downwardlyadv.

1662 tr. F. Plater et al. Golden Pract. Physick (new ed.) 649/1 Purgers to provoke downwardly [L. deorsum], are given when vomits cannot work, or sufficiently discharge, that they may cease to molest, and pass the usual wayes.

1722 Of Use of Tobacco Tea Coffee Chocolate & Drams vi. sig. B2 There is commonly as much Wind as Water Suck'd into the Stomach, which if debar'd a Passage Downwardly..Rumbles and Grumbles in the Belly.

1795 J. McPherson Christian going to Possess Heavenly Canaan 8 This living faith..evidences itself upwardly, by leading the possessors of it to realize heavenly things;—downwardly, as it has a tendency to lay the Possessor of it at the feet of Jesus Christ [etc.].

1850 R. Browning Easter Day xv. 33 Certain rays..Shot downwardly.

1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. ii. 60 The downwardly tapering condition of the coccygeal vertebræ.

1906 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 17 336 Such a block, once a downwardly projecting part of a roof in stock or batholith, may be named a ‘roof pendant’.

1940 U.S. Patent 2,205,199 1/2 It becomes important that the feed to the tank..shall not be directed downwardly to an extent that would disturb or rediffuse the sediment into dispersion.

1993 Computer Shopper July 36d/2 (advt.) [It is] downwardly compatible with lower modem speeds.

2017 Daily Herald (Chicago) 17 Aug. vii. 10/3 An 8.8-month supply at the current sales pace, the same as a downwardly revised 8.8-month supply in May.

1946 W. F. Whyte Industry & Society vii. 144 If she is holding her own or moving up, she can adjust herself to the peculiar social pressures she faces much better than if she is downwardly mobile.

1976 F. Zweig New Acquisitive Society i. ii. 34 21 percent of the sample were upwardly mobile in the sense that fathers were working-class and sons middle-class, while 7 per cent were downwardly mobile.

2000 D. Conley Honky xii. 150 Now he was simply lower middle class—and downwardly mobile from his corporate-class father to boot.