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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

leftwise en · ADJ

Etymology

From left + -wise.

Meanings

  1. (rare) Leftward, on the left side.
    • 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:

Relateds

rightwise

leftwise en · ADV

Etymology

From left + -wise.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) By a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise.
    • 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: