aright

动词 v. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /əˈɹaɪt/    美 /əˈɹaɪt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly. transitive
    — 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.
副词 adv.
  1. Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form. not-comparable
    — 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.
  2. To or on the right-hand side. archaic,not-comparable
    — 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.

词形变化

arights present,singular,third-person arighting participle,present arighted participle,past arighted past

词汇关系

衍生词
set aright

词源

词源 1
From Middle English ariȝt, ariht, from Old English āriht (“aright, properly”), from earlier *an riht, on riht (“rightly”), corresponding to a- + right.
词源 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.
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