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Webster 1913 Edition
Aright
A-right′
,adv.
[Pref.
a-
+ right
.] Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime;
as, to worship God
. aright
Webster 1828 Edition
Aright
ARI'GHT
,adv.
Rightly; in a right form; without mistake or crime.
Definition 2024
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See also: a'right
English
Adverb
aright (comparative more aright, superlative most aright)
- Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.56:
- it is not easie we should so often settle our minds in so regular, so reformed, and so devout a seat, where indeed it ought to be, to pray aright and effectually: otherwise our praiers are not only vaine and unprofitable, but vicious.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.56:
Etymology 2
From Middle English arighten, arihten (“to raise up”); and Middle English iriȝten, irihten, ȝerihten (“to make right, correct, erect”), from Old English ġerihtan (“to set right”), equivalent to a- + right.
Verb
aright (third-person singular simple present arights, present participle arighting, simple past and past participle arighted)
- (transitive) To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.
- 2003, John Beebe, Terror, Violence, and the Impulse to Destroy:
- But, from working with those who have felt exiled and damned, excoriated and benumbed, and yet have made it back to useful and creative life again, I know there are more sure, albeit intense, ways to aright oneself.
- 2003, John Beebe, Terror, Violence, and the Impulse to Destroy:
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References
- aright in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913