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† aˈgainward, adv. Obs.
Forms: see again.
[f. again adv. + -ward. Cf. outward, backward. Used in most of the senses of again, of which it is to be viewed as a more distinctly adverbial form.]
1. In the opposite direction; hence, backward, away back, back again.
1205Layamon 27083 Aȝeinward heo buȝen þa. c1230Hali Meid. 43 Ne con ha neauer ifinden na wei aȝainward. c1320R. Brunne Medit. 1046 Oftyn aȝenward Marye gan loke. c1386Chaucer Man of Law's T. 343 Sayle Out of Surrye agaynward to Ytaille. 1470Harding Chron. cix, As they onto theyr shyppes agaynwarde flewe. 1634Malory's Arthur (1816) II. 135 He looked still upon his horse till he saw you come in againward.
2. In return, in reply, back.
1330R. Brunne Chron. 183 With slenges and magneles þei kast to Kyng Richard, Our Cristen bi parcelles kasted ageynward. c1440Generydes 4492 Of his loue ayenwards I am sure. c1520More in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 72 I. 203 The Lettres agaynward devised and sent by my lord Admirall to her.
3. Over again; once more.
c1380Sir Ferumb. 1431 Bote ich him aȝeward gete may. Ibid. 3306 He hoteþ euery man? to þe assaut aȝeward come. 1413Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle v. xiv. (1859) 81 Thou shalt eftsones receyue thy body, and ben to hym ayeneward conioined. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Cyrurg., Agaynwarde they ramyfye in to two partyes.
4. Conversely; vice versâ.
1340Ayenb. 49 Of man of þe wordle to wyfman of religioun, oþer ayeanwarde of wyfman of þe wordle to man of religioun. c1400Apol. for Loll. 19 Ilk synning to þe deþ is an heretik; as aȝen ward a heretik is he þat synniþ to þe deþ. 1485Caxton Trevisa's Higden (1527) 3 In some place I must chaunge the ordre of wordes and sette actyf for passif and agaynwarde. 1579Spenser Sheph. Kal. xxxvii, When the Sun is in the signes septentrionals, their shadowes be toward the parts of the signes meridionals, and so againward.
5. Contrariwise; on the contrary; on the other hand.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 8053 Bot þe dampned bodyse ogayn-ward Salle in helle fele payns strang and hard. c1449Pecock Repr. 371 When Aȝenward, if all this same receit schulde come into the hondis of grete Lordis or of Knyȝtis, it schulde not be so weel spend. 1534More Comf. agst. Tribul. ii. Wks. 1557, 1166/1 An occasion of meryte too, whiche the wealthye manne hath not agayneward. |