moonwardsadv.
/ˈmuːnwədz/, U.S. /ˈmunwərdz/ Towards the moon.
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1833 T. S. Fay Crayon Sketches II. 7 The most wretchedly romantic youth that ever fell in love..and turned his face moonwards.
1855 P. J. Bailey Mystic 35 From the immoveable star-plane to the prime Conceptacle of motion, moonwards, through All spheres in graded order.
1900 O. Wilde Let. 21 Apr. (1962) 823 He really bayed for boots, as a dog moonwards.
1918 C. W. Beebe Jungle Peace (1919) xi. 270 Here and there..where a tree had fallen, or a flue of clear space led moonwards, the effect was of cold electric light seen through trees in city parks.
1959 C. Mackenzie Lunatic Republic i. 21 Every sound without was so muted that the explosion which started the rocket moonwards sounded no more than the noise of one of the old railway trains of my youth.
1998 Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 20 Dec. 30 Dark immutable branches of an oak reach moonwards.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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