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onward, adv., a. (n., prep.)|ˈɒnwəd|
Also 5 unward, Sc. onwart, 5–6 onwarde, 6 one-.
[f. on adv. + -ward: formed app. in 14th c. after inward, forward, and other earlier formations.]
A. adv. (Formerly sometimes construed with of: e.g. onward of one's way or journey.)
1. In the direction of what is ahead; towards the front; so as to advance or move on; forward; = on adv. 9.
a. lit. in space.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 409/1, I haue driuen hym onwarde one steppe down. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 221 After the solemnitie..: this yong Queene came onward of her iourney. 1608Tourneur Rev. Trag. Wks. 1878 II. 12 You'll bring me onward, brother? 1671Milton Samson 1 A little onward lend thy guiding hand To these dark steps, a little further on. 1761Gray Odin 13 Onward still his way he takes. 1859Tennyson Enid 251 Onward to the fortress rode the three. 1865Baring-Gould Hymn, Onward, Christian soldiers, Marching as to war.
b. in time, or in succession generally.
1667Milton P.L. x. 811 Endless miserie From this day onward. 1700Wallis in Collect. (O.H.S.) I. 327 And so onward in like proportion. 1839I. Taylor Anc. Chr. I. ii. 148 From the apostolic age, and the times of Philo and four centuries onward. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 403 Objects of sense must lead us onward to the ideas..which are contained in them.
†2. Towards the final settlement, provisionally; spec. on account, ‘in advance’; as an ‘earnest’.
1467Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 406 The same day my mastyr paid to Roger Sego, unward of his werke, x.s. a1500Chester Pl., Christ betrayed, Thou shalbe quite a hundreth foulde, And one warde take thou this! 1555Bonner Homilies 2 To haue somethyng done onward, til God of his goodnes prouide something better.
3. In a position in advance; = on adv. 10.
a. in space, or in succession figured as space.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 112 Onward on his wey that nyght he lay. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccccxlv. 786 Thoughe he had knowen therof he coulde natte haue let it whan they were ones onwarde. c1600Shakes. Sonn. l, My greefe lies onward and my ioy behind. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. xx, It was further onward the same way.
b. in time. Now rare or Obs.
c1435Torr. Portugal 2296 We have be here, Moche of this two yere, And onward on the thrid. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xcviii. 119 Tyll it was well onwarde in wynter.
4. Comb.
1832Tennyson Pal. Art lxii, 'Mid onward-sloping motions infinite. 1881Stevenson Virg. Puerisque (1895) 172 There is always a new horizon for onward-looking men.
B. adj.
1. Of motion, or action figured as motion: Directed onward or forward. Rarely of a thing: Moving onward or forward, advancing.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 172 This onward everlastingness which is fastned upon God Almighty, is all along made up of things which before were not, afterwards are not. 1756Home Douglas i. 14 Sincerity, Thou first of virtues, let no mortal leave Thy onward path! 1836W. Irving Astoria II. 226 Resuming his onward course. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiv. 249 She, as his onward keel still moved, still mournfully followed.
2. Situated in front, or in advance (in space, time, or succession generally); advanced. rare or Obs.
a1586Sidney Arcadia i. (1891) 46 b, [He] came to see how onward the fruites were of his friends labour. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 67 To discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
C. n. (ellipt. uses of A. or B.)
†1. Payment towards a final settlement. in onward = A. 2. Obs. rare.
1496Acc. Ld. High Treasurer Scot. I. 301 Item..to Dande Achinsone, in onwart of theking of the chapel of the Castel in Edinburgh, xvs. vjd.
2. (nonce-uses.)
a. An onward movement.
b. That which is on ahead, the onward time.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. x. 131 A thousand stops, a thousand onwards made. 1887G. Meredith Ball. & Poems 137 The thirsty onward waved for him no sign.
†D. prep. = on prep. Obs. rare.
1652Loveday tr. Calprenede's Cassandra i. 3 Two of that Troup..conducted him onward the way to Babylon.
Hence ˈonwarding vbl. n., a prompting to move onward; † ˈonwardling, a small portion or length of time; † ˈonwardly a., progressive; ˈonwardly adv., with an onward motion.
1843E. Jones Poems, Sens. & Event 39 The music riseth, To its voluptuous *onwardings all move.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 110 For [an atome] not being a stretchling or quid quantum, any more than a now is an *onwardling or quid successivum.
Ibid. 32 Every part of lastingness besides a now, is *onwardly as well as bounded. Ibid. 138 This Motion, as such, is ever onwardly or by degrees.
1850Mrs. Browning Poems II. 41 The maiden Luti watcheth Where *onwardly they float. |