Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
againward .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Backward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb obsolete
againward ,backward .
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Examples
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There is another lake in which in that thou throwest rods of hazel, it turneth those rods into ash: and ayenward if ye cast ashen rods therein, they turn into hazel.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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And therefore by smelling he savoureth carrions that be far from him, that is beyond the sea, and ayenward.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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The word sinew, by the way, is exactly equal to our word nerve, and ayenward, as our author would say.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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And blindness beguileth the virtue imaginative in knowing; for in deeming of white the blind deem it is black, and ayenward.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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Common, _v. _, to share one's food with others and ayenward
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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