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awry
(encz) | awry,křivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
awry
(encz) | awry,nakřivo adj: |
awry
(encz) | awry,pokřivený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Awry
(gcide) | Awry \A*wry"\ ([.a]*r[imac]"), adv. & a. [Pref. a- + wry.]
1. Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or
true direction, or position; out of the right course;
distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to
glance awry. "Your crown's awry." --Shak.
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Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry.
Into the devious air. --Milton.
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2. Aside from the line of truth, or right reason;
unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely.
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Or by her charms
Draws him awry, enslaved. --Milton.
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Nothing more awry from the law of God and nature
than that a woman should give laws to men. --Milton.
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awry
(wn) | awry
adv 1: away from the correct or expected course; "something has
gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in
the preparations" [syn: awry, amiss]
2: turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his
necktie twisted awry" [syn: askew, awry, skew-whiff]
adj 1: turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a
gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig
was, as the British say, skew-whiff" [syn: askew,
awry(p), cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff]
2: not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone
completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine"
[syn: amiss(p), awry(p), haywire, wrong(p)] |
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awry
(encz) | awry,křivý adj: Zdeněk Brožawry,nakřivo adj: awry,pokřivený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
outlawry
(encz) | outlawry,protizákonnost n: Zdeněk Brožoutlawry,vyhoštění n: Zdeněk Brožoutlawry,vypovězení n: Zdeněk Brož |
Outlawry
(gcide) | Outlawry \Out"law`ry\, n.; pl. Outlawries.
1. The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the
protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an
absconding criminal) is deprived of that protection.
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2. The state of being an outlaw.
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3. Defiance of the law; habitual criminality.
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awry
(wn) | awry
adv 1: away from the correct or expected course; "something has
gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in
the preparations" [syn: awry, amiss]
2: turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his
necktie twisted awry" [syn: askew, awry, skew-whiff]
adj 1: turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a
gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig
was, as the British say, skew-whiff" [syn: askew,
awry(p), cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff]
2: not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone
completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine"
[syn: amiss(p), awry(p), haywire, wrong(p)] |
outlawry
(wn) | outlawry
n 1: illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of
the law [syn: lawlessness, outlawry] |
OUTLAWRY
(bouvier) | OUTLAWRY, Eng. law. The act of being put out of the protection of the law
by process regularly sued out against a person who is in contempt in
refusing to become amenable to the court having jurisdiction. The
proceedings themselves are also called the outlawry.
2. Outlawry may take place in criminal or in civil cases. 3 Bl. Com.
283; Co. Litt. 128; 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 4196.
3. In the United States, outlawry in civil cases is unknown, and if
there are any cases of outlawry in criminal cases they are very rare. Dane's
Ab. eh. 193, a, 34. Vide Bac. Ab. Abatement, B; Id. h.t.; Gilb. Hist. C. P.
196, 197; 2 Virg. Cas. 244; 2 Dall. 92.
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