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onwards, adv. (prep.)|ˈɒnwədz|
[f. onward with advb. -s: see -wards.]
A. adv.
1. a. = onward A. 1.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. cxxvi, If Nature..As thou goest onwards, still will pluck thee back. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 370 The spumy Waves proclaim the watry War... March onwards, and insult the rocky Shoar. 1819Byron Juan ii. ci, The current with a rising gale Still set them onwards to the welcome shore. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xi. 82 Our eyes wandered from peak to peak, onwards to the remote horizon.
b. = onward A. 1 b.
1732Berkeley Alciphr. vi. §27 From the first century onwards, there was never wanting the testimony of such men. 1916G. B. Shaw Androcles & Lion i. 9 You may be called on to appear in the Imperial Circus at any time from tomorrow onwards. 1961New Eng. Bible Acts iii. 24 So said all the prophets, from Samuel onwards. a1976A. Christie Autobiogr. (1977) vii. ii. 330 From then onwards I should have first-class advice.
†2. = onward A. 2. Obs.
1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts, N.T. 15 It is not yet time..but onwards, do ye confine your paines and preaching within the bounds of Judæa. 1637― Serm. at Excester 24 Aug., Wks. 1662 IV. [III.] 95 He..would stay Gods leisure for the possession of it, four hundred years: Onwards he takes his livery and seisin, and will purchase with money that which the great ower of heaven gave him freely.
3. = onward A. 3: † onwards of = on towards, approaching, nearly (obs.).
1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth ii. (1723) 117 'Twas well onwards of a thousand Years before ever this Curse began to take effect.
†B. prep. = onward D. Obs.
1588Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China 126 In this sort hee goeth onwards his way. |