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单词 sinistrally
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sinistrallyadv.

Brit. /ˈsɪnᵻstrəli/, /ˈsɪnᵻstrl̩i/, U.S. /ˈsɪnəstrəli/, /səˈnɪstrəli/
Forms: see sinistral adj. and -ly suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sinistral adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < sinistral adj. + -ly suffix2.Compare post-classical Latin sinistraliter in an adverse or harmful manner (c1430 in a British source).
1. In a malicious, dishonest, or wrongful manner. Obsolete.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > [adverb]
wickedly1303
westernaisc1400
sinistrally1538
injuriously1561
crossways1564
crosswise1594
sinistruouslya1615
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adverb] > in perverse or depraved manner
forwurþenlikec1175
westernaisc1400
sinistrally1538
crossways1564
crosswise1594
pravely1598
deformedly1610
depravedly1643
pervertedly1804
1538 Bible (Coverdale) Ep. Ded. ✚ii Do not ye enemies of gods word ceasse yet to pycke quarels, & to seke out new occasions, how they may depraue & synistrally interprete our wel doynges.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. vii. 49 Sinistrally [L. sinistre] expounding thynges that be doutfull.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccclxvjv He..had heard how sinistrally..many euill men spake and thought of him.
2. Towards the left.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [adverb] > to the left
leftsomesa1398
lefta1400
leftward1579
leftwards1585
leftwise1830
sinistrally1838
left-handed1909
the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adverb] > in sideways direction > to right and left > towards the left
aleftc1330
leftsomesa1398
lefta1400
leftward1579
leftwards1585
toward1711
sinistrally1838
left-handed1851
leftwardly1892
1838 Foreign Q. Rev. July 461 We find that, whether written dextrally or sinistrally, characters were read with equal fluency.
1881 J. Le Conte Sight 19 To rotate it [sc. the eye] on its axis outward, i.e. dextrally..for the right and sinistrally for the left.
1984 Numen 31 231 Moving sinistrally, the Medicine Priest places the proper color maize ear..at each of the six directional lines radiating from the bowl.
2003 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 13 Aug. 1 Even as late as the 1800s convents condemned left-handers as the ‘spawn of Satan’. Today the sinistrally disposed have it slightly easier.
3. Chiefly Conchology and Zoology. With regard to the direction of a spiral: to the left, left-handed; anticlockwise.
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the world > plants > part of plant > growth, movement, or curvature of parts > [adverb]
sinistrally1854
heliotropically1875
apheliotropically1880
apogeotropically1880
geotropically1880
paratonically1880
basifugally1882
sinistrorsally1884
phototropically1899
plagiotropously1900
hydrotropically1915
basipetally1939
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [adverb] > of the shell
sinistrally1854
sinistrorsally1884
1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 171 Shell ovate, sinistrally spiral, thin, polished.
1883 Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 237 The spathes [of Arum maculatum] are rolled up indifferently either way—either dextrally or sinistrally—in about equal numbers.
1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs ii. 41 The Limacinidae..are small molluscs..with transparent spiral shells, sinistrally coiled as in bulloid larvae.
2016 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 22 Oct. (Letters section) 23 The rare sinistrally spiralled specimen might be better known as Jeremima.
4. Geology. With regard to the direction of displacement in strike-slip faulting: such that the block on the further side of the fault from an observer is displaced towards the left. Cf. sinistral adj. 10.
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1951 Proc. Yorks. Geol. Soc. 28 121 From this and other detailed evidence it was concluded that the Peak Fault was probably torn sinistrally, with a horizontal displacement of several miles.
1996 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 104 347/2 The Östfold-Marstrand Belt slid sinistrally past the protuberance of the continental margin.
2006 N. H. Woodcock & N. J. Soper in P. J. Brenchley & P. F. Rawson Geol. Eng. & Wales (ed. 2) vi. 131/2 The model envisaged sinistrally oblique collision between Baltica and Laurentia in the Silurian.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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