单词 | aleft |
释义 | aleftadv. poetic. Now rare. On or to the left side.Apparently only in conjunction with aright, sometimes with the implication ‘on all sides, all around’. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adverb] > in sideways direction > to right and left > towards the left aleftc1330 leftsomesa1398 lefta1400 leftward1579 leftwards1585 toward1711 sinistrally1838 left-handed1851 leftwardly1892 c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 8139 A-left he smot and a-riȝt. 1796 W. Taylor tr. G. A. Bürger Lenore in Monthly Mag. Mar. 137/1 How swifte the hill, how swifte the dale, Aright, aleft [Ger. Zur rechten und zur linken Hand], are gone. 1821 R. Southey Vision of Judgem. v. 20 Lightning and thunder Vollying aright and aleft amid the accumulate blackness. a1880 T. C. Irwin Versicles (1883) 18 A-right we win sweet glimpses of the bay, A-left the purple hill above the sheaves, And clover stretches voyaged by the bee. 1901 M. O'Conor Irish Com-all-ye's 103/2 Lustrous gardens aleft and right. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.c1330 |
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