right aboutadv.n.adj.

Brit.

/ˌrʌɪt əˈbaʊt/, U.S.

/ˈraɪd əˌbaʊt/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: right adv., about adv.

Etymology: < right adv. + about adv.

Now rare (chiefly archaic and historical in later use).

A. adv.

Military.

a. To the right through one hundred and eighty degrees, so as to face in the opposite direction. Frequently as a command followed by wheel, turn, etc. Also figurative.

ΚΠ

1629 J. Achesone Mil. Garden 17 The great turne right about to the reare, the right hand man moveth but little and slowlie, as it is said before, vntill his face be at the reare, then standeth.

1642 T. Fisher Warlike Direct. (ed. 2) 15 When you give fire to the Reare, turne right about.

1789 Ld. Sydney Let. 21 Feb. in J. W. Derry Regency Crisis & Whigs (1963) v. 189 He went to Pitt and declared his approbation of the intended measures... He then went to the Prince and turned right about.

1797 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry (rev. ed.) App. 236 Right about wheel!

1831 J. Shipp Mil. Bijou I. 57 He and the serjeant were walking at a good round pace, when the serjeant bawled out, ‘right about—turn!’

1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 188 She..wheeled right-about with the alacrity of a Prussian soldier..and..was out of sight in ‘no time at all’.

1889 Infantry Drill 10 Right about—Turn.

1921 W. R. Robertson From Private to Field-marshal i. 16 The order was given, ‘troops right-about wheel.’

b. right about face!: a command to turn to the right through one hundred and eighty degrees, so as to face in the opposite direction. Cf. right-about-face v., right-about face adv.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military organization > orders > order [interjection] > face specific direction

face(s) to (also on) the right (or left)1613

right about face!1793

about-face1804

about-turn1893

1793 Rules & Regulations Formations His Majesty's Forces iii. 159 Right about face. Wheel into Echellon.

1807 Salmagundi 7 Mar. 53 ‘Right about face!’ cried the officer; the men obeyed.

1887 J. Rhoades Dux Redux i. 9 Some of you were in the Duke's body-guard till it was disbanded, and can obey orders. Right about face! Quick march!

1912 J. Galsworthy Eldest Son iii What price young Dunning! Right about face!

2007 D. McCaig Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men 52 The mental model for too many would-be dog trainers is the drill sergeant: ‘Right About Face! Left Should Harms!’

B. n.

1. to the right about. Now rare.

a. Originally and chiefly Military. To the right through one hundred and eighty degrees, so as to face in the opposite direction.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > direction > in the direction that [phrase] > turn to face opposite direction

to the right about1635

to right about1778

right-about face1832

1635 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipline lviii. 151 Wheele your Battaile to the right about.

1700 G. Farquhar Constant Couple i. ii. 11 To the right about as you were, march Colonel.

1717 tr. A. M. P. Du Noyer Lett. from Lady at Paris II. xxiv. 43 He perceiv'd his Plaister was falling off, he was forced to wheel to the Right about to stick it faster.

1766 Hist. Acct. Exped. against Ohio Indians 57 The rear goes to the right about.

1775 J. Jekyll Let. 12 Apr. (1894) i. 12 After [dessert]..all rise, turn to the rightabout and..then return to the drawing-room.

1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 31 When General Officers..pass in the rear of a Guard, the Officer is..not to face his Guard to the right-about.

1883 E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leics. 376 Their fox took the opportunity to swing to the rightabout.

1906 J. London White Fang iv. vi. 268 The dog-musher laid his hand on Beauty Smith's shoulder and faced him to the right about.

1907 M. B. Corwin et al. tr. A. Fournier Napoleon the First xiii. 373 The troop of horse, now quite out of breath, turned to the right-about.

1936 W. S. Churchill Marlborough III. xxi. 429 The Maison du Roi in the fields by Chobon hamlet can be seen wheeling to the rightabout to meet this new appalling peril.

b. figurative and in figurative contexts.

ΚΠ

1711 J. Oldmixon Hist. Addresses II. 49 For ' twou'd be a hard Case, if when after all the Counties in England have fac'd to the Right, and to the Left, and to the Right about, and to the Left about, the Head of the Herefordshire Man shou'd be..always steady for fear of disobliging his Curls.

1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xxii. 338 I did not wait long for an opportunity of letting the whole of them ken my mind, and that whenever I chose, I could make them wheel to the right about.

1895 T. Hardy in Harper's Mag. Sept. 600/1 After converting me to your views..to find you suddenly turn to the right-about like this..confounding all you have formerly said through sentiment merely!

1921 G. Stratton-Porter Her Father's Daughter iii. 46 The world goes just so far in one direction, and then it whirls to the right-about and goes equally as far in the opposite direction.

1949 G. Heyer Arabella xiii. 237 If that is so, why, then, has she sent poor Charles to the rightabout?

2002 K. Michaels Maggie needs Alibi ii. 23 You were right to send him to the rightabout, and none too soon, either. Man's a rotter.

2. to send to the right about (also rightabouts) and variants.

a. Military. To cause (troops, etc.) to retreat or flee.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > put to flight

to bring or do on (usually a, o) flighta1225

fleya1225

forchasea1400

ruse?a1425

skailc1425

dislodgea1450

to put to (the) flight (or upon the flight)1489

to turn to or into flight1526

discamp1566

flightc1571

dissipate1596

to put to (a, the) rout1596

dissipe1597

rout1600

disrout1626

derout1637

to beat off1650

to send to the right about (also rightabouts)1743

1743 Sc. Mag. July 338/1 The second fire turned them to the right about, and upon a long trot.

1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xii. 190 Six grenadiers of Ligonier's..would have sent all these fellows to the right about.

1864 Diary 31 May in F. Moore Rebellion Rec. (1868) XI. 66/1 The Second and Third divisions sent them to the right about, inflicting considerable loss upon the attacking party.

1902 G. F. R. Henderson Stonewall Jackson (1905) II. xiv. 52 The two guns on the road were sent to the right-about.

1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 168 The defenders of Gubbins's well-manned bastion experienced no difficulty in sending their antagonists to the right-abouts in remarkably short order.

1988 J. R. Elting Swords around Throne (1997) xxxiii. 667 The army had only one happy moment: The Austrians attempted to violate the line of the Loire but were quickly sent to the right-about.

b. colloquial. To drive away, send packing; (also) to deal with brusquely or unceremoniously; to sort out, set straight.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > send away or dismiss > unceremoniously

to send packingc1450

trussa1500

to go (send, etc.) away with a flea in one's ear1577

to set packing1577

pack1589

ship1594

to send away with a fly in one's ear1606

to give a packing penny to1609

to pack off1693

to cut (also slip) the painter1699

to send about one's business1728

trundle1794

to send to the right about (also rightabouts)1816

bundle1823

to give the bucket to1863

shake1872

to give (a person) the finger1874

to give (a person) the pushc1886

to give (someone or something) the chuck1888

to give (someone) the gate1918

to get the (big) bird1924

to tie a can to (or on)1926

to give (a person) (his or her) running shoes1938

to give (someone) the Lonsdale1958

1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xiii. 286 March your party, as you call them, out of this house directly, or I'll send you and them to the right about presently.

1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. ii. 23 Send verses to the right-about.

1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xvii. 169 Mamma comes and turns Fanny to the right about.

1861 Mrs. H. Wood East Lynne III. iii. v. 13 One of the members was unseated with ignominy, and sent to the right about.

1953 G. Heyer Cotillion i. 13 Fellow who said he was Kitty's uncle came here once—oh, years ago!..I soon sent him to the rightabout.

1959 P. H. Johnson Unspeakable Skipton (1961) 47 ‘You ought to take a wife,’ said Lotte, ‘she'd send you to the rightabouts.’

†a. A position reached by turning through one hundred and eighty degrees to one's right, so as to face in the opposite direction. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1834 Court Mag. Oct. 138/2 O'Shane began to waver in his military position, from a full-front face getting to very nearly a right-about.

1857 Rep. Secretary of War communicating Rep. Capt. G.B. McClellan 101 The whole line halts, and faces the enemy; Nos. 1 of the front rank fire, come to a right about, and retire at a walk.

1892 T. A. Dodge Caesar II. xxxii. 520 At the trumpet signal, the Ninth legion came to a right-about, closed their files..and then rushed upon the enemy with the sword.

b. A turn of one hundred and eighty degrees to the right; an action or manoeuvre consisting of such a turn; (figurative) a reversal; a retreat. Cf. right-about face n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > [noun] > strong, thorough

revulsion1699

revirement1824

pirouette1832

right-about face1837

volte-face1883

right about1936

1847 H. Montgomery Life Major Gen. Zachary Taylor vii. 265 Our regiment..commenced a hot fire upon the enemy's right, which soon would have brought them to a right-about.

1857 Rep. Secretary of War communicating Rep. Capt. G.B. McClellan 101 As they pass their rear rank men, the latter make a right about, and follow at 1 pace to the right rear of their front rank men.

1863 W. R. Marshall in F. Moore Rebellion Rec. (1864) VII. ii. 383/1 The Indians, whose quick right-about did not save them from carbine and pistol-shot and sabre-stroke that told so well.

1889 Infantry Drill 11 When the soldier has previously turned about, he will always front by the right about.

1932 W. Lewis Filibusters in Barbary ii. xiii. 208 The last view we had of them was of this mounted group..wheeling in a lightning right-about.

1936 O. Nash Bad Parents' Garden of Verse 59 You ask, and properly ask, no doubt, Whence this astonishing right-about?

1956 Sun (Baltimore) 28 Sept. 12/2 The resolution completes the policy rightabout which the American comrades..began after Khruschev denounced Stalin and Stalinism.

1962 Times 19 Dec. 11/1 Every time a singer did a right-about his voice echoed.

C. adj. (attributive).

Characterized by rotation through one hundred and eighty degrees to the right. Also figurative and in extended use.Recorded earliest in right-about face n.More recent instances of right about turn should probably be interpreted either as right adj. and int. + about-turn n., or right adv. 2 + about adv. + turn n. (in the latter case with the sense ‘a complete turn’ rather than ‘a turn to the right’).

ΚΠ

1837 S. Lover Rory O'More I. x. 115 He saw the file execute a ‘right-about-face’, and go the way whence they came.

1844 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 21/1 We had scarcely fired ten shots when they executed a right-about turn.

1847 H. Melville 1st Pt. Typee (rev. ed.) vii. 53 There is scarcely anything when a man is in difficulties that he is more disposed to look upon with abhorrence than a right-about retrograde movement—a systematic going over of the already trodden ground.

1862 T. Lucas Let. 13 Aug. in D. B. Sauerburger & T. L. Bayard I seat myself to write Few Lines (2002) I. i. iii. 102 I drew myself up into line, ordered a right about wheel, took a circuitous route and went into camp in another direction.

1863 N. W. Taylor Root Infantry Tactics for Schools vii. 39 While flanking in one direction, the instructor may order a Right about March, which will send the squad in the opposite direction.

1894 C. C. Abbott Trav. in Tree Top 18 A curious and disappointing occurrence..was the frequent discovery of my presence by birds and their sudden right about movement and departure.

1919 R. Lynd Old & New Masters iv.52 It was a right-about-turn of the spirit. Wordsworth had ceased to believe in liberty.

1931 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 29/1 The Stoddert swung around in a wide circle to make a perfect right-about turn.

1977 A. Horne Savage War of Peace iii. xxiv. 506 In the autumn of 1961 de Gaulle performed what his fellow statesman and friend, Macmillan, described as a ‘right-about turn’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	right about
释义	right aboutadv.n.adj. Brit. /ˌrʌɪt əˈbaʊt/, U.S. /ˈraɪd əˌbaʊt/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: right adv., about adv. Etymology: < right adv. + about adv. Now rare (chiefly archaic and historical in later use). A. adv. Military. a. To the right through one hundred and eighty degrees, so as to face in the opposite direction. Frequently as a command followed by wheel, turn, etc. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1629 J. Achesone Mil. Garden 17 The great turne right about to the reare, the right hand man moveth but little and slowlie, as it is said before, vntill his face be at the reare, then standeth. 1642 T. Fisher Warlike Direct. (ed. 2) 15 When you give fire to the Reare, turne right about. 1789 Ld. Sydney Let. 21 Feb. in J. W. Derry Regency Crisis & Whigs (1963) v. 189 He went to Pitt and declared his approbation of the intended measures... He then went to the Prince and turned right about. 1797 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry (rev. ed.) App. 236 Right about wheel! 1831 J. Shipp Mil. Bijou I. 57 He and the serjeant were walking at a good round pace, when the serjeant bawled out, ‘right about—turn!’ 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 188 She..wheeled right-about with the alacrity of a Prussian soldier..and..was out of sight in ‘no time at all’. 1889 Infantry Drill 10 Right about—Turn. 1921 W. R. Robertson From Private to Field-marshal i. 16 The order was given, ‘troops right-about wheel.’ b. right about face!: a command to turn to the right through one hundred and eighty degrees, so as to face in the opposite direction. Cf. right-about-face v., right-about face adv. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > orders > order [interjection] > face specific direction face(s) to (also on) the right (or left)1613 right about face!1793 about-face1804 about-turn1893 1793 Rules & Regulations Formations His Majesty's Forces iii. 159 Right about face. Wheel into Echellon. 1807 Salmagundi 7 Mar. 53 ‘Right about face!’ cried the officer; the men obeyed. 1887 J. Rhoades Dux Redux i. 9 Some of you were in the Duke's body-guard till it was disbanded, and can obey orders. Right about face! Quick march! 1912 J. Galsworthy Eldest Son iii What price young Dunning! Right about face! 2007 D. McCaig Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men 52 The mental model for too many would-be dog trainers is the drill sergeant: ‘Right About Face! Left Should Harms!’ B. n. 1. to the right about. Now rare. a. Originally and chiefly Military. To the right through one hundred and eighty degrees, so as to face in the opposite direction. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > in the direction that [phrase] > turn to face opposite direction to the right about1635 to right about1778 right-about face1832 1635 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipline lviii. 151 Wheele your Battaile to the right about. 1700 G. Farquhar Constant Couple i. ii. 11 To the right about as you were, march Colonel. 1717 tr. A. M. P. Du Noyer Lett. from Lady at Paris II. xxiv. 43 He perceiv'd his Plaister was falling off, he was forced to wheel to the Right about to stick it faster. 1766 Hist. Acct. Exped. against Ohio Indians 57 The rear goes to the right about. 1775 J. Jekyll Let. 12 Apr. (1894) i. 12 After [dessert]..all rise, turn to the rightabout and..then return to the drawing-room. 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 31 When General Officers..pass in the rear of a Guard, the Officer is..not to face his Guard to the right-about. 1883 E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leics. 376 Their fox took the opportunity to swing to the rightabout. 1906 J. London White Fang iv. vi. 268 The dog-musher laid his hand on Beauty Smith's shoulder and faced him to the right about. 1907 M. B. Corwin et al. tr. A. Fournier Napoleon the First xiii. 373 The troop of horse, now quite out of breath, turned to the right-about. 1936 W. S. Churchill Marlborough III. xxi. 429 The Maison du Roi in the fields by Chobon hamlet can be seen wheeling to the rightabout to meet this new appalling peril. b. figurative and in figurative contexts. ΚΠ 1711 J. Oldmixon Hist. Addresses II. 49 For ' twou'd be a hard Case, if when after all the Counties in England have fac'd to the Right, and to the Left, and to the Right about, and to the Left about, the Head of the Herefordshire Man shou'd be..always steady for fear of disobliging his Curls. 1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xxii. 338 I did not wait long for an opportunity of letting the whole of them ken my mind, and that whenever I chose, I could make them wheel to the right about. 1895 T. Hardy in Harper's Mag. Sept. 600/1 After converting me to your views..to find you suddenly turn to the right-about like this..confounding all you have formerly said through sentiment merely! 1921 G. Stratton-Porter Her Father's Daughter iii. 46 The world goes just so far in one direction, and then it whirls to the right-about and goes equally as far in the opposite direction. 1949 G. Heyer Arabella xiii. 237 If that is so, why, then, has she sent poor Charles to the rightabout? 2002 K. Michaels Maggie needs Alibi ii. 23 You were right to send him to the rightabout, and none too soon, either. Man's a rotter. 2. to send to the right about (also rightabouts) and variants. a. Military. To cause (troops, etc.) to retreat or flee. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > put to flight to bring or do on (usually a, o) flighta1225 fleya1225 forchasea1400 ruse?a1425 skailc1425 dislodgea1450 to put to (the) flight (or upon the flight)1489 to turn to or into flight1526 discamp1566 flightc1571 dissipate1596 to put to (a, the) rout1596 dissipe1597 rout1600 disrout1626 derout1637 to beat off1650 to send to the right about (also rightabouts)1743 1743 Sc. Mag. July 338/1 The second fire turned them to the right about, and upon a long trot. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xii. 190 Six grenadiers of Ligonier's..would have sent all these fellows to the right about. View more context for this quotation 1864 Diary 31 May in F. Moore Rebellion Rec. (1868) XI. 66/1 The Second and Third divisions sent them to the right about, inflicting considerable loss upon the attacking party. 1902 G. F. R. Henderson Stonewall Jackson (1905) II. xiv. 52 The two guns on the road were sent to the right-about. 1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 168 The defenders of Gubbins's well-manned bastion experienced no difficulty in sending their antagonists to the right-abouts in remarkably short order. 1988 J. R. Elting Swords around Throne (1997) xxxiii. 667 The army had only one happy moment: The Austrians attempted to violate the line of the Loire but were quickly sent to the right-about. b. colloquial. To drive away, send packing; (also) to deal with brusquely or unceremoniously; to sort out, set straight. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > send away or dismiss > unceremoniously to send packingc1450 trussa1500 to go (send, etc.) away with a flea in one's ear1577 to set packing1577 pack1589 ship1594 to send away with a fly in one's ear1606 to give a packing penny to1609 to pack off1693 to cut (also slip) the painter1699 to send about one's business1728 trundle1794 to send to the right about (also rightabouts)1816 bundle1823 to give the bucket to1863 shake1872 to give (a person) the finger1874 to give (a person) the pushc1886 to give (someone or something) the chuck1888 to give (someone) the gate1918 to get the (big) bird1924 to tie a can to (or on)1926 to give (a person) (his or her) running shoes1938 to give (someone) the Lonsdale1958 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xiii. 286 March your party, as you call them, out of this house directly, or I'll send you and them to the right about presently. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. ii. 23 Send verses to the right-about. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xvii. 169 Mamma comes and turns Fanny to the right about. 1861 Mrs. H. Wood East Lynne III. iii. v. 13 One of the members was unseated with ignominy, and sent to the right about. 1953 G. Heyer Cotillion i. 13 Fellow who said he was Kitty's uncle came here once—oh, years ago!..I soon sent him to the rightabout. 1959 P. H. Johnson Unspeakable Skipton (1961) 47 ‘You ought to take a wife,’ said Lotte, ‘she'd send you to the rightabouts.’ 3. †a. A position reached by turning through one hundred and eighty degrees to one's right, so as to face in the opposite direction. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1834 Court Mag. Oct. 138/2 O'Shane began to waver in his military position, from a full-front face getting to very nearly a right-about. 1857 Rep. Secretary of War communicating Rep. Capt. G.B. McClellan 101 The whole line halts, and faces the enemy; Nos. 1 of the front rank fire, come to a right about, and retire at a walk. 1892 T. A. Dodge Caesar II. xxxii. 520 At the trumpet signal, the Ninth legion came to a right-about, closed their files..and then rushed upon the enemy with the sword. b. A turn of one hundred and eighty degrees to the right; an action or manoeuvre consisting of such a turn; (figurative) a reversal; a retreat. Cf. right-about face n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > [noun] > strong, thorough revulsion1699 revirement1824 pirouette1832 right-about face1837 volte-face1883 right about1936 1847 H. Montgomery Life Major Gen. Zachary Taylor vii. 265 Our regiment..commenced a hot fire upon the enemy's right, which soon would have brought them to a right-about. 1857 Rep. Secretary of War communicating Rep. Capt. G.B. McClellan 101 As they pass their rear rank men, the latter make a right about, and follow at 1 pace to the right rear of their front rank men. 1863 W. R. Marshall in F. Moore Rebellion Rec. (1864) VII. ii. 383/1 The Indians, whose quick right-about did not save them from carbine and pistol-shot and sabre-stroke that told so well. 1889 Infantry Drill 11 When the soldier has previously turned about, he will always front by the right about. 1932 W. Lewis Filibusters in Barbary ii. xiii. 208 The last view we had of them was of this mounted group..wheeling in a lightning right-about. 1936 O. Nash Bad Parents' Garden of Verse 59 You ask, and properly ask, no doubt, Whence this astonishing right-about? 1956 Sun (Baltimore) 28 Sept. 12/2 The resolution completes the policy rightabout which the American comrades..began after Khruschev denounced Stalin and Stalinism. 1962 Times 19 Dec. 11/1 Every time a singer did a right-about his voice echoed. C. adj. (attributive). Characterized by rotation through one hundred and eighty degrees to the right. Also figurative and in extended use.Recorded earliest in right-about face n.More recent instances of right about turn should probably be interpreted either as right adj. and int. + about-turn n., or right adv. 2 + about adv. + turn n. (in the latter case with the sense ‘a complete turn’ rather than ‘a turn to the right’). ΚΠ 1837 S. Lover Rory O'More I. x. 115 He saw the file execute a ‘right-about-face’, and go the way whence they came. 1844 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 21/1 We had scarcely fired ten shots when they executed a right-about turn. 1847 H. Melville 1st Pt. Typee (rev. ed.) vii. 53 There is scarcely anything when a man is in difficulties that he is more disposed to look upon with abhorrence than a right-about retrograde movement—a systematic going over of the already trodden ground. 1862 T. Lucas Let. 13 Aug. in D. B. Sauerburger & T. L. Bayard I seat myself to write Few Lines (2002) I. i. iii. 102 I drew myself up into line, ordered a right about wheel, took a circuitous route and went into camp in another direction. 1863 N. W. Taylor Root Infantry Tactics for Schools vii. 39 While flanking in one direction, the instructor may order a Right about March, which will send the squad in the opposite direction. 1894 C. C. Abbott Trav. in Tree Top 18 A curious and disappointing occurrence..was the frequent discovery of my presence by birds and their sudden right about movement and departure. 1919 R. Lynd Old & New Masters iv.52 It was a right-about-turn of the spirit. Wordsworth had ceased to believe in liberty. 1931 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 29/1 The Stoddert swung around in a wide circle to make a perfect right-about turn. 1977 A. Horne Savage War of Peace iii. xxiv. 506 In the autumn of 1961 de Gaulle performed what his fellow statesman and friend, Macmillan, described as a ‘right-about turn’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > as lemmas to right about 15. intransitive. Military. to right about: to perform a turn to the right through a hundred and eighty degrees. Also figurative. Now chiefly superseded by right-about-face v. Cf. right about n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > in the direction that [phrase] > turn to face opposite direction to the right about1635 to right about1778 right-about face1832 1778 R. B. Sheridan Camp ii. iii I wish I was ordered to right about. 1781 T. L. O'Beirne Generous Impostor v. i. 83 Then right about, Master Trimbush, make love to your conscience; marry your conscience. 1833 W. Brockedon Jrnls. Excursions in Alps xiii. 218 My able conductor was obliged to right about, through Caluso, and take the true route to Ivrea. 1863 F. W. Mix Let. in W.S. Rosecrans Rep. Battle Murfreesboro', Tenn. 545 I ordered them to right about which they did handsomely, not a man flinching or wavering in the least. 1907 J. H. Alexander Mosby's Men xiv. 160 When Glascock ordered D to charge, A righted about in their tracks and rushed out on the road, tail end first. 1936 J. Cary African Witch xxxiii. 440 The serpent saluted and right-about-ed.] extracted from rightv. < adv.n.adj.1629 as lemmas
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