deasildeisealadv.n.

/ˈdjɛʃəl/

/ˈdɛsəl/

Forms: Also deisal, deisul.

Etymology: < Gaelic deiseil (deiseal, deasal) adjective and adverb, righthandwise, turned toward the right, dextrorsum, < deas right hand, south, in Old Irish dess, des, Welsh dehau, cognate with Latin dexter, Greek δεξιός. (The meaning of the latter part is unknown.)

Righthandwise, towards the right; motion with continuous turning to the right, as in going round an object with the right hand towards it, or in the same direction as the hands of a clock, or the apparent course of the sun (a practice held auspicious by the Celts).

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [adverb] > clockwise

with the sun1584

sungates1596

sunways1662

deasil1771

sunway1775

sunwise1775

clockwise1874

posigrade1975

1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 309 (Jam.) at Widdersinnis At marriages and baptisms they make a procession round the church, Deasoil, i.e., sunways.

1774–5 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 II. 15 (Jam.) The unhappy lunatics are brought here by their friends, who first perform the ceremony of the Deasil thrice round a neighbouring cairn.

1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XI. 621 If a person's meat or drink were to..come against his breath, they instantly cry out, deisheal! which is an ejaculation praying that it may go by the right way.

1814 W. Scott Waverley II. i. 12 The surgeon..perambulated his couch three times, moving from east to west, according to the course of the sun..which was called making the deasil .

1870 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 2) v. 210 There was a sacred stone in Jura round which the people used to move ‘deasil’, i.e. sunwise.

1897 Daily News 26 July 5/1 ‘Walking the deisul’ round a person or place was lately, perhaps is still, a ceremony in the Highlands.

1945 Archit. Rev. 97 49/3 English roundabouts run deisul, clockwise.

1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) ii. 49 O Primal Age When we danced deisal.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	deasil
释义	deasildeisealadv.n. /ˈdjɛʃəl//ˈdɛsəl/ Forms: Also deisal, deisul. Etymology: < Gaelic deiseil (deiseal, deasal) adjective and adverb, righthandwise, turned toward the right, dextrorsum, < deas right hand, south, in Old Irish dess, des, Welsh dehau, cognate with Latin dexter, Greek δεξιός. (The meaning of the latter part is unknown.) Righthandwise, towards the right; motion with continuous turning to the right, as in going round an object with the right hand towards it, or in the same direction as the hands of a clock, or the apparent course of the sun (a practice held auspicious by the Celts). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [adverb] > clockwise with the sun1584 sungates1596 sunways1662 deasil1771 sunway1775 sunwise1775 clockwise1874 posigrade1975 1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 309 (Jam.) at Widdersinnis At marriages and baptisms they make a procession round the church, Deasoil, i.e., sunways. 1774–5 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 II. 15 (Jam.) The unhappy lunatics are brought here by their friends, who first perform the ceremony of the Deasil thrice round a neighbouring cairn. 1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XI. 621 If a person's meat or drink were to..come against his breath, they instantly cry out, deisheal! which is an ejaculation praying that it may go by the right way. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. i. 12 The surgeon..perambulated his couch three times, moving from east to west, according to the course of the sun..which was called making the deasil . View more context for this quotation 1870 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 2) v. 210 There was a sacred stone in Jura round which the people used to move ‘deasil’, i.e. sunwise. 1897 Daily News 26 July 5/1 ‘Walking the deisul’ round a person or place was lately, perhaps is still, a ceremony in the Highlands. 1945 Archit. Rev. 97 49/3 English roundabouts run deisul, clockwise. 1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) ii. 49 O Primal Age When we danced deisal. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adv.n.1771
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