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Webster 1913 Edition
Adown
A-down′
,adv.
From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground.
[Archaic]
“Thrice did she sink adown.” Spenser.
A-down′
,p
rep.
Down.
[Archaic & Poetic]
Her hair
adown
her shoulders loosely lay displayed. Prior.
Webster 1828 Edition
Adown
ADOWN'
, prep. [a and down.] From a higher to a lower situation; downwards; implying descent.ADOWN'
,adv.
Definition 2024
adown
adown
English
Adverb
adown (comparative more adown, superlative most adown)
- (archaic) Down, downward; to or in a lower place.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.X, Ch.xix:
- Whan Sir Palomydes had herde hym sey so, he kneled adowne and asked mercy […].
- Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599)
- Thrice did she sink adown.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.X, Ch.xix:
Preposition
adown
- (archaic) down
- J. H. Riddell, The Uninhabited House
- I fell from one dream into another; found myself wandering through impossible places; […] peering out into the darkness, to catch a sight of a vague figure standing somewhere in the shadow, and looking, with the sun streaming into my eyes and blinding me, adown long white roads filled with a multitude of people […]
- J. H. Riddell, The Uninhabited House
Quotations
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:adown.