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Definition of On all fours
1. Adverb. On hands and knees. "He got down on all fours to play with his grandson"
Definition of On all fours
1. Adjective. (idiomatic) On one's hands and knees. ¹
2. Adjective. (idiomatic often followed by "with") Similar in nature or effect to something else; consistent. ¹
3. Adverb. (idiomatic) On one's hands and knees. ¹
4. Adverb. (idiomatic often followed by "with") In a manner which is similar in nature or effect to something else; consistently. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of On All Fours
Literary usage of On all fours
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"Then I bound my leg up as well as I could, and crawled on all fours with the ...
I meanwhile made the best way I could on all fours toward the church of the ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"When on all fours his fingers are doubled on the palms of his hands so that he
walks on his knuckles." The arms are not so much needed or actually used for ..."
3. China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. by Breton (Jean Baptiste Joseph), Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin (1813)
"Others again, as in the accompanying representation, make a vow to crawl on
all-fours, with a saddle on their backs and bridle in their mouths, ..."
4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Та со on all fours is to crawl about on knees and hands like a little child.
It dots not go on all fours means it does not suit in every minute particular ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"The front of his knees and elbows bad become hardened, from going on all fours
with the wolves. He never spoke articulately, and he showed no affection for ..."
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