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diagonally, adv.|daɪˈægənəlɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In a diagonal direction; so as to extend from one angle or corner to the opposite. Also: In a slanting direction or position, obliquely.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg., Two longe wayes that descende fro the kydnees that entre by the sydes of the bladder dyagonelly. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. viii. (1694) I. 29 Six hundred Ells..of blew Velvet..diagonally purled. 1774Pennant Tour Scotl. in 1772, 23 The upper part being set diagonally within the lower. 1837Goring & Pritchard Microgr. 121 A coarse piece of canvas, with the fibres running diagonally. 1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1870) I. v. ii. 518 The diagonally opposite angle. |