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Definition of Aversely
1. adv. Backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely.
Definition of Aversely
1. Adverb. Backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely. ¹
2. Adverb. With repugnance or aversion; unwillingly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aversely
1. averse [adv] - See also: averse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aversely
Literary usage of Aversely
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence by Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin (1835)
"... for men observing both sexes to urine backward, or aversely between their
legs, they might conceive there was a feminine part in both ; wherein they are ..."
2. Advanced Elocution: Designed as a Practical Treatise for Teachers and by J. W. Shoemaker, George Beswick Hynson, John Hendricks Bechtel (1913)
"Turn head to right and right hand aversely to ... Do same with head to left and
both hands aversely to right, and repeat in reverse order. 3. ..."
3. Reports of the Committee on Electrical Standards Appointed by the British by William Thomson Kelvin, James Prescott Joule, James Clerk Maxwell (1873)
"The resistance of a conductor is therefore aversely proportional to the work done
in it when a given electromotive orce is maintained between its two ends ..."
4. The Poems of John Donne by John Donne, James Russell Lowell, Grolier Club (1895)
"Rich Nature hath in women wisely made Two purses, and their mouths aversely laid;
They then, which to the lower tribute owe, That way which that exchequer ..."
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