abrest
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English abrest (“side by side”)
Adverb[edit]
abrest (comparative more abrest, superlative most abrest)
- Simplified spelling of abreast
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- 1885, John McElroy, The Red Acorn[1], edition HTML, The Gutenberg Project, published 2010:
- Eleven hundred superb young fellows, marching four abrest, with bayonets fixed …
- 1982, “Newsletter”, The English Spelling Society, accessed on 2012-09-06:
- Draw a breth for progress, / Tred abrest ahed.
- 1994 February 28, “Networking Careers On-line”, Network World, volume 11, number 9, IDG, ISSN 0887-7661, page 56:
- … was designed to provide you with the information you need to keep abrest of current opportunities …
- 1998, Bernard DeVoto quoting Boit, 1792, The Course of Empire[2], edition Reprint, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 9780395924983:
- This day saw an appearance of a spacious harbour abrest the Ship, haul'd our wind …
- 2006, Helen Lee, Where in the World?: Stories from Everywhere[3], Review and Herald Pub Assoc, ISBN 9780828018746, page 316:
- He read the words scribbled under the star: "Stand abrest qurtsbolder bring in line with hill … "
- 2007, Nirali Prakashan, Corporate Planning and Strategic Human Resources Management[4], edition First, ISBN 9789380064147, page 3.8:
- Keeping abrest of technological developments requires a careful assessment …
- 1885, John McElroy, The Red Acorn[1], edition HTML, The Gutenberg Project, published 2010:
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References[edit]
- Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, abrest
Middle English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From "on brest" or a- + brest
Adverb[edit]
abrest
- side by side
- Owt they Comen Al On Abrest. — The History of the Holy Grail, Henry Lovelich, 1450
References[edit]
- Middle English Dictionary
