overthwart

1. (archaic) From side to side.Examples: "For when a Gyant’s slain in fight, And mow’d orethwart, or cleft downright, It is a heavy case, no doubt, A man should have his Brains beat out, Because he’s tall, and has large Bones;"; "[...] they are ioyned by two and two together, and every couple sustaineth a third stone lying overthwart, gatewise, which is fastened by the meanes of tenons that enter into mortaises of those stones not closed with any cement."Synonyms: across, athwartarchaic

1. (obsolete) Having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite.Examples: "By and by after his iumping vppon them, the Saxons for that Garianonum, or Yarmoth that had giuen vp the ghoſt, in thoſe ſlymie plaſhie fieldes of Gorlſtone trowled vp a ſecond Yarmouth, abutting on the Weſt ſide of the ſhore of this great Yarmouth, that is, but feeling the ayre to be vnholſome and diſagreeing with them, to the ouerwhart brink or verge of the flud, that writ all one ſtile of Cerdicke ſands, they diſlodged with bagge and baggage, and there layde the foundatiõ of a third Yarmouth Quam nulla poteſt abolere vetuſtas, that I hope will holde vp her head till Doomeſday."; "[…] we whisper, for fear our over-thwart Neighbours Should hear us cry, Liberty, and betray us to the Government."obsolete

2. (obsolete) Crossing in kind or disposition.Examples: "So prowde of hart, So overthwart, So out of frame, So voyde of shame, […]"; "He had pass’d two or three Acts of Parliament, which had much lessen’d the Authority and Dependence of the Nobility, and great Men, and incens’d, and dispos’d them proportionably to cross, and oppose any Proposition, which would be most grateful; and that overthwart humour was enough discover’d to rule in the breasts of many, who made the greatest professions."Synonyms: adverse, opposing, perverseobsolete

1. (obsolete) That which is overthwart; an adverse circumstance; opposition.Examples: "A hart wel stayd, in ouerthwartes depe, Hopeth amendes: in swete, doth feare the sowre."; "We thinke the heavens enjoy their Sphericall Their round proportion embracing all. But yet their various and perplexed course, Observ’d in divers ages doth enforce Men to finde out so many Eccentrique parts, Such divers downe-right lines, such overthwarts, As disproportion that pure forme. […]"obsolete