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bedward, -wards, adv.|ˈbɛdwəd, -z|
[f. bed n. + -wards: orig. to bedward.]
1. Towards bed, in the direction of bed.
c1530J. Rhodes Bk. Nurture in Babees Bk. (1868) 69 When your mayster intendeth to bedward. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 352 Others on the grass Coucht..Or Bedward ruminating. 1820Scott Monast. xiv, The signal to move bedward. 1834Lamb Wks. (1852) 181 When the dark night comes and they are creeping bedwards.
†2. Towards bedtime; just before going to bed.
c1430Diatorie in Babees Bk. (1868) 56 Use fier bi þe morewe, & to bedward at eue. c1515Barclay Eglog. iii. (1570) B vj/1, I dranke to bedwarde (as is my common gise). 1615Markham Eng. Housew. ii. i. (1668) 47 Drink of it at night to bedward. a1661Fuller in H. Smith's Wks. (1867) I. 20 These sermons have been used as a handmaid to prayer bedward in some families. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 355 That may be done over night, last to bed-ward. |