southwardsadv.n.adj.

eOE Metres of Boethius (transcript of damaged MS) (2009) i. 4 Gotan eastan of Sciððia sceldas læddon.., setton suðweardes sigeþeoda twa.

OE Charter: Bp. Wærferð to Æðelred & Æðelflæd (Sawyer 1280) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 36 Þonæ hagan..se is fram þære ea sylfre bi þæm norðwalle eastwardes xxviii roda lang, & þonon suþwardes xxiiii roda brad, & eft þonon westwardes on Sæferne xix roda long.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiv. 250 And thai southwardis [1489 Adv. southwart] thair wais raid.

1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 38 The londe..marcheth..Southwardys to the londe of Egipte.

1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies iii. lvi. 424/1 Take heed you put not southwards.

1641 W. Prynne Humble Remonstr. 24 They negligently or wilfully left these Coasts unguarded to goe Southwards.

1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Persian Trav. iii. v. 109 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) The great Desert that extends Southwards to Arabia the Happy.

1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xx. 93 Let us think no more about it, but travel on as fast as we can southwards into Norway.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 861/1 Bending gradually, as we advance southwards,..to the south-west.

1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. viii. 265 Proceeding southwards, the tourists visited Carlisle.

1857 L. H. Grindon Life (ed. 2) iii. 31 That the heart should look southwards.

1875 J. Croll Climate & Time xiv. 230 Deflected southwards into the Antarctic Sea.

a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. ii. 19 She was soon in Broadway's deep canyon, was drifting absently along in the stream of cross, mussy-looking workers pushing southwards.

1962 C. Ekwensi Burning Grass i. 1 When they begin to burn the grass in Northern Nigeria, it is time for the herdsmen to be moving the cattle southwards to the banks of the great river.

2006 C. Stringer Homo Britannicus vii. 256 (caption) The Atlantic has repeatedly been chilled by ‘Heinrich Events’, where armadas of icebergs have suddenly flowed southwards.

1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 164 The principall townes from the golfe of Laiacia southe-wardes, to the golfe of Rissa,..were gotten out of the Turkes handes.

?1597 J. Blagrave Apol. & Addition to Vranicall Astrolabe sig. A4^v His latitude in like sort to bee almost 5 degrees Southwards from thecliptick.

a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1657) vii. 60 Those great Mountains South-wards from Dublin.

1671 J. Brown Horologiographia vii. 131 The same edge, on the other part next the Horizon Southwards, represents the South-west Incliner.

1707 J. Chamberlayne Present State Great Brit. (1710) 342 All those Islands lie in a Row Southwards one of the other.

1776 Statues Sewers within Westm. 62 New Bond street with the Duke of Grafton's and next House Southwards.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xli. 497 Much further southwards, and near the milky way, is Antares.

1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. vi. 300 The Alpine Flora occupies the extension southwards of the Arctic regions.

1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems Freshwater Trop. Aquarium Fishes 219 (heading) The (Common) Armoured Catfish. The Hassar. Native to South America east of the Andes, from the north southwards to La Plata.

1978 L. B. Moore & J. B. Irwin Oxf. Bk. N.Z. Plants 182 Bush lily grows rather like flax in lowland to montane forest from about the latitude of Thames southwards.

2002 T. Darvill et al. England v. 187 Southwards of Shrewsbury and running downwards through Kidderminster and Worcester is the Severn valley.

?1574 W. Bourne Regiment for Sea Introd. sig. A.ij The Tropicke of Capricorne, is the greatest declination that the sunne doth go vnto the Southwards.

1581 R. Norman Newe Attractiue 26 Many..that haue trauailed farre to the Southwardes.

1619 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 55 They usually have had good quantety..from sowards.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. iii. 148 The Ship is to the Southwards of the Place she departed [from].

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Wind This Easterly Wind should on the North Side of the Equator be to the Northwards of the East, and in South Latitudes to the Southwards thereof.

1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica I. ii. ii. 366 They are then perceived to hurry from the mountains to the Southwards.

1847 Q. Rev. 79 35 The Marquis announced his march to the southwards.

1878 W. C. Russell Wreck of Grosvenor (ed. 2) II. vi. 132 The wind held steady, but blew very fresh, and had drawn a trifle further to the southwards.

1933 W. Foster England's Quest Eastern Trade xx. 208 In 1608 a footing was obtained at Tegnapatam in the Hindu country lying to the southwards.

1974 W. D. Jordan White Man's Burden ii. iii. 59 In the northern colonies, laws concerning Negroes were less detailed, more haphazard, and generally less harsh than to the southwards.

2003 R. Kolb Case Law on Equitable Maritime Delimitation 497 The two coasts are directly facing each other and come closer together the further one moves to the southwards.

1838 J. Rooke Geol. as Sci. iii. 84 It is probable that the tide-wave of the North Sea in a southwards course swept off the talus of those Isles.

1902 in Corr. Railway Constr. Nigeria (1905) 90 His Excellency trusts that you will be able to see your way to representing the fatuity of selecting a place for a bridge and wasting money on a southwards survey from thence while the route northwards from that point may be wholly impassable.

1973 P. M. Holt Stud. Hist. Near East ii. vii. 125 The penetration of the upper White Nile and the Baḥr al-Ghazāl resulted in a southwards movement of the frontier of islamization after three centuries of stability.

2001 W. M. Adams Green Devel. (ed. 2) vii. 188 Arguments about the southwards invasion of desert conditions into new regions have given way to ideas of degradation of semi-arid areas from within.