† aˈgainward, adv. Obs.
Forms: see again.
[f. again adv. + -ward. Cf. outward, backward. Used in most of the senses of again, of which it is to be viewed as a more distinctly adverbial form.]
1. In the opposite direction; hence, backward, away back, back again.
| 1205 Layamon 27083 Aȝeinward heo buȝen þa. c 1230 Hali Meid. 43 Ne con ha neauer ifinden na wei aȝainward. c 1320 R. Brunne Medit. 1046 Oftyn aȝenward Marye gan loke. c 1386 Chaucer Man of Law's T. 343 Sayle Out of Surrye agaynward to Ytaille. 1470 Harding Chron. cix, As they onto theyr shyppes agaynwarde flewe. 1634 Malory's Arthur (1816) II. 135 He looked still upon his horse till he saw you come in againward. |
2. In return, in reply, back.
| 1330 R. Brunne Chron. 183 With slenges and magneles þei kast to Kyng Richard, Our Cristen bi parcelles kasted ageynward. c 1440 Generydes 4492 Of his loue ayenwards I am sure. c 1520 More in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 72 I. 203 The Lettres agaynward devised and sent by my lord Admirall to her. |
3. Over again; once more.
| c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 1431 Bote ich him aȝeward gete may. Ibid. 3306 He hoteþ euery man{revsc} to þe assaut aȝeward come. 1413 Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle v. xiv. (1859) 81 Thou shalt eftsones receyue thy body, and ben to hym ayeneward conioined. 1541 R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Cyrurg., Agaynwarde they ramyfye in to two partyes. |
4. Conversely; vice versâ.
| 1340 Ayenb. 49 Of man of þe wordle to wyfman of religioun, oþer ayeanwarde of wyfman of þe wordle to man of religioun. c 1400 Apol. for Loll. 19 Ilk synning to þe deþ is an heretik; as aȝen ward a heretik is he þat synniþ to þe deþ. 1485 Caxton Trevisa's Higden (1527) 3 In some place I must chaunge the ordre of wordes and sette actyf for passif and agaynwarde. 1579 Spenser Sheph. Kal. xxxvii, When the Sun is in the signes septentrionals, their shadowes be toward the parts of the signes meridionals, and so againward. |
5. Contrariwise; on the contrary; on the other hand.
| 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 8053 Bot þe dampned bodyse ogayn-ward Salle in helle fele payns strang and hard. c 1449 Pecock Repr. 371 When Aȝenward, if all this same receit schulde come into the hondis of grete Lordis or of Knyȝtis, it schulde not be so weel spend. 1534 More Comf. agst. Tribul. ii. Wks. 1557, 1166/1 An occasion of meryte too, whiche the wealthye manne hath not agayneward. |