What should I tell the answer of the knight.
Chaucer.
But what do I stand reckoning upon advantages and gains lost by the
misrule and turbulency of the prelates? What do I pick up so thriftily
their scatterings and diminishings of the meaner subject?
Milton.
What*e'er" (?), pron. A contraction of what-ever; — used in poetry.
"Whate'er is in his way." Shak.
What*ev"er (?), pron. Anything soever which; the thing or things of any
kind; being this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or
another; anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all
particulars that; — used both substantively and adjectively.
Whatever fortune stays from his word.
Shak.
Whatever Earth, all-bearing mother, yields.
Milton.
Whatever be its intrinsic value.
J. H. Newman.
Whatever often follows a noun, being used elliptically. "There being no
room for any physical discovery whatever" [sc. it may be]. Whately.
What"not (?), n. [See the Note under What, pron., 5.] A kind of stand,
or piece of furniture, having shelves for books, ornaments, etc.; an
étagère.
What"so (?), indef. pron. Whatsoever; whosoever; whatever; anything
that. [Obs.]
Whatso he were, of high or low estate.
Chaucer.
Whatso the heaven in his wide vault contains.
Spenser.
What`so*e'er" (?), pron. A contraction of whatsoever; — used in poetry.
Shak.
What`so*ev"er (?), pron. & a. Whatever. "In whatsoever shape he lurk."
Milton.
Whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
Gen. xxxi. 16.
The word is sometimes divided by tmesis. "What things soever ye
desire." Mark xi. 24.
Whaul (?), n. Same as Whall.