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Definition of Downwardly
1. Adverb. Spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position. "Prices plunged downward"
Definition of Downwardly
1. Adverb. In a downward direction ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Downwardly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Downwardly
Literary usage of Downwardly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1887)
"... I employ an annular rim or lid, c, having an upwardly turned flange c', fitted
to the vessel, C, and a downwardly turned flange, c", fitted to the tank, ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"... upwardly hispid. ciliate, the two slender awns downwardly barbed, and California.
... awns 2, half as long as the achene or more, downwardly barbed. ..."
3. Aero and Hydro: America's Aviation Weekly by Aero Club of Illinois (1912)
"... above or downwardly below a horizontal plane, the front controlling plane
being positively held against lateral adjustment in opposite directions, ..."
4. Vehicles of the Air: A Popular Exposition of Modern Aeronautics with Working by Victor Lougheed (1910)
"The wires E, which are attached ahove to the rear portion a of the front wing-surface
A, pass downwardly from each side of sald portion, the group of wires ..."
5. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1875)
"This median stripe is joined to the costa at basal third and coalesces here with
the oblique costal stripe, which runs downwardly and outwardly. ..."
6. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"... and crowned with 2-4 downwardly barbed or hispid deciduous awns. ...
with downwardly hispid margins. — Western districts of Georgia and westward, ..."
7. The Horseless Age (1904)
"... and the long downwardly extending arm of the bell crank is drawn by a coiled
spring in such a direction as to tend to increase the distance between the ..."
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