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† ˈlateward, a. and adv. Obs.
Also 5–6 latward.
[f. late a.1 + -ward.]
A. adj.
1. Late, slow, backward: said mostly of fruit and crops ripening, and seasons of the year.
1538Elyot Dict., Cordum fœnum, latewarde haye. Cordi agni, latewarde lambes. 1546Supplic. Poore Commons (E.E.T.S.) 71 They mighte not gather their grapes nor frutes twyse, but must leue the latward fruit. 1587Golding De Mornay viii. 93 If Greece were to lateward therein [the studie of wisedome], where shall the antiquitie thereof be found among the Gentiles? 1589Fleming Virg. Georg. i. 9 There Vesper or th' euening doth kindle lateward lights. 1601Holland Pliny I. 501 Trees which be late-ward and keep their fruit long ere they ripen. 1611Cotgr., Arriere⁓saison,..a late harvest, a lateward yeare. a1659Osborn Ess. iii. Wks. (1673) 568 The Garden having not yet produced any Fruit so lateward. 1719London & Wise Compl. Gard. 273 We sow our last Cucumbers about the tenth or twelfth of this Month, to have some lateward ones. 1745tr. Columella's Husb. xi. ii, Now it is time to have finished the digging and dressing of your lateward rosebeds.
2. Pertaining to a late period. rare.
1577Harrison England ii. ix. (1877) i. 190 Such also was the lateward estimation of them [the old laws] that [etc.].
B. adv.
1. Of late, recently.
1471Sir J. Paston in P. Lett. No. 670 III. 6 As myche plesyer and hertys ease as I have latward causyd you to have trowbyll and thowght. 1649Bp. Hall Confirm. (1651) 28 Deducing it self through all the ages of the Church, (though lateward not without some taint of superstitious interspersions).
2. Late, after the due time or season.
1572L. Mascall Plant. & Graff. v. 24 Whether the tree be forwarde or not, or to be graffed soone or latewarde. 1573Tusser Husb. xlvi. (1878) 101 Who soweth too lateward, hath seldome good seed. 1609Bible (Douay) Jer. ii. 31 Am I become a wildernes to Israel, or a lateward springing land? 1620Bp. Hall Hon. Mar. Clergy iii. §13 The cited clergy and laity doe now thus late-ward discusse de iure. 1659Torriano, Séro, late, or lateward.
3. ? Towards the last.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 622 The most losse turned euer latewarde vpon y⊇ Englysh partie.
Also † ˈlatewards adv., lately, recently.
1483Act. 1 Rich. III, c. 13 The Butts of Malmseys late⁓wards brought into this..Realm. |