athwart

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. zarf From side to side, often in an oblique manner; across or over.

   “Above, the stars appeared to move slowly athwart.”

2. zarf Across the path of something, so as to impede progress.

   “a fleet standing athwart our course”

3. zarf Against the anticipated or appropriate course of something; improperly, perversely, wrongly.

   “[A]ll athvvart there came / A poſt from VVales, loden vvith heauy nevves, […]”

4. edat From one side to the other side of; across.

   “The stars moved slowly athwart the sky.”

5. edat Across the course or path of, so as to meet; hence (figuratively), to the attention of.

   “For here our ſouls hath but one eye (the Apoſtle ſaith, vve knovv in part) be not proud if that chance to come athvvart thy ſeeing ſide, vvhich meets with the blind ſide of another.”

6. edat Across the course or path of, so as to oppose.

   “VVhence and vvhat art thou, execrable ſhape, / That dar'ſt, though grim and terrible, advance / Thy miſcreated Front athvvart my vvay / To yonder Gates?”

7. edat Across; through.

   “And novv, athvvart the Terrors that thy Vovv / Has planted round thee, thou appear'ſt more fair, / More amiable, and riſeſt in thy Charms.”

8. edat Opposed to.

   “I have ſeen this preſent vvork, and finde nothing athvvart the Catholick faith and good manners: […]”

9. edat Across the line of a ship's course, or across its deck.

   “The damaged mainmast fell athwart the deck, destroying the ship’s boat.”