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adv (English)
1. (figurative)Examples: "He wasn’t just cool to me, he was downright rude."; "VVe vvere deſcried, theyle mock vs novv dounright."; "VVhat then are thoſe monſtrous Extravagancies in your deportment to all perſons of vvhat quality ſoever? […] VVhich bold and impudent cuſtome, unleſs you vvere dovvn-right mad, you could never have taken up of your ſelves. VVherefore certainly ſome very vvaggiſh Maſter of the Ceremonies has taught you this ill manners, like him that inſtructed the Sheriff to keep on his Hat vvhen he accoſted the King."Synonyms: absolutely, entirely, outright, positively, right-down, thoroughly, utterly, absolutelyfigurativelynot-comparable
2. (figurative)Examples: "Ros[alind]. Not true in loue? / Cel[ia]. Yes, vvhen he is in, but I thinke he is not in. / Ros. You haue heard him ſvveare dovvnright he vvas."; "VVell, 'tis not my Buſineſs to quarrel vvith her dovvn[-]right."; "Mr. Halkett, […] told him downright that he had assisted at many weddings, but he had never the pleasure of supporting such a thorough "carry-me-out-and-bury-me-decently" looking article before."Synonyms: bluntly, outrightarchaicfigurativelynot-comparable
3. (obsolete)Examples: "Cedentes capilli, heares [hairs] hanging down ryght."; "[Y]et there bee other difficulties that impeach their vvorke: for othervvhiles they meet vvith rocks of flint and rags, as vvell in undermining forvvard, as in ſinking pits dovvne right; vvhich they are driven to pierce and cleave through vvith fire and vinegre."; "In removing and tranſplanting young Oakes you muſt be ſure not to cut off or vvound that part of the root, vvhich deſcends dovvn-right (vvhich in ſome Countreys they call the tap-root) but dig it up to the bottome, and prepare your hole deep enough to ſet it: […]"not-comparableobsolete
4. (obsolete)Examples: "This is the ſoul that I vvith preſſer quill / Muſt novv purſue and fall upon dovvn-right, […]"; "The reading of this Paper put Mrs. Bull in ſuch a Paſſion, that ſhe fell dovvnright into a Fit, and they vvere forc’d to give her a good quantity of the Spirit of Hartſhorn before ſhe recover’d."; "And, dear Lady G. he dovvnright kiſſed me—My lip; and not my cheek—and in ſo fervent a vvay—I tell you every-thing, my Charlotte—I could have been angry—had I knovvn hovv, from ſurprize."Synonyms: outright, straight, straight awayfigurativelynot-comparableobsolete
adj (English)
1. (figurative)Examples: "For although in that ancient and diffuſed adoration of IdolLs, unto the Prieſts and ſubtiler heads, the vvorſhip perhaps might be ſymbolicall, and as thoſe Images ſome vvay related unto their deities, yet vvas the Idolatry direct and dovvne-right in the people, vvhoſe credulity is illimitable, vvho may be made believe that any thing is God, and may be made believe there is no God at all."; "'I ſee his Deſign,' ſaid ſhe, 'for he made dovvnright Love to me Yeſterday Morning; but as I am reſolved never to admit it, I beg your Ladyſhip not to leave us alone together any more,[…]'"; "Ye're a' gait at ance, Annie Anderson. A doonricht rintheroot!"Synonyms: evendown, outright, right-down, unmitigated, utter, abject, absolute, arrantfiguratively
2. (figurative)Examples: "The ſay this Angelo vvas not made by Man and VVoman, after this dovvne-right vvay of Creation: is it true, thinke you?"; "[Y]our dovvne right Captain ſtill Ile lieve, and ſerve you, […]"; "And here an Admonition from a dead Author, or a Caveat from an Impartial Pen, vvhoſe Aim neither vvas, nor can be taken, as any particular By-Deſign, vvill prevail more, and have a better Effect, than a dovvn-right Advice; […]"Synonyms: clear, unevasivefiguratively
3. (obsolete)Examples: "Downeright ſtroke […] taille"; "Thoſe perſones, […] be auouched to bee like vnto trees, growyng on the edges or brinkes of clieffes and rockes of a downright pitche, or a ſtiepe down fall: the fruites of whiche trees no man could euer geat a taſte of, but theſame were from time to time, deuoured by the crowes and the rauens."; "This Hawkweede hath no deepe downeright roote, but ſheweth as though it were gnawen or bitten, lyke to the roote of Deuils bit, […]"obsolete
4. (obsolete)Examples: "[T]he merchant's wife, next to her who abounds in plenty, is not to have downright money, but the mercenary part of her mind is engaged with a present of plate, and a little ambition."figurativelyobsolete
noun (English)
1. (chiefly in the plural) A low grade of wool from the lower parts of the sides of a fleece.Examples: "It is ſaid, there are nine Sorts of VVool contained in one good Fleece, vvhich to make out, they ſay, that there are five Sorts for making Cloth, and four for Combings; a ſuperfine VVool, a head VVool, Dovvnrights, Seconds, and Livery."in-pluralobsolete
2. (rare) A vertical line; a perpendicular, a vertical.Examples: "[T]he middle of it [i.e., the thigh, is] the prop or thiller, the body the vveight, and the leg the povver; either of vvhich being brought by a ſharp angle to a dovvnright or perpendicular or more, vvith the thiller, vvill by ſo much leſſen the vveight, from the yielded aſſumption in that mechanick povver, That the point, vvhich is toucht by a perpendicular from the centre of heavineſs, is one of the terms: […]"obsoleterare
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