polarlyadv.
/ˈpəʊləli/, U.S. /ˈpoʊlərli/ rare before 19th cent.
In a polar direction, manner, or degree; with reference to poles.
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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
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electric polarization > [adverb]
polarly1670
the world > the earth > geodetic references > [adverb] > pole
polarward1832
polarly1834
poleward1835
polewards1852
1670 S. Gott Divine Hist. Genesis World x. 313 Planetary Virtue, being seated in the whole Orbicular Body of the Planet, doth not, nor can it, so remove itself; becaus it always possesseth the whole Body, not Polarly, or Ovaly, but Orbicularly.
1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 28 415 The miserable confusion of ideas polarly opposite.
1834 R. Mudie Feathered Tribes Brit. Islands I. 15 Birds which migrate polarly, or for the purpose of breeding.
1882 Daily Advocate (Newark, Ohio) 23 Mar. Seven of the eight baked bricks proved polarly magnetic.
1936 Jrnl. Philos. 33 334 Bukharin considers dialectics as a law of nature according to which polarly opposed forces can occasionally reach an (unstable) equilibrium.
1985 Cambr. Encycl. Life Sci. ii. 62/1 Vascular cambium in the root..is activated by polarly transported auxin.
2004 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 5018 The polarly flagellated pathogen Vibrio cholerae.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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