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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.
[a and right.]
Rightly; in a right form; without mistake or crime.

Definition 2024


aright

aright

See also: a'right

English

Adverb

aright (comparative more aright, superlative most aright)

  1. 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.

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)

  1. (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.
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References

  • aright in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913