diagonally, adv.
(daɪˈægənəlɪ)
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In a diagonal direction; so as to extend from one angle or corner to the opposite. Also: In a slanting direction or position, obliquely.
| 1541 R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg., Two longe wayes that descende fro the kydnees that entre by the sydes of the bladder dyagonelly. 1653 Urquhart Rabelais i. viii. (1694) I. 29 Six hundred Ells..of blew Velvet..diagonally purled. 1774 Pennant Tour Scotl. in 1772, 23 The upper part being set diagonally within the lower. 1837 Goring & Pritchard Microgr. 121 A coarse piece of canvas, with the fibres running diagonally. 1855 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1870) I. v. ii. 518 The diagonally opposite angle. |