eastwardsadv.n.adj.

OE St. Mary of Egypt (Julius) (2002) 70 Ða þa seo tid middæges to becom, þa oðstod to sumere hwile hine fram þam siðfæte ahæbbende, and eastweardes wendende, and hine gewunelice gebæd.

OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) ii. xxxvii. 176 Hi gesawon begen, þæt an scinende weg..mid rihtre stige eastweardes wæs aþæned to heofonum fram Benedictes cytan.

1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 38 The londe..marcheth Estwardis to the kyngdom of Araby.

1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. viii. f. 17/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I We returned eastwardes [1587 eastwards] backe againe vnto y^e point of Ramshed.

1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie i. sig. D8 Pompey the great..extended the Roman Empire Eastwards to the banks of Euphrates.

1675 W. Collins Missa Triumphans iv. 124 A man may go eastwards in a ship, and yet at the same time be carried westwards by the same ship, at the same time.

1764 V. Green Surv. Worcester xvii. 235 The water engine..is an invention of great utility to the inhabitants of the city, by conveying soft water..eastwards to Silver-street and New-street.

1786 T. Baldwin Airopaidia xxxxvii. 203 Insinuating themselves near the Surface, and setting Eastwards frequently against the upper and more general Winds.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xlvii. 587 This current..proceeds..eastwards and south eastwards once more across the Atlantic.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. iii. 75 The little chapel that faced eastwards.

1928 S. A. Robertson With Double Tongue 34 The Tyne snooves eastwards its ain gait.

1985 C. Rush Twelvemonth & Day 69 As the shoals moved eastwards along the shore, eveyone knew that the winter herring was coming to an end.

2001 P. Moore 2002 Yearbk. Astron. i. 91 In early April, Mars moves eastwards from Aries into Taurus.

a1500 St. Augustine of Canterbury (Lamb. 72) in R. Hamer & V. Russell Suppl. Lives ‘Gilte Legende’ (2000) 378 An hille that is callid Chele Hille not ferre fro the monastery of Seynt Austyns estwardes.

?1558 H. Baker tr. O. Fine Rules Vse of Almanackes (new ed.) sig. G.v The people dwellinge eastwardes, shall make warres within them selues.

1643 A. Jackson Help Understanding Script. i. 240 The peace-offerings were slain at the very doore of the tabernacle, which was more Eastwards in regard of the altar.

1690 in Oxf. Council Acts 1666–1701 (1939) 218 The supervisors of the mileway eastwards..are sued..for not repairing Headington Hill.

1722 E. Halley in Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 210 A small fix'd Star was in Conjunction with the fourth Satellite,..being then Eastwards of the Planet.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xlii. 500 If we are placed with our heads northwards, and looking towards the centre, our right hands will be eastwards.

1877 R. J. More Under Balkans xv. 211 The corpse..was..laid feet eastwards.

1905 J. Gilchrist in W. Flint & J. D. F. Gilchrist Sci. in S. Afr. iii. iv. 192 One of the features of the rocky parts of the coast line from Cape Point eastwards.

1954 Landfall 8 86 Duncan was living behind the hills you see eastwards yonder as you come up the coast.

1997 Guardian 17 Dec. i. 16/6 Gradually, eastwards above the wooded pitmounds of The Nab, another small-town, industrial dawn flowers.

?1574 W. Bourne Regiment for Sea sig. B^v If that any towne or cittie be vnto the Eastwards so many degrees from the Canarie Ilands.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 12 The best of those turfes (for all sorts serue not) are fetched about two miles to the Eastwards of S. Michaels Mount.

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vi. §3. 233 Nor yet those who were remaining upon that part of the island that did not sink, would ever attempt to seek any land unto the Eastwards.

1721 J. Keill Introd. True Astron. viii. 79 The other Motion whereby the Earth and all the Planets are carried round the Sun to the Eastwards.

1878 Nature 24 Oct. 680/1 The great summer depression of the barometer,..is not shown at Berlin, it being a little to eastwards of Berlin.

1892 Quiver 692/2 Afar to eastwards stretched open land for miles and miles, ending in faint blue hills on the dim horizon.

1913 E. P. Oppenheim Mischief-maker i. iii. 22 The roar of the great city was passing from eastwards to westwards.

2001 T. Cunliffe Pilots 179 The pilots..went as passengers on board fishing boats in the hope of getting first shot at bigger ships coming in from the eastwards.

1838 J. Rooke Geol. as Sci. ii. 57 The results of an eastwards motion of the earth, and consequently a westwards current of the ocean,..are here distinctly demonstrated.

1897 Philos. Trans. 1896 (Royal Soc.) B. 187 296 An eastwards or southwards wandering was the only possible escape, and we may assume it was effected by the hardiest genera.

1985 L. F. Musk in R. H. Johnson Geomorphol. N.-W. Eng. iv. 67 Consequent upon the reduced precipitation eastwards there was an eastwards risein the snowline.

2000 K. Ford Rhineland 1945 79 The northern wing of Von Zangen's German 15th Army had been shattered by Simpson's advance and the eastwards drive by Collins.