centrewardscenterwardsn.adv.adj.

1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova II. ii. xix. 393 The renitency or stubbornness of the weighty mixt body discontinuating the air or fire, and resisting their motion to the center-wards.

1669 Digby's Of Bodies, & of Mans Soul i. x. 99 When these bodies ascend, they go from a narrow room to a large one, that is, from the centrewards to the circumference.

1740 Exper. Philos. Asserted & Defended 52 The Grains must come from the Circumference downwards or Center-wards, since they have no Room to go elsewhere.

1871 Villa Gardener Aug. 196/1 Madame Noman..An appropriately named flower, of the softest blush, with a peach shading centrewards.

1896 Western Electrician 1 Feb. 57/2 The eccentric is continually pressed in centerwards by means of steel springs.

1903 J. Stevenson Magic Mantle iii. 19 Mark how the ruthless wolves surround in packs, Their noses pointing centrewards.

1992 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 6 Aug. (Fashion Suppl.) 1/2 A necktie's colouration, fabrication and patterning all serve to excite and draw the eye centrewards.

2004 M. Widdowson in N. McBride & I. Gilmour Introd. to Solar Syst. 57 It would be the denser rocky material that would gravitate centrewards and form a rocky core.

1893 National Rev. Oct. 200 If they had too strong colour of their own to go far, Left or Centrewards, he sent for somebody of a more neutral tint.

1951 Financial Times 12 July 1/2 The 53 Independents headed by M. Paul Reynaud leans [sic] centrewards, while the 41 Peasants incline strongly rightward towards the Gaullists.

1978 Economist 11 Mar. 13 (heading) Having reached left before the election, will France's Socialist leader reach back centrewards after it?

2007 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 28 July His push of National [i.e. the National Party] centrewards to make the party an acceptable choice for female voters and middle to high-income liberals.

1894 Colliery Engineer June 298/3 On the rear side or on the centerwards side, we have the air entering the fan at a less pressure than that of the atmosphere.

1934 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 12 Oct. 1166 The force M v ω applied at the joint is equivalent to a force M v ω applied to the gyroscope, acting from right to left, and thus available to supply the centrewards acceleration.

1997 R. Silvester & J. R. C. Hsu Coastal Stabilization vi. 344 This centerwards drift is offset slightly by waves coming from the opposite extremity and generating a counter current.

1999 J. Ardagh France in New Cent. i. 36 After the fall of Communism in the east, and the centrewards shift of the Italian party, the PCF was increasingly isolated.

2001 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 1 Dec. He says he has heard no significant carping..over the party's centrewards drift.

2009 Economist 25 July 40/2 A Republican recovery requires a centrewards shift in some of the party's economic thinking.