thwart
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thwart englanniksi
Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
Of people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn.
(synonyms)
(RQ:Shakespeare King Lear Q1) harke ''Nature'', heare deere Goddeſſe, ſuſpend thy purpoſe, if thou did'ſt intend to make this creature fruitful into her wombe, conuey ſterility, drie vp in hir the organs of increaſe, and from her derogate body neuer ſpring a babe to honour her, if ſhee muſt teeme, create her childe of ſpleene, that it may liue and bee a thourt diſuetur'd(sic) torment to her, (..)
(RQ:Bacon Learning) and it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churlish, thwart, and mutinous; (..)
Of situations or things: adverse, unfavourable, unlucky.
Across the direction of travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely.
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(RQ:Lodge Rosalynde)
(quote-book) i. 27. ''So God created Man in his own Image, in the Image of God created He him.''|title=Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions|edition=5th|location=London|publisher=Printed for Jonah Bowyer,(nb...)|date=9 November 1662|year_published=1722|volume=I|page=60|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/twelvesermonspre00soutpage/60/mode/1up|oclc=1037558139|passage=The Underſtanding and Will never diſagreed; for the Propoſals of the one never thwarted the Inclinations of the other.
(RQ:Scott Devorgoil Auchindrane)
(RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp)
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(quote-journal) and (w) to thwart Walcott|Theo Walcott and (w).
To place (something) across (another thing); to position crosswise.
To hinder or obstruct by placing (something) in the way of; to block, to impede, to oppose.
(quote-book)|year=1876–1879?|volume=IV|page=32|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3TECAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA32|column=2|oclc=3740788|passage=When taking his seat in a boat, the learner should first observe that the thwart is firmly fixed, and that the mat upon it is securely tied to that part of it which is farthest from his rowlock.|footer=(small)
A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the (l) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
(quote-book)|editor=Hawkesworth (book editor)|John Hawkesworth|title=An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, (...) In Three Volumes|location=Printed for Strahan (publisher)|William Strahan and Cadell (publisher)|Thomas Cadell(nb...)|year=1773|volume=III|section=book II|page=58|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=6tReAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA58|oclc=9299044|passage=A conſiderable number of thwarts were laid from gunwale to gunwale, to which they were ſecurely laſhed on each ſide, as a ſtrengthening to the boat canoe.
(quote-book); and sold by Messrs. Nicol (bookseller)|George and William Nicol,(nb...); and Wright (bookseller died 1844)|John Wright,(nb...)|year=1800|page=223|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=73leAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA223|oclc=220126924|passage=My barge was sixty feet in length, and not more than twelve in the widest part; by taking away one thwart beam near the stern, laying a floor two feet below the gunwale, and raising an arched roof about seven feet above the floor, a commodious room was formed, fourteen feet long, and ten wide, with a closet behind it; (..)
(quote-book)|year=2015|page=66|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=6r4qBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA66|isbn=978-1-4930-0825-4|passage=I looked down into the Old Town canoe; there was no yoke, only a straight ash thwart.
An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.