athwart
suomi-englanti sanakirjaathwart englannista suomeksi
vinosti yli, viistoon, vinosti poikittain
athwart englanniksi
From side to side, often in an oblique manner; across or over.
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(ux)
(RQ:Coryat Crudities)
(RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica)
(RQ:Coleridge Poems) (smallcaps), fierce-ey'd child of moping pain, / Darts her hot lightning flaſh athvvart the brain.
(RQ:Tennyson Lover's Tale)
(RQ:Landon Ethel Churchill)
(RQ:Haggard She)
(RQ:Conrad Heart of Darkness)
(quote-text)
(RQ:Economist)
(RQ:Atlantic)
(RQ:Cowper Homer)
Against the anticipated or appropriate course of something; improperly, perversely, wrongly.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1 Q1)
(RQ:Shakespeare Measure)
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(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost Q1)
(RQ:Pope Works 1751) / Some leſs refin'd, beneath the moon's pale light / Purſue the ſtars that ſhoot athvvart the night, (..)
(RQ:Coleridge Christabel)
(RQ:Tennyson Poems 1842)
(RQ:Chambers Younger Set)
Across the course or path of, so as to meet; hence , to the attention of.
(RQ:Fuller Holy State)
(RQ:Coleridge Poems)
Across the course or path of, so as to oppose.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(RQ:Smollett Roderick Random)
(RQ:William James Varieties)
(quote-book)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Group|The Penguin Press|year=2005|page=395|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/postwarhistoryof00judt/page/395/mode/1up|isbn=978-1-59420-065-6|passage=The new fashions were perforce addressed to the more prosperous young: the children of Europe’s white middle-class, who could afford records, concerts, shoes, clothes, make-up and modish hair-styling. But the presentation of these wares cut ostentatiously athwart conventional lines.
Across; through.
(RQ:Addison Cato)
(RQ:Defoe Crusoe)
(quote-journal)
Opposed to.
(RQ:Milton Areopagitica)
(RQ:Carlyle Friedrich)
(RQ:Dickens Our Mutual Friend)