Definition of Upwads
{ Up"ward (?), Up"wards (?), } adv.
[AS. upweardes. See Up-, and -wards.]
1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a
higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to
downward; as, to tend or roll upward. I.
Watts.
Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward,
we speak and prevail. Hooker.
2. In the upper parts; above.
Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man,
And down ward fish. Milton.
3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above;
over.
From twenty years old and upward.
Num. i. 3.
Upward of, or Upwards of, more
than; above.
I have been your wife in this obedience
Upward of twenty years. Shak.
{ Up"ward (?), Up"wards (?), } adv.
[AS. upweardes. See Up-, and -wards.]
1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a
higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to
downward; as, to tend or roll upward. I.
Watts.
Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward,
we speak and prevail. Hooker.
2. In the upper parts; above.
Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man,
And down ward fish. Milton.
3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above;
over.
From twenty years old and upward.
Num. i. 3.
Upward of, or Upwards of, more
than; above.
I have been your wife in this obedience
Upward of twenty years. Shak.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Towards a higher place; towards what is above.
- To a higher figure or amount.
- Towards something which is higher in order, larger, superior etc.
- Backwards in time, into the past.
- To or into later life.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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