Aright
adv, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly. transitive
"But, from working with those who have felt exiled and damned, excoriated and benumbed, and yet have made it back to useful and creative life again, I know there are more sure, albeit intense, ways to aright oneself."
- 1 Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form. not-comparable
"it is not easie we should so often settle our minds in so regular, so reformed, and so devout a seat, where indeed it ought to be, to pray aright and effectually: otherwise our praiers are not only vaine and unprofitable, but vicious."
- 2 To or on the right-hand side. archaic, not-comparable
"Once more away! and now The long descent is seen, A long, long, narrow path. Ice rocks aright, and hills of snow, Aleft the giddy precipice."
- 1 in an accurate manner wordnet
Example
More examples""Come, jolly Bacchus, giver of delight; / kind Juno, come; and ye with fair accord / and friendly spirit hold the feast aright.""
Etymology
From Middle English ariȝt, ariht, from Old English āriht (“aright, properly”), from earlier *an riht, on riht (“rightly”), corresponding to a- + right.
From Middle English arighten, arihten (“to raise up”); and Middle English iriȝten, irihten, ȝerihten (“to make right, correct, erect”), from Old English ġerihtan (“to set right”), equivalent to a- + right.
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