aright
/əˈɹaɪt/
Meaning
Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
To or on the right-hand side.
To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.
To or on the right-hand side.
To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.
Examples
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.
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.
The great service which he rendered to science was that he put the right questions ; it was not that he answered them aright.
"Well, gentlemen, have I read you the riddle aright, or is there any point which you would query?"
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.
Word Forms
arights
arighting
arighted
Etymology
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.