aright
See also: a'right
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -aɪt
Etymology 1
From Middle English ariȝt, ariht, from Old English āriht (“aright, properly”), from earlier *an riht, on riht (“rightly”), corresponding to a- + right.
Adverb
aright (comparative more aright, superlative most aright)
- Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
- Template:RQ:Florio Montaigne Essayes
- 1818: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, chapter 24.
- Hear him not; call on the names of William, Justine, Clerval, Elizabeth, my father, and of the wretched Victor, and thrust your sword into his heart. I will hover near and direct the steel aright.
- (archaic) To or on the right-hand side.
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:
- Once more away! and now
The long descent is seen,
A long, long, narrow path.
Ice rocks aright, and hills of snow,
Aleft the giddy precipice.
- Once more away! and now
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:
Etymology 2
From Middle English arighten, arihten (“to raise up”); and Middle English iriȝten, irihten, ȝerihten (“to make right, correct, erect”), from Old English ġerihtan (“to set right”), equivalent to a- + right.
Verb
aright (third-person singular simple present arights, present participle arighting, simple past and past participle arighted)
- (transitive) To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.
- 2003, John Beebe, Terror, Violence, and the Impulse to Destroy:
- But, from working with those who have felt exiled and damned, excoriated and benumbed, and yet have made it back to useful and creative life again, I know there are more sure, albeit intense, ways to aright oneself.
Related terms
References
- “aright”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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