aright
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /əˈɹʌɪt/
  • (America) IPA: /əˈɹaɪt/
Adverb

aright

  1. Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 56, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
      it is not easie we should so often settle our minds in so regular, so reformed, and so devout a seat, where indeed it ought to be, to pray aright and effectually: otherwise our praiers are not only vaine and unprofitable, but vicious.
    • 1818: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus ↗ by Mary Shelley ↗, chapter 24.
      Hear him not; call on the names of William, Justine, Clerval, Elizabeth, my father, and of the wretched Victor, and thrust your sword into his heart. I will hover near and direct the steel aright.
  2. (archaic) To or on the right-hand side.
    • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:
      Once more away! and now
      The long descent is seen,
      A long, long, narrow path.
      Ice rocks aright, and hills of snow,
      Aleft the giddy precipice.
Verb

aright (arights, present participle arighting; past and past participle arighted)

  1. (transitive) To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.
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