rightwise meaning (rare): definition, etymology and quotations

rightwise

adv

Etymology Presumably from Old English rihtwīs, reinforced by reanalysis as right + wise.

Rare Rightly (correctly or justly); rightfully.

And, after that fourth trial, sundry of the kings and many of the lesser barons and knights and all of the commons cried out that these were trials enough, and that Arthur had assuredly approved himself to be rightwise King […]1915, Howard Pyle, The story of King Arthur and his knights, page 36:
[…] made indubitably clear that Arthur was rightwise king of the realm […]1969, Topic, numbers 17-18, page 37:

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"That it was Maximus's sword which Merlin found for Arthur and fixed in the stone of Lludyn's Hill by magic arts so that none but he who was rightwise born King of all the Britons could pull it out."2003, Nancy McKenzie, Grail Prince, page 192:

adj

UK /ˈɹaɪtwaɪz/ · US /ˈɹaɪtˌwaɪz/

Etymology From right + -wise.

Rare Rightward (to or from the right side); on the right side.

[…] that, abutting against the end of H, or nearly so, it will lock said bar as against a return or rightwise motion, and then said bar will be locked as against a reverse motion, and, being locked, its flop D cannot be rotated back, […]1866, Specifications and drawings of patents relating to electricity issued by the United States from July 1, 1884, to July 1, 1885, volume 39, published by the United States Patent Office
The leftwise action aims at what drifts out of the nunka domain of the nefarious. Similarly for mortuary arrangements, what is leftwise is more momentous than what is rightwise.2006, Arne Røkkum, Nature, ritual, and society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands, page 151:

Rare Clockwise, moving clockwise.

In Tibet the compass points are described in a rightwise circle; one speaks there of east-south and west-north instead of south-east and north-west.1966, P. H. Pott, Yoga and yantra: their interrelation and their significance for Indian archeology, page 66:
Then he stepped before me, and I bade him walk three times in a rightwise circle around me. "This is embarrassing," he growled through clenched teeth as he passed the first time.2006, Steve Lawhead, The Silver Hand, page 20:

adv

Etymology From right + -wise.

Rare By a rightward path; rightwards, rightwardly; clockwise (in a clockwise manner).

and doing so they say that they do it themselves rightwise and the Hellenes leftwise.1890, G. C. Macaulay, The History of Herodotus, translated into English:
Similarly, his "doubling procedure" consists in the same random starting interval […] whose length is doubled (leftwise or rightwise at random) recursively till both ends are outside the slice.2004, Christian P. Robert, George Casella, Monte Carlo statistical methods, page 336:

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