aright

See also: a'right

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /əˈɹʌɪt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /əˈɹaɪt/
  • Rhymes: -aɪt

Etymology 1

From Middle English ariȝt, ariht, from Old English āriht (“aright, properly”), from earlier *an riht, on riht (“rightly”), corresponding to a (prep.)- +‎ right.

Adverb

aright (comparative more aright, superlative most aright)

  1. Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
    • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
      , I.56:
      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.

Etymology 2

From Middle English arighten, arihten (“to raise up”); and Middle English iriȝten, irihten, ȝerihten (“to make right, correct, erect”), from Old English ġerihtan (“to set right”), equivalent to a- +‎ right.

Verb

aright (third-person singular simple present arights, present participle arighting, simple past and past participle arighted)

  1. (transitive) To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.
    • 2003, John Beebe, Terror, Violence, and the Impulse to Destroy:
      But, from working with those who have felt exiled and damned, excoriated and benumbed, and yet have made it back to useful and creative life again, I know there are more sure, albeit intense, ways to aright oneself.

References

  • aright in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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