diametrallyadv.
1. In the way of a diameter; in a line passing through the centre.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > line > [adverb] > diametrically
diametrally1589
diametrically1695
1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. F iv b The lawiste parte extendys to the lawist parte of the shelde dyametralit[er].]
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xi. 81 Ouerthwart and dyametrally from one side of the circle to the other.
a1638 J. Mede Summ. View Apoc. in Wks. v. 917 Which Beasts are here said to be ‘in the midst of the Throne’ and ‘round about the Throne’, that is, diametrally placed round about the Throne.
1882 R. A. Proctor in Longman's Mag. Dec. 193 Meteoric streamers extending apparently diametrally from the sun.
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the world > space > relative position > quality or fact of being in a line (with) > [adverb]
rule-righta1450
diametrallya1593
square1631
squarely1802
collinearly1863
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1616) sig. B3 Let your right eye be alwaies, Diametrally [1604 diametarily] fixt vpon my left heele.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies i. ii. 6 When as the roundnesse of the earth opposeth itselfe diametrally betwixt her [the moon] and the sunne.
a. literal. = diametrically adv. 2a. Obsolete.
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the world > space > relative position > opposite position > [adverb] > directly opposite
diametrally1563
diametrically1645
diametrical1654
1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iii. f. 37v The center..of the raynbowe..is Diametrally apposite to the center [of the Sun].
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xv. f. 147v The Moone [is] said to be diametrallie opposit to the Sunne..When a right line drawne from the center of the Sun to the center of the Moone, passeth through the center of the earth.
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια xxvi. sig. i4 There are yet in Heaven two Stars Diametrally opposite one to the other.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [adverb]
fromward?c1225
contrariouslyc1380
contrarying to1382
reversinglya1425
contrary1463
clean fro1483
repugnantly?1526
diametrally?1533
contrairly1535
in diameter1543
thwartly1558
oppositely1567
contrarily1570
contrariwise1574
diameter-wise1600
diameterly1603
reciprocallya1628
diametrically1633
counter1643
encounter1660
polarly1670
Antarcticallya1711
contrariantly1796
antithetically1816
tout au contraire1841
antistrophically1842
contrapositively1858
in reverse1869
at cross-corners with1892
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Ffi Coldenes and drinesse..ben diametrally opposite and contrary to hete and moisture.
1629 W. Prynne Church of Englands Old Antithesis 2 Diametrally repugnant to the anciently established..Doctrine.
1647 R. Cudworth Serm. 1 John ii. 3–4 One that should encourage that..which is diametrally opposite to God's..Being.
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