of Old English Plays, page 217:
      SIL. What, a' God's name, could come into the heads
      Of this people to make them rebel?
      ERN. Why, religion; that came into their heads
      A' God's name.
      GER. But what a devil made the noblemen
      Rebel? they never mind religion.