reversedlyadv.
/rᵻˈvəːsᵻdli/, U.S. /rəˈvərsədli/, /riˈvərsədli/ = reversely adv.
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the world > space > direction > [adverb] > in the opposite or reverse direction
contrariwise1589
oppositelyc1593
averse1607
opposite1609
contrary1616
reversedly1649
aversely1651
reverse ways1762
contrariways1766
negatively1789
west1793
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [adverb] > in reversed order
reversea1393
topsy-turvy1528
preposterously1533
hysteron proteron1602
inverselya1628
inversedly1645
reversedly1649
reversely1659
reverse ways1762
ass-backward1939
1649 C. Brookes New Quadrant 3 All the Summer parallels at the East and West line are continued reversedly back unto the Horizon.
1743 W. Hume Geodœsia Accurata iv, in H. Wilson Surveying Improv'd (new ed.) 417 You may also have reversedly described upon the same Ruler, an half Inch Scale.
1798 in Cockburn Life Jeffrey (1852) II. xviii Dr. Thomas Brown and J—— propose to travel in your track (only reversedly) through Cumberland.
1842 G. Barmby in Promethean Jan. 17/3 We should..make our language as concordant as possible with their vernacular tongues. Reversedly, we must never forget to improve the English by the introduction of superior words.
1895 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. Oct. 897 These are but two inscriptions out of several that have been found inscribed reversedly.
1928 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) No. 9. 384 It is the reversedly barbed bristles which become rigid at maturity that serve to fix the spikes to the fur of the rats.
1956 T. L. Shaw Precious Rubbish 206 Simultaneously, and reversedly, others have established amazing hungers for Bombois' primitives, Klee's grotesqueries, [etc.].
1999 A. van Ginkel Gen. Princ. Human Power iv. 61 Reversedly, agents can also change external objects to adjust them to internal concepts of such objects.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.1649