单词 | sinistrally |
释义 | sinistrallyadv.ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < adv.1538 |
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