Moonward
adj, adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Which faces or points to or leads to the moon. not-comparable
"And having puzzled out what I considered the thing to do, I opened all my moonward windows, and squatted down—the effort lifted me for a time some foot or so into the air and I hung there in the oddest way—and waited for the crescent to get bigger and bigger until I felt I was near enough for safety."
- 1 Toward the moon. not-comparable
"1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Limbo” in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, Volume I, “Sibylline Leaves,” p. 272, An old man with a steady look sublime, That stops his earthly task to watch the skies; But he is blind—a statue hath such eyes;— Yet having moonward turn’d his face by chance, Gazes the orb with moon-like countenance,"
Example
More examples"1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Limbo” in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, Volume I, “Sibylline Leaves,” p. 272, An old man with a steady look sublime, That stops his earthly task to watch the skies; But he is blind—a statue hath such eyes;— Yet having moonward turn’d his face by chance, Gazes the orb with moon-like countenance,"
Etymology
From moon + -ward.
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