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Definition of Aslope
1. Adjective. Having an oblique or slanted direction.
Similar to: Inclined
Derivative terms: Diagonal, Diagonal, Diagonal
Definition of Aslope
1. adv. & a. Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping.
Definition of Aslope
1. Adjective. slanted or sloping ¹
2. Adverb. slanted or sloping ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aslope
1. sloping [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aslope
Literary usage of Aslope
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language: Compiled for the Use of Common Schools by Noah Webster (1817)
"... n. a small venomous serpent, aslope, ad. awry, in a slanting manner Assem'bled, /ia.
met together whose poison kills like an opiate Aspar'agus, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"aslope. Sloping. In the Chester Plays, i. 125, is the phrase, " the devill of
the sope." The Bodl. MS. 175, reads aslope. For trust that Ihci have set in ..."
3. Principles of English Etymology by Walter William Skeat (1891)
"[Evidently ill arranged; the senses ' to go aslope, to give place,' should come
first. ... gone aslope, giuen place.' ' Scansare, to cancell, to blur, ..."
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