agateward

comparative more agateward · superlative most agateward

1. obsoleteAgate; on the way; agoing; (more strictly) towards a gate.First known use 17th c.

   Agateward, Love, I will not go When you shall take your leave; Wear your cockade like driven snow, And no riband on your sleeve. […]

   1943, Ann Batchelder, “For a Lady's Lute”, in East of Bridgewater, New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, page 76

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   D.why ſo?S.He ſaith,ſhe was bougbt by perſwaſion.D.Did not you ſay You went agateward with him latelie into the countrey from bence?

   1663, Publius Terentius [i.e., Terence], “Terences Adelphi: Engliſh and Latine”, in Charles Hoole, transl., Six Comedies Of that excellent Poet Publius Terentius an African of Carthage in Engliſh and Latine, […] Company of Stationers, Act IV, scene ii, page 292

   James. — After I was made willing to go, I gave away my eſtate, and caſt out my money, and I began to make ſome preparation, as apparel and other neceſſaries; but a while after, going agateward with a friend from my own houſe, […]

   1777, Joseph Nicolson, “Parish of Kikby Stephen”, in The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmoreland and Cumberland, volume I, London: […] W. Strahan; T. Cadell, page 538