单词 | toward and froward |
释义 | > as lemmastoward and froward (dialect fromward) a. In a direction toward oneself, or toward something aimed at. Obsolete or archaic. †toward and froward (dialect fromward), to and fro. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [adverb] towarda1300 justc1440 towards1590 in1709 in-ower1813 a1300 E.E. Psalter cxviii[i]. 8 To-ward, fra-ward, forlete me noght. ?a1400 in J. O. Halliwell Rara Mathematica (1839) 58 Come toward and go froward til þe perpendicle..falle vpon þe mydel lyne of þe quadrant. ?a1400 in J. O. Halliwell Rara Mathematica (1839) 66 Go toward and froward til þou se þe toppe of þat thing in þe mydel of þat myrure. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xiii. xvi. 634 He rode many Iourneyes bothe toward and froward. 1858 H. Bushnell Serm. for New Life (1869) xi. 148 The motion is outward and not toward, as we conceive it to be in happiness. < as lemmas |
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